NYC Seed
VC Fund
Brooklyn, United States
NYC Seed is a New York City-based seed venture capital firm. It is a partnership between has currently over $2,000,000 in funds. NYC Seed was
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries NYC Seed invests in
Stages NYC Seed invests in
Countries NYC Seed invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Round size
- Seed
- $350k–$2M
- Series A
- $550k–$8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (31%)
- SaaS 4 (25%)
- Mobile 3 (19%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (19%)
- Information Technology 3 (19%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (50%)
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Funding Round 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Clayton Besch III
Investment Board
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Investment Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kristy Sundjaja
Investment Board
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Investment Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Maria Gotsch
Investment Board
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Investment Board | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Owen Davis
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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Paul Horn
Investment Board
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Investment Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 7 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Fieldlens
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Fieldlens offers a tool that improves communication and collaboration for construction project teams. It knows what each member of the team needs to do now and reminds them, and it gives decision-makers a bird’s-eye view of every project without stepping on-site, enabling them to spot trends and see who the best performers are. | $8M / Series A / May 08, 2014 | |
Zipmark
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Zipmark enables businesses to send and receive 100% digital checks without risk, at a reasonable and transparent cost. Zipmark's API can be easily integrated into web and mobile payments, offering a lower cost alternative to credit and debit cards; also by leveraging Zipmark QR codes users can pay for items such as rent, fees orsubscriptions directly from paper invoices via the Zipmark iPhone app.Zipmark was founded by Jake Howerton and Jay Bhattacharya. Jay was the co-founder of Mobile Money Ventures (acquired by Intuit) and was with Citigroup for 7 years where he was responsible for emerging payments strategy including mobile, NFC and smartcards. Jake is a technology focused entrepreneur and the former CTO of Sunshine Suites, Inc. Magazine's 15th Fastest Growing Real Estate Company in 2009. Jake is also active in creating the OpenTransact standard, an open and simple financial standard for authorizing transactions without revealing account credentials. | $1.5M / Seed / Aug 14, 2013 | |
Wunderkind
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Wunderkind is a leading performance marketing engine that delivers tailored experiences at scale. Digital businesses use Wunderkind to remember who users are better than ever before, allowing them to deliver high-performing, one-to-one messages on websites, through emails and texts, and in ads at a scale that’s not otherwise possible. Wunderkinddrives $1.2 billion dollars annually in directly attributable revenue for top e-commerce brands like Uniqlo, Sonos and HelloFresh, often ranking as a top-3 revenue channel in their own analytics. Wunderkind is maniacally obsessed with ROI and aims to be the infrastructural interface between individuals and brands in a world where consumers choose what they want, from whom, and when. Learn more at wunderkind.co. | $1.5M / Series A / May 24, 2013 | |
Datadog
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Datadog is an essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience. | $6.2M / Series A / Nov 21, 2012 | |
SeatGeek
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SeatGeek is a ticket search engine that aggregates ticket listings for live sports, concerts, and theater events. Its data engine helps consumers identify various ticket deals.The site has a feature called ‘Deal Score’ which assigns a 0-100 metric to all listed tickets in order to ascertain the relative value of tickets for a given event or a setof similar events.SeatGeek also offers consumers an event discovery tool through its Columbus event calendar and Spotify applications, which take into account user preferences and favorite teams and artists in order to generate recommendations of upcoming local events that match a user’s tastes and preferences.SeatGeek was launched by Jack Groetzinger and Russell D’Souza in 2009 and its operations are headquartered in New York, United States. | $1.7M / Aug 29, 2012 | |
Infinio
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Infinio addresses the most expensive bottleneck in virtual environments: storage performance. Data center administrators buy more storage hardware when what they really want is better storage performance. Infinio offers a software-only solution instead. Infinio has strong financial backing from tier-one venture capitalists includingHighland Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Osage University Partners. | $2M / Seed / Jan 01, 2012 | |
Olapic
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Olapic is a visual marketing platform that helps brands reach their consumers visually. With Olapic, users can collect, curate, create, and activate visual content, driving brand engagement to new heights. It is an enterprise, all-in-one user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content platform that provides content and scale users needwhile ensuring it’s optimized across all its marketing channels.It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York. | Seed / Sep 16, 2011 | |
ToutApp
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ToutApp builds software to empower sales teams so they can become revenue generating machines. Companies like Citrix, ProCore, XO Group uses ToutApp to generate more pipeline, close deals faster, and forecast more accurately. | $350K / Seed / May 15, 2011 | |
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Datadog
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Datadog is an essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. It brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 29, 2011 | |
Singly
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Today's best apps connect with other apps for + Sharing (virality) + Friending (engagement)+ Data (intelligent user experiences)+ much more...Whether you're an independent developer, a startup on AngelList, an agency that builds apps for clients or a publisher who is doing more with mobile, Singly's SDKs and productsare a solution for you.No more writing custom code for authentication, setting up user tables, syncing and storing data, tackling normalization and search/filtering. Your team gets accelerated time to market, increased focus on product, lowered infrastructure costs, and no more maintenance distractions and overhead. Singly was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco. Connect with Singly at www.singly.com and @singly. | $2M / Seed / Feb 01, 2011 | |
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FAQ
What does NYC Seed invest in?
NYC Seed invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is NYC Seed's check size?
NYC Seed typically joins rounds of $350k–$2M at Seed and $550k–$8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NYC Seed participates in.
How do I contact NYC Seed?
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Who are the partners at NYC Seed?
The team at NYC Seed includes Clayton Besch III (Investment Board), Kristy Sundjaja (Investment Board) and Maria Gotsch (Investment Board), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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