The Most Complete Guide to Starting a Startup in New York

Startup Guide New York

Are you planning to start a startup in New York? New York is certainly bound to be the next innovation hub. You have talent, world-class education system, and funding coming in. This is a great spot to get started. We have tracked down all the startup resources in New York to help accelerate your startup. Let’s dive into some startup resources in New York:

Meetups

FoundersCoffee
Hackernest New York
NYC TechBreakfast
NY Tech Meetup
New York EdTech
Founders Friday NYC
Startup Grind NYC
Pitch Globally
Gary’s Guide 

Conferences and Annual Events

Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit
Startup Spectacular
The Future of Fintech
Next Gen Summit
Women Inc
TechCrunch Disrupt NYC
New York Health Forum
NY EDTech Week
Travel Disruption Summit
Tech Day HQ
Social Fresh

Startup Competitions

NYC Public Library StartUP Competition
FoodBytes
FlashPitch
InnoVention Competition
Female Founders in Tech
43NORTH
Pitch Globally
$300K Entrepreneurs Challenge
Hospitality Business Plan Competition Cornell
Cornell Tech Startup Awards

Startup Courses 

If you’re looking to learn about Entrepreneurship check out the courses we currently offer.

FoundersBeta Startup Courses 

Startup Jobs

If you’re looking to break into some startups we have all startup job listing here including Y Combinator startup jobs feed. You can also join our Facebook Group Startup Jobs here. 

Startup Coach

Talking with a startup coach can accelerate your startup at the speed of light. You can book a time to talk with us here. We can help in terms of Growth hacking, Building an MVP, Finding a cofounder, Breaking into Startups, and much more!

Student Clubs

Life Changing Labs
Entrepreneurship Club of CCNY
NYU Entrepreneurs Network

Hackathons

Hack NYU
Hack New York
New York Hackathons

Accelerators and Incubators

DreamIt Ventures
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Accelprise
Voyager HQ
StartEd Companies
eLab Cornell University
Cuny Startups
Starta Accelerator
NYU-Poly
Runaway Startup Postdocs
Fintech Innovation Lab
VentureOut
Astia
New York Digital Health Innovation Lab
Startup Health
Matter VC
MetaProp NYC
FoodX
Chobani Incubator
Organic Food Incubator
FoodFutureCo
Iconyc Labs
Blueprint Health
The Health Lab
Startup52
Lair East Labs
New INC
CSI Technology Incubator
iBeehub
Quake
Tow-Knight Centre
Numa New York
Startupboot camp
NYC ACRE
The Civic Accelerator
Beespace
XRC Labs – Retail and consumer goods
Urban-X
Urban Future Lab
CFDA Fashion Incubator
Zahn Innovation Centre
Brooklyn Fashion Design Accelerator
StartFast
Venture Crush
NYC Media Lab
Zx Ventures
Revithaca Hardware Accelerator
FutureWorks NYC – Hardware Accelerator
Cyber NYC Inventors to Founders Accelerator 
Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator
The Marla and Barry Beck Entrepreneurship Fellows Program

Funding

NYU Funding 
Innovation Venture Fund 
NYC Seed
GCT Startup in Residence Program

Venture Capital

Differential VC
645 Ventures
Alpha Venture Capital
Primary VC
Lerer Hippeau
Work Bench
ff Venture Capital
Union Square Ventures
Simon Ventures
Insights Partners
BetaWorks Funds
FirstMark
Innovation Endeavors
Accel Foods
BoxGroup
Compound VC
New Leaf Venture Partner
CourtSide VC
General Atlantic
Quotian Ventures
Lux Capital
Thrive Capital
Eniac Ventures
IA Ventures
Collaborative fund
Expansion Venture
FJ Labs
BDMI Fund
Scout Ventures
Quake Capital
Tribeca Ventures
Amplifyher Ventures
Notation VC

Women Resources

37 Angles
Astia
Amplifyher Ventures
The Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell
WE Cornell 

Awards

Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Do you have a favourite startup resource? Let us know as we map out the global startup ecosystem.

If you have any questions about starting a startup book a time to chat with us here!

About the Author

Eric RIn Pursuit of World-Class Excellence. Eric is founder of FoundersBeta with a wealth of expertise in startups, building high-performing teams, and product development. He is a top ranked tennis player and always up for a conversation about startups.

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