Below is v 1.0 of a comprehensive linked list of New York City based internet startups, in no particular order. This list was put together through the ultra high-tech process of me spending hours of my free time manually scouring the web.
Please send additions, corrections, comments, etc. directly to me at sean@startupalley.net or add to the comments section.
- Trulia – a real estate search engine that helps you find homes for sale and provides real estate information at the local level to help you make better decisions in the process.
- AnyClip – Search and view any moment from any movie, ever.
- Foursquare – Location based social network.
- Tumblr - a re-envisioning of tumblelogging, a subset of blogging that uses quick, mixed-media posts.
- Etsy – allows users to buy and sell handmade items.
- Outside.in - aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore information.
- Hunch – A consumer web application looking to help users make up their minds.
- Tracked – organizes info on companies, industries and executives and enables easy sharing.
- Huffington Post – A leading online news source
- Path101 – Stealth startup building an online destination for career discovery
- Meetup.com – is the world’s largest network of local groups organizing face-to-face meetups.
- GetGlue (AdaptiveBlue) – A browser plugin that helps you automatically find books, music and movies through friends as you browse popular sites.
- Boxee – a social media player platform integrating personal locally stored and online media from video to music.
- 10gen – provides sponsorship, commercial support, and management tools for open source database MongoDB.
- Gilt – private community providing its members access to coveted fashion at sample prices.
- JetSetter – A spin-off from Gilt, JetSetter provides exclusive access to insider travel deals.
- MusicNation – A site where you can watch videos of new and unsigned talent.
- ShopWiki – A consumer shopping search engine promising comprehensive results for stores and products.
- BusinessInsider – A business blog, produced by and for the New York digital business community.
- BugLabs – A Logo-like hardware platform that tinkerers and engineers can use to create their own digital devices.
- Clickable – An online solution that makes search advertising Simple, Instant and Profitable (TM).
- Covestor – A portfolio-sharing service that enables individual investors to compete with pros.
- Indeed - An online job search engine that grows by 1 million jobs per week.
- 20×200 – An e-commerce site for art collectors that releases two limited-edition prints per week.
- Knewton – An adaptive learning engine, customizing educational content to meet each students’ needs.
- Wee Web – A social sharing utility for parents of newborns and small children from Meetup.com founders.
- Zenbe – A free webmail service, aiming to deliver the best email experience on the web.
- MarketFactory – developing a platform that focuses on the thorniest problems in trading; speed of light issues in message transmission, dynamically generated markets and rapid liquidity provision.
- OrganizedWisdom – An expert-guided search service for health.
- UrgentCareer - Uses linguistic technology to match business professionals with compatible employment.
- Mimeo – On-demand printing and distribution service.
- Bit.ly – A URL shortener that shrinks long URLs and offers statistical tools to track link popularity.
- ChallengePost - a marketplace for challenges where users can start, join and contribute to challenges to earn rewards.
- GoodHealthAdvertising – Online health and medical advertising services company representing a collection of health and medical sources.
- DomDex – in stealth mode since March 2009 developing online adverting services.
- 33Across – named after the 33% of internet users at which its marketing is directed, promised to use social networking to make online adverting more effective.
- PerformLine – offers an analytics and reporting platform for online advertisers.
- SocialBomb – provides infrastructure for social, mobile and real time applications.
- Drop.io -an online collaborate file sharing service.
- StockTwits – a social stock microblogging service.
- Oddcast - develops and distributes customized video and avatar-based marketing products.
- HotPotato – connects friends and fans around live events.
- BuddyMedia – provides brands, advertisers, and public relations agencies a scalable set of tools to manage social marketing efforts.
- BlogTalkRadio – a site where anyone can setup a podcast or radio talk show on the web.
- Pontiflex – a lead generation marketplace enabling advertisers to find consumers most likely to be interested in their products.
- Rave Wireless - provides safety applications for mobile users.
- SomeCards – free online greeting cards.
