NYC Seed is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm invests in NYC-based companies, primarily technology-based, that have the opportunity to become high-growth businesses.
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 1
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 11.10.2012 | CourseHors... | coursehorse.com | $4.5M | United Sta... |
Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.10.2016 | Meet Owen Davis, Managing Director at NYC Seed | Focused on seed investments in New York City, Davis has helped back Ticketfly, Seatgeek, and more Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark ... |
| 08.06.2013 | Some of the top accelerators and incubators in NYC | TechStars, FinTech Innovation Lab, and DreamIt Ventures all nurturing talent in Silicon Alley For all the things that New York City is known for, technology is not really one of them. But that mindset is beginning to change. New York is the... |
| 11.10.2012 | CourseHorse Gets $500K Seed Funding To Expand Class Booking Engine Beyond NYC | CourseHorse, a New York City-based startup that runs a platform that curates the best classes from local education providers along with a centralized booking engine for prospective students, has raised $500,000 in a seed funding round led b... |
| 27.10.2011 | Why you need to get to Venture Shift NY | The following post is sponsored by Vator.tv. There are some rumblings that cash may be drying up for tech startups. Does that mean a shakeout is on the horizon, and angel investor hobbyists are going to go back to their day jobs? Are the no... |
| 15.03.2011 | Seed funding thriving (too much?) in NYC | NYC Seed managing director Owen Davis opens up about the transforming seed-stage market Owen Davis, managing director of NYC Seed, says seed rounds have doubled in size in the last couple years and that valuations have ballooned by as much ... |
| 02.09.2010 | Coworking Spaces | I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Some have made the model work. My favorite of the bunch is Betaworks, based here in NYC. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with... |
| 29.07.2010 | Seedcamp 2010 | I had the pleasure of spending all day yesterday, from 9am to 6pm, listening to pitches from the finalists selected out of the mini seedcamps from all over europe this year. Seedcamp is Europe's premier startup accelerator. It is like Y Com... |
| 27.07.2010 | NYC Seed Start Demo Day shows New York knows how to build startups | At today’s NYC Seed Start Demo Day, companies pitched a crowd of over a hundred of New York City’s early-stage investors. Five fledgling startups presented to a packed house, hoping to catch the attention of investors willing to write them ... |
| 12.05.2010 | Ticketfly raises $3M to challenge Ticketmaster | Ticketfly, a startup that allows concert promoters to sell tickets and promote their events on social networking services, just raised $3 million in a first round of funding. The San Francisco company’s cofounders and co-chief executives, A... |
| 17.02.2010 | SeedStart NYC | For several years, we've been talking on this blog about programs like Y Combinator, TechStars, SeedCamp, and many others. I call them startup accelerators. One thing I've consistently heard is that NYC needs its own startup accelerator. We... |
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