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The 13 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of September 2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The 13 Largest NYC Tech Startup Funding Rounds of September 2026

Looking at the largest NYC startup funding rounds from September 2026, leveraging AlleyWatch's proprietary funding data, we've analyzed the most significant venture capital deals of the month. Beyond the raw funding numbers, this month's analysis inc...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups3 days ago
The September 20026 US Venture Capital Funding Report
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The September 20026 US Venture Capital Funding Report

US startups raised $27.89B across 754 rounds in September 2026, up 54% from August's $18.1B and 9.8% below September 2025's $30.91B. Four rounds of $1B or more, led by Crusoe's $3.9B, took $9.90B, or 36% of the month. Late-Stage rounds drew $19.84B, ...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups3 days ago
The New York Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/28/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The New York Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/28/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/28/2026 featuring funding details for Hyphenate, Predicate, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Hyphenate ...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups3 days ago
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion
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The Verge

DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion

DoorDash has announced that it's buying Instacart in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The acquisition will give DoorDash a bigger presence in online grocery delivery thanks to Instacart's established grocery marketplace and retailer partne...

The Verge3 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/27/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/27/2026

### Overwatch Data — $15M ### CYBERSECURITY Overwatch Data, a threat intelligence platform that uses AI agents to uncover cybercrime and fraud signals for security and risk teams, has raised $15M in Series A funding led by Mouro Capital with pa...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups4 days ago
Bose buys audio rival Skullcandy
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Engadget Hardware

Bose buys audio rival Skullcandy

Bose sees the company as a way to reach a wider audience. Bose has acquired Skullcandy and is adopting the headphone and speaker company as a separate brand under its consumer audio business. Bose didn't share how much it paid for the company in a p...

Engadget Hardware11 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/20/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/20/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/20/2026 featuring funding details for Daytona, Prism Data, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Daytona — ...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups11 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/21/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/21/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/21/2026 featuring funding details for Whop, Qualitate, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Whop — $200M ...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups11 days ago
Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla?
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BBC News Technology

Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla?

- Published Elon Musk has spent years building Tesla and SpaceX into a pair of trillion-dollar technology empires. Now, he is considering bringing them together. Asked on Tuesday whether a merger would be a good idea, Musk was clear: "Yes." The pr...

BBC News Technology11 days ago
Elon Musk confirms talks to merge Tesla and SpaceX
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BBC News Technology

Elon Musk confirms talks to merge Tesla and SpaceX

- Published Elon Musk has said he is actively considering merging Tesla and SpaceX, his two biggest companies. "Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes," Musk said during a call with financial analysts over the quarterly business results of SpaceX ...

BBC News Technology11 days ago
Stuut Raises $52.5M to Unlock Cash Trapped in Receivables
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

Stuut Raises $52.5M to Unlock Cash Trapped in Receivables

Enterprise finance teams book revenue when they ship product, but the cash arrives only after orders, credit checks, invoices, disputes, and payments all clear, and businesses worldwide have $16T stuck somewhere in that chain. The people who chase th...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups15 days ago
Proofpoint Inks $6.3 Billion All-Cash Deal to Acquire Varonis
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SecurityWeek

Proofpoint Inks $6.3 Billion All-Cash Deal to Acquire Varonis

Proofpoint has agreed to acquire data and AI security firm Varonis in an all-cash deal valued at roughly $6.3 billion, the two companies announced on Thursday. The deal is the largest cybersecurity acquisition announced so far in 2026. Varonis shar...

SecurityWeek16 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/15/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/15/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/15/2026 featuring funding details for North.cloud, Scuba, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### North.cloud ...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups16 days ago
What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.
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Ars Technica

What did the Liberty Bell sound like? Science is on the case.

The Liberty Bell, with its famous crack, hasn't been rung in 180 years, but that hasn't stopped scientists from pondering what the bell might have sounded like when tolling. In honor of the nation's 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State Univer...

Ars Technica17 days ago
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 1
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TechCrunch Venture

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Day 1

Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is officially underway, bringing together 10,000+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders under one roof at San Francisco's Moscone West. Big ideas are colliding, connections are forming at every turn, and the s...

TechCrunch Venture18 days ago
Where The Next Generation Of Super Apps Will Be Built
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Crunchbase News

Where The Next Generation Of Super Apps Will Be Built

### By Nnamdi Okike You have likely never heard of Tosin Eniolorunda. You should have. Over the past decade, Tosin and his team built Moniepoint into the operating system for more than 6 million Nigerian businesses, processing over $300 billion a y...

Crunchbase News18 days ago
Chemical sourcing startup Scimplify closes $25M investment
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SiliconANGLE Cloud & VC

Chemical sourcing startup Scimplify closes $25M investment

Scimplify, a startup that helps companies source the chemicals they use to make their products, has raised $25 million in funding. TechCrunch reported today that the Series C round was led by Hitachi Ventures. It was joined by two Scimplify customer...

