Brex Recap: NYC Startups 2024

As we wrap up 2024, Brex is thrilled to celebrate early stage startups (pre-seed, Seed, and Series A) in New York City that've raised a minimum of $1M in 2024. To showcase all of these amazing companies, this map is broken down by stage, industry, and hiring status of each startup. Want to add your startup or portfolio company to the map? Ping Shai Goldman or Phil Chen on LinkedIn & Twitter. Shai Goldman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaigoldman/ https://x.com/shaig Phil Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipalexanderchen/ https://x.com/PhilChen22

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Agora Financial Technologies

Agora helps Banks & Credit Unions enhance their digital experience without replacing their core banking system. Agora's modular banking technology accelerates digital journeys and implements cutting-edge Fintech products to boost deposits and revenues. Financial Institutions and Fintech can also launch standalone digital solutions using Agora's challenger bank platform and advanced Fintech ecosystem.

Fabrik

Our tech-enabled "community-as-a-service" platform turns unused commercial spaces into a network of third spaces that combat the loneliness epidemic.

Athena Club

Producer of feminine care products intended to offer grooming, wellness, and period products. The company's products include tampons, razor kits, shave foam, body wash, face wipes, multivitamins and probiotics, enabling women to have affordable products delivered to their doorsteps.

Carry

Operator of a tax-advantaged investment platform intended to assist business owners and high-earning professionals in optimizing their financial strategies. The company offers features such as Solo 401k access, alternative investment options, automated portfolio management, and a built-in financial planning service, enabling investors to enhance their wealth management while minimizing tax liabilities and maximizing investment opportunities.

OffDeal

Developer of an AI broker platform designed for buying and selling small businesses. The company's platform screens Small and Midsize Businesses on data points to uncover client's exact criteria, vet companies simultaneously to deliver a shortlist to precise acquisition criteria and uses data points on each company to craft and send personalized messages, enabling buyers and businesses to match their targets and reduced risk of deal failure.

Benjamin

Developer of a banking platform designed to connect brands, customers and influencers with sharable cash rewards. The company's platform offers debit cards that allow users to get merchant rewards and its iOS and Android application helps match the needs of today's businesses, enabling businesses to experience free, fast, and flexible business banking.

Tavily

Tavily is a search engine, specifically designed for AI agents and tailored for RAG purposes. Through the Tavily Search API, AI developers can effortlessly integrate their applications with realtime online information.

RubyWell

Developer of a digital healthcare platform intended to navigate the challenges of family caregiving. The company's platform offers a comprehensive guide to be used for all caregiving needs, enabling users to save money, and time, and reduce worry with free and personalized care maps, resources, and benefits.

Daytona

Developer of self-hosted development environment management platform designed to help developers be more productive by automating the setup and maintenance of their environments. The company's platform provides a secure and centralized environment for development, and it supports any integrated development environment or Git provider, enabling developers to tailor their environments to specifications and share configurations for efficient collaboration.

Reality Defender

Developer of a deep fake-detection platform intended to identify and assess risks associated with false media content. The company's platform identifies manipulated content using synthetic media detection algorithms in real-time, enabling enterprises and governments to effectively combat synthetically altered images, videos, audio phone calls, and documents.

Tabs

Developer of revenue automation platform designed to automate the process of administering contracts, billing, revenue recognition, renewals, and audits. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to generate and send invoices based on data from contracts, purchase orders, and sales agreements and detect bottlenecks in the collection process, enabling finance teams to maintain healthy cash flow, streamline operations, and enhance cash flow efficiency

Footprint

Automated onboarding that solves identity, security, fraud, and auth in 5 lines of code. Building the identity layer to the internet.

Rally

Developer of NFT-based digital assets collection platform designed for users to stay on top of the market. The company's platform specializes in receiving price alerts on digital assets, live activity for collections, rewards in monetary terms, and tokens via the mobile application, helping users to track NFT portfolio and crypto with alerts, active bids, and real-time listings.

August Schools

Developer of a school administrative platform designed to protect students by understanding risk and documenting care. The company's platform provides support for nurses, medical directors, counselors, psychologists, administrators and technologists with regular feedback meetings and multiple support channels, enabling school-based care providers to enhance their business operations.

