Top NY Startups to Watch (and Work for) in 2023

• Wiz reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 18 months.

• As of May 2023, Wiz scans 230 billion files daily and protects 5 million cloud Workloads.

• As of May 2023, Wiz has rated 4.7 stars from 340 reviews on G2.

• As of February 2023, Wiz counts 35% of the Fortune 100 among its customer base.

• Wiz customers include Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Slack, Fox, Snowflake, BMW, Chipotle, Priceline, REI, Takeda, and ASOS.

• Ramp has 300,000+ users (~13,000 companies), processes $10 billion annually, and supports 195 countries and 40+ currencies. Customers include Deel, Faire, Quora, Waymo, Attentive, Glossier, Eight Sleep, and Betterment.

• As of August 2023, Ramp has surpassed $300 million in annualized revenue.

• As of August 2023, Ramp serves 15,000 businesses, up from 5,000 in March.

• Between March 2022 and August 2023, Ramp increased its customer base by 4x and annual purchase volume by 6x.

• As of August 2023, the average Ramp customer spends 3.5% less after joining.

• As of July 2023, Ramp’s saving insights, pricing intelligence, and expert negotiators have saved companies over $600 million and 8.5 million hours.

• Between January 2023 and July 2023, Ramp's customers with international operations increased by 2x.

• Ramp announced a partnership with Amazon Business to help streamline business purchasing and help customers save time and money.

• Attentive has 8,000 customers, including Coach, Samsung, Guess, Crocs, Spiceology, and Supergoop!

• Attentive’s SMS marketing solutions account for 19% of leading brands' online revenue.

• Attentive has a 4.8 rating on G2.

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• Rewind AI’s DAU/MAU is 63%, much higher than the standard benchmark of 10%-20%.

• Rewind AI netted 1,000 introductory offers from investors and 170 actual offers, resulting in its Series A at a $350 million valuation.

• The company went from 0 to $727K in ARR in 2023.

• Hugging Face has 10,000+ customers, including Google AI, Meta AI, Amazon Web Services, Allen Institute for AI, Intel, Microsoft, and Grammarly.

• Hugging Face’s Transformers library on GitHub has 99.4K stars and 20.4K forks.

• Hugging Face completed its year-long research called BigScience on large multilingual models and datasets in collaboration with more than 1,000 researchers from 60 countries.

• Chief has 12,000+ Vice President and C-Suite executives, representing 8,500+ companies in its community. The community is 20,000+ strong and has 60,000 women on its waitlist.

• Chief opened up flagship locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago for its members.

• Companies sponsoring memberships for its women leaders include Morgan Stanley, Zoom, L'Oréal, Google, PWC, IBM, HelloFresh, and Allstate.

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• Thoropass has around ~500 customers, up 4x in 2022. Thoropass customers include Wayleadr, Winware, Peach, interVal, Monit, dealcloser, and Cinchy.

• Laika supports six frameworks: SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and HITRUST.

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• Alloy has 100+ system integrators & developer agencies and 200+ technology partners for every part of the e-commerce stack. Popular integrations include WooCommerce, Shopify, Zendesk, Twilio, and Pixlee.

• Alloy customers include Postscript, Brooklinen, Studs, Dr. Squatch, Recharge, Burberry, Amazon, Wyze, Skis.com, Gorgias, and PrettyDamnQuick.

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• The Grow Therapy network of therapists with an average of 12 years of experience covers 36 states and 30 specialties.

• From 2021-2022, Grow Therapy accomplished 13x YoY growth and has 3,500+ providers on the platform.

• Grow Therapy accepts major insurance providers, including Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Oscar.

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• From 2020-2021, ActionIQ surpassed 100% YoY revenue growth.

• ActionIQ enterprise customers include DocuSign, GoPro, Condé Nast, The New York Times, Pandora Media, The Hartford, Shopify, and American Eagle Outfitters.

• Capitolis customers include 100+ financial institutions.

• Capitolis’ capital marketplace has transacted $76+ billion notional from over 30 investors.

• Capitolis has optimized $17+ trillion in gross notional to date.

• Dashlane has 20,000 corporate customers that secure 2.5 billion credentials on the platform. Dashlane customers include RevGenius, Finder, SolarQuote, BentoBox, Mercy Medical, NETA, ePromos, and Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects.

• Dashlane has a 4.6-star rating on Trustpilot from nearly 5,000 reviews.

• Dashlane’s Google Play app has over 5 million downloads and a 4.6-star rating from 201,000+ reviews.

• In 2021, Fireblocks scaled revenue by 600% to between $50 million - $100 million, grew its customers from 100 to 800 and doubled the assets it secures on the platform to $2 trillion.

• As of May 2023, Fireblocks powers 1,800 customers across Web3 & Fintechs like MoonPay, Magic Eden, Wealthsimple, eToro; Banking & Payments like Revolut, Checkout.com, Bitso, and BNY Mellon; Trading & Brokerage like Genesis, ParaFi Capital, and Woorton; Exchanges & Lending like Salt, BlockQuake, and CoinFLEX.