- SalesConx - provides technology and services to support a network of business-to-business professionals.
- Appssavvy -an outsourced sales team connecting social media applications with brand advertisers.
- DesignBuggy – social bookmarking tools providing collaborate search for home design.
- Comixology (Iconology) – brings Web 2.0 to the comic book market with dynamic weekly new release lists.
- LinkStorm – next-generation hyperlinking system enhancing the performance of online advertising, e-commerce and online publishing.
- mPoint – cloud computing for the professional video syndication market.
- ORCA – a payments processing alternative for social networks and online games to accept payments, create loyalty programs, and send marketing messages.
- Pond5 – open marketplace for stock video footage.
- Viddler – online consumer video site.
- CEInteractive – digital products and services simply the consumer electronics experience.
- Hovr – ad-supported consumer based mobile content provider.
- Payoneer – online payment distribution solution.
- Buzzd – social city guide for mobile phones.
- CollectiveMedia – technology solutions and advertising network for display advertising.
- CrowdFusion – a hybrid publishing platform combining blogging, wikis, tagging and work flow management.
- WorldwideBiggies – a digital entertainment studio.
- DrChrono – provides scheduling, patient reminders and billing systems to doctor practices.
- Soupfly – taps into government database to let you look up New York City restaurant inspector scores.
- LarvaLabs – mobile entertainment applications.
- Solvate - a micro-staffing company that makes it easy to delegate work to professionals across the country.
- AdMeld – online ad optimization technology maximizes revenue for publishers from ad networks and exchanges.
- KlickableTV – enables video creators and distributors designate certain objects in their video as clickable so that viewers can interact with or find out mor about the element.
- Neighborhoodr – uses (NYC based) Tumblr platform to enable anyone to find and share info about their neighborhood.
- UrbanInterns – a site that enables users to find part-time assistants.
- Maggwire – aggregates 10,000 magazine titles online attracting 200 million American readers.
- SuperGlued – allows people to share and discuss live music experiences, bringing photos, videos, stories, setlists, etc in one place.
- SetJam – there are more movies and TV shows available online than on cable and SetJam is aggregating them in one place for easy searching, viewing and sharing.
- Postling – enables small businesses to post to all major social networking sites with one click.
- Wireless Generation – creates innovate tools, systems, and services that help educators teach smarter.
- Wimba – provides collaborative learning software solutions and services to K-12 and higher education markets as well as publishing services to academic publishers.
- Tripology – an interactive travel referral service focused on connecting travelers with qualified and customerrated travel specialists.
- The NewsMarket – an online video marketing and distribution platform that helps large organizations connectwith media, blogs, consumers and online communities.
- Blip.tv – provides “services-of-scale” to independent Web show creators.
- Mag.ma – is an entry point for online video that shows the most popular videos online at any time.
- VocabSushi – a site for anyone looking to learn vocabulary and have fun doing it.
- Gliider – a digital tool that lets travelers plan funner trips.
- DesignerPages – an online community that helps designers search, save and share product information.
- IvyExec – an online community with career resources for professionals coming out of top graduate programs.
- Ganxy – protects premium content and customer interests with a single sign-on solution.
- Aviary – is a collaborative creative suite for artists of all genres enabling them to create on the fly.
- GiveReal – allows people to give each other gifts at nearly a million merchants across the country over the Internet, including bars, restaurants, bookstores, spas and clothing stores.
- MyYearBook – enables users to meet new people through games and other applications.
- LetMeGo – an online lodging marketplace based on the “reverse auction” model.
- SocialGreat – a service built on top of Foursquare’s API to track popular places in cities based on people actually going to them and checking-in.
- Unigo – uses current college students to generate reviews, photos, videos and other “insider-info” that helps high school students make better college decisions.
- Upskill -offers vidoe tutorials to retrain workers in accounting and other skills.
- ProperCloth – enables customers to design and purchase custom tailored dress shirts online.
