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24 venture capital firms in New York City: addresses, stages and latest funds
By Solomon Wiesen, editor. Updated October 2026. Editorial standards | How this site is funded
New York is the second-largest venture capital market in the US after Silicon Valley, and every firm below has a New York City office. Together they back New York City startups in everything from fintech to robotics. To see which of them wrote checks this year, check the list of NYC startups that raised money in 2026.
- New York is the second-largest US venture market: $12.6 billion in Q4 2025 alone, behind the Bay Area’s $47.4 billion.
- Seed and pre-seed: BoxGroup (checks up to $1M), Lerer Hippeau, Primary, Work-Bench, Boldstart, Betaworks, Great Oaks.
- Raising now: USV ($900M, October 2026), Bessemer ($5.75B, September 2026), FirstMark and Greycroft (new Form Ds filed in 2026).
- Not venture material? Most small businesses should borrow; see the financing hub.
Where US venture money went in Q4 2025
Venture deal value by metro area in the fourth quarter of 2025. New York is a distant but clear second to the Bay Area.
Not every company should raise venture money. If yours needs a loan instead, the section at the bottom covers that, and AI founders should also read the guide to financing an AI startup in NYC, which covers grants and other government money that costs no equity.
24 Venture Capital Firms With New York City Offices
As of October 2026, each of these 24 firms has a New York City office and is making new investments. Neighborhoods come from the address a firm publishes or, where it publishes none, from its most recent SEC Form D. The last column is filled in only where the firm, a filing or a named news report states a number.
| Firm | Neighborhood | Stage | Focus | Fund or check size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bessemer Venture Partners | Midtown | Seed through growth | Software, AI, health care, consumer | $20B under management; $5.75B in new capital (September 2026) |
| Betaworks | Meatpacking District | Seed | AI and consumer software | |
| Boldstart Ventures | New York and Miami | Pre-product and pre-seed | Cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, agents, robotics | $250M Fund VII (July 2025); first checks of $500K to $15M |
| Bowery Capital | Flatiron | Pre-seed and seed | B2B software and marketplaces | $64.5M sought for Fund III (2021) |
| BoxGroup | Meatpacking District | Pre-seed through Series A | Software, fintech, developer tools, climate | $275M BoxGroup Seven (October 2025); checks up to $1M |
| Collaborative Fund | NoHo | Seed through growth | AI, consumer, money, health, energy | |
| Contour Venture Partners | Midtown South | Seed | Enterprise and vertical B2B software, financial services | |
| Eniac Ventures | SoHo | Seed | AI and software | $158.4M raised for Fund VI (2024) |
| ff Venture Capital | Midtown | Seed and early stage | AI, manufacturing, energy, robotics, security | |
| FirstMark Capital | Chelsea | Early stage | Consumer and enterprise software | Over $1B across its latest early and growth funds |
| Founder Collective | SoHo | Pre-seed and seed | Sector agnostic | |
| General Atlantic | Midtown East | Growth equity | Technology, health care, financial services, consumer, life sciences | $130B under management |
| Great Oaks Venture Capital | Upper East Side | Pre-seed through Series A | Software, health care, financial services, marketplaces | Checks of $50,000 to $500,000 |
| Greycroft | Midtown | Early stage and growth | AI and software, sustainability, consumer brands | Over $1B across funds closed in 2023; Form D for Partners VIII filed February 2026 |
| IA Ventures | Flatiron | Seed and Series A | Software and fintech | $250M sought for Fund V (December 2024) |
| Insight Partners | Midtown | Early stage through late stage | Software | Over $90B in regulatory assets (December 31, 2025) |
| Lerer Hippeau | Hudson Square | Pre-seed and seed | Generalist | $200M Fund IX (April 2025) |
| Lux Capital | Flatiron | Early stage | Frontier science, defense, AI, life sciences | $1.5B Fund IX (January 2026) |
| Primary Venture Partners | NoMad | Seed | Enterprise software, commerce, health care, AI hardware | $625M Fund V (February 2026); average checks of $5M to $10M |
| RRE Ventures | Midtown East | Seed and Series A | Ten listed sectors, among them fintech, crypto, robotics and space | Over $2.5B under management |
| RTP Global | Flatiron | Seed through Series B | B2B and consumer technology | $1B latest fund |
| Thrive Capital | Nolita | Early stage and growth | Internet and software | $10B Thrive X (February 2026) |
| Union Square Ventures | Union Square | Early stage | AI applications, robotics, manufacturing, energy | $900M in new funds (October 2026); checks of $1M to $30M |
| Work-Bench | Flatiron | Pre-seed and seed | Enterprise software: applied AI and infrastructure | $160M Fund IV (May 2025); checks of $2M to $4M |
Office addresses and recent New York deals
Street addresses come from each firm’s own site or its most recent SEC Form D, checked in October 2026; recent deals are New York rounds reported by AlleyWatch in 2026. Boldstart, Collaborative Fund, ff Venture Capital, Founder Collective and RTP Global publish no New York street address; Boldstart’s, Founder Collective’s and ffVC’s latest filings list Miami, Cambridge and Princeton.
