Today, we have an exciting update to share: This morning, we announced our Board will expand to 60 members, including many who founded startups in NYC, to help guide the organization and the broader tech community through a crucial next phase of growth. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.