• $4 trillion in assets are now secured on the platform.

• Grafana Labs has 1 million+ active Grafana installations totaling 10 million+ users.

• As of April 2022, Grafana Labs has 2,000+ paying customers, including Microsoft, Adobe, Slack, Roblox, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Cisco, Citi, Salesforce, Tripadvisor, and Wix.

• SecurityScorecard’s monitors and rates 11,000,000 organizations.

• SecurityScorecard’s net promoter score is 98%.

• In Q4 2020, SecurityScorecard reported 61% YoY growth in total international annual recurring revenue, 89% YoY growth in international customers, and added 450 customers.

• SecurityScorecard customers include the United Nations International Computing Centre, Clyde, Access, the University of Gloucestershire, and Lintelio.

• As of May 2023, TrialSpark has four drugs under development for chronic hand eczema (phase 3), pruritus (phase 2), atopic dermatitis (pre-clinical), and knee osteoarthritis (phase 2).

• TrialSpark claims a time savings of 1-3 years per drug program and a $1 billion+ sales advantage per drug program.

• Between December 2020 and May 2021, Vise’s assets under management grew by 4x to $250 million, and client accounts grew by more than 2x.

• As of May 2023, Deno’s open-source solution on GitHub has 89.4k stars, 4.9k forks, and 817 contributors.

• Deno rated as one of the most loved web technologies in a survey of 70,000 developers conducted by StackOverflow. 

• As of May 2023, Deno Runtime has 200,000 monthly active users, with developers at Slack, Netlify, GitHub, and Supabase using the product.

• In 2021, OpenSea’s transaction volume increased by 600x.

• In 2022, OpenSea creators earned $1.1 billion in creator fees. For comparison, Snap paid its Spotlight Creators $250 million in 2021.

• As of May 2023, OpenSea’s transaction volume is $20 billion, with 80 million+ NFTs on the platform and two million+ collections.

• Between January 2020 and May 2021, Bowery has accomplished 750% retail growth and more than 4x e-commerce sales growth.

• As of May 2021, Bowery is in more than 850 grocery stores in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, including Whole Foods Market, Safeway, and Walmart.

• In 2022, Bowery increased its retail distribution by 40% and doubled its production. As of May 2023, Bowery is on track to double its production again.

• As of May 2023, Studs has 19 ear-piercing studios.

• As of October 2022, Studs reported 30x e-commerce growth since 2019.

• As of February 2021, Splice has 4 million users.

• As of April 2023, Odeko has 10,000+ customers across 16 major markets.

• As of May 2023, Odeko carries 400+ brands and has stocked 120,000 cafes.

• As of May 2023, Odeko claims customers save 10 hours weekly, save 66% on carbon emissions, and save 21% on the cost of goods sold.

• As of May 2023, Mercantile customers are primarily made up of eye care and dental companies like Isthmus EyeCare, Family Eye Care, and Compton Eye Associates.

• As of March 2023, Coursedog has 170+ customers accounting for 1.2 million students, including Columbia University, Union City College, Illinois Central College, Howard University, Weber State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of California.

• As of May 2023, Coursedog reports partner Universities score them 9.6/10 on quality of support, 9.3/10 on response speed, 9.6/10 on quality of training, and 9.2/10 on user experience.

• In 2022, Anvyl surpassed $150 billion in GMV.

• Anvyl customers include OpenStore, COOLA, Brooklinen, Mirror, Modloft, Caraway, and SockFancy.

• As of May 2023, Thirty Madison brands include Keeps, Cove, Nurx, Picnic, and Facet.

• As of May 2023, Thirty Madison has 800,000+ customers (patients under care) and an average net promoter score (NPS) of 77.

• In 2020, Thirty Madison's revenue grew by 3x. 

• As of June 2021, Keeps’ patients reported a 92% medication adherence rate, and 77% of Cove’s patients reported improved migraine severity.

• As of May 2023, more than 300,000 clinicians use Nomad.

• Alma claims its customers who use their insurance save an average of $77 on the cost of therapy.

• From August 2021 to August 2022, Alma scaled the number of mental health providers on its platform by 3x to 8,000.

• As of January 2022, Pinwheel executes over 4.6 million processes monthly, a 400x increase from the previous year.

• In 2021, Pinwheel increased its annual recurring revenue by 177x over 2020.

• Pinwheel customers include VISA, Credit Karma, Cash App, Acorns, Eco, Envel, and Citizens.

• As of October 2022, The Rounds has grown over 10x in the last 12 months, surpassed 10,000 paying members, and operates in four markets (Philadelphia, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta).

• As of May 2023, The Rounds has 355 products on its website.

• As of May 2023, Uniswap’s protocol has facilitated 151 million trades and $1.4 billion in trade volume.

• As of May 2023, Uniswap’s Discord community has 100,482 members.