Cartwheel

Developer of a text-to-animation platform designed to help users animate using artificial intelligence. The company's platform offers a user-friendly interface that allows them to animate characters for games, videos, movies, ads, GIFs, or 3D projects by simply typing, enabling customers to create animations for videos, games, movies, ads, social media projects, and VR projects, all without any prior animation experience.

M7 Health

Operator of a workforce management platform intended to offer shift scheduling to nurses. The company's platform provides staffing technology with a systematic way to automate scheduling, and access to real-time staffing metrics, and insights, enabling healthcare professionals to match shifts and career opportunities that align with their personal needs and professional goals.

ReflexAI

Developer of artificial intelligence tools designed to train, develop, and empower frontline teams. The company's tools are directly applied to crisis services, emergency response, social services, and healthcare real-time reporting in the most budget-aware way to assist veteran mental health, enabling trainees and agents with automated scores, saving time and energy while increasing consistency and visibility.

midpage

Developer of a generative artificial intelligence research and drafting platform intended for answering questions on tab for United States law. The company's product is a question-answering system that connects language models to legal documents, the tool provides short summaries, explains citations, and get answer, enabling users to navigate and work on a document with ease.

Arch

Developer of a liquid crypto asset platform designed to manage all crypto assets in one place. The company's platform offers instant loans against crypto and NFTs (Non-fungible tokens) and provides tracking of assets in real-time, its flagship product is over-collateralized crypto-backed loans, stored in qualified custody, and without rehypothecation of collateral, providing consumers with an efficient way to borrow against their crypto and NFTs.

Conceive

Operator of a digital health platform intended to focus on changing fertility outcomes. The company's platform is supported by experts in reproductive health, fertility, digital health, and technology to address concerns like polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, male factor infertility, lifestyle, and wellness choices, enabling patients to navigate and accelerate their healthcare journey while getting results.

HappyPath

HappyPath is revolutionizing software development by enabling anyone to use natural language for automated software testing, report generation, and artifact creation. By automating testing in a reliable, comprehensive and collaborative manner, we accelerate innovation and help companies deliver superior products faster.

Turbo

Developer of a next-generation 2D game engine designed to build a low-friction development environment. The company's platform offers features like AI-assisted development, instant updates, and built-in web3 APIs, enabling users to make game development efficient, and less costly.

Norm AI

Developer of a regulatory artificial intelligence agent platform designed to automate compliance processes. The company's platform solves the regulatory sludge problem by converting regulations into AI agents that can make autonomous compliance determinations, enabling businesses to delegate tasks via instructions, while at the same time validating the resulting work product at any level of granularity.

Hazel

Hazel sells AI-powered procurement software to the 19,000+ local, state, and federal government entities which procure $2.7T a year. We use AI to write solicitations 10x faster and find 10x as many vendors, saving time and money

Auxilius

Developer of a clinical trial financial management platform designed to help sponsors track contract terms, budgets, and milestones. The company augments manual clinical business operations and accounting processes with intuitive software that scales, enabling sponsors to take control over trial costs and clinical vendors, manage financial risk, and optimize spending in pursuit of trial targets.

SkyLink

SkyLink is a corporate travel AI in Slack & Teams and built for enterprise. We help travelers book and manage their travel in under a minute.

David Protein

Producer of protein bars intended to increase muscle and decrease fat. The company offers high-protein, low-calorie, blood-sugar-friendly foods that are craveable, helping consumers to eat healthily and stay fit.

Rogo

Developer of an analytics platform designed to utilize natural language processing to transform traditional data workflows. The company's platform utilizes generative artificial intelligence to integrate data from all workbooks, databases and data providers, builds charts and graphs, conducts data analysis, verifies data fidelity and integrates the analysis, enabling companies from various industries, academics and individuals to interact with data by allowing them to work with, analyze and visualize their data.

