Partnership Fund for New York City
VC Fund
New York, United States
Partnership Fund for New York City is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and FinTech. The Partnership Fund for New York City is the investment arm of the Partnership for New York City. It invests in NYC based ventures, both for-profit and non-profit, with an overall job creation priority.
- Total investments:
- 87
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Partnership Fund for New York City invests in
Stages Partnership Fund for New York City invests in
Countries Partnership Fund for New York City invests in
Contacts
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Jerome Chazen
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Kathryn Wylde
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David Heleniak
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Donna Milrod
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (14%)
- FinTech 9 (10%)
- Health Care 9 (10%)
- Financial Services 8 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 30 (34%)
- Series B 16 (18%)
- Seed 12 (14%)
- Series C 8 (9%)
- Funding Round 4 (5%)
Country
- United States 53 (61%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
- Hong Kong 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Jerome Chazen
Member, Board of Directors
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Member, Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kathryn Wylde
Member, Board of Directors
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Member, Board of Directors | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi
Member, Board of Directors
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Member, Board of Directors | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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David Heleniak
Member, Board of Directors
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Member, Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Donna Milrod
Member, Board of Directors
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Member, Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 19 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Ounce of Care
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Ounce provides care coordination and wraparound services to residents of affordable housing to improve community health & wellbeing. | Seed / Mar 19, 2026 | |
Popwheels
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PopWheels is an urban mobility company with a cutting-edge e-bike battery exchange network. | $2.3M / Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | |
Bags
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Bags operates as a financial services company that offers small businesses a suite of bookkeeping, accounting, and funding-support tools. The company provides a platform to manage financial records, generate monthly profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports, and offer AI-powered CFO-style financial insights. Bags couples those serviceswith a financing network that helps businesses explore debt funding: it offers funding plans and connects clients to lenders, and provides a funding coach to guide businesses through the loan application process if they choose to seek capital. The company also offers optional services such as historical financial cleanup, payroll and tax-preparation support, giving businesses flexibility in how much they outsource. | $2.8M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | |
Lyzr
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Lyzr is an enterprise agent framework for building reliable and self-learning AI agents that can communicate and exchange intel with one another, forming a knowledge mesh that leads to OGI - Organizational General Intelligence. At Lyzr, we take enterprise data privacy seriously, and hence, we designed the entire agent framework, including the APIstudio and OGI studio, to run locally on the customer's own cloud (VPC) or on-prem servers. | $8M / Series A / Oct 29, 2025 | |
Radical AI
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Radical AI is a technology startup focusing on changing materials science and advanced manufacturing through artificial intelligence. | $55M / Seed / Jul 18, 2025 | |
Near Space Labs
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Near Space Labs is an aerial imagery and earth observation company, Near Space Labs' imagery makes it easy to monitor assets and gain remote access over broad or specific areas. Near Space Labs offers cloud-based delivery of fully processed images through its API. The company provides frictionless, affordable imaging for insurance, utilities,infrastructure, conservation, smart cities, retail, energy, government, and disaster response. | $20M / Series B / Apr 29, 2025 | |
LeapXpert
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LeapXpert enables enterprises to embrace consumer messaging applications and integrate them into their business-critical applications and processes. The company's Federated Messaging Orchestration Platform (FMOP™) is an enterprise conversational solution between Employees and Clients. It empowers companies to securely communicate from acentral source while allowing customers to use the messaging app of their choice. FMOP elevates messaging to a formal business communication channel, similar to calling or emailing. It allows companies to control communications between employees, suppliers, customers, and other interested parties. It resolves the business, compliance, and regulatory challenges the rise of messaging applications’ use in business channels has created. It currently has three of the ten top global banks as customers, with tens of thousands of users. | $20M / Series B / Jan 21, 2025 | |
itselectric
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Itselectric is a curbside EV charging system designed especially for urban areas and to advance the adoption of electric vehicles. They increased access to public charging, which encourages the adoption of EVs and leads to cleaner air and healthier communities. | $6.5M / Seed / Jul 16, 2024 | |
BforeAI
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BforeAI focuses in predictive attack intelligence and Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS). Empowered by PreCrime™ technology featuring behavioral AI, we aim to transform cyber defense from reactive to proactive. Our solutions encompass automated threat intelligence, brand protection, adversary disruption, and domain takedowns. Recognized byGartner in five reports and honored with awards like the FinTech Innovation Lab New York, Bfore.AI offers the industry's swiftest, most precise automated defense against online fraud. | $15M / Series A / Apr 24, 2024 | |
Summer
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Summer combines innovative technology and policy expertise to serve student loan borrowers. The company's platform provides resources including a personalized loan payment dashboard, payment notifications, student loan policy updates, and customized repayment plans, enabling student borrowers to take control of their loans and save money whilerepaying.Summer was established in 2017 in New York by Will Sealy. | $9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 08, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Partnership Fund for New York City invest in?
Partnership Fund for New York City invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 87 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Partnership Fund for New York City?
The team at Partnership Fund for New York City includes Jerome Chazen (Member, Board of Directors), Kathryn Wylde (Member, Board of Directors) and Adebayo O. Ogunlesi (Member, Board of Directors), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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