69 Best New York Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of New York Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 620 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $9.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $130.6m.

Last update to the database: Jun 24, 2025. See changelog.

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$31.0m

Money raised

An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.

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$2.9m

Money raised

Caban Systems is a Burlingame, California-based renewable energy and energy storage company developing modular energy storage platforms for critical infrastructure power needs.

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$408.5k

Money raised

Urban Electric Power is a Pearl River, New York-based developer of a zinc manganese dioxide battery technology. The company was spun out of the CUNY Energy Institute in 2013.

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$2.1b

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.

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$250.0m

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LiveU is a Hackensack, New Jersey-based broadcast company offering high quality live video streaming for television, online, and social media broadcasting.

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$99.3m

Money raised

LevelTen Energy provides a clean energy procurement platform for midsize businesses and enterprises.

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$13.0m

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Blue Origin is an American, privately-funded, aerospace developer and manufacturer that is interested in lowering the cost of spaceflight in order to explore the solar system

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$175.0m

Money raised

Viridos is applying synthetic biology to microalgae for the production of products that address climate change and sustainability. Viridos is focused on producing algal biofuels and other sustainable resources from algae.

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$28.5m

Money raised

Membrion is a Seattle-based clean technology company and developer of flexible ceramic ion exchange membranes capable of being used in wastewater cleaning and in energy storage solutions.

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4

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$487.0m

Money raised

Axios Media is a news media company known for its short-form articles. Axios Media was founded in 2016 by three former staff of Politico.

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Funding Rounds

$779.0m

Money raised

Developer and manufacturer of systems for renewable industrial gas and fuel production.

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Funding Rounds

$33.0m

Money raised

NEXT Energy Technologies is a Santa Barbara, California-based developer of photovoltaic coatings for window.

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Pavegen is a London-based company founded by Laurence Kemball-Cook.

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$142.5m

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DroneDeploy is a cloud-based software that allows drones to take images and 3D models at any altitude.

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5

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$40.4m

Money raised

Enervee is a company founded in 2010 by Hjalmar Branting, Iker Casillas, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, Yhonastan Fabian, The Sxplay, Ujiie Naotomo, Robbie Grossman, Ingrid Gfölner, Moisey Uretsky, Don Epperson, Matt Service FBCS and Bhavesh M. Mehta.

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$6.0m

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NewsGuard is a company developing a browser add-on that rates news sources on their credibility; the purpose is to fight misinformation and fake news.

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10

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$121.7m

Money raised

iUNU is a Seattle-based agricultural tech startup founded in 2013.

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$14.5m

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VALOREM is a Bègles-based renewable energy company founded in 1994.

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$27.8m

Money raised

Coreshell Technologies is engineering liquid-deposited nanolayer coatings for Lithium Ion Batteries.

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$12.4m

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Nori is a company that hosts an open-source, blockchain-based market for purchasing carbon offsets.

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$12.2m

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Capturing CO2 from the sky and re-selling it for 2x cheaper

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$151.6m

Money raised

A carbon sequestration technology and bioplastics company based in Huntington Beach, California, founded in 2003, that uses their technology to capture carbon from greenhouse emissions for production of bioplastics.

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$33.3m

Money raised

Liquid Light is a developer of technology to convert carbon dioxide to a variety of chemicals, fuels, and other compounds.

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$119.5m

Money raised

Carbon Engineering is building technologies to capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere, and to use that CO2 in the synthesis of clean transportation fuels that displace crude oil.

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$1.2m

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Carbon Recycling International is a Kópavogur-based carbon capture company producing methanol for use as an alternative fuel source.

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$12.3m

Money raised

Origin is a San Francisco-based additive manufacturing company designed for mass production.

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8

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$77.3m

Money raised

DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.

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$4.0m

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All Power Labs is a Berkeley, California-based biogas company developing biogas generators for distributed energy needs.

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$20.0m

Money raised

Zeno Power Systems is an Arlington, Virginia-based developer of a radioisotope power system intended to convert heat from recycled nuclear waste into electricity.

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$138.8m

Money raised

Citizen is U.S-based company (legal name: sp0n, Inc.) developing a public safety mobile application.

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$20.0m

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NovaSolix is developing rectifying carbon nanotube antennas that convert light to electricity from the entire solar spectrum as a method of producing clean and inexpensive energy.

