Research: New York City startups closed ~1,500 deals worth $12B last year, nearly double the $6.3B in capital invested in 2014 for a similar number of deals
@WSJ http://www.wsj.com/... Andrea Kowalski / @dre_kowalski : NYC-based startups have raised $9.1 billion to date across 850 deals. Let's see if we can exceed last year's $12 billion http://www.wsj.com/... James Patchett / @jbpatchett : Gone are the days when VCs overlooked NYC companies—now they can't afford to @TechNYC http://www.wsj.com/... Mike Dudas / @mdudas : The entrepreneurial energy across tech sectors in NYC right now is palpable — you can see it and feel it everywhere http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... Nick Beim / @nickbeim : More interesting than the astonishing money haul of NYC startups is the rapidly growing number of category leaders the ecosystem is producing: @Onepeloton @WeWork @UiPath @Dataminr @Compass @flatironhealth @Sprinklr @Lemonade_Inc @enigma_data @cadreRE +++ http://www.wsj.com/...