Series A: A Series — July 2026
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It may be summer, but NYC founders aren’t taking vacations.
Series A: A Series added 13 new companies that reached the Series A milestone in July 2026. Together, they’re already hiring for 45+ NYC-based jobs across engineering, product, GTM, compliance, AI, and operations.
While this month's cohort is smaller than July 2025’s 21 Series A companies, investors are writing larger checks.
Here’s what the numbers tell us:
July's cohort raised $265.5 million in Series A funding alone.
Collectively, these companies have now raised $363.9 million across all funding rounds.
By comparison, July 2025's cohort raised $353.6 million across 21 Series A companies.
The average Series A round increased from $16.8 million in July 2025 to $20.4 million this year, showing that investors continue to back fewer companies with larger rounds.
So where did the capital go?
AI becomes New York’s default startup model
AI is becoming the default way founders build companies.
Startups centered on AI, enterprise software, and workflow automation accounted for approximately $113.5 million in Series A funding — roughly 43% of all capital raised this month.
Companies including Aegis AI, Encore, Alta, DeweyLearn, and Henry AI are applying AI to cybersecurity, customer engagement, business intelligence, education, and commercial real estate.
Rather than building generic AI tools, founders continue to focus on solving specific operational problems, a theme that’s defined much of NYC’s startup ecosystem over the past year.
Financial infrastructure continues to outperform
Financial technology remained one of July’s strongest sectors, attracting $111 million in Series A funding, more than 40% of this month’s total.
This month’s cohort spans nearly every corner of financial infrastructure:
Velocity is modernizing money movement across banks and blockchains.
Baselayer is helping financial institutions combat business fraud.
Pascal is building institutional prediction markets.
LinqAlpha is reimagining investment research with generative AI.
Hadrius is simplifying compliance for financial firms.
It’s another reminder that one of NYC’s greatest competitive advantage remains financial services, and increasingly, the software that powers them.
Vertical AI keeps expanding
One of the clearest patterns across July’s raises is the continued rise of vertical AI, or companies building specialized AI systems for individual industries rather than general-purpose models.
Whether it’s Uniti AI for real estate, Dili for construction compliance, Henry AI for commercial real estate underwriting, or DeweyLearn for education, founders are embedding AI directly into industry-specific workflows.
The result is a startup ecosystem where AI is modernizing industries.
The creator economy keeps evolving
While infrastructure dominated the month, consumer-facing startups continue to carve out meaningful niches.
Companies like Passionfroot are building the tools that power the creator economy, helping brands discover creators, manage campaigns, and measure performance as influencer marketing becomes an increasingly mature business channel.
The bigger picture
July may have produced fewer Series A announcements than the same month last year, but the quality — and size — of the rounds continues to climb.
Over the past fourteen months of tracking Series A companies, New York founders are increasingly building the infrastructure behind AI, financial services, compliance, cybersecurity, real estate, and enterprise software.
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The map below features raises from June 2025 - July 2026.
The sheet below is sorted by most recent raise date.