NYC Seed

NYC Seed is a New York City-based seed venture capital firm. It is a partnership between [ITAC](http://www.itac.org), [New York City Investment Fund](http://www.nycif.org), [The New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation](http://www.nystar.state.ny.us), [New York City Economic Development Corporation](http://www.nycedc.com) and [PolyTechnic University](http://www. poly.edu). It will provide up to $200,000 of investment to start-ups in New York. It has currently over $2,000,000 in funds. NYC Seed was [announced](http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9957814-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5) by Mayor Bloomberg on June 2, 2008.

Owen Davis

Managing Director

45 past transactions

Partpic

Seed Round in 2014
Partpic is a visual recognition technology company that allows users to save time and money searching for replacement maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) parts. By allowing users to snap a picture of a part with a smart device, Partpic matches the user generated image with a part and associated specifications.

Fieldlens

Series A in 2014
Fieldlens offers a tool that improves communication and collaboration for construction project teams. It knows what each member of the team needs to do now and reminds them, and it gives decision-makers a bird’s-eye view of every project without stepping on-site, enabling them to spot trends and see who the best performers are.

Little Borrowed Dress

Seed Round in 2014
Little Borrowed Dress is a wedding boutique that offers bridesmaid dresses for sale or rent. They offer planning a casino-themed wedding that can be celebrated as nuptials.

Datadog

Series B in 2014
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Contently

Series B in 2014
Contently's end-to-end enterprise content marketing platform (CMP) offers best-in-class technology paired with expert in-house content strategy and an unparalleled creative marketplace. Our sophisticated technology, expert content strategists, and world-class creative network gives our clients everything they need to create content programs that build trust, increase engagement, and drive measurable results. Founded in 2011 by Joe Coleman, Dave Goldberg, and Shane Snow, Contently is a fully remote, female-led technology company, headquartered in New York City. Contently is proud to be the recipient of numerous honors, including G2’s #1 Enterprise Content Creation Platform and Gartner Peer Insights’ Customer Choice. To learn more about Contently, please visit www.contently.com.

CaseRails

Seed Round in 2013
Founded by a team of lawyers and engineers, CaseRails is an enterprise software startup focused on dramatically improving the legal document workflow. CaseRails provides a full-featured word processor and light-weight document management system in one product, laser focused on increasing accuracy, and efficiency of legal document drafting. CaseRails recognizes the kind of document an attorney is drafting, adapts the user interface, pulls relevant information, and produces a correctly formatted document. This allows attorneys to maintain focus on creating substantive content. The company also help people re-use content, by breaking documents into basic building blocks for easy search and updating and storing these blocks in a database that tracks their relationships CaseRails makes it easy to collaborate with teammates and clients, with tools for version control that allow multiple attorneys to work seamlessly on the same draft without confusion. The cloud-based, integrated document management system keeps work-product organized and dynamically updates documents when necessary. CaseRails was established on 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Vidaao

Seed Round in 2013
Vidaao is a video production marketplace, connecting buyers and sellers of custom video production services. Buyers can source professional video for their business by price, location and style. Videographers and production companies can use Vidaao to market their services.

Zipmark

Seed Round in 2013
Zipmark enables businesses to send and receive 100% digital checks without risk, at a reasonable and transparent cost. Zipmark's API can be easily integrated into web and mobile payments, offering a lower cost alternative to credit and debit cards; also by leveraging Zipmark QR codes users can pay for items such as rent, fees or subscriptions directly from paper invoices via the Zipmark iPhone app. Zipmark was founded by Jake Howerton and Jay Bhattacharya. Jay was the co-founder of Mobile Money Ventures (acquired by Intuit) and was with Citigroup for 7 years where he was responsible for emerging payments strategy including mobile, NFC and smartcards. Jake is a technology focused entrepreneur and the former CTO of Sunshine Suites, Inc. Magazine's 15th Fastest Growing Real Estate Company in 2009. Jake is also active in creating the OpenTransact standard, an open and simple financial standard for authorizing transactions without revealing account credentials.