SiliconANGLE Cloud & VC18 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/13/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/13/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/13/2026 featuring funding details for Allara, Brellium, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Allara — $30...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups18 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/14/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/14/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/14/2026 featuring funding details for Modal, Confido Health, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Modal — ...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups18 days ago
Researchers tracked the passwords 154 people used online for an average of 147 days and found them logging into 26 websites with fewer than 10 unique passwords — roughly 60 percent were reused outright or built from pieces of passwords they were already using elsewhere
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Silicon Canals

Researchers tracked the passwords 154 people used online for an average of 147 days and found them logging into 26 websites with fewer than 10 unique passwords — roughly 60 percent were reused outright or built from pieces of passwords they were already using elsewhere

For about five months, a browser extension sat quietly on the home computers of 154 people and watched them log in. The researchers never saw a password. Everything was hashed on the machine before it went anywhere, leaving them with the shape of ea...

Silicon Canals20 days ago
At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s taxis were unreliable; twelve years later the company took €2.27 billion in revenue in more than 50 countries and posted its first annual profit — €920,000, a margin of four hundredths of one percent
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Silicon Canals

At 19, an Estonian borrowed €5,000 from his family and recruited Tallinn taxi drivers face-to-face for an app he had built because the city’s taxis were unreliable; twelve years later the company took €2.27 billion in revenue in more than 50 countries and posted its first annual profit — €920,000, a margin of four hundredths of one percent

Markus Villig was 19 in 2013, fresh out of high school in Tallinn, and frustrated with how hard it was to get a reliable taxi in his own city. He borrowed €5,000 from his family to build a first version of an app, then did the unglamorous part himsel...

Silicon Canals20 days ago
A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day — a Dutch court ruled the demand invaded his privacy and ordered his employer to pay him roughly €75,000
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Silicon Canals

A telemarketer refused to keep his webcam on for nine hours a day while working from home and was fired the next day — a Dutch court ruled the demand invaded his privacy and ordered his employer to pay him roughly €75,000

A camera that stayed switched off cost a Florida software company about 75,000 euros. It belonged to a telemarketer working from the small Dutch town of Diessen, employed since January 2019 by Chetu, an American software firm that at the time ran a ...

Silicon Canals20 days ago
A country of fewer than 1.4 million people has produced ten billion-dollar startups — about 7 for every million residents, more than three times the US rate — and the first of them was a voice-call app a handful of engineers built in Tallinn in 2003.
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Silicon Canals

A country of fewer than 1.4 million people has produced ten billion-dollar startups — about 7 for every million residents, more than three times the US rate — and the first of them was a voice-call app a handful of engineers built in Tallinn in 2003.

Correction, 1 October 2026: The original excerpt called Estonia the world leader, although the cited per-capita tally places it second behind Liechtenstein. The article also misstated the Tiger Leap school-internet rollout; first-party history says a...

Silicon Canals20 days ago
Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad Join YC as General Partners
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Y Combinator Blog

Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad Join YC as General Partners

We're thrilled to announce that Vivian Midha Shen and Raphael Schaad are joining Y Combinator as our newest General Partners. Vivian and Raphael have spent the last two batches working closely with YC founders as Visiting Partners. We've seen firsth...

Y Combinator Blogabout 1 month ago
Christopher Golda and Grey Baker Join YC as General Partners
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Y Combinator Blog

Christopher Golda and Grey Baker Join YC as General Partners

We're excited to announce that Christopher Golda and Grey Baker are joining Y Combinator as General Partners. Chris and Grey have both been Visiting Partners at YC, where they've already made a big impact working closely with founders across multipl...

Y Combinator Blog5 months ago
Diana Hu Is YC's Newest Managing Partner
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Y Combinator Blog

Diana Hu Is YC's Newest Managing Partner

We're thrilled to announce that Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator. Diana first came through YC as a founder. She co-founded Escher Reality (S17), an augmented reality backend that was acquired by Niantic in 2018. Diana r...

Y Combinator Blog5 months ago
Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner
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Y Combinator Blog

Harshita Arora Joins YC as General Partner

We're thrilled to announce that Harshita Arora is joining Y Combinator as a General Partner. Harshita has been a Visiting Partner at YC since the Summer 2025 batch, making her the youngest visiting partner in YC's history. Harshita discovered codin...

Y Combinator Blog7 months ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/8/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/8/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/8/2026 featuring funding details for Melius, Clasp, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Melius — $20M A...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups24 days ago
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/7/2026
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AlleyWatch NYC Startups

The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 10/7/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 10/7/2026 featuring funding details for Stuut, Wally Health, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. ### Stuut — $5...

AlleyWatch NYC Startups25 days ago
What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale
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TechCrunch

What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale

Earlier this year, the streaming and entertainment industry witnessed one of its most high-stakes megadeals ever, stunning industry observers. Not only is it historic in its size, but it is also predicted to disrupt Hollywood and the media business a...

TechCrunch21 days ago
How to Build Wealth as a Career Person
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Asheradeniyi

How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employment is merely a way to pay bills, while ownership is...

Asheradeniyi21 days ago
2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch
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MIT Tech Review

2026 Climate Tech Companies to Watch

10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch Each year, the MIT Technology Review team puts together a list of some of the most promising climate tech companies in the world. Whether early-stage startup or multinational corporation, the busin...

MIT Tech Review25 days ago