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.
FINNY is a software platform that provides financial advisors with tools to find, prioritize, and engage potential clients through data-driven prospecting, scoring, and outreach automation. The platform aggregates and analyzes large sets of prospect data to help advisors identify individuals whose recent life events or financial situations may signal readiness for advisory services, and assigns a predictive score to highlight prospects with higher likelihoods of engagement. FINNY also generates personalized outreach content, suggests suitable communication channels, and can manage follow-up interactions and meeting scheduling for advisors. The service is designed to streamline advisor workflows and support targeted client acquisition without manual lead research. Its system continuously updates prospect insights to assist advisors in monitoring opportunities over time.
DataLane provides an AI-driven go-to-market platform that turns unstructured local business data into structured contact information and market intelligence for sales teams targeting the offline economy. It uses machine learning models to extract and verify business and decision-maker details from diverse sources, enrich CRM records, and support campaign orchestration. The platform helps identify new accounts, segment markets, clean duplicate records, and integrate intelligence into sales workflows. DataLane delivers structured business profiles and decision-maker contacts into tools like Salesforce or Snowflake for outreach and analysis. It also emphasizes privacy controls and SOC 2-compliant handling of business contact data for professional use.
Kobalt Labs is an AI-powered copilot to streamline compliance operations for financial institutions. The platform synchronizes with any regulation, and can screen materials for noncompliance within minutes before a human being even has to take a look.
MEND is a health-science company that develops clinically backed nutrition products and remote wellness programs designed to support healing, recovery, and overall physiological resilience. Its product portfolio includes specialized nutritional formulas aimed at enhancing recovery from surgery, injury, joint replacement, and athletic strain, as well as daily wellness and performance support options formulated with research-informed ingredients. The company also offers a digital care platform called Upgraid, which provides remote coaching, monitoring, and personalized support intended to improve patient readiness for procedures and long-term health outcomes. Mend’s approach blends “food as medicine” principles with digital health tools to help patients and clinicians integrate nutrition and behavior-focused strategies into care pathways. Products and services are used in collaboration with healthcare providers in contexts like orthopedic recovery and surgical optimization to potentially enhance biomarkers and support more effective healing journeys.
At Prime Security, we empower Security Teams to integrate risk-aware decisions into the very fabric of product development. We have built best-in-class technology to bring to life a future where 'Secure by Design' is the norm, enabling businesses to innovate boldly with preemptive security that enhances every stage of growth.
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Ostium delivers a decentralized trading platform that enables leveraged trading of real-world assets, including stocks, commodities, indices, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrencies, directly on-chain. Users maintain self-custody of their funds; trades, liquidity, and fees are publicly visible on a blockchain, removing reliance on traditional brokers. The platform offers up to 200× leverage and supports both long and short positions across a wide range of asset classes. Ostium uses real-time, low-latency price feeds via oracle systems to provide accurate and timely pricing. In addition, it recently introduced a points program that rewards user trading activity, referrals, and liquidity provision by converting on-platform engagement into a points ledger to track participation.
Fin is engineered for high-value payments with business-grade payment rails designed to feel like a payments app rather than a cryptocurrency platform.
Excelsior Sciences develops a chemistry and AI platform for discovering and manufacturing small-molecule compounds. It uses a proprietary “smart bloccs” system, which consists of modular, machine-ready chemical building blocks, to convert small-molecule innovation into an iterative, automation-friendly workflow. Through this platform, Excelsior enables closed-loop cycles of AI-guided synthesis, testing, and optimisation that link early-stage discovery to scalable manufacturing. The company supports projects across pharmaceuticals, materials science, and other sectors that rely on small molecules. Excelsior also maintains an internal pipeline of therapeutic candidates while working with partners to deploy its chemistry platform broadly.
Nevis is the world's first AI-powered platform designed specifically for wealth management.
Echo develops and provides container base images designed to eliminate known software vulnerabilities in cloud-native applications by rebuilding and hardening images with only essential components. The company’s offerings include a catalog of CVE-free images that integrate into existing development workflows and are continuously updated to address emerging security concerns, supported by automated processes and compatibility with common scanning tools. Echo’s platform uses AI-driven methods to produce and maintain these images, aiming to support engineering and security teams in reducing vulnerability management tasks and easing compliance efforts. The company also supplies resources and technical support to help users adopt secure base images within their DevOps pipelines.