Alluring Logic

Seed Round in 2013
With the majority of retail revenues still coming from the store channel, improving the in-store experience with better information, better selling tools, and a more robust relationship manager can have a dramatic effect on conversion rates and revenues. Alluring Logic’s customer engagement platform combines an intuitive algorithm-driven, in-store cleinteling application. Combined with an online consumer web portal that leverages the large amounts of customer data collected from the in-store application, and inputted from clients, this drives customer attraction and retention to participating brands. Retailers will now become more effective in their analysis and use of loyalty program data, helping retailers to foster better relationships and provide a more bespoke service to their clients.

Quandora

Seed Round in 2013
Quandora helps companies foster a community of continuous learning and employee engagement through the simple act of asking questions. Every workplace has unspoken rules, internal processes, general modes of operating, and technological know-how that is hard to find and track. This proprietary knowledge is difficult to capture, document, and communicate to internal teams. Quandora enables users to ask questions, share knowledge, and learn on a platform that is accessible to all team members. Our web and mobile-based tool ensures that invaluable information is never lost and that communities are constantly learning and improving. We provide integrations with popular Enterprise tools: GoogleApps, Yammer, SalesForce, Zendesk, HipChat, and more.

Hublished

Seed Round in 2013
Hublished provides lightweight, enterprise software to manage and automate the webinar marketing process. Our software eliminates IT costs by up to 90% and increases demand generation conversion rates by as much as 40%.

NimbusBase

Seed Round in 2013
NimbusBase provides an iCloud alternative that uses users' personal cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive) to store their app data. We work across all platforms: iOS, Android, Windows phone, desktop and web. NimbusBase can sync the data on an iOS device with data on an Android device and make the data accessible on the web. By integrating with users' free cloud storage, we provide data ubiquity for app users and dramatically reduce scaling costs for developers.

Wunderkind

Seed Round in 2013
Wunderkind is a performance marketing engine that delivers tailored experiences at scale. Digital businesses use Wunderkind to remember who users are better than ever before, allowing them to deliver high-performing, one-to-one messages on websites, through emails and texts, and in ads at a scale that’s not otherwise possible. Wunderkind drives $1.2 billion dollars annually in directly attributable revenue for top e-commerce brands like Uniqlo, Sonos, and HelloFresh, often ranking as a top-3 revenue channel in their own analytics. Wunderkind is maniacally obsessed with ROI and aims to be the infrastructural interface between individuals and brands in a world where consumers choose what they want, from whom, and when. Learn more at wunderkind.

Datadog

Series A in 2012
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Amicus

Seed Round in 2012
Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes.

CourseHorse

Seed Round in 2012
CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering the path to personal enrichment. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.

Fieldlens

Venture Round in 2012
Fieldlens offers a tool that improves communication and collaboration for construction project teams. It knows what each member of the team needs to do now and reminds them, and it gives decision-makers a bird’s-eye view of every project without stepping on-site, enabling them to spot trends and see who the best performers are.

SeatGeek

Venture Round in 2012
SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals. The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a set of similar events. SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences. SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States.

Magnetic

Series B in 2012
Magnetic is a AI company with a marketing platform for enterprises, brands and agencies. Our ad solutions help marketers find, keep and bring back customers. These solutions are powered by our unique data including purchase intent data from more than 450,000 partner sites, shopping profiles of over 250 million individuals, and behavioral insights across a billion active devices. Headquartered in New York City, Magnetic also has offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Boston, Atlanta and San Francisco. Additionally, Magnetic has offices in Europe and Canada. For more information please visit www.magnetic.com.

SeeMe

Seed Round in 2012
SeeMe connects contemporary emerging artists to a global audience and sells limited edition prints and original artwork online. On SeeMe, creators share images that matter, from the artful to the beautiful to the amusing and anything in between. Through the website or mobile app, viewers can connect with creators through comments, likes, or by bringing the images into the real world through eco-friendly postcards or unique all-over-printed t-shirts. Hundreds of thousands of creators from around the world are being supported by millions of viewers through the SeeMe website and mobile app.

