NYC Startup Opportunities 9/23

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This week’s list of venture-backed companies includes 10 seed stage companies that are hiring now. These companies have raised between six and ten million and are all small but growing teams.

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This week’s companies:

Solomon - A FinTech transforming the future of tax practice.
💰 Closed a $6,800,000 seed round in July 2025.
👥 11-50 today.
Job Board Link - hiring a full stack engineer in NYC.

Model ML - AI-based agentic systems for finance.
💰 Closed an undisclosed seed round in August 2025.
👥 51-100 today.
Job Board Link - 3 open positions (NYC) in sales.

Estuary - Data analytics platform for business.
💰 Closed an undisclosed seed round in August 2025.
👥 11-50 today.
Job Board Link - 4 open positions (NYC & remote) in engineering.

Dirac - A platform that automatically generates model-based assembly work instructions.
💰 Closed a $10,700,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 11-50 today.
Job Board Link - 6 open positions (NYC) in sales, engineering, marketing, and recruiting.

ALIGNMT AI - AI infrastructure for healthcare.
💰 Closed a $6,500,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 1-10 today.
Job Board Link - 5 open positions (remote) in engineering, design, and sales.

Mako - AI-powered GPU kernel generation and optimization.
💰 Closed a $8,500,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 1-10 today.
Job Board Link - 3 open positions (NYC) in engineering and product management.

August - A legal AI tool for mid-sized law firms.
💰 Closed a $7,000,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 11-50 today.
Job Board Link - 8 open positions (NYC) in engineering, marketing, legal, design, and sales.

Elion - An intelligence platform for health IT.
💰 Closed a $9,300,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 11-50 today.
Job Board Link - 2 open positions (NYC & remote) in marketing and engineering.

Continua AI, Inc. - AI for group chats.
💰 Closed a $8,000,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 1-10 today.
Job Board Link - 4 open positions (NYC) in engineering.

TensorZero - An open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM applications.
💰 Closed a $7,300,000 seed round in August 2025.
👥 1-10 today.
Job Board Link - 3 open positions (NYC) in engineering.

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