New York City has produced some of the country’s biggest startups, in fintech, robotics, health and software. Most of the companies below raised money from venture capital firms based in the city; the smaller businesses around them usually borrow instead, which the NYC small business loans guide covers. Here are 20 startups founded in NYC that were still operating as of October 2026, plus a few from the old list that are gone or left town. For this year’s funding rounds, see NYC startups that raised money in 2026.
20 New York City Startups Still Operating in October 2026
Each of these 20 companies had a live product and a New York base as of October 2026. Funding figures appear only where a source is linked.
Fintech
Ramp sells corporate cards with expense management and bill pay software attached. It was founded in 2019 and says more than 40,000 companies use it. A $750 million round in June 2026 put its valuation at $44 billion, up from $32 billion in November 2025.
Capchase, founded in 2020 and based on East 27th Street, does vendor financing: a company buying software or hardware pays over time while the vendor is paid up front. It added more than $200 million in debt and equity in May 2026.
Mesh Payments (2018) is a travel and expense system for finance teams that puts corporate cards and accounts payable in one place. Its headquarters are at 1350 Broadway, and Tiger Global is among the backers named on its site.
Public is an investing app headquartered in New York and founded in 2019. You can trade stocks, options, bonds, Treasuries and crypto on it, and its site now also lists prediction markets and AI agents.
Esusu reports rent payments to the three major credit bureaus so that paying rent builds a credit history. Wemimo Abbey and Samir Goel founded it in 2018, and it sells to property managers. Its office is on West 125th Street in Harlem, the only address on this list above Midtown.
Crypto and market infrastructure
Fireblocks builds the custody and transfer software that companies use to hold and move digital assets and stablecoins. It was founded in 2018, and its last priced round was a $550 million Series E in January 2022 at an $8 billion valuation.
Talos, also founded in 2018, sells trading software to institutions that deal in digital assets. Its system connects them to exchanges and custodians through one access point, according to its Built In profile.
CertiK audits smart contracts and monitors blockchains for security flaws. It grew out of formal verification research by Ronghui Gu of Columbia and Zhong Shao of Yale, who founded it in December 2017. The company says it has more than 5,500 clients and was valued above $2 billion by its investors; both numbers are its own.
Axoni builds software that keeps trade data in sync between capital markets firms. Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo are among its investors, alongside Andreessen Horowitz. The company dates its founding to 2017 and works from 114 Fifth Avenue.
Software and AI
Attentive runs text message and email marketing for consumer brands and has added a set of AI products on top. It was founded in 2016 under the name Franklin Mobile and says its annual recurring revenue passed $500 million in 2024. Built In puts the headcount at about 1,000.
Regal was listed here before as Regal.io, a maker of SMS and phone sales software. It now sells AI agents that handle a company’s customer calls and texts. Alex Levin and Rebecca Greene started it in 2020; it raised a $38.5 million Series A led by Emergence Capital in 2022 and another $40 million in October 2024.
Kasisto makes KAI, a conversational AI assistant that banks put inside their mobile apps. It spun out of SRI International in 2013, which puts it about a decade ahead of the current wave of AI startups, and it is based on West 24th Street.
Spotnana (2020) builds booking and servicing software for corporate travel and sells it to travel agencies and suppliers as what it calls Travel-as-a-Service. Its office is at 115 Broadway in the Financial District.
FireHydrant makes incident management software for engineering teams. It covers who is on call when something breaks and the write-up afterward. It was founded in 2018 and has an office on Park Avenue South.
Squire makes booking and point-of-sale software for barbershops, plus an app customers use to book a chair. Founded in 2015, it says more than 5,000 shops use it, and Built In lists it at Series D with over $165 million raised.
Health
Cityblock Health is headquartered at 495 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn and was founded in 2017. It provides primary care and mental health care for patients with complex needs, along with support at home after a hospital stay, and says it serves hundreds of thousands of patients. CB Insights lists a $116 million Series E in the summer of 2026 and total funding a little over $1 billion.
Tend runs dental studios: 33 of them as of October 2026, with 16 in New York City and the others in the Washington DC area, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville and Westport, Connecticut.
Food, home and mobility
Wonder, founded in 2018 and based at 4 World Trade Center, serves menus from more than 20 restaurant brands, including ones from Bobby Flay and Marcus Samuelsson, and lets you combine them in a single order. Older descriptions of it as a truck-based delivery service are out of date. Its site now lists fixed locations in the Northeast that handle delivery and dine-in.
Block Renovation, in DUMBO, runs a marketplace that matches homeowners with contractors for renovations. Built In gives 2018 as the founding year and about 45 employees.
Revel has changed more than any other company here. It started in Brooklyn in 2018 renting electric mopeds, announced the end of the moped service in November 2023, and announced the end of its rideshare service in August 2025, according to its Wikipedia entry. What’s left is electric vehicle fast charging: 100 stalls live and more than 260 on the way, by its own count. Its site also says that Revel became part of Voltera, an infrastructure company for vehicle fleets, in an announcement dated June 30, 2026.
No longer around, or no longer in New York
Supergreat, the beauty review app, has replaced its site with a thank-you note that sends users to Whatnot. Ribbon Home’s name now belongs to Hurst Lending, which says it bought Ribbon’s assets, retired the home-buying programs and relaunched the brand as a home finance lender. Latch, the smart lock company, now calls itself DOOR and lists its office in Olivette, Missouri.
Four others from older versions of this list are operating but based elsewhere: OpenSea in Miami, Cleerly in Denver, Cameo in Chicago and Iterable in San Francisco. OpenSea’s last disclosed round is the $300 million Series C from January 2022, at a $13.3 billion valuation.
For the investors behind companies like these, see the list of NYC venture capital firms, and for more finance companies, the New York City fintech list.
Raising money in New York
- NYC startups that raised money in 2026: every 2026 round we could verify, with investors and SEC filings
- How to finance an AI startup in NYC: grants, state matching money, tax credits and investors
- NYC venture capital firms
- NYC fintech companies
- NYC robotics startups
- Small business loans in NYC: for companies that will not raise venture money
