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Samantha Lee/Business Insider New York tech moves as fast as the city, with new rounds of fundraising, acquisitions, and startups forming daily, so we culled through the NYC tech and startup scene — aka 'Silicon Alley' — to bring you the Silicon Alley 100, our annual list of the people who matter most. We looked at who's done cool, inspiring, and amazing things in the past year, including companies that have been acquired or gone public, promising new startups, top VCs, and anything shaking up the industry. We ranked our list based on who has done the coolest stuff this year. Getting acquired or going public — that's cool.
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Founding a neat startup or building impressive hardware is cool too. Investors are cool, sure, but the inventors, innovators, and lead executives building the next big things are the people who should be celebrated. Our ranking prioritizes entrepreneurs over investors, simply because it's a lot harder to start a company than to fund one. Did we miss anyone? Let us know in the comments — we love telling stories about amazing people. Now scroll down to see the 100!
Partners, This year, First Round Capital invested in a ton of high-profile startups, Massdrop, ModCloth, BloomThat, Vinli, AltSchool, Ringly, the Black Tux, Boxed, and DogVacay. The top venture-capital firm is also jumping on board with startups founded by women, as by the firm this summer noted that startups founded by women are doing far better than ones founded by men — 63% better. It's welcome news for startup founders and investors alike who are trying to rally more support behind female-owned and -operated startups. Aside from that, First Round is known as one of Uber's early investors, and they're likely pretty happy with. Model, student, entrepreneur Model Karlie Kloss is more than just a pretty face.
The Victoria's Secret Angel is a student, programmer, and entrepreneur. In the spring, Kloss, where she learned how to code. She was so inspired by her experience that, a scholarship competition that sends girls age 13-18 to the school. Back in 2012, Kloss also launched, an organization that provides food and education to children in need.
For every 'Perfect 10 Kookie' sold, Feed donates 10 meals to children around the world. And as of this fall Kloss can add college student to her list of ventures — she. Cofounder and CEO, Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck met at Harvard Business School, fresh out of stints in the finance world. To keep their lives in order and their apartments clean, they had hired someone from Craigslist to buy their groceries and do their laundry.
The woman they hired, Jenny, came to their apartments to take care of errands that would otherwise pile up. This was the earliest iteration of what would become their company,.
Today, Alfred is a startup that hires employees — Alfred Client Managers, or just 'Alfreds' — to run weekly errands: things like buying your groceries, sorting your mail, dropping off packages, and taking care of your laundry for you. You pay $99 a month for the service, plus the cost of things like your groceries. In May, Alfred raised a from New Enterprise Associates,Spark Capital, CrunchFund, and Sherpa Capital. In total, Alfred has raised $12.5 million since it was founded in 2013. Cofounders, Named for the 'Star Trek' character and James Bond's Q Branch, is a mobile platform that helps companies book cleaning services, making it easier than it traditionally has been for companies to schedule, manage, and pay the people who clean their offices.
This year, the office-cleaning startup expanded out of New York City for the first time, launching its operations in Chicago and San Francisco. In June, the startup led by RRE Ventures with participation from Greycroft Partners, Homebrew, Sherpa Ventures, SV Angel and Steadfast Financial. Managed by Q's clients include Uber, Everlane, and Angelist. Cofounder and CEO, In 2012, Ben McKean sold his restaurant technology company, Savored, to Groupon. Now he's back with a new venture: Hungryroot. Along with his cofounders — — McKean wants to provide prepared, healthy, and delicious meals to customers. When you order from Hungryroot, you get a packaged meal the next day that consists of 70 to 80% vegetables and 20% protein.
The base ingredient is vegetable noodles — made from sweet potatoes, radishes, beets, zucchinis, and more — paired with a creative sauce and served with an optional protein side. In its first month of operation, Hungryroot sold 10,000 meals out of its Long Island City, Queens, offices.
In May, Hungryroot announced it had in funding from Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, and KarpReilly to make that happen. Cofounder and CEO, These days it seems like everybody has an app in the App Store. It's a great way to make extra money while putting out a product that you believe in. Alexandra Keating is capitalizing on that idea with DWNLD, that helps companies, brands, and other influencers easily and affordably turn their content, from social media to photos to videos to GIFs, into native mobile apps in minutes.
DWNLD from Greylock Partners in September,and works with Nylon, xoJane, and a number of YouTube stars and bloggers. Founder and CEO (Gregory), first employee (Armstrong), Few things make a woman feel more fabulous than a fresh blowout. But at $40 to $90 a pop in New York City, it's a luxury that quickly adds up. Enter Vive, a ' that lets members book unlimited blowout appointments at salons in Manhattan for just $99 a month.
Founded by Alanna Gregory, Vive launched earlier this year and is still. Though yet, it's definitely gaining traction. Vive capitalizes on the popularity of on-demand services like Uber that make it possible to get what you want when you want it, relatively hassle-free.
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