Sequence streamlines the quote to cash process for modern B2B teams.
IMTC provides a cloud-native platform for fixed-income investment management, designed to help money managers, asset-management firms, and financial institutions manage bond portfolios and related strategies with speed, precision, and scalability. The company’s core offering, its platform (sometimes referred to as the “NOVA” system), supports everything from portfolio construction and optimization to order management, compliance, risk controls, and reporting, letting users build and manage custom bond accounts, model portfolios, tax-optimized portfolios, and structured fixed-income solutions at scale. IMTC enables simultaneous management of many accounts, automating tasks like cash flow modeling, bond allocation, trade execution, and compliance checks, which helps reduce manual work and potential errors compared with spreadsheet-based legacy systems. The platform also provides connectivity to market data sources, custodians, execution venues, analytics providers, and internal data systems, creating an integrated workflow across front-, middle-, and back-office functions.
SuperCircle develops solutions that support textile waste management and circularity for retail brands through a combination of technology, logistics, and data services. The company’s platform enables brands to operate programs where customers can trade in used apparel and textiles while also managing excess inventory, returns, and other end-of-life materials for reuse or recycling. SuperCircle integrates digital systems with physical reverse logistics to track, sort, and route materials toward reuse streams or recycling partners, and it provides reporting tools that give partners visibility into program performance and environmental impact. The company works with retail and fashion partners to expand textile reuse and reduce landfill waste through coordinated collection and processing services.
Radial is a high-quality network for interventional psychiatry, dedicated to turning scientific breakthroughs into safe and accessible treatments.
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of various global events using cryptocurrency. Polymarket operates on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing the Polygon network to enhance scalability and reduce transaction costs. Users connect to the platform through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and use the USDC stablecoin to place bets on events, ranging from political outcomes to entertainment predictions.
AI One is a technology company that assists enterprises in integrating AI into their existing systems.
Chargeflow provides an automated chargeback management platform that recovers and automates chargebacks to fight fraud to digital commerce.
Flint uses Artificial Intelligence to provide personalized learning experience for every student of K-12 and also empower teachers
Sound.com is a royalty-free music platform that provides creators and businesses with licensed music for videos, ads, and other digital content.
Modern Life is a tech-enabled insurance brokerage helping everyone protect what matters most. Our platform empowers today’s advisors with advanced technology and expert support to help them serve their clients faster, more easily, and more confidently. We have raised $15M in seed funding, led by Thrive Capital, major insurance companies, and 12 unicorn founders from Hippo, Plaid, Reddit, Flatiron Health, Newfront, At Bay, Vouch, Cedar, Lattice, and more.
Full-spectrum security products for cyber resilience.
Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships.
TULU is the Usage Economy platform that elevates products and services brands to win today’s needs-driven consumers. We provide building tenants with on-demand access to hundreds of brand-name appliances, grocery staples, and micro-mobility and entertainment devices, in residential buildings, student housing, and offices. TULU’s IoT-based smart rental units are customized to provide the most necessary and useful items, while leveraging data to analyze behavioral patterns, optimize usage, refine inventory, and create a personalized experience for our users. We are a global company with operations in 15 cities across the US and Europe, working with the largest landlords in the world, such as Greystar Real Estate Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Invesco, RXR Realty and CA Ventures, and top brand manufacturers such as Bosch, Hoover, Kärcher and Unagi.
Stuut provides an AI platform that automates accounts receivable work for companies. The company offers an AI-based automation platform specialized in accounts receivable (AR) management. Its system autonomously handles customer outreach via email, SMS, and voice to collect overdue invoices, proactively reducing manual collections work. The platform matches incoming payments to the correct invoices within the ERP, eliminating tedious reconciliation tasks. Stuut also resolves customer disputes and deductions by gathering documentation and maintaining context across interactions. Its AI agents learn each customer’s payment behavior, becoming more effective over time. The company’s technology deploys quickly—Stuut claims implementation in days—and integrates with existing financial systems to boost cash flow and free AR teams from repetitive tasks.