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$32.5m

Money raised

MIC is a Munich-based company founded in 2011 by Christopher Altchek.

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$12.2m

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BluWave-ai is an Ottawa-based developer of software-as-a-service applications for optimization of sustainable and affordable energy systems and decisions.

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$20.0m

Money raised

ZEG Power is a developer of modular energy generation technology, including hydrogen fuel production with carbon capture and storage systems to produce clean hydrogen with no emissions.

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$695.0m

Money raised

Aurora Solar is a San Francisco-based developer of solar design, proposal, and sales software.

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$126.5m

Money raised

An industrial biotechnology company that produces chemicals from renewable non-food sources

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$10.9m

Money raised

A company with a local advertising platform. It was founded in 2006 and acquired by AOL in 2011.

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Funding Rounds

$138.9m

Money raised

SkySpecs is a company founded in 2012 by Daniel Ellis.

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$158.0k

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SeeO2 Energy Inc. is a Calgary-based carbon capture and storage company converting capture carbon dioxide into fuels and chemicals.

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$51.3m

Money raised

Issuu is a company founded in 2006 by Martin Ferro-Thomsen, Ruben Bjerg Hansen and Michael Hansen.

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Tech in Asia is a news company founded by Willis Wee.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Algo is a Michigan-based company offering an AI supply chain platform. The company was acquired by Meltwater in August 2017.

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Juhudi Kilimo provides asset financing, technical assistance, and business training services to farmers and agro businesses in Kenya.

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$3.6m

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Enersion has developed a revolutionary new green technology that uses heat instead of electricity to produce cooling thereby saving on electricity consumption by over 70% compared to the conventional cooling technology.

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$6.2m

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Alliance BioEnergy is a company founded in 2007.

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$45.9m

Money raised

Ostrom is a digital green energy management platform founded in 2021 by Karl Villanueva.

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BEAMSTART is a Startup Accelerator and online platform for Startup News, Business Networking, and Entrepreneurial Resources founded in 2016 by Kenneth Ho, Wallace Ho, and Benjamin Tan.

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$679.2m

Money raised

Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration.

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10

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$64.5m

Money raised

Pexapark AG is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Michael Waldner, Florian Müller and Luca Pedretti.

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$16.0m

Money raised

Jellysmack is the global creator company that detects and develops the world’s most talented video creators.

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$27.6m

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Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) supports the needs of industry and government for sensors and intranets in the areas of prognostic health management, situation awareness, signals intelligence, AI, safety, and embedded systems.

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$61.7m

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Skeleton Technologies is a Tallinn-based energy storage company developing energy storage technology and solutions.

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12

Funding Rounds

$187.2m

Money raised

Oxford PV is a London-based developer of perovskite thin-film solar cells.

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$239.2m

Money raised

Eavor Technologies Inc. is a Calgary-based geothermal technology company.

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Funding Rounds

$812.4m

Money raised

BrightSource Energy is an Oakland, California-based company founded in 2006 by Arnold Goldman.

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$7.1m

Money raised

A software company offering a low-code development platform for business operations.

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$302.7m

Money raised

Enerkem is a Quebec-based company producing biofuels and renewable chemicals made from non-recyclable waste.

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$51.0m

Money raised

A software company offering a collaboration platform for distributed teams.

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5

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$67.1m

Money raised

On a mission to stop climate change by making it easy and profitable for building owners to cut carbon emissions caused by wasted energy.

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$2.1m

Money raised

Modular and compact unit that provides renewable energy and clean water in remote areas.

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$32.0m

Money raised

Primus Power is an Hayward, California-based zinc bromine flow battery manufacturer.

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$191.0m

Money raised

Miasolé is a thin-film solar producer founded in 2004.

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$6.6m

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A technology company developing a tethered electric aircraft to produce energy from the wind.

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$30.0m

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Silatronix is a Madison, Wisconsin-based company founded in 2007 by Robert Hamers and Robert West.

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$25.7m

Money raised

Choose Energy is a Texas-based marketplace company offering clean technology and service to help consumers shopping for electricity and natural gas rates.

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Involt is a company developing supercapacitor-based solutions for batteries founded in 2012.

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$8.0m

Money raised

ReverbNation is a website that is meant to connect artists to the music industry

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$18.3m

Money raised

Tagboard is a Redmond, Washington-based company founded in 2011.

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$2.6m

Money raised

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