NYC has quickly become a hub for tech startups with it’s growing investment scene along with unparalleled access to legacy industries from finance to real estate.
Along with its legacy industries, New York is at the forefront of new business models and technologies for the workplace and how we work in general. We thought it would be interesting to take a look at the top future of work companies that are actually headquartered in NYC. Note this means we aren’t looking at companies that have offices in New York but are HQ’d somewhere else — but that will be coming in a future edition.
How Did We Make The List?
We used Crunchbase Pro’s search feature for this list. First, we defined the categories for “future of work” which include — collaboration, collaborative consumption, document management, document preparation, productivity tools, real-time, product management, database, file sharing, content, freelance, peer to peer, outsourcing, content creators, and virtual workforce.
We then excluded all companies marked as closed, made the headquarters location NYC, and searched for founded after 1/1/2013. The way the list is sorted is by “CB Rank”. Crunchbase defines CB RAnk as follows:
The Crunchbase Rank algorithm takes many signals into account including the number of connections a profile has, the level of community engagement, funding events, news articles, and acquisitions.
A company’s Rank is fluid and subject to rising and decaying over time with time-sensitive events. Events such as product launches, funding events, leadership changes, and news affect a company’s Crunchbase Rank.
We removed the startups that clearly aren’t related to future of work, and here we are — the top 50 future of work startups headquartered in NYC. Let’s take a look at 41 through 50.
41. Verifcient Technologies
Total funding: $1,850,000
Verificient Technologies utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer visioning and biometrics for their Trusted Identity-as-a-Service (TIaaS) platform for identity verification and authentication. Over the last 5 years, they’ve been a leader in the industry to deliver continuous identity verification and digital remote monitoring. Weaving these advanced technologies together with user-centered design and award-winning customer service, their patented automated approach, pairs usability with accurate results and true scalability. Today, they’re serving a variety of markets, including Higher Education, HR and Recruitment, and Remote Labor-Force Management (virtual work at home agents).
42. APT212
Total funding: $1,000,000
APT212 is a NYC based startup providing services to both New York landlords seeking to rent their homes short term legally and for a minimum of 30 days, and guests looking for legal short term accommodation. APT212 Is a marketplace for furnished apartments, sublets and legal short term rentals servicing apartments throughout Manhattan neighborhoods. Their proprietary software enables renters and landlords to accept online bookings in real-time.
43. Kontor Inc
Total funding: $9,649,998
Kontor is the visual inspiration and workflow tool for commercial design professionals to develop ideas and select products. Similar to Houzz, they bring together projects, products, and designers contextually with one image-based platform, transforming a $140Bn commercial design industry.
They are a team of design-minded serial tech entrepreneurs based in NYC, founded by Kevin Ryan (Founder Chairman of Gilt Groupe, Zola, MongodB, Business Insider), Mia Lewin (an executive at eBay and Zazzle, Founder CEO of design/story) and Andy Parsons (Founder CTO of McKinsey Academy, Outside.in (acquired by AOL).
Launched in Nov 2015, they’ve partnered with more than 500 of the world’s leading design firms — from industry giants (Studios, Perkins + Will, HOK, IA Interior Architects) to emerging talent (HomePolish, Bestor Architecture, Geremia Design) — and with more than 180 brands from the iconic (Herman Miller, Knoll, Fritz Hansen) to the new and unique (Tom Dixon, Heartwork, Secto).
44. Bytez
Total funding: $150,000
Bytez is a computer software startup that helps developers and data scientists work faster. Its service allows researchers to access ranked data science research papers and machine learning architectures in Python. They have an ML feed that personalizes papers and feedback to your interests, tooling to digest ML papers comfortably, and a platform to dive into new fields and collaborate with other practitioners.
45. ALPHABETA
Total funding: $3,520,000
ALPHABETA brings together students, practitioners, and consumers in financial markets through unique immersive user experiences with a common vocabulary. Using a combination of real-world situations, flipped classroom methodology they provide an intuitive and immersive information visualization platform built on a game engine.
With multiple releases of the Guide and the impending launches of the League, the Sandbox (complete touchscreen-based modeling environment to crowd-source investment strategies) and the Assistant (connects wealth advisors to analysts and clients with compelling user experience) over the next year, ALPHABETA is set to create the future of financial professionals.
46. Upfluence
Total funding: $3,940,000
Upfluence offers influencer marketing software (SaaS). The platform enables brands and agencies worldwide to search influencers in any vertical, language, country on 7 different social media platforms; to contact them at scale through an included CRM tool; to manage several influencer marketing campaigns in parallel; to manage automatically all administrative tasks and especially international influencer payouts; and to analyze the KPIs of any campaigns or hashtags through social listening.
47. Jop
Total funding: $2,500,000
A one-stop-shop for urban residents, Jop offers a variety of on-demand services in one convenient, easy-to-use platform. Customers can tap a screen and connect with a professional in their city, whether they are an expert at cleaning apartments, trimming mustaches, walking dogs, doing makeup, DJing, or mixing drinks. Instead of paying a company’s overhead, customers pay a Jopper. Once booked, Joppers arrive right at the customer’s doorstep, ready to work.
48. DocDelta
Total funding: $535,000
DocDelta is a healthcare software and data company. They use data to enable companies to create authentic conversations with healthcare providers, executives, and stakeholders. Sales, Recruiting and Research teams at hospitals, medical service, and life science organizations trust DocDelta to help them generate new business, source new candidates and gain primary business intelligence.
They provide access to near the entire universe of prescribing clinical providers in the US. Including more than 7 million clinical and admin contacts at a quarter of a million healthcare organizations.
They make an ocean of healthcare data users with precise targeting by advanced filters like sub-specialty, claims data, drug brands, procedures, billing, EHR technologies, employment and education history, place of work and many others. Their data is regularly updated using a combination of automation and human verification.
49. Centrallo
Total funding: $1,500,000
Centrallo is a cross-platform productivity tool that helps individuals and teams take control, organize and share important information. In Centrallo, search is simple — retrieve anything you stored by typing a few characters into the search bar. You can also share lists with anyone, anywhere via email, or generate a public link.
50. Wrinkl
Total funding: $3,500,000
Wrinkl is a cloud-based group messaging platform that helps to streamline communication in business. Get all the pros of group messaging, without all the cons. Wrinkl allows you to distill what’s important, Act on your own timeline, save and file important conversations, and create a system of record.
So that does it for 41–50. If you loved the start of the list make sure to follow our blog, as we’ll be adding the next installments daily. We’ll also be adding tons of resources and commentary over the next few weeks on everything from the future of work to growth hacks and automation.
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