Amicus

Seed Round in 2012
Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes.

EachScape

Series A in 2012
EachScape is the only platform that lets you build and manage high quality custom apps across iOS, Android and HTML5, for phones and tablets, using drag & drop--which means producers, not developers, can do the building. EachScape doesn’t use templates: that's very important! Instead, EachScape provides a powerful building-block approach. This allows for endless design opportunities. Your app will be unique. Our clients include NBC, CBS, Scripps, Kellogg's, Nivea and other top brands, companies, and agencies.

Infinio

Seed Round in 2012
Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists including Highland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners.

HowAboutwe

Series B in 2011
Launched in April 2010 and based in DUMBO, New York, HowAboutWe.com helps people fall in love and stay in love. The company is comprised of four core products: HowAboutWe Dating, HowAboutWe for Couples, HowAboutWe Media and You&Me.

Guidesly

Seed Round in 2011
Guidesly, Inc. is a company that has developed a mobile application designed to connect anglers with trusted fishing guides for guided trips. Founded in 2019 and based in Topsfield, Massachusetts, the platform simplifies the process of searching and booking fishing guides across various environments, including saltwater and freshwater. The app not only facilitates bookings for outdoor enthusiasts but also provides fishing guides with tools to manage their businesses effectively. By empowering both anglers and guides, Guidesly creates a seamless experience that enhances the outdoor adventure community.

Olapic

Seed Round in 2011
Olapic is a visual marketing platform that helps brands reach their consumers visually. With Olapic, users can collect, curate, create, and activate visual content, driving brand engagement to new heights. It is an enterprise, all-in-one user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content platform that provides content and scale users need while ensuring it’s optimized across all its marketing channels. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

UsherBuddy

Seed Round in 2011
UsherBuddy provides users with a personalized list of last minute ticket deals for events (live music, theater, comedy, etc). UsherBuddy provides venues with a yield management solution that focuses on the unsold capacity in the short-term.

GenJuice

Seed Round in 2011
GenJuice makes discovering trendsetting blogs and staying updated with their content easy. Whether you're a professional coolhunter or just a 20-something on the move, GenJuice is your way to always stay up on the juice.

Visual Revenue

Seed Round in 2011
Founded in 2010, Visual Revenue, Inc. builds a real-time predictive analytics platform that makes human editors the most powerful force in today’s data-driven newsrooms. This helps media organizations to distinguish their brands. The Visual Revenue Platform is the only real-time analytics solution that is designed specifically to enhance the hand of editors in data driven newsrooms. It enables editorial judgment and decision-making to be enhanced (not replaced) by a suite of tools that provide real-time decision support for editors and producers of content. Each feature is specially tailored to reduce the complexity of managing content and increase audience engagement across a publisher’s web properties, while maintaining their distinctive editorial voice. On March 7, 2013, the company was acquired by Outbrain.

ToutApp

Seed Round in 2011
ToutApp builds software to empower sales teams so they can become revenue generating machines. Companies like Citrix, ProCore, XO Group uses ToutApp to generate more pipeline, close deals faster, and forecast more accurately.

Datadog

Seed Round in 2011
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

Ufora

Seed Round in 2011
Ufora is the next generation data science platform, built from the ground up to work at a modern scale. It empowers data scientists to tackle sophisticated problems in statistics, machine learning, and predictive analytics from the comfort of a familiar environment. Ufora’s implicitly parallel platform adaptively and automatically manages computations and data across a cluster of machines. With Ufora, data scientists can think and code the way they’re used to, without forcing their problem into a specialized parallel programming framework.

