The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 1/19/2022 featuring funding details for Chatdesk, April, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
Chatdesk — $7M – Series A
Chatdesk, a hybrid staffed and ML sales and customer support platform that works across social and messaging apps, has raised $7M in Series A funding from investors that include Menlo Ventures, Cultivation Capital, Fika Ventures, Serena Ventures, Harlem Capital Partners, and Stormbreaker Ventures. Founded by Andrew Olaleye, Aneto Okonkwo, and Omasirichukwu Udeinya in 2016, Chatdesk has now raised a total of $9M in reported equity funding.
April — $10M – Seed
April, an intelligent tax platform, has raised $10M in Seed funding from investors that include Nyca Partners, Bolt, iAngels, Euclidean Capital, Team8, Lowell Putnam, and Shai Wininger. April was founded by Ben Borodach and Daniel Marcous in 2021.
POAP — $10M – Seed
POAP, a provider of infrastructure technology that allows issuers like event organizers to drop NFTs to audiences to mark memorable events, has raised $10M in Seed funding from investors that include Sound Ventures, Advancit Capital, The Chernin Group, A.Capital Ventures, 1kx, Delphi Digital, Collab+Currency, Libertus Capital, Sapphire Sport, Redbeard Ventures, 6th Man Ventures, and Archetype. POAP was founded by Patricio Worthalter in 2021.