Teleskope presents a data protection platform that focuses on automating the lifecycle of data security, privacy and compliance across an organization’s data environment. The platform enables continuous discovery and cataloguing of data assets spanning cloud, codebase and vendors, with classification of more than 150 sensitive entity types including PII, PHI, and PCI. It supports automated remediation actions (such as redaction or encryption) and integrates into development pipelines to stream-line prevention of vulnerabilities. Teleskope also provides governance capabilities for AI ecosystems by linking datasets to AI models, managing data flows, and enforcing policies for safe AI adoption.
Model ML offers an AI-native workspace tailored for financial institutions such as investment banks, private equity firms, and consultancies. The company provides purpose-built AI agents that analyse structured and unstructured finance data, including emails, filings, CRM records, and third-party datasets, to automate research, reporting, and document generation. Its “AI Modules” feature enables users to design autonomous workflows that run continuously, generating deliverables like pitch decks or earnings summaries with embedded institutional formatting. The platform operates securely and supports single-tenant deployment in a client’s cloud environment to preserve data privacy and compliance.
Agentic AI mortgage startup TidalWave is simplifying the home loan process with its AI-powered tool SOLO™. The company was co-founded by Diane Yu, former CTO of digital mortgage startup Better.com and co-founder of FreeWheel, which was acquired by Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA). TidalWave’s SOLO™ integrates with Freddie Mac's Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) and Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter® (DU®) to provide real-time, personalized experiences for borrowers while acting as a co-pilot for loan officers, processors and underwriters.
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 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 is an early-stage biotech company developing groundbreaking therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
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 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 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 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 is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allows innovative product teams to run fast, continuous user research using AI.
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 is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys.
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 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.
Technology to empower sports venues to streamline reservations, manage events, and run spaces autonomously.
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.
The modern front door to healthcare. AI meets real doctors for instant, personalized, and safe medical guidance—anytime, anywhere.
AI-powered operating system for building material decision-making trusted by architects, designers, owners, and manufacturers
GenAI Adoption and GRC platform for state and local government agencies.
Kaizen Labs is a software company that helps city administrators transform resident experiences with simple digital products.
Arya Health is a healthcare technology firm dedicated to improving healthcare workforce management with AI-powered automation.
Renew helps renters seamlessly renew their lease or find another home within their property's network.
Volastra Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing novel therapies for the treatment of metastatic cancers.
Womaness develops and offers a collection of modern menopause products.
NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in September 2025.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 is the platform for Deal Intelligence, combining secure LLMs with trusted precedent to accelerate transactions.
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 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 is a company dedicated to connecting traditional financial institutions, particularly Wall Street, to the Ethereum blockchain environment.
Cloudburst Technologies provides realtime monitoring solutions and cyber threat intelligence tools.
Outsmart Education seeks to increase college accessibility and affordability in the face of growing student loan debt and tuition prices.
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’s non-invasive clinical support tools harness the power of AI-enabled algorithms to analyse retinal images to screen for disease
Spiral is building multimodal warehousing that works with the tools you love.
Vega Security offers cybersecurity services for cyberattack detection.
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 provides therapy and support for those struggling with behavioral and process addictions.
Testkube is a Kubernetes-native testing framework for automating test executions.
Synthesized is the first all-in-one data automation platform for data-driven organizations.
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 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.
NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in August 2025.
Novig is the high-frequency, commission-free sports betting exchange.
InstaLILY AI is an AI platform that operates within existing enterprise software.
Casap provides a copilot and collaboration platform for automating disputes and preventing fraud for financial institutions.
Tavily is a search engine for LLMs and RAG that connects AI agents to the real-time web.
Stavtar Solutions is a supplier of CTO functions, cloud-hosted mobile and web applications for small and mid-cap companies.
Garage is a marketplace for previously owned equipment, beginning with firefighting apparatus.
Basic Capital is a retirement investment platform that enhances retirement savings by providing financing options within IRAs and 401(k)s.
The first automated financial operations software built for CPG brands
Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
Wisdom is a full-service billing company that allows dental practices to outsource their insurance collections and patient billing.
