While special education spending tops $100B annually, chronic staffing shortages leave millions of students waiting months for legally required services. Parallel Learning just closed a $20M Series B with data showing 98% of students met or exceeded IEP goals through their virtual platform—a stark contrast to traditional models struggling with compliance and burnout. With districts legally required to provide services regardless of budget uncertainty, delve into why this model addresses... Read more ›
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There has been explosive growth in the number of freelancers as a result of the pandemic. Lili, is the all-in-one banking platform along with real-time expense tracking, tax tools, and financial insights that are tailored specifically for the needs of freelancers. AlleyWatch caught up with CEO and Cofounder Lilac Bar David to learn more about the pain points of freelancing that Lili addresses, the company's impressive growth during the pandemic,... Read more ›
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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/29/2020 featuring funding details for Priori, RealBlocks, and much more. Read more ›
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Sports are meant to bring fans together but the pandemic has made our love of sports more isolating with fans now forced to turn to technology platforms to share their passion. Flick, founded by the founders of Fanduel, is the mobile chat and engagement platform built exclusively for sports fans. AlleyWatch caught up with Cofounder, CEO, and repeat entrepreneur Nigel Eccles to learn how his experience cofounding FanDuel inspired him... Read more ›
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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/28/2020 featuring funding details for Lunchbox, Fabric Technologies, and much more. Read more ›
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The pandemic has led to a profound increase in online consumer spending online with an increase of 52% or $466B between March-September. Yet for startup employees, the uncertainty of the economy can be worrisome. E-commerce transaction marketing platform firm Rokt raised an unexpected Series D round to provide some liquidity to its employees to serve as reassurance and support its growth. Rokt powers the “AHA-moment" of many large online merchants... Read more ›
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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/27/2020 featuring funding details for Suzy, Obsess, and much more. Read more ›
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SMBs have traditionally lacked the resources to build out robust benefits department forcing them to outsource benefit decisions to traditional brokers and bear an increasingly disproportionate burden in rising healthcare costs. Nava, an employee benefits brokerage founded by the founders of Hightower and Kareem Zaki of Thrive Capital, brings affordable healthcare to the 160M Americans who rely on employers for health insurance. With Nava, small-to-midsized businesses are equipped with the... Read more ›
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Neuroscience has always been a focus area for Social Starts and Joyance Partners and should continue to be due to the large and clear unmet need. Stress, anxiety, mental illness, and their associated impacts are at all-time highs. People seem desperate for solutions. Science points toward many potential new approaches. We also recognize that there […] Read more ›
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In 1979, Michael E. Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces. Read more ›
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NYC Tech News for the week ending 10/24 featuring news for Flick, Lili, Here, and much more… Read more ›
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup fundings for the week ending 10/24/20 featuring funding details for Intellimize, Pulley, FinLocker, and fifteen more rounds you must know about. Read more ›
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For the 50M+ Americans who act as informal caregivers to an older loved one, the caregiver is often overwhelmed with keeping track of a loved one’s healthcare, finances, and more. Pillar is the digital platform that makes it easier for families to protect and care for their loved ones by organizing and store important information such as medical records, legal documents, and financial accounts – all online. AlleyWatch caught up... Read more ›
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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/23/2020 featuring funding details for Cobble, Here, and much more. Read more ›
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Expectant mothers are so often presented with binary options for childbirth - a heavily medicalized approach in a hospital with an obstetrician or a "natural birth" at home with a midwife, neither of which provides the multidimensional and convenient care that women want. Oula, a modern maternity center, blends the best of both options so women don’t have to choose and weaves technology into the experience to provide safe, convenient,... Read more ›
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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/22/2020 featuring funding details for Lili, ROKT, and much more. Read more ›
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Many emerging entrepreneurs understand one thing: they need to build a brand. A business is much more than the goods and/or services you provide. Your business is your relationship with your customers, your reputation in the marketplace, and what people think of when they think of your company. All of this equals brand. The problem is, while many people understand what a brand is, they don’t understand how to build... Read more ›
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Brendan Hannigan and Sandy Bird are repeat entrepreneurs. They founded Q1 Labs, a company they started, scaled, and sold to IBM for ~$600M. The duo is now building Sonrai Security, an enterprise identity and data governance platform for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. Hannigan joined AlleyWatch to share more about the company, the process of fundraising, and the company’s recent funding round from investors that include Menlo Ventures, Polaris... Read more ›
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Are there any benefits to being a Founder who came from nothing? What kind of behaviors or expectations might they have which are an advantage at a startup company and why? Read more ›
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The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/21/2020 featuring funding details for Vowel, Pillar Life, and much more. Read more ›
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It's been easy to gain the Covid-15 during the lockdown, and now that things are slowly opening back up, people are looking for new ways to shed the extra pounds that may have accumulated. Caliber is the fitness coaching platform that offers strength training, nutrition guidance, and a personal fitness coach that's accessible via text and video messaging to keep you on track. By pairing Caliber members with fitness experts,... Read more ›
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