Companies to Watch: Five Founders Powering the Next Generation of New York Tech
A few weeks ago, Tech:NYC opened the doors to its first-ever Founder House, a new partnership with WeWork to support exciting New York founders at the earliest stages of building their startups. Catch up with five founders that were part of the inaugural cohort of Founder House — New Yorkers leading companies scaling new solutions in AI, food tech, mobility, and more.
Why AI will help Duolingo become as good as a human tutor
In some ways, Luis von Ahn is an unlikely founder for a language-learning company: The entrepreneur dreamed of being a math professor from a young age. But after he invented the now-ubiquitous reCAPTCHA service and sold it to Google, the computer science professor and entrepreneur set out to create something with tangible value to its end users. He also wanted to ensure it remained free.
Introducing the Tech:NYC Founder House
Today, Tech:NYC and WeWork are launching the Tech:NYC Founder House, a new partnership that will support New York’s early stage tech founders by providing them with opportunities to connect and collaborate with their peers, investors, and industry experts.
How Ramp’s Eric Glyman went from “a sheet of paper” to a 13,000+ customer fintech business in less than four years
The fintech entrepreneur and angel investor Eric Glyman says it was a revelation to realize that for his clients, saving time was just as important as saving money.
Companies to Watch: New York Founders Expanding Access to Mental Health
To mark Mental Health Awareness Month, we talked to a group of NYC founders on what wellbeing means beyond the pandemic — and what more it’ll take to truly make mental health resources accessible to all.
Making Drones Work for New York
On its face, New York City has never been an obvious home base for the drone industry — the busy, dense environment presents unique challenges for deploying the technology. But long-stalled updates to the city’s avigation statutes haven’t kept pace as drones evolved, and the technology holds a lot of potential to provide solutions that make NYC safer and more resilient.
Introducing the Tech:NYC Jobs Board
Today we’re excited to launch the Tech:NYC Jobs Board, a new centralized hub for every role currently open at more than 700 companies in the Tech:NYC member network.
Companies to Watch: Black Founders Powering New York Tech
To close out Black History Month, we spoke with a group of Black founders about growing their businesses in NYC and the work still left to do in cultivating a more inclusive industry year-round.