Series A: A Series

Spotlighting the latest NYC-headquartered startups to raise Series A rounds — those crucial early wins that help founders grow their teams, build out their products, and get serious about scale. Powered by Obviously NYC, presented by Gunderson Dettmer and PwC US.

October 2025

DualEntry

DualEntry develops AI-based accounting software for handling transactions for mid-market enterprises. The product includes a unified general ledger, automation of repetitive workflows, multi-entity and multi-currency support, and integrations with many existing financial and operations-adjacent tools. DualEntry also offers what it calls “NextDay Migration,” which enables moving historical financial data from legacy accounting or ERP systems into its platform within ~24 hours, reducing implementation friction.

ExaCare

ExaCare develops innovative software to enhance how assisted living facilities manage admissions and care for residents, focusing on post-acute and senior care providers. The platform leverages AI technology to streamline operations, improving the efficiency of admissions processes and care delivery in healthcare settings. The company creates intelligent models that interpret referral packets, payer requirements, and patient care histories to assist healthcare facilities in making informed decisions. Its technology identifies key clinical signals during admissions, helping providers transition from reactive workflows to proactive, data-guided operations.

NILO Therapeutics

Nilo Therapeutics is an early-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Starbridge

Starbridge provides a go-to-market intelligence platform designed for companies that sell to government and educational institutions. The platform compiles data such as contract expirations, requests for proposals, meeting minutes, grant awards, and strategic documents to help organizations identify relevant sales opportunities. It integrates with customer relationship management systems to supply contextual information, including budget insights and contact data. Starbridge also offers tools to assist with proposal development by highlighting suitable opportunities and generating draft responses. The system includes features for prioritizing leads based on available data and supports outbound engagement with templated messages tailored to verified contacts.

Marble Health

Marble Health provides access to personalized therapy to help teens in their mental health journey. Marble Health provides prompt and affordable care for middle and high school students experiencing common mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and trauma. They ensure that all teens and their families can access treatment using their existing insurance coverage, including both commercial and Medicaid plans.

Medmo

Medmo is a healthcare company that develops a platform to connect patients with local medical centers offering medical test and scanning services. Its platform connects patients with radiology centers offering a range of imaging tests such as MRI, CT scans, PET, and ultrasound.

Clerq

Clerq is a financial technology company that provides a payment platform for high-ticket transactions, allowing businesses to accept direct bank payments from customers both online and in-store.

Strella

Strella is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allows innovative product teams to run fast, continuous user research using AI.

Dash0

Dash0 offers an observability platform built around OpenTelemetry standards to help engineering and site reliability teams monitor applications and infrastructure. With granular, resource-centric monitoring, Dash0 provides real-time visibility across your applications and infrastructure. Its simple, transparent pricing and seamless integration with open standards like Perses, PromQL, and Kubernetes make it a breeze to use. The product supports logs, metrics, traces, Kubernetes and website monitoring, synthetic tests, dashboards, alerting, and cost transparency.

Crosby

Crosby is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys.

Vermeer

Vermeer is a mixed reality and AI-enabled visualization and command and control for autonomous systems in GPS-denied environments. It is an AR mission planning tool and autonomous sUAS mission execution for both DoD and commercial customers.

Bevel

Bevel is a holistic health and performance platform designed to empower users to take control of their well-being. By integrating data from wearables and supporting continuous glucose monitoring, it delivers personalized scores for recovery, strain, sleep, nutrition, stress, and energy. With strength-building tools, habit journaling, and science-driven insights, it aims to replace fragmented health apps and foster long-term healthspan optimization.

PodPlay Technologies

Technology to empower sports venues to streamline reservations, manage events, and run spaces autonomously.

Estuary

Estuary helps companies go real-time by connecting to their data sources and turning their databases, warehouses, and SaaS tools into real-time services without engineering effort.

Counsel Health

The modern front door to healthcare. AI meets real doctors for instant, personalized, and safe medical guidance—anytime, anywhere.

Acelab

AI-powered operating system for building material decision-making trusted by architects, designers, owners, and manufacturers

Darwin AI

GenAI Adoption and GRC platform for state and local government agencies.

Kaizen

Kaizen Labs is a software company that helps city administrators transform resident experiences with simple digital products.

Arya Health

Arya Health is a healthcare technology firm dedicated to improving healthcare workforce management with AI-powered automation.

Renew

Renew helps renters seamlessly renew their lease or find another home within their property's network.

Volastra Therapeutics

Volastra Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing novel therapies for the treatment of metastatic cancers.