Singly

Seed Round in 2011
Today's best apps connect with other apps for + Sharing (virality) + Friending (engagement) + Data (intelligent user experiences) + much more... Whether you're an independent developer, a startup on AngelList, an agency that builds apps for clients or a publisher who is doing more with mobile, Singly's SDKs and products are a solution for you. No more writing custom code for authentication, setting up user tables, syncing and storing data, tackling normalization and search/filtering. Your team gets accelerated time to market, increased focus on product, lowered infrastructure costs, and no more maintenance distractions and overhead. Singly was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco. Connect with Singly at www.singly.com and @singly.

Categorical

Seed Round in 2011
Categorical has been working hand-in-hand with content publishers for years monitoring the editorial workflow used by editors to gather, curate and publish web content. We understand editorial customs and habits. This places us in a position to best understand where there are bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement. Working closely with editors we have built software that makes it easier to find relevant web content, manage and curate this content and publish it to the web and newsletters.

SeatGeek

Series A in 2010
SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals. The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a set of similar events. SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences. SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States.

Divide

Seed Round in 2010
Divide (formerly known as Enterproid) helps organizations and individuals get the most out of mobile technology and corporate BYOD policies. Divide creates a secure work environment on theirr personal phone that features an array of business-class apps, including your work email, calendar, and contacts. Work data stays secure, while their personal data stays safe from the prying eyes of their company's IT department, or worse, their boss. Divide also gives access to their own web-based device management dashboard - MyDivide - where they can remotely monitor, locate, lock and wipe their device(s)

HowAboutwe

Series A in 2010
Launched in April 2010 and based in DUMBO, New York, HowAboutWe.com helps people fall in love and stay in love. The company is comprised of four core products: HowAboutWe Dating, HowAboutWe for Couples, HowAboutWe Media and You&Me.

Risktail

Seed Round in 2010
Risktail provides a trader's dashboard with advanced visualizations. The company was founded by Eric Novik in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Datadog

Seed Round in 2010
Datadog is an observability and security platform that offers infrastructure, applications, software development, and monitoring services. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

SeatGeek

Series A in 2010
SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals. The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a set of similar events. SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences. SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States.

Ticketfly

Series A in 2010
Ticketfly is an online ticketing and marketing platform created to transform ticketing, marketing and analytics for live events. The company's Ticketfly platform offers tickets for theaters, billiards and backrooms and factory concert houses as well as analytics and reporting, entry management, support and web design and development services enabling promoters to sell more tickets and streamline operations.

Panvidea

Series A in 2010
Panvidea, Inc. engages in the on-demand video preparation, processing, and distribution of entertainment and advertising content on various digital platforms. It offers on-demand video encoding and processing solution that allows professional content owners, broadcasters, publishers, and advertising agencies to ingest, view, edit, brand, transcode, and package professional media content for digital network. The company also provides physical media digitization and ingestion, import, and technical consulting services. Its file-base on-demand technologies are applied to enhance and automate various digital media workflows, including content encoding and repurposing; multi-platform delivery; video aggregation, processing, and distribution; and content personalization, localization, and globalization. The company provides its solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for various audiences, and supply content as digital products to various platforms or devices. Panvidea, Inc. was formerly known as mPOINT. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Valign

Seed Round in 2009
VAlign provides virtual IT services based on usage and cost transparency for the underlying infrastructure.

PlaceVine

Seed Round in 2009
PlaceVine is a web-based matchmaking service connecting marketers to product placement and sponsorship opportunities across film, television, and new media. Currently, the brand integration industry relies on personal relationships between marketers, agencies, and content creators. The entire workflow of a brand integration transaction – from discovery to evaluation, through negotiation and execution – remains a completely manual process. PlaceVine believes that every integration is unique and cannot be reduced to a "click-to-buy" transaction, but that technology can play a critical role in improving transparency in the industry. PlaceVine addresses these needs with powerful technology tools for the discovery and evaluation of integration opportunities. PlaceVine provides marketers and agencies with transparent access to brand integration opportunities in feature-length film, television and new media while enabling content creators to maximize the value of their brand integration inventory. The company was launched with the support of the Wharton Venture Award and is based in New York and Los Angeles.
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