Fora, a five-year-old travel advisory platform, raised $60 million Series D co-led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures at $1 billion post-money valuation, achieving unicorn status with total raised of $138.5 million.

Brooklyn startup using AI to design and manufacture printed circuit boards (PCBs) in the US — attacking one of the most overlooked layers of the tech stack (PCBs power smartphones, satellites, medical devices, autonomous systems). Founded ~2024. Customers include Physical Intelligence and Saronic; partnered with Anthropic to help Claude become a better electrical engineer. Ambition: make hardware as nimble as software.

Makes BuildOS, an AI platform that auto-generates animated, interactive manufacturing work instructions and bills-of-process directly from CAD models for aerospace, defense, and automotive OEMs.

Clinical-stage biotech, headquartered in Suzhou, China with a NY/China presence, developing therapeutics for immune-mediated diseases like ulcerative colitis; closed a $50M Series C.

AegisAI, which builds AI agents to defend against phishing attacks, raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures.

Aerospace, automotive, and chemicals conglomerate formed 1985 by the merger of Allied Corporation and The Signal Companies. HQ Morristown, NJ. Merged with (old) Honeywell in 1999, adopting the Honeywell name -- see Honeywell International. Its aerospace/guidance-systems operations had a facility near Teterboro, NJ.

Cloud-based manufacturing-execution software platform for pharmaceutical and life-sciences manufacturers to manage drug production end-to-end.

Assured, an AI-native provider credentialing and enrollment platform, raises $19M Series A funding round.

SMS and email marketing automation platform. NYC. Sequoia + Coatue. $10B valuation 2021. 8,000+ brands.

Avalanche is a Layer-1 blockchain platform for building custom, interoperable blockchain networks (subnets), focused on speed and low fees.

KKR portfolio company. Asset class: Private Equity. Industry: Financials. Region: Asia Pacific.

American aerospace/aviation and automotive-parts manufacturer; its aviation/aerospace division was headquartered in Teterboro, NJ (the town's aviation identity grew up around Bendix's operations there). Acquired by Allied Corporation in 1983 following the Bendix-Martin Marietta takeover battle; folded into AlliedSignal upon the 1985 Allied/Signal Companies merger, and from there into Honeywell International (1999). This is the specific office/branch the operator worked in as an intern testing Hubble Space Telescope gyroscopes, summer 1987 or 1988 (a summer internship during his NJIT studies, which began September 1986) -- by then colloquially called "Allied" on-site even though the Teterboro facility traced back to Bendix.

Employee benefits platform. YC W20. Co-founded by Kabir Soorya (CTO). New York NY. Streamlines HR benefits through mobile app.

Chicago/New York-based fintech building an API that connects loyalty programs across airlines, retailers, and financial brands.

Automated investing and financial planning platform. NYC. Bessemer + Kinnevik. 800K+ customers, $40B+ AUM. Pioneer of robo-advisors.

Crypto wallet and trading services; 43M+ users; confidentially filed IPO May 2026

CA Technologies was an American multinational enterprise software company headquartered in New York, specializing in mainframe software, IT management, and DevOps solutions. Founded in 1976, it was acquired by Broadcom in 2018 and now operates as a Broadcom company.

NYC-based AI platform that extracts and analyzes real-world clinical and EHR data to accelerate biopharma drug development.

NYC blockchain and fintech startup building infrastructure for next-generation securities, money, and digital value; raised a pre-seed round in 2023.

Thoma Bravo-backed RealPage acquired Cherre, a New York-based real estate data intelligence platform provider backed by HighSage Ventures.