• As of May 2023, Uniswap has 300+ integrations and 4,400+ community delegates.

• NYDIG has partnered with the New York Yankees, GetPayroll, Deloitte, CSI Partners, Bottlepay, Jack Henry, and STAR Bank.

• As of July 2021, Genesis has mined over 1 billion in Bitcoin, built 20 industrial-scale mining farms, and brought over 300,000 miners online.

• As of May 2023, Genesis has 16 data centers online, 400+ MW online, and 120K+ rigs online.

• As of May 2023, $38,520,770,560 assets depend on Gauntlet.

• Gauntlet customers include Aave, Celo, ApeSwap, Immutable, Venus, Moonwell, BENQI, and Sushiswap.

• From March 2021 to March 2022, Gauntlet reported 20x revenue growth.

• As of May 2023, Chainalysis has 1,000+ customers (up from ~750 customers in May 2022), including Dapper Labs, Square, Commonwealth Bank, Barclays, Rarible, Gemini, and BNY Mellon.

• From May 2021 to May 2022, Chainalysis increased its customer base by 75%, its private sector clients by 2x, and financial services clients by 3x, and increased the number of customers with $100 million ARR by 75% to 150.

• As of May 2022, Chainalysis reported a net promoter score (NPS) of 80+.

• As of May 2023, Smartling translates billions of words annually into 450+ languages.

• Smartling customers include Peleton, Shopify, Canva, Vimeo, Lyft, WeWork, AdRoll, SurveyMonkey, and State Farm.

• As of November 2021, Play has 25,000+ people registered for full access to their native iOS design tool.

• As of May 2023, Play has rated 4.7/5 stars from 71 reviews on the Apple App Store.

• As of June 2023, Truv has 100+ customers, including GoodHire, ClearChecks, Xactus, FormFree, First Advantage, and MRI Software.

• As of June 2023, Truv has data on 150 million+ US employees, up from 120 million+ in March 2022, and 12,800 unique integrations.

• As of March 2022, Truv has 96% coverage of Fortune 1000 companies, 95% coverage of Federal Government employees, 83% coverage of the largest US private organizations, 50+ integrations with payroll providers, and 9,200 direct integrations with employers (10x the industry average).

• In 2022, Truv did three million+ successful transactions.

• In 2022, Truv reported 300% growth over the previous year.

• As of June 2023, Imprint reports a 96% application completion rate (vs. 60% industry average), 93% average offer acceptance rate (vs. 82% industry average), and 85% average activated spenders (vs. 75% industry average).

• As of June 2023, Imprint can help brands develop, implement, and launch a new card program in  ~3 months.

• As of November 2021, Imprint claims brands save between 60% to 90% of the cost of processing a payment.

• As of June 2023, Floodbase’s data has insured 30 million+ new people.

• As of January 2023, Floodbase’s data is powered by 15 satellites, machine learning, and on-the-ground data.

• As of June 2023, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered 100 million meals to dogs.

• As of June 2023, The Farmer’s Dog has rated 4.5/5 stars from 1,197 reviews on Trustpilot.

• As of June 2023, The Farmer’s Dog has 300K Instagram followers and 155K Facebook followers.

• As of May 2023, Pietra has 100,000+ active users on its platform.

• In 2022, Pietra reported a 35x YoY revenue increase and a 100x increase in transaction volume.

• As of June 2023, Overtime reports two billion+ monthly views and 70 million+ followers across seven platforms (up from 65 million+ followers in August 2022).

• Arena counts Anheuser-Busch InBev and other Fortune 500 customers across e-commerce, automotive, manufacturing, and financial services.

• As of August 2022, Arena’s software makes millions of decisions for its customers across digital and physical channels.

• Between March 2021 and April 2022, Noogata reported 400% in ARR growth.

• Noogata customers include Colgate, Frito-Lay, Pepsi, mDesign, and Focus.

• As of June 2023, Runway reported millions of individual users on the platform and enterprise customers like Google, Microsoft, New Balance, CBS, the New York Yankees, and Vox.

• As of June 2023, Runway’s mobile app has rated 3.8/5 stars from 116 reviews on the Apple App Store.

• As of May 2023, Campus.edu has 850 students enrolled in its Sacramento, California campus.

• As of May 2023, Campus.edu reported campus professors increased their annual salary by 20% on average.

• As of July 2023, Timescale has 4.2 million+ active Timescale databases.

• As of July 2023, Timescale has rated 4.7/5 stars from 20 reviews on G2.

• As of February 2022, Timescale reported 7x community growth and 20x revenue growth in the past two years.

• As of February 2022, Timescale has 500+ paying customers, including Uber, Coinbase, Lucid, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Warner Music Group.

• As of July 2021, Titan has 30,000+ users.

• From July 2020 to July 2021, Titan reported 500% growth, was approaching ~$500 million in AUM, and was cash flow positive.

• As of September 2023, Moment is rolling out its suite of fixed income API to 220 broker-dealer clients representing $120 billion in assets.