| Firm | New York address | A 2026 New York deal |
|---|---|---|
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 505 Fifth Ave, 4th Floor | Rain, $250M Series C (Q1 2026) |
| Betaworks | 29 Little West 12th St | Not confirmed |
| Bowery Capital | 37 W 20th St, Suite 901 (2021 Form D) | Not confirmed |
| BoxGroup | 1 Little West 12th St, 5th Floor | Ornn AI, $33M seed (Q2 2026) |
| Contour Venture Partners | 475 Park Ave S, 6th Floor | Not confirmed |
| Eniac Ventures | 584 Broadway, Suite 301 | Not confirmed |
| FirstMark Capital | 641 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor | Alaffia Health, $55M Series B (Q1 2026) |
| General Atlantic | 55 E 52nd St, 33rd Floor | Runway, $315M Series E (Q1 2026) |
| Great Oaks Venture Capital | 667 Madison Ave, Suite 17B | Not confirmed |
| Greycroft | 292 Madison Ave, 8th Floor | Not confirmed |
| IA Ventures | 920 Broadway, 15th Floor | Not confirmed |
| Insight Partners | 1114 Avenue of the Americas, 36th Floor | Inspiren, $70M Series C (Sep 2026) |
| Lerer Hippeau | 555 Greenwich St, 11th Floor | Board, $20M Series A (Jun 2026) |
| Lux Capital | 920 Broadway, 11th Floor | Crosby, $60M Series B (Q1 2026) |
| Primary Venture Partners | 386 Park Ave S, 14th Floor | Inspiren, $70M Series C (Sep 2026) |
| RRE Ventures | 130 E 59th St, 17th Floor | Concentrate AI, $5.1M pre-seed (Jun 2026) |
| Thrive Capital | 295 Lafayette St, 7th Floor | Rogo, $75M Series C (Q1 2026) |
| Union Square Ventures | 817 Broadway, 14th Floor | Board, $20M Series A, led (Jun 2026) |
| Work-Bench | 915 Broadway, Suite 1200 | Not confirmed |
The newest funds raised by NYC venture firms
Latest fund size announced by firms on this list, 2025 to 2026. Logarithmic scale: each gridline is ten times the one before.
Pre-seed and seed
Nine of the 24 concentrate on a company’s first institutional round. BoxGroup writes the smallest of them, up to $1 million, and says it wants to be the first commitment in a round; Ramp, Plaid, Cursor and Clay are in its portfolio. Primary sits at the opposite end. Its $625 million Fund V is large for a seed fund and its average check is $5 million to $10 million, according to TechCrunch. It invested in the AI chip maker Etched in every round.
Lerer Hippeau is the generalist of the group, with consumer exits that include Warby Parker, Allbirds, Casper and BuzzFeed. Founder Collective (Uber, The Trade Desk, SeatGeek, WHOOP) has offices in SoHo and Harvard Square and says it has no rigid ownership targets. Great Oaks writes $50,000 to $500,000 and lists Acorns and Houzz among its companies. Eniac backed Attentive. Contour focuses on New York City companies and lists Datadog and OnDeck in its portfolio. Betaworks runs a seed fund alongside themed AI “Camp” programs at its Little West 12th Street space, and its portfolio page lists Giphy, Bitly, Tumblr and Hugging Face.
Boldstart calls itself an inception fund and will talk to technical founders before a company exists; Snyk and Clay are its best-known investments. Its 2024 Form D for Fund VII gives a Miami address, so confirm which partner is in New York before you count on a local meeting.
Early stage and multi-stage
Union Square Ventures announced $900 million in new funds on October 8, 2026, against a $275 million core fund last time, and said it plans to make about the same number of investments. Expect larger checks and more lead positions from the firm behind Coinbase, Etsy, Duolingo and MongoDB. FirstMark (Pinterest, Shopify, Discord, DraftKings) filed Form Ds for a seventh early-stage fund and a fifth growth fund on September 29, 2026, so it is raising now.
Thrive Capital closed more than $10 billion for its tenth fund in February 2026, with about $9 billion of it set aside for growth-stage deals. It was an early backer of Instagram and Spotify and led Databricks’ $10 billion Series J in 2024. At that size I’d treat Thrive as a growth investor that also does early rounds.
Greycroft sorts its portfolio into early and growth companies; it led Whatnot’s Series E and has Bumble and Anduril in its portfolio. RRE’s list includes BuzzFeed, Olo, Spire Global and Braintree. Bessemer is a global firm with eight offices; its city office is at 505 Fifth Avenue, and the Larchmont address that some directories give is its separate Westchester office. RTP Global says its capital comes almost entirely from reinvested proceeds of earlier investments, among them a 2012 Series A in Datadog. IA Ventures publishes almost nothing about itself; it filed to raise $250 million for a fifth fund in December 2024 and has backed Wise since the company was called TransferWise.
