I’ll come right out and say it: I hate New York. OK, maybe it’s worse during football and baseball season. Maybe it’s especially bad this week as the J-E-T-S and their loudmouth coach (see right) are talking trash about the Pats. Maybe I just need an excuse to wind people up.
But tech investors love New York. Especially Boston-based tech investors. There has been a rash of early-stage investments in New York startups lately. Just this week, OnSwipe raised $1 million in seed funding from a group that includes Boston-based investors Spark Capital and angels such as Wayne Chang, Jennifer Lum, Roy Rodenstein, and Dharmesh Shah. Meanwhile, SalesCrunch raised a $1.4 million seed round from investors including First Round Capital, Accel Partners, and NextView Ventures, a Cambridge, MA-based micro-VC firm.
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Author: Gregory T. Huang