Evertune is a SaaS company that offers enterprises AI chatbot brand monitoring and analytics services
Transforming security questionnaires through the power of generative AI.
Isaac Health is a technology-driven healthcare company that delivers virtual-first brain health and dementia care services.
Protege is the AI training data platform enabling seamless and compliant data exchange.
Sola assists automation-minded companies in building robotic agents that are capable of handling tedious tasks via LLMs and computer vision.
Bluefish helps brands turn AI into a powerful new marketing channel to reach consumers and tell their story online.
NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in July 2025.
Deeto provides an AI‑driven customer activation platform that automates sourcing, sharing customer testimonials, and reference engagement.
Remark is a product guidance startup for online stores that brings the in-store experience online.
Ambrook provides accounting software for agricultural businesses.
Temelio offers grants management software to streamline proposals, automate reporting, support engagement, and integrate with CRM tools.
Ekho Dealer is a licensed dealership that vehicle manufacturers can integrate into their websites.
Castellum.AI offers an AI-enabled compliance platform focusing on automated AML/KYC and transaction screening for financial institutions.
Nominal mission is to empower companies to make the decisions through financial data intelligence.
Vellum is a provider of an enterprise development platform for building mission-critical AI products.
Zip Security delivers an AI-driven cybersecurity and compliance platform for security and IT automation for small and mid-sized enterprises.
Kaleidoscope is an audio company that delivers adventure and thrilling true stories filled with heart.
Datavations is a commerce enablement software in the manufacturing ecosystem.
Heron Data utilizes AI to automate document intake, extraction, and enrichment in the lending, equipment finance, and insurance industries.
Heka is the external customer intelligence engine for financial services, powering credit, fraud, and onboarding with audit-ready AI.
Retirable is a financial services technology company specializing in retirement planning, advising, and income generation.
Fortuna streamlines Medicaid navigation for consumers, covering eligibility, enrollment, and renewal processes seamlessly.
Slingshot AI provides a cloud-based platform for easy training, deploying, and managing machine learning models.
Diode Computers is a AI-based software to automate the manufacturing of electronics faster and cheaper.
Journey Live offers a preventative mental health solution to reduce turnover, tackle burnout, and help employees live healthier lives.
AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses
C8 Health provides cloud service for front healthcare workers that allows them to offer better healthcare services.
Legion presents an AI SOC companion browser extension that enables scalable automation using in-house knowledge.
NYC companies that raised Series A rounds in June 2025.
Cloud finance made simple.
The #1 super health app in the world. Free, gamified, medically proven.
OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers.
Niural is an AI enabled global PEO and B2B payments platform that covers US and 150+ countries worldwide.
Qunnect is a spin-off venture company enabling the quantum internet for quantum repeater operation.
Profound provides analytics and tools for brands to enhance visibility in AI search.
Traversal is building the AI SRE for the enterprise.
AI-native HR, Payroll, and Tax Compliance for Startups. Warp is how best founders automate their back-office work.
Swarmia develops a business management software that provides insights and tools to engineering leaders, managers, and teams.
Transform documents into structured data using LLMs. Build custom document automation solutions with unmatched accuracy in days, not months
Veracity is a root-cause metabolic health platform that provides clinically-backed and drug-free solutions.
Shinkei Systems is an automation agency that provides automation for fish harvesting.
For everything that happens after you deploy.
Farsight is an AI company that builds workflow automation tools for financial and insurance data processing.
Zorro is an insurtech company that specializes in providing health insurance and health services.
Bedrock Ocean Exploration is a platform for underwater vehicles.
Apis Point providing innovative price stability and risk management solutions to fuel wholesalers, distributors, and commercial buyers.
Modern booking software for wellness businesses
Thread AI's goal is to make infrastructure simple for enterprises seeking to get the most from AI.
Compyl is a provider of automated security and compliance solutions for business acceleration and security activities.
Avantis Labs, a derivatives ecosystem for decentralized finance (DeFi).
Canid simplifies pediatricians’ work by redesigning how the vaccination process works.
OatFi provides the end-to-end infrastructure for B2B payment platforms to launch embedded working capital tools.
Rally UXR is a User Research CRM to automate outreach, scheduling, incentives, and participant management.