XTRA

Developer of an artificial intelligence-based virtual fitness platform designed to drive healthcare triage. The company's platform builds a computer vision system, and a symptom checker, offers personalized exams and real-time performance analytics to elevate patient onboarding, and is hardware-independent, enabling fitness providers to provide a live experience tailored to their members.

Dub

Developer of a social finance platform designed to bridge the gap between retail and professional investors. The company's platform facilitates the users to mirror and invest in their fund-like portfolio as well as allows experienced investors to earn money by increasing their followers, enabling users to access better investment ideas and helping them with improved returns.

Knock

Developer of an application programming interface platform designed to send and manage notifications. The company's platform utilizes complex delivery rules without code to provide powerful cross-channel workflows, comprehensive documentation services, and a product notification system, enabling developers to deliver notifications to their customers and manage notification preferences.

TextQL

Developer of virtual data analysis platform designed to simplify the data-to-insight process for organizations. The company's platform integrates with any data catalog, offers indexes business intelligence tools, and semantic layers, documents data, and uses language models to provide self-serve power analytics, helping business teams to get answers about any of their company's data in seconds instead of days.

Dexa

Developer of an artificial intelligence podcast platform designed to help users explore, search, and ask questions using AI bots from podcasts. The company's platform uses AI assistants to offer tailored answers from podcast episodes, enabling users to find relevant episodes by keyword, topic, or guest and break them down into digestible chapters.

Cumulus Coffee

Manufacturer of brewing machines intended to offer coffee makers through a blend of art, science, and authenticity. The company's coffee makers are compact and sleek and use proprietary recyclable aluminum capsules to deliver cold brew, nitro cold brew, and cold-pressed espresso, enabling users to get an authentic, generous, and exact taste of coffee products.

Agree.com

Agree is a new payments platform built on top of e-signature that fully integrates invoicing and payments as a part of the executed agreement. The platform uses e-signature as a wedge to extract payment terms from contracts to monetize the money movement, targeting the mid-market, specifically companies whose revenue moves through a contract.

Savvy Wealth

Developer of a digital-first platform designed for financial advisors to support clients without adding additional headcount. The company acquires traditional wealth management firms and aids them, enabling wealth managers to drive automation and efficiency.

Monark Markets

Developer of a security trading platform designed to access a wide range of private market assets, including pre-IPO, late-stage venture and secondary growth equity. The company's platform provides investors with the liquidity they need to buy and sell private market assets and with data transparency to make informed investment decisions, enabling investors to diversify their wealth and make informed decisions.

Haven

Modern accounting and tax firm for startups and growing businesses.

Nagish

Developer of a communication platform designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The company's platform leverages artificial intelligence to make call centers and enterprises accessible to many who are deaf or hard of hearing to communicate via phone by converting speech-to-text and text-to-speech quickly and accurately, providing challenged people with a product that lets them make phone calls using text instead of voice.

Baton

Baton is an AI-enabled marketplace for buying and selling small businesses. We act as a trusted seller-side partner and help small business owners navigate the sale process with clarity and certainty, by reconciling financials and business data before listing. Buyers on the platform love the listing quality, the ability to underwrite a deal quickly, and move to negotiations. This enables us to out-perform the market by more than 10x.

Oboe

Developer of an AI-powered educational platform intended to produce a user-friendly interface that helps people accomplish the task at hand. The company's platform offers learning tools that optimize the development of a curriculum and personalize those to the way the individual user learns most effectively, enabling users to learn what they want to learn more efficiently, effectively and affordably.

Levels

Developer of a wellness wearable device designed to track metabolic fitness. The company's device provides real-time data that gives immediate feedback about the unique metabolism allowing users to instantly understand how the body responds to diet and lifestyle decisions, enabling clients to optimize diet and routines for personal goals.

Benjamin

Developer of a banking platform designed to connect brands, customers and influencers with sharable cash rewards. The company's platform offers debit cards that allow users to get merchant rewards and its iOS and Android application helps match the needs of today's businesses, enabling businesses to experience free, fast, and flexible business banking.

DraftWise

Developer of a knowledge management and intelligence platform designed to support clients' technology and compliance requirements. The company's platform makes law firms draft contracts fast by giving each lawyer instant access to the firm's collective knowledge and previous contracts, enabling clients to avail and customize the security architecture according to their requirements.

