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06/05/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/5/2026 featuring funding details for Flourish and much more.

06/05/2026

One in five commercial healthcare claims is processed inaccurately - and the industry's answer so far has been more staff and more AI models trained to fight each other, a dynamic insiders now call the Battle of the Bots. A physician-founder who worked inside Humana and Commonwealth Care Alliance decided the only real fix was to connect the contracts themselves to the claims data underneath them. Find out how Kubera Health built the infrastructure layer that healthcare's payment system has been missing - and why 100% of its customers have expanded after their first engagement.

One in five commercial healthcare claims is processed inaccurately - and the industry's answer so far has been more staff and more AI models trained to fight each other, a dynamic insiders now call the Battle of the Bots. A physician-founder who worked inside Humana and Commonwealth Care Alliance de...

06/04/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/4/2026 featuring funding details for Ramp and much more.

06/04/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/3/2026 featuring funding details for AlphaSense, Cyera, and much more.

06/03/2026

NYC venture capital rose 12% month-over-month in May, reaching $2.01 billion across 75 companies — no single monster deal required. The month produced seven raises of $100M or more spanning AI infrastructure, retail tech, healthcare, and insurance, and 66% of all capital went to AI-identified startups. It was the kind of distributed momentum that suggests the pipeline is healthy well beyond the top of the leaderboard. Read the full report at AlleyWatch...

NYC venture capital rose 12% month-over-month in May, reaching $2.01 billion across 75 companies — no single monster deal required. The month produced seven raises of $100M or more spanning AI infrastructure, retail tech, healthcare, and insurance, and 66% of all capital went to AI-identified star...

06/02/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/2/2026 featuring funding details for Novellia, Ilant Health, and much more.

06/02/2026

Modal Labs just raised $355M to power the next wave of AI compute. They weren't alone — these are just the largest NYC startup funding rounds from May 2026, representing $1.3B across 11 deals spanning AI infrastructure, insurtech, healthtech, and fintech, with six nine-figure rounds in the mix. See which NYC startups attracted the most capital last month and who backed them.

Modal Labs just raised $355M to power the next wave of AI compute. They weren't alone — these are just the largest NYC startup funding rounds from May 2026, representing $1.3B across 11 deals spanning AI infrastructure, insurtech, healthtech, and fintech, with six nine-figure rounds in the mix. Se...

06/01/2026

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 6/1/2026 featuring funding details for Ficus and much more.

06/01/2026

When AI agents hallucinate up to 70% of financial data points, the outputs become unusable and that's the problem most firms building investment AI are quietly sitting on. A New York-based company just raised $47M to fix it at the infrastructure level, and the list of financial institutions already relying on its data layer includes more than 160 of the world's top funds and banks. Find out why the same firms that analyze markets for a living chose this platform to power their AI workflows and what that says about where financial research is heading.

When AI agents hallucinate up to 70% of financial data points, the outputs become unusable and that's the problem most firms building investment AI are quietly sitting on. A New York-based company just raised $47M to fix it at the infrastructure level, and the list of financial institutions already....

06/01/2026

VCs spent a decade funding the front door to online gambling while largely ignoring the room where the profits were made. As online casino revenue surges and new markets open worldwide, one of venture capital's biggest blind spots is coming into focus.