New York, the city that never sleeps. As the birthplace of some of the world’s most and home to some of the world’s most iconic companies, New York City has long been a hotbed for innovation and entrepreneurship. In this article, we will shine a spotlight on the top 5 New York startups that are making waves and redefining their respective industries.

Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, a tech enthusiast, or simply curious about the latest innovations, this blog will provide you with an inside look into the ingenuity and creativity flourishing within the concrete jungle. Let’s dive in and discover the groundbreaking ideas and disruptive ventures that are shaping the future of the Big Apple and beyond.

OpenSea

Industry: NFT Marketplace

OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto collectables and NFTs. It includes collectables, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract.

Founded Date: Dec 20, 2017

Founders: Alex Atallah

Last Funding Type: Series C

Firstbase.io

Industry: Saas (HR)

Firstbase is building an all-in-one Company OS to help define how founders across the globe launch, manage and grow their businesses.

More than ten thousand founders from over a hundred countries have used the product, Firstbase Start, to launch their startups. For many founders, “firstbase.io” has become what they type into their address bars when they think about incorporating a business.

But Firstbase is much more than just incorporation. The team is dedicated to solving some of the startups’ hardest problems, with a particular focus in:

Democratising access to financial infrastructure

• Automating mundane tasks every founder faces when running a business
• Making tools and resources more accessible to everyone, everywhere
• Building integrated solutions for founders and removing friction
• Delivering opportunity to traditionally overlooked founders and companies
• Democratizing access to knowledge

Founded Date: 2019

Founders: Mark Milastsivy

Last Funding Type: Series A

Attentive

Industry: Conversational Commerce

Attentive is the leader in conversational commerce, reinventing business-to-consumer communication. The SMS-first software platform helps everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises strengthen relationships with their consumers in a new way.

Founded Date: 2016

Founders: Andrew Jones, Brian Long, Ethan Lo

Last Funding Type: Series E

Ro

Industry: Healthcare

Ro is a telehealth startup that operates digital health clinics for men’s and women’s health, along with smoking cessation.

The healthcare technology company builds a patient-centric healthcare system. Ro’s vertically integrated primary care platform powers a personalised, end-to-end healthcare experience from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. With a nationwide provider network, in-home care API, and proprietary pharmacy distribution centres, Ro seamlessly connects telehealth, diagnostics, and pharmacy services to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare without the need for insurance.

Founded Date: 2017

Founders: Rachel Blank, Rob Schutz, Saman Rahmanian, Zachariah Reitano

Last Funding Type Venture:  Series Unknown. Ro’s latest funding round was a Series D

Chainalysis

Industry: Software Development (Crypto Compliance)

Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk-scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.

Founded Date: Oct 1, 2014

Founders: Jonathan Levin, Michael Gronager

Last Funding Type: Series F