2025 Best Tech Startups in New York

January 12, 2025 thetechtribune

The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in New York. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

Revenue potential
Leadership team
Brand/product traction
Competitive landscape

Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.

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10. LIQUiDITY Group

Founded: 2018

“Liquidity is the leading AI-driven direct lender globally. Our unique edge is our proprietary technology engine that powers our investment process from origination, underwriting through to exit. With over $2.75 billion in assets under management, Liquidity focuses on providing growth capital to technology companies globally, our process enabling fast and flexible financing that scales with them. Liquidity is backed by leading global financial institutions including Japan’s largest bank, MUFG, Spark Capital and Apollo Global Management.”

9. Axonius

Founded: 2017

“Axonius gives customers the confidence to control complexity by mitigating threats, navigating risk, automating response actions, and informing business-level strategy. With solutions for both cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) and SaaS management, Axonius is deployed in minutes and integrates with hundreds of data sources to provide a comprehensive asset inventory, uncover gaps, and automatically validate and enforce policies. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius covers millions of assets, including devices and cloud assets, user accounts, and SaaS applications, for customers around the world. For more, visit Axonius.com.”

8. Ro

Founded: 2017

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“Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company providing high-quality, affordable healthcare without the need for insurance. Ro is the only company to seamlessly connect telehealth and in-home care, diagnostics, labs, and pharmacy services nationwide. This is enabled by Ro’s vertically integrated platform that powers a personalized, end-to-end healthcare experience from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. Since 2017, Ro has facilitated more than eight million digital healthcare visits in nearly every county in the United States, including 98% of primary care deserts. Ro also provides its patient-centric solutions including Workpath, its in-home care API, and Kit, its at-home diagnostic testing service, to other healthcare companies.”

7. Fireblocks

Founded: 2018

Also honored in:

“Fireblocks is an easy-to-use platform to create blockchain-based products and manage day-to-day digital asset operations.”

6. Capchase

Founded: 2020

Also honored in:

“Capchase is the growth partner for ambitious software-as-a-service (SaaS) and comparable recurring-revenue companies. We empower businesses to grow faster through non-dilutive capital, payments and revenue acceleration software.”

5. DailyPay

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in New York

“DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading earned wage access solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City. For more information, visit www.dailypay.com/press.”

4. NYDIG

Founded: 2017

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“We’re building an inclusive financial system that makes Bitcoin a universal option for billions of people worldwide. Bitcoin is a resource for human progress, and NYDIG is the gateway.”

3. Ramp

Founded: 2019

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“Ramp is an all-in-one financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, and more, Ramp empowers finance teams to do their best work.

More than 30,000 companies, from family-owned farms to to space startups, have saved $2B and 20M hours with Ramp since its founding in 2019.

Investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.”

2. Wonder

Founded: 2018

Also honored in: 2024 Best Tech Startups in New York

“We want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. Here’s our goal: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes, and to allow you to order from multiple restaurants all in one order.”

1. Wiz

Founded: 2020

“Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.”