- ContextWeb – operates the ADSDAQ exchange for online display and test link advertising.
- ExpoTV – a video-based social network for e-commerce.
- MediaLets – a rich media advertising and analytics platform for mobile applications.
- KGBWeb – creating a better way for users to discover and consume the best online content.
- ZocDoc – enables patients to book doctor and dentist appointments online instantly.
- PinchMedia – Mobile analytics products. Merged with Flurry in December 2009.
- AppNexus – platform for buying real-time online advertising.
- Altruik – search engine optimization technology innovator.
- Roomoramo – an online marketplace for short term home rentals.
- SeatGeek – forcasts the price of sports and concert tickets on the secondary market.
- Yodle – a local advertising enabler giving businesses increased ability to reach their audience and measure their advertising efforts.
- Touchco – touch screen technology. Bought by Amazon January 2010
- Diapers.com – online specialist offering baby care necessities.
- AmieStreet – allows artists to upload their music for promotion and sale.
- Babble – is a magazine and parenting community site aimed at urban hipsters.
- CarbonMade - build and manage an online portfolio website to show off design, illustration, art, or any other types of creative work.
- SquareSpace – powers tens of thousands of websites for businesses, bloggers, and professionals worldwide and currently serves hundreds of millions of hits per month.
- LiveIntent - connects people with the right personalities on social media.
- Howcast – a portal with professionally-shot instruction videos on a variety of subjects.
- OrderGroove – Enables your customers to subscribe to their favorite purchases and control recurring orders directly from your site.
- NewlyWish – NYC based wedding registry service connecting local merchants with metropolitan bride
- WellcomeMat – a video platform to publish and distribute hyper-local video content with a specialty in real estate.
- Pandora – online radio with personalized stations aproduced by grouping songs and artists that share many musical characteristics in common.
- LinkedIn – fastest growing professional network site with over 45 million users acorss 150 industries around the world.
- Adknowlege – an online marketplace that allows advertisers to bid for traffic in websites, email and smaller search engines.
- Yelp – a local reviews website covering almost 40 states and the UK.
- ekoVentures – a social marketplace and community for adventure, cultural, and sustainable travel.
- SocialThing – synchronizes your personal information, content, and friendships so that you can post this information across the social web instead of any one single site.
- Lotame – offers Crowd Control Technology™ offers social media sites the most advanced monetization techniques and allows brands to build and target customizable consumer audiences.
- Movoxx – serves ads into mobile content that reaches over 25 million unique users every month.
- ImageSpan – creator of LicenseStream licensing and royalty payment automation platform for al media types and businesses.
- TheLadders – an online service catering exclusively to the $100k+ job market. Their job is to make the search for senior talent and senior positions quick and effective.
- Curbed – the publisher of real estate (Curbed.com), restaurant (NY.Eater.com), and retail (NY.Racked.com) blogs.
- GigaMaven – helps musicians and venues book gigs online.
- Outalot (Seed Wireless) – a way to find out what’s happening around you.
- Sense Networks – patent-pending machine-learning technology to index and rank real world places, based on movement data between these places at different times.
- HealthGuru – covers health topics that matter to 18-40 year olds: sexual health, STDs, pregnancy, sports health, drugs & alcohol, and mental health, among others.
- Gawker – blog network including Deadspin, Defamer, Fleshbot, Gawker, Gizmodo, Gridskipper, Idolator, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, Valleywag, Wonkette, io9.
- BountyJobs - employers post descriptions of the type of employees they are looking for with the “bounties” they will pay if they fill them.
- Fortent - provides comprehensive information and technology solutions to the risk and compliance market worldwide. Acquired by Actimize in September 2009 for $73.5M.
- Fotolog - a social networking website based around photo sharing. Acquired by Hi Media in 2007 for $90M
- GoCrossCampus - a social, interactive game popular on American campuses that pits dorms and colleges against each other.




