30 NYC Startups That Just Raised — and Will Almost Certainly Be Hiring in March 2026

Most job seekers wait for a job posting. The best ones act 60–90 days earlier — right after a funding round closes. Fresh capital is the clearest leading indicator in the startup job market. We tracked every verified NYC funding round from January and February 2026 to find the 30 companies most likely to hire aggressively next month.

$1.68B raised by NYC startups in January 2026 alone — a 93.5% year-over-year increase.

How to use this list: Follow these companies now, before postings go live. Connect with founding teams on LinkedIn. Reference the funding round when you reach out. Getting in early, before a role is even posted, is how the most competitive candidates land startup jobs.

🏦 Fintech, Crypto & Payments

1. Rain · Series C · $250M Backed by: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer, ICONIQ Capital, Norwest, Sapphire Ventures Founded: 2021 · Industry: Fintech / Stablecoins

Rain builds stablecoin-powered payment infrastructure, allowing businesses and individuals to use tokenized money for real-world transactions. With $332.5M raised in total, this is one of the largest crypto infrastructure bets in NYC history.

Why they'll be hiring in March: A $250M Series C is a mandate to scale fast. Rain will be building out its sales, compliance, and engineering teams to expand into new markets and enterprise accounts. Payment infrastructure companies at this stage typically hire 30–50% headcount in the first two quarters post-raise.

Roles to watch: Software Engineers · Compliance · Business Development · Product Managers · Legal

2. Vestwell · Series E · $385M Backed by: Sixth Street Growth, Blue Owl Capital Corporation Founded: 2016 · Industry: Fintech / Retirement Savings

Vestwell is a digital savings platform handling workplace retirement, education, and emergency savings programs for employers and financial advisors. With $660M in total equity funding, this is one of the largest fintech raises of 2026.

Why they'll be hiring in March: A $385M Series E from institutional investors like Sixth Street and Blue Owl signals Vestwell is preparing for major expansion into new savings products and broader distribution. This level of capital almost always precedes a significant hiring push.

Roles to watch: Fintech Engineers · Compliance · Product Managers · Sales · Advisor Partnerships

3. Rogo · Series C · $75M Backed by: Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, JP Morgan, Tiger Global, Wells Fargo Founded: 2021 · Industry: AI / Financial Services

Rogo provides an enterprise AI platform for automating research, document creation, and complex workflows in financial services. Backed by both top VCs and strategic partners including JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, Rogo has $154M total raised.

Why they'll be hiring in March: With tier-1 financial institutions as both investors and customers, Rogo is positioned to land enterprise contracts across Wall Street. They'll be hiring go-to-market talent to capitalize on these strategic relationships and engineering to expand product capabilities.

Roles to watch: AI/ML Engineers · Financial Product Specialists · Enterprise Sales · Solutions Engineers

4. Datarails · Series C · $70M Backed by: Vertex Growth Fund, Innovation Endeavors, One Peak, Zeev Ventures, Qumra Capital Founded: 2015 · Industry: Fintech / FP&A / SaaS

Datarails is an FP&A platform that automates financial consolidation, reporting, and planning while working with existing Excel models — making it uniquely accessible to finance teams that live in spreadsheets. Total funding: $173.5M.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Series C means Datarails is pushing from mid-market into enterprise. They'll be scaling their sales team significantly and investing in product for larger, more complex financial organizations.

Roles to watch: Enterprise Account Executives · Customer Success · Software Engineers · Financial Product Managers

5. Talos · Series B · $45M Backed by: a16z Crypto, BNY, Fidelity, IMC Trading, Robinhood, Sony Innovation Fund, QCP Founded: 2018 · Industry: Fintech / Crypto Trading

Talos is an end-to-end institutional crypto trading platform serving lenders, brokers, and major investors. The investor roster — including BNY and Fidelity — shows TradFi and crypto converging around Talos's infrastructure. Total raised: $190M.

Why they'll be hiring in March: With institutional financial players as both investors and customers, Talos has strong distribution and is expanding into new asset classes and geographies. Crypto regulatory clarity in 2026 is accelerating the whole sector.

Roles to watch: Quant Engineers · Trading System Developers · Compliance · Institutional Sales

6. Avantos · Series A · $25M Backed by: Bessemer Venture Partners Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Fintech

Avantos is an AI-powered operating system for client management in financial institutions — automating onboarding, servicing, and growth workflows for banks and wealth managers. Bessemer-backed with $35M total raised.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Founded in 2024 and scaling with Bessemer's support, Avantos is in active team-building mode. Fintech operating systems targeting institutions need deep domain expertise on the team from day one.

Roles to watch: Fintech Engineers · Financial Institution Sales · Implementation Specialists · Product Managers · Compliance

🏥 Health Tech & Biotech

7. Pomelo Care · Series C · $92M Backed by: Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico, BoxGroup, Stripes, SV Angel Founded: 2021 · Industry: Health Tech / Women's Health

Pomelo Care is a virtual maternity care platform delivering evidence-based healthcare for women and children throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. With a16z on the cap table and $179M raised total, Pomelo is among NYC's fastest-growing healthtech companies.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Healthcare companies that close