Please welcome the Next Round 2020 cohort

Three stellar companies — BuyerSight, Numina, and Sproutlogix—are tackling a lack of data in their multi-billion-dollar fields to drive powerful solutions

Last month, we at the NYU Data Future Lab welcomed the newest cohort of Next Round, our two-year incubator program helping seed-stage startups move towards a Series A raise. Through the program, companies have access to START-UP NY tax-free status (incredibly useful for startups scaling their teams), pro-bono billable office hours with ace law firm Orrick, credits from our stellar partners (Amazon Web Services and the like), for-credit and other internships bringing in a talented pipeline of NYU students, personalized mentorship from our team, and more. It’s a selective program, graduating game-changing startups including CB Insights, Vettery, Paperspace, and others.

We were humbled by the strong interest in this year’s Next Round program. First, we have to say a big thank-you to all dedicated founders who applied. Whittling down the many extraordinary applications to just a handful of companies was an immensely difficult task.

Through months of evaluations, interviews, and diligence, we had to make some tough choices, starting with asking where we could be of most…