Growth equity
Insight Partners reports more than $90 billion in regulatory assets and more than 900 companies backed, including SentinelOne, whose $120 million Series D it led in 2019, and monday.com from Series B through its IPO. General Atlantic manages $130 billion across growth equity, credit, energy transition and infrastructure, and its portfolio includes Anthropic and Vuori. Both firms back companies that are already scaling, so they belong on your list several rounds after the firms above.
Sector specialists
Lux Capital closed a $1.5 billion ninth fund in January 2026, the largest in its history. It was a seed investor in Anduril and backed Hugging Face and Runway early. Its portfolio company Auris Health was sold to Johnson & Johnson in 2019 for up to $6 billion. If your company depends on a lab or a defense contract, Lux is the first New York call.
Work-Bench and Bowery Capital only do B2B. Work-Bench plans 23 to 25 investments out of its $160 million fund and has Cockroach Labs, Socure, Spring Health and Dialpad in its portfolio. Bowery’s exits include Codecademy (to Skillsoft, 2022), Moat (to Oracle, 2017) and mParticle (to Rokt, 2025). ff Venture Capital leans toward robotics, manufacturing, energy and security and keeps a second office in Warsaw. Collaborative Fund looks for companies at what it calls the intersection of for-profit and for-good, which has meant Sweetgreen, Reddit, Kickstarter and Beyond Meat. Interlace is the narrowest: commerce and retail software only, with 33 companies on its portfolio page. Its site carries no dated news, so ask whether it is writing new checks before you spend time on a pitch.
Left off the list
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures says on its own site that it stopped making new investments in May 2023. Scout Ventures filed its Fund V Form D from Austin, Texas. Sapphire Ventures lists offices in Austin, Menlo Park, San Francisco and London, with none in New York. Osage Venture Partners files from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, and Highland Capital Partners from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Interlace Ventures, listed here until October 2026, was removed because its website now redirects to a domain sale page.
Why So Many Venture Firms Are in New York
The New York metro area took in $28.5 billion of venture capital across 2,195 deals in 2024, which was 13.3 percent of the US total and second only to Silicon Valley’s $99.4 billion, according to the New York State Comptroller’s October 2025 report on PitchBook-NVCA data. New York has held second place since, though the distance to first has grown: the Q2 2026 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor counts 523 New York City deals worth $11.7 billion in the quarter, against 761 deals and $98.6 billion in the Bay Area.
The investor mix follows the local industry mix. Software and tech services drew 52.4 percent of the city’s venture dollars in 2024, up from 37.6 percent in 2019, and financial services was the second-largest sector at 13.1 percent of 2020 to 2024 investment, per the same Comptroller report. That is why enterprise software and fintech show up across the table.
If Your Business Isn’t Venture Material
Most small businesses are not venture-backable. Every firm above is looking for a company that can grow fast enough to be sold or taken public, and even the smallest check in the table, Great Oaks’ $50,000, goes to startups built for that outcome. If you run a restaurant or a contracting company, debt is the realistic route, and the small business financing hub is the place to start. For city-specific resources, see the New York City startup pages.
Raising money in New York
- Startup dilution calculator: how much of the company each round costs the founders, with NYC round sizes
- 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 startups directory: 74 companies
- NYC fintech companies
- NYC robotics startups
- Small business loans in NYC: for companies that will not raise venture money
Where to go next
Frequently asked questions
What are the top venture capital firms in New York City?
Among the most active in 2025 and 2026: Union Square Ventures, FirstMark, Thrive Capital, Lerer Hippeau, BoxGroup, Primary, Greycroft, RRE, Lux Capital, Insight Partners, Bessemer and General Atlantic. BoxGroup was the most active NYC investor in Q2 2026, per AlleyWatch.
How much venture capital does New York get?
The New York metro took in $28.5 billion across 2,195 deals in 2024, 13.3% of the US total, and about 13% of US deal value in 2025, second only to the Bay Area. In Q4 2025 alone it drew $12.6 billion.
Which NYC VC firms invest at pre-seed?
BoxGroup, Boldstart, Work-Bench, Bowery Capital, Founder Collective, Great Oaks and Lerer Hippeau all invest at pre-seed or the first institutional round. Great Oaks writes checks from $50,000.
Which NYC venture firms raised new funds in 2026?
Union Square Ventures announced $900 million in October 2026, Bessemer $5.75 billion in September, Primary a $625 million Fund V in February, Thrive a $10 billion Thrive X in February and Lux a $1.5 billion Fund IX in January. FirstMark and Greycroft filed Form Ds for new funds.
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