Cofactr

Developer of automated electronics purchasing assistant designed to help the hardware team get all the parts they need. The company provides automated sourcing from global suppliers, powerful supply chain intelligence, and intuitive forecasting with transparent search, automated quoting, and instant purchasing, enabling clients to proactively source parts and mitigate supply issues.

Fizz

Developer of debit card application intended to build credit and earn cash back around campus. The company's application empowers college students to achieve the financial freedom they deserve, and the credit score to secure a better future, providing students with safe ways to build their credit scores.

Sunset

Operator of a business dissolution consulting company intended to help clients shut down their businesses. The company specializes in foreign qualification withdrawals, bankruptcies, subscription cancellations, final tax returns and filings, contract terminations, non-cash asset liquidations, payroll, and bank closures, enabling businesses to handle complex closure processes.

Me4U

Developer of artificial intelligence-driven engagement tools designed to transform people into AI companions. The company allows content creators to own AI clones, offers real-time conversations with authorized AI personas of creators facilitates fans to connect with celebrities via synthetic text-based conversations, and even develops relationships with the AI version of their personal, providing a sustainable, passive income stream, enabling content creators and users to engage and monetize their fan base across various social media platforms.

Comun

Developer of a banking application designed to keep banking details online and fulfill all the needs related to financial transactions. The company's application offers financial stability within the traditional banking industry by providing day-to-day transactions like depositing or transferring money, enabling Latino users to reach their full potential and have financial freedom.

Alloy

Developer of women's health care products intended to promote wellness and manage menopause effectively. The company's products include a line of natural items created for conditions like menopause, osteoporosis, and weight gain, enabling women to live a healthy and long life.

PixieBrix

PixieBrix is an AI-powered layer over your existing software to guide, coach, and monitor your team. It’s fast to implement, adapts to change, and offers real time reporting and insights.

BiteSight

BiteSight is the video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash

Liquid Diamonds

Developer of a business-to-business online trading platform designed to facilitate a global exchange for diamonds. The company's platform offers the benefits of commodity exchange, clearing and settlement services, enabling wholesale traders and jewelers to increase their inventory effectively.

Popset

Popset is a social media content monetization app built on the Solana blockchain. We empower rising creators to access micropayment patronage directly from their audience through digital collectibles.

Posh

Developer of an event management and ticketing platform designed for live experiences. The company's platform offers white-labeled event pages, a promoter management system, attendee segmenting, integrated customer relationship management, artificial intelligence-controlled ticket tiers and short message service tools, enabling clients to organize and manage events.

Lume

Lume AI helps teams ingest client data, normalize data from different sources, and build data pipelines, automatically.

Thursday Boot Company

Manufacturer of footwear intended to bring quality and versatility back to men's and women's boots. The company's footwear is comfortable, versatile and durable with features like studded rubber outsoles, comfort strips, cork-bed midsoles, full glove leather interior lining, and good year welt constructed, enabling customers to use well-constructed boots at reasonable prices.

Paces

Developer of a data platform designed to derisk the development and operation of the green infrastructure project. The company's platform provides data signals collected across counties, including environmental data, permitting data, zoning data, interconnection data and competition risks by accelerating the renewable project development and making the projects return more money over time, enabling developers to understand what and where to profitably build green infrastructure.

Athena Intelligence

We created an AI agent, Athena, who functions as an artificial analyst for leading enterprises.

Turnkey

Developer of a private key management platform designed to simplify building in crypto. The company platform offers scalable wallets, fully flexible signing, and intuitive security controls enabling developers and businesses to generate and manage private keys across blockchains without compromising on security.

Kasheesh

Kasheesh is the first ever and only app that allows consumers to split any purchase across multiple debit, credit, and gift cards at the same time - creating the ultimate Super Card. Kasheesh works in your digital wallets (ApplePay and Google Pay) as well through our Native App.

