Today, I take a look at the 10 largest seed startup funding rounds in NYC history using some data from our friends at Crunchbase. In addition to dollar amount of the round, I have included industry focal point, round type, year of funding investors in the round, and total capital raised to further the analysis. This list only contains venture financings and does not include private equity and debt rounds.
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- Syncano $5.5M
Focus:
Developer APIs, SaaS, Software
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Berger Associates, Amena AS
Total Capital raised:
$10.25M
- Zola Books $5.5M
Focus:
EBooks, E-Commerce, Publishing
Investors in the Round:
Martin Clark, Chandler Burr, Paul Saltzman, Charles F. Dolan, Radcliff Group, Audrey Niffenegger, Josh Bazell, Jeff Pulver, David Placek, Gregory David Roberts, Bob Kohn
Total Capital raised:
$8.9M
- Imagen Technologies $5.6M
Focus:
Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Hospital
Investors in the Round:
Haystack Partners, Techammer, Nat Turner, Vivek Garipalli, Morgan Noble, Allen & Company, Nexus Venture Partners, Zach Weinberg, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$5.6M
- Harri $5.7M
Focus:
Hospitality, Recruiting, Restaurants
Investors in the Round:
Undisclosed
Total Capital raised:
$6.08M
- BLADE $6M
Focus:
Aerospace, Crowdsourcing, Travel
Investors in the Round:
Bob Pittman, Eric Schmidt, Raine Ventures, Alex von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, David Zaslav
Total Capital raised:
Undisclosed
- PeerIQ $6M
Focus:
Analytics, Big Data, Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Risk Management
Investors in the Round:
Lead – John Mack, Dan Doctoroff, Eric Schwartz, Arthur Levitt, Vikram Pandit
Total Capital raised:
$8.5M
- Bluesmart $6M
Focus:
Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Software, Travel
Investors in the Round:
Cota Capital, Western Technology Investment, Daniel Curran, Yunqi Partners, Gil Penchina, Pear Ventures, FundersClub, Fairhaven Capital Partners, Flight Ventures, Fenox Venture Capital, Semil Shah, Marcos Galperin
Total Capital raised:
$18.5M
- Eight $6M
Focus:
Consumer Electronics, Health Care, Innovation Management
Investors in the Round:
Azure Capital Partners, Jared Friedman, Comcast Ventures, Y Combinator, SGH CAPITAL, Vast Ventures, Yunqi Partners, Cota Capital, StartX, Kurt Mackey, Ruvento, Galvanize Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$11.62M
- LinkBee $6M
Focus:
Consumer Electronics, Home Automation, Internet of Things
Investors in the Round:
Loeb Enterprises, Pegasus Capital
Total Capital raised:
$6M
- HangIt $6.2M
Focus:
Advertising
Investors in the Round:
Vesta Labs
Total Capital raised:
$6.2M
- Nanit $6.6M
Focus:
Baby, Child Care, Internet of Things, Machine Learning
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Upfront Ventures, 645 Ventures, Flextronics International, Wareness.io, AME Cloud Ventures, RRE Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$6.6M
- Rockets of Awesome $7M
Focus:
Children, E-Commerce, Personalization, Retail, Retail Technology
Investors in the Round:
Launch Incubator, Forerunner Ventures, Sterling.VC, Female Founders Fund, General Catalyst Partners
Total Capital raised:
$19.5M
- dv01 $7.5M
Focus:
Lending, Marketplace, Micro Lending, Risk Management
Investors in the Round:
Pivot Investment Partners, Quantum Strategic Partners, Leucadia National
Total Capital raised:
$10M
- Jukely $8M
Focus:
Concerts, iOS, Music
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Northzone, Daniel Curran, David J. La Placa, 14W, Jared Hecht, Larry Marcus, Hany Nada, Lyor Cohen, Steve Martocci, Maiden Lane Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$11.4M
- Compass $8M
Focus:
Local, Mobile, Real Estate
Investors in the Round:
Founders Fund, Prudence Holdings, Corigin Ventures, Cyrus Massoumi, Kenneth Chenault,.406 Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Thrive Capital
Total Capital raised:
$208M
- Lemonade $13M
Focus:
Financial Services, Insurance
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Sequoia Capital, Lead – Aleph, Expansion Venture Capital, Tusk Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$60M
