NYC Startup Opportunities 10/21

Welcome back to the NYC Startup Jobs Newsletter!

This week’s list includes 10 startups that raised Seed or Series A rounds in September of this year. They have small teams, usually under 50 people, and are all growing. Great opportunities to get in early.

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This week’s companies:

BranchLab - AI helping healthcare advertisers target and measure audiences based on real-world health outcomes.
💰 Closed an undisclosed Seed round in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 2 open positions (NYC) in sales.

Merciv - Agentic intelligence for retail.
💰 Closed a $14,000,000 Seed round in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 2 open positions (NYC) in engineering and operations.

Spara - AI agents for sales teams.
💰 Closed a $15,000,000 Seed round in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 4 open positions (NYC) in customer success, sales, and engineering.

Inversion - Crypto firm integrating blockchain infrastructure into multiple industries.
💰 Closed a $26,500,000 Seed round in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 10 open positions (NYC) across all departments.

Etherealize - Building the next generation of financial infrastructure on the Ethereum blockchain.
💰 Closed a $40,000,000 Series A in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 1 open position (NYC) in design.

Predoc - AI-native medical record retrieval and analysis platform.
💰 Closed a $30,000,000 Series A in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 1 open position (NYC) in sales.

Centari - Deal intelligence tool to accelerate transactions.
💰 Closed a $14,000,000 Series A in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 2 open positions (NYC) in engineering and sales.

Doctronic - AI-doctor service.
💰 Closed a $20,000,000 Series A in September 2025.
👥 51-100 people today.
Job Board Link - 5+ open positions (NYC & remote) in engineering, product, marketing, and design.

Kredete - Financial technology platform for African immigrants to build credit and transfer funds internationally.
💰 Closed a $22,000,000 Series A in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - 2 open positions (remote) in engineering.

Terra Security - Agentic-AI platform built for web application penetration testing.
💰 Closed a $30,000,000 Series A in September 2025.
👥 11-50 people today.
Job Board Link - Hiring for Engineering, AI, Security Research, pen testing, BDR, SDR and Product Marketing.

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