New York Ventures (NY Ventures) is the venture capital arm of Empire State Development, New York State's chief economic development agency. It invests in high-growth startups across New York State through direct equity investments and fund-of-funds programs.
Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months). Their most common stage is seed (47% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $8.3M (across 32 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
28
Fund Size
$300M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
JT
Jennifer Tegan
Managing Director
BS
Bryanna S.
Director
JN
Josh Nelson
Senior Director, Pre-Seed & Seed Fund
KM
Karan Mehta
Early Stage Investor
SG
Silvia Garcia Codony
VC Investor
JK
Jay Katz
New York Ventures
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
32 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Fesarius Therapeutics | Series A | $20M | Jun 2026 |
| DDify | Series A | $30M | Mar 2026 |
 BQP | Seed | $5M | Jul 2025 |
 Nionyx Bio | Seed | $4M | Jan 2025 |
 Dimensional Energy | Series A | $20M | Dec 2023 |
 Yuvo Health | Series A | $20.2M | Jun 2023 |
| KKintra | Series A | $8M | Jan 2023 |
| Dimensional Energy | Series A | $20M | Jan 2023 |
 Qunnect | Series A | $8M | Oct 2022 |
 Whose Your Landlord | Seed | $2.1M | Feb 2022 |
| Yuvo Health | Seed | $7.3M | Jan 2022 |
 Kidas | Pre-Seed | $2M | Nov 2021 |
 Gradient Works | Seed | $2M | Oct 2021 |
 Hopscotch | Seed | $3.6M | Oct 2021 |
 Conamix | Unknown | $4M | Jan 2021 |
| SShearshare | Seed | $2.3M | Dec 2020 |
| RRedPin Therapeutics | Series A | $15.5M | Mar 2020 |
 Ursa | Series B | $15M | Nov 2019 |
 Uizard | Seed | $2.8M | Sep 2019 |
 MouSensor | Seed | $3.3M | Sep 2018 |
| RRedPin Therapeutics | Seed | $1.5M | Mar 2018 |
 GiveGab | Series A | $1.5M | Jan 2018 |
 Unite Us | Series B | $4M | Nov 2017 |
 PostProcess | Seed | $4M | Apr 2017 |
| SSomaDetect | Seed | $2M | Jan 2017 |
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Top Co-Investors
Alexandria Venture Investments4 shared
Alumni Ventures3 shared
AV8 Ventures3 shared
DSC Investment3 shared
Elemental Excelerator3 shared
Delek US3 shared
India Quotient2 shared
Gaingels2 shared
AlleyCorp2 shared
Envisioning Partners2 shared
The Council2 shared
Omidyar Network2 shared
Omidyar2 shared
Scout Ventures2 shared
Sandbox Industries1 shared
Airbus Ventures1 shared
Impact Science Ventures1 shared
Octopus Ventures1 shared
Tusk Venture Partners1 shared
Last updated: 27 September 2026