Venture company observation: 25 NYC startups you can't miss! (1-5)

NYC's entrepreneurial atmosphere is in full swing, and every day weary bankers leave Wall Street and plunge into the entrepreneurial army. Incubators such as Dogpatch Labs and General Assembly lurk many entrepreneurs and help them to soar someday. TechStars NYC's applicant grew from 600 to 1000, and TechCrunch's Mike Arrington said he was most proud of the NYC-disrupt competition venture.

After a field trip to the incubator and an in-depth exchange with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, we have chosen 25 potential NYC startups for everyone to taste, perhaps the next technology giant.

1. Neverware: Make your old computer new

Establishment Date: May 2010

Founder: Jonathan Hefter

Concept: Let the old computer through the cloud platform to run the latest software fast. This is an excellent solution for a shy school or other institution!

Located in: New York, NY (General Assembly)

Financing Status: FINANCING

Reason for concern: after chatting with many entrepreneurs and VCs, they say neverware must be on the list. "It's the real deal," says a famous VCs.

The company is also entering a huge market, and think about how you never have to throw away your old computer. Expensive software upgrades are a big burden for schools and countries that do not. But with Neverware, they don't have to buy expensive software upgrades anymore.

2. Artsicle: Rental of art by month

Establishment Date: March 2011

Founder: Alexis Tryon (CEO) & Scott Carleton (CTO)

Concept: Rent art by month

Located in: New York, NY (Dogpatch Labs)

Financing Status: Self-reliance

The reason for concern: renting expensive things like apartments, clothes, cars, being getaround, Rent the runway and Airbnb proved to be a good business model. Art is even more expensive, and you don't know how it looks in your home. Before making a big purchase decision, Artsicle makes it easy to try. Artsicle in Love in a pair of founders were also optimistic about VC. VC evaluation: "Alexis is really great!" She's the one I'm looking for, very sociable and I like the experience she used to work at American Express.

3. Tutorspree: High-quality private tutoring platform

Establishment Date: October 2010

Founder: Aaron Harris, Josh Abrams, Ryan Bednar

Concept: high-quality private tutoring trading platform to support location-based search tutors.

Located in: New York, NY (Dogpatch Labs)

Financing status: 1 million dollars have been financed from Y Combinator and unnamed investors

Reasons for concern:

The Tutorspree team basically communicates with their co-founder Garry Tan Posterous, the founder of their venture advisor. We've heard that Tutorspree is also ready to announce a bigger round of financing. "Their team is top-notch, they have great advisors, and the business is very lucrative," he said. A famous entrepreneur evaluates the way.

4. Turntable.fm: Pandora of the collective version

Establishment Date: May 2011

Founder: Seth Goldstein and Billy Chasen

Concept: This is the group version of Pandora, anyone can play DJ. Many people can listen to a playlist and add songs to the list in different places.

Located in: New York, NY (Dogpatch Labs)

Financing status: The team's previous site Stickybits 1.6 million dollars from Polaris Venture, Mitch Kapor, first Round capital and lowercase.

Reasons for concern:

Turntable.fm from the unsuccessful project Stickybits by founder Seth and Billy. When they realized that stickybits no longer had a future, they told investors they were going to try another new idea. Investors let them take a chance, turntable.fm is like this.

Last week Turntable.fm attracted the attention of all the top angel investors and entrepreneurs. Over the next few months, Seth said they plan to launch an iphone app that allows everyone to join the DJ and edit playlists together.

"If you use it, you will be addicted!" "Investors said," many cows are using this stuff, Chris Sacca, Hunter Walk of YouTube, Charlie O ' Donnell, I love it every day! ”

"This is a cool way to entertain and socialize music!" ”
A VC said.

5.BillGuard: Preventing credit card fraud

Establishment Date: April 2010

Founder: Yaron Samid, founder and CEO; Raphael Ouzan, founder and CTO

Concept: Bill Anti-Virus, through crowdsourcing mode to find credit card theft brush. When a person appears to steal a brush, other credit card owners receive a corresponding warning

Located in: New York, NY (debrosses St.)

Financing Status: USD 3 million from Bessemer Venture, Chris Dixon, Ron Conway, IA Ventures, Howard Lindzon and Yaron Galai.

Reason for concern: "They are addressing a big sore point for consumers." A well-known VC said. BillGuard is TechCrunch disrupt NYC 2011 finalists, many VC said: "That is awesome" "This is a home run" ...

5-20 Entrepreneurial Rookie, please look forward to the follow-up report, Stay tuned!