Womaness

Womaness develops and offers a collection of modern menopause products.

September 2025

NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in September 2025.

Kredete

Kredete provides a suite of financial tools that enable African immigrants in the U.S. to send and receive money internationally while also building credit. The company facilitates mobile banking (including savings, debit cards, cash advances, and in-app payment services), mobile transfers and top-ups, plus credit building via on-time credit, transaction, and rent reporting. It also offers business solutions (merchant tools, checkout, and API), crypto services (buying, selling, transfers, rewards, borrowing), and an AI-assistant for budgeting, predictive analysis, spending & credit simulation. Kredete operates via licensed U.S. financial partners and integrates compliance, security measures like two-factor authentication, and FDIC insurance for eligible accounts.

Doctronic

Doctronic offers an AI-powered medical assistant platform that produces health information, symptom assessment, and personalized care suggestions based on up-to-date medical data. The service delivers free AI consultations that generate summaries of possible causes, assessments, and preliminary plans, and also enables users to book video visits with licensed US physicians for follow-ups including prescriptions and referrals. The platform maintains user privacy through data encryption, secure storage, and optional sharing of health-conversation content only with consent. Doctronic emphasizes that its AI output does not replace medical advice, and encourages users to verify AI findings with licensed healthcare providers.

Terra Security

Terra Security provides web application penetration testing as a service. The company uses AI agents supervised by expert testers to find and verify vulnerabilities continuously. The service helps businesses identify and remediate security risks with context.

Seven Starling

Seven Starling is a digital clinic uniquely focused on treatment for perinatal mental health conditions like postpartum depression and anxiety. Through a combination of individualized therapy, peer support, and medication, its evidence-based care model is backed by research that shows that 90% of patients will feel better within 3 months.

Predoc

Predoc provides an AI-native platform for medical record retrieval and analysis and health information management. The company offers a range of services, including medical record retrieval, record indexation (from both structured and unstructured data), and medical record analysis. Its platform replaces manual health information management with intelligent, end-to-end automation connecting and transforming all formats and sources of clinical data, even faxed medical record PDFs, into digestible clinical insights that amplify, but are not meant to replace, clinical judgment.

Cassidy

Cassidy provides a context-powered AI automation platform for non-technical teams to control building AI workflows. By combining enterprise knowledge, real-time data, and large language models, it enables businesses to automate complex, nuanced processes.

Utila

Utila provides a digital asset management platform for institutions to securely store, transfer, and manage digital assets. It uses Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology to enhance security and control across multiple blockchains and wallets. The platform supports trading operations, payments, Treasury management, and tokenization. Utila also offers APIs and an SDK for developers to integrate its services into custom applications.

Conceivable Life Sciences

Conceivable Life Sciences develops automated in vitro fertilization (IVF) laboratory systems using AI, robotics, and machine vision. Its AURA platform performs the sequence of IVF procedures such as dish preparation, sperm and egg handling, injection (ICSI), incubation, vitrification, and thawing through coordinated, software-defined workstations. The system records traceability for each specimen and has shown clinical outcomes comparable to established IVF clinics in early trials, including an IRB-approved pilot with successful pregnancies. The company is advancing commercial deployments and preparing for broader rollout.

Centari

Centari is the platform for Deal Intelligence, combining secure LLMs with trusted precedent to accelerate transactions.

Euclid Power

Euclid Power operates in the renewable energy sector, providing a comprehensive platform for project management, investment, and execution. The company offers data-driven solutions that span from project development to asset management. Euclid Power's platform is designed to simplify the process of renewable energy project development and execution.

Highbeam

Highbeam is a fintech company that offers an online platform for ecommerce originators to comprehend, invest, and expand businesses. Highbeam is headqaurtered in New York, United States.

Etherealize

Etherealize is a company dedicated to connecting traditional financial institutions, particularly Wall Street, to the Ethereum blockchain environment.

Cloudburst Technologies

Cloudburst Technologies provides realtime monitoring solutions and cyber threat intelligence tools.

Outsmart Education

Outsmart Education seeks to increase college accessibility and affordability in the face of growing student loan debt and tuition prices.

Axon Therapies

Axon Therapies developed the SAVM procedure. Their novel approach to modulating the body’s sympathetic nervous system to restore balance in the circulatory system.

Optain

Optain’s non-invasive clinical support tools harness the power of AI-enabled algorithms to analyse retinal images to screen for disease

Spiral

Spiral is building multimodal warehousing that works with the tools you love.