Community Capital

Operator of a digital loan trading exchange platform designed to optimize the management of loan portfolios for financial institutions, marketplace lenders, and other credit investors. The company's platform offers an online marketplace, where members can post loans, or find and connect directly to other buyer or seller partners in real-time, without brokers or other intermediaries, enabling participants to manage balance sheet liquidity and risk while driving returns.

Ellipsis

Developer of an artificial intelligence tool designed to convert technical instructions into working tested code. The company's tool runs in the cloud, offers large language models-powered code review on every commit, answers questions, writes code and conducts code reviews, enabling engineers to spend more time reviewing code that the company writes than writing code themselves.

Knot

Knot is the merchant connectivity platform designed to simplify how consumers, merchants, and financial institutions interact. With Knot’s product suite, users can seamlessly manage card-on-file payments, update payment details, and take control of subscriptions across the top 150+ merchants. By reducing friction at every step, Knot creates a smoother, more connected financial experience for everyone involved.

Didero

Operator of an AI-based supply chain company intended to serve people in California, United States. The company uses a variety of AI models, including OpenAI and Google Gemini, depending on the task or requirement, enabling users to extract data from tables, purchase orders, or price lists.

Rally

Developer of a user research CRM platform intended to make it easy for teams to research with their users. The company's platform automates outreach, scheduling, incentives, and participant management while replacing messy spreadsheets and disjointed tooling, saving teams hours each week, enabling clients to spend less time recruiting and more time talking to their users.

Outsmart College

Operator of an education platform intended to make it easier to access a college education. This company is currently operating in Stealth mode.

Krepling

Developer of an e-commerce enablement platform designed to leverage technology to encourage everyone to participate in e-commerce. The company's platform allows merchants to have their operations all in one place, eliminating the need for disparate platforms to offer enhanced data capabilities to capture customer data without coding experience, enabling merchants and retailers to build and scale their e-commerce operations.

Alinea

Developer of an investing application intended to empower the next generation of investors. The company specializes in building a social trading platform to buy and sell stocks, exchange-traded funds, and cryptocurrencies, enabling investors to make simple, personal, and transparent investment decisions.

NLX

Operator of a no-code, multimodal conversation platform intended to build, monitor, and analyze automated conversations The company's platform uses machine learning technology and artificial intelligence that transforms customer contact into personalized customer self-service experiences through automated chat, voice, and multimodal conversations, enabling organizations to build and manage automated conversational experiences with customers.

831 Stories

Publisher of romance novels based in New York City, New York. The company focuses on sharing love stories that are expansive, immersive, and, above all, delightful, enabling readers to get inspired by the enthusiasm, empathy, curiosity, and open-mindedness of the romance.

Pointwise

Pointwise helps you maximize your credit card rewards

Onaroll

Operator of an employment platform designed to increase shift worker retention. The company's platform provides performance and loyalty rewards to shift workers to reduce employee turnover, enabling franchises and businesses to that incentivize productivity and longevity and save their turnover costs.

OpenYield

OpenYield is a cutting-edge bond marketplace delivering an equity-like trading experience with leading economics. For brokerages, advisors, and asset managers seeking scalable fixed income solutions, OpenYield is the bond market you’ve been waiting for.

Benepass

Developer of a benefits card software designed to improve access to benefits, maximize flexibility, and increase ease of use. The company's platform lets employers set their wellness policy by distributing the funds via prepaid debit cards and also automates the onboarding and offboarding of employees through payroll integration, enabling employers to seamlessly connect with payroll and accounting departments for tax compliance and improve employee engagement.

Doorlist

Developer of event management platform intended to provide security and convenience for event hosts and guests. The company offers a unique QR Code-based system that provides fast entry and reliable security, eliminating the need for screenshots and recordings, event creation, guest list management, entry scanning, and social engagement features, enabling clients to create, organize, and manage their events easily.

Whizz

Provider of subscription-based rental services intended to offer monthly rental of last-mile vehicles with a key focus on the delivery sector. The company provides technical service and support during the entire subscription period and can skip parking and traffic stress and also offers comfortable rides without back pain, enabling users to rent a handheld electric vehicle without worrying about maintenance and repair.

Noetica

AI-powered knowledge extraction from complex financial documents