More than 1,700 startups headquartered in Greater New York City have received venture capital funding so far in 2024, and the top 25 most valuable of those have a combined valuation of nearly $120.1 billion. Across the metro area this year, more than $24.5 billion has been invested in VC-backed startups, which operate across every imaginable sector and vertical—from cryptocurrency to healthtech and real estate tech.
In this blog post, we’re looking at top New York City area startups based on post-money valuation that have received venture capital funding in 2024 through December 3. This data is inclusive of the entire New York City metropolitan statistical area (MSA), which includes New York, Newark, and Jersey City.
Top 11 most-valuable VC companies in New York City that received funding in 2024
*According to PitchBook data as of December 3, 2024; data is subject to change frequently
1. Wiz
📈 Post-valuation: $12B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, Series E, $1B
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: May 2024
Wiz is the developer of a cloud security platform that helps businesses secure their infrastructure at scale. Headquartered in Manhattan, the startup has raised $1.8 billion to date. Wiz most recently raised VC funding in May 2024, though Insight Partners more recently sold a stake in the company to an undisclosed buyer in September 2024.
2. CoreWeave
📈 Post-valuation: $11.5B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, $250,000
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: November 2024
Founded in 2017, CoreWeave offers a specialized cloud computing system that accelerates AI, ML, and other project workflows and matches the complexity of models, enabling clients to scale and adapt. The Roseland, New Jersey-based startup most recently received venture capital funding in November 2024, though it filed to go public in May 2024 and is still in IPO registration as of December 3, 2024.
3. Chainalysis
📈 Post-valuation: $8.6B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, undisclosed amount
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: August 2024
Manhattan-based Chainalysis is the developer of a cryptocurrency investigation and compliance software designed to protect the junction between finance and the decentralized internet. With a 98% probability score of exiting successfully per PitchBook’s VC Exit Predictor, the startup’s most recent VC round—an undisclosed amount in August 2024—was raised from Blackstone, Bossa Invest, Calm Ventures, and Haun Ventures Management.
4. Fireblocks
📈 Post-valuation: $8B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, undisclosed amount
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: May 2024
Based in Manhattan with an alternate office in Boston, Fireblocks is the developer of a blockchain security platform designed to protect digital assets on the network. Founded in 2018, the startup has raised $1.04B in funding to date. Most recently, it raised an undisclosed amount of later-stage venture funding in May 2024 from Cyverse Capital, Haun Ventures Management, and Leyden Ventures. Angel investors Idan Levin and Ivan Brightly also participated in the round.
5. Ramp
📈 Post-valuation: $7.7B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, Series D2, $150M
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: April 2024
Manhattan’s Ramp is a financial operations platform that helps users spend less with insightful saving opportunities, automated expense management, and receipt matching, among other offerings. According to PitchBook’s VC Exit Predictor, the company has a 74 out of 100 opportunity score—a percentile comparison measure of the expected return on investment compared to other VC-backed companies. Most recently, the company raised $150 million of Series D2 venture funding in a deal led by 8VC, Greylock, and Khosla Ventures in April 2024.
6. Attentive
📈 Post-valuation: $6.9B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, undisclosed amount
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: March 2024
Hoboken-based Attentive is the developer of a personalized mobile messaging platform designed to help brands and organizations interact with their customers. The platform uses behavioral data and helps brands send personalized mobile messages across the customer lifecycle. Founded in 2016, the startup’s most recent funding round was in May 2024—an undisclosed amount of later-stage VC from Beyond Capital, Bossa Invest, Capital Advantage Ventures, Helios Ventures, Mana Ventures, and MicroVentures.
7. Grafana Labs
📈 Post-valuation: $6.6B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, Series D, $327.9 million
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: August 2024
Headquartered in Manhattan’s Financial District, Grafana Labs—the developer of a performance monitoring platform that supports organizations’ visualization and observability goals—has an alternate office in Berlin, too. The startup’s most recent VC funding round was a $327.9 Series D deal led by GIC (Singapore), Lightspeed Venture Partners, and NY Technology Capital Partners.
8. Cityblock
📈 Post-valuation: $6.3B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, undisclosed amount
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: January 2024
Cityblock, the operator of a personalized health system intended to address the unmet health and social needs of Medicaid and Medicare populations, is the highest-ranking startup on this listed based in the borough of Brooklyn. The company has raised $886 million to date, though its latest VC funding around amount—raised from MicroVentures—is undisclosed.
9. Cockroach Labs
📈 Post-valuation: $5.5B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, undisclosed amount
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: October 2024
Founded in 2015, Cockroach Labs is the developer of an open-source database platform designed to build global, scalable, cloud services that can survive disasters. 🪳Based in Manhattan, the company most recently raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding in October 2024 from MicroVentures, that firm’s third mention on this list. Prior to that, they raised a $278 million Series F in a deal led by Greenoaks Capital Partners in December 2021.
10. Ava Labs
📈 Post-valuation: $5.3B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, undisclosed amount
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: January 2024
Manhattan-based Ava Labs, founded in 2018, is the developer of a smart contracts platform designed to redefine how people create value with Web3. Most recently, the startup raised an undisclosed amount of venture funding from Klein Blue Capital, Ramiel Capital, SWS Venture Capital, and others in January 2024. More recently, in May 2024, Ava Labs joined the Fuse Incubator’s eighth cohort—though no equity or funding was exchanged.
11. AlphaSense
📈 Post-valuation: $4B
💰 Latest VC funding round: Later-stage VC, Series E, $650 million
🗓️ Latest VC round deal date: June 2024
AlphaSense is the developer of a web-based market intelligence and search platform offering critical financial insights across topics and technologies. Based in Manhattan, the startup was founded in 2011 and has raised $1.6 billion to date. In June 2024, the startup raised its most recent round of venture funding—$650 million of Series E capital from a deal led by BDT & MSD Partners and Viking Global Investors.
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