Vega Security

Vega Security offers cybersecurity services for cyberattack detection.

Markup AI

Markup AI is an AI content editor and guardrail that is constantly on scans, assesses, and rewrites all material to match your brand.

Birches Health

Birches Health provides therapy and support for those struggling with behavioral and process addictions.

TestKube

Testkube is a Kubernetes-native testing framework for automating test executions.

Synthesized

Synthesized is the first all-in-one data automation platform for data-driven organizations.

Glyphic Biotechnologies

Glyphic Biotechnologies is a biotechnology company that develops a protein sequencing platform. While DNA can reveal biological insights, proteins provide the actual insights into the functions of our bodies. The company is in the process of developing a pioneering, next-generation protein sequencing platform that will empower researchers to acquire unprecedented insights into both biology and diseases.

Neura Health

Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because there are not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias.

August 2025

NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in August 2025.

Novig

Novig is the high-frequency, commission-free sports betting exchange.

InstaLILY AI

InstaLILY AI is an AI platform that operates within existing enterprise software.

Casap

Casap provides a copilot and collaboration platform for automating disputes and preventing fraud for financial institutions.

Tavily

Tavily is a search engine for LLMs and RAG that connects AI agents to the real-time web.

Stavtar Solutions

Stavtar Solutions is a supplier of CTO functions, cloud-hosted mobile and web applications for small and mid-cap companies.

Garage

Garage is a marketplace for previously owned equipment, beginning with firefighting apparatus.

Basic Capital

Basic Capital is a retirement investment platform that enhances retirement savings by providing financing options within IRAs and 401(k)s.

Confido

The first automated financial operations software built for CPG brands

Lorikeet

Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.

Wisdom

Wisdom is a full-service billing company that allows dental practices to outsource their insurance collections and patient billing.

Evertune

Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services

Vendict

Transforming security questionnaires through the power of generative AI.

Isaac Health

Isaac Health is a technology-driven healthcare company that delivers virtual-first brain health and dementia care services.

Protege

Protege is the AI training data platform enabling seamless and compliant data exchange.

Sola

Sola assists automation-minded companies in building robotic agents that are capable of handling tedious tasks via LLMs and computer vision.

Bluefish Labs

Bluefish helps brands turn AI into a powerful new marketing channel to reach consumers and tell their story online.

July 2025

NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in July 2025.

Deeto

Deeto provides an AI‑driven customer activation platform that automates sourcing, sharing customer testimonials, and reference engagement.

Remark

Remark is a product guidance startup for online stores that brings the in-store experience online.

Ambrook

Ambrook provides accounting software for agricultural businesses.

Temelio

Temelio offers grants management software to streamline proposals, automate reporting, support engagement, and integrate with CRM tools.

Ekho Dealer

Ekho Dealer is a licensed dealership that vehicle manufacturers can integrate into their websites.

Castellum.AI

Castellum.AI offers an AI-enabled compliance platform focusing on automated AML/KYC and transaction screening for financial institutions.

Nominal

Nominal mission is to empower companies to make the decisions through financial data intelligence.

Vellum

Vellum is a provider of an enterprise development platform for building mission-critical AI products.

Zip Security

Zip Security delivers an AI-driven cybersecurity and compliance platform for security and IT automation for small and mid-sized enterprises.

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope is an audio company that delivers adventure and thrilling true stories filled with heart.

Datavations

Datavations is a commerce enablement software in the manufacturing ecosystem.

Heron Data

Heron Data utilizes AI to automate document intake, extraction, and enrichment in the lending, equipment finance, and insurance industries.

Heka

Heka is the external customer intelligence engine for financial services, powering credit, fraud, and onboarding with audit-ready AI.

Retirable

Retirable is a financial services technology company specializing in retirement planning, advising, and income generation.

Fortuna Health

Fortuna streamlines Medicaid navigation for consumers, covering eligibility, enrollment, and renewal processes seamlessly.

Slingshot AI

Slingshot AI provides a cloud-based platform for easy training, deploying, and managing machine learning models.

Diode Computers

Diode Computers is a AI-based software to automate the manufacturing of electronics faster and cheaper.

Journey Live

Journey Live offers a preventative mental health solution to reduce turnover, tackle burnout, and help employees live healthier lives.

OffDeal

AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses

C8 Health

C8 Health provides cloud service for front healthcare workers that allows them to offer better healthcare services.

Legion Security

Legion presents an AI SOC companion browser extension that enables scalable automation using in-house knowledge.

June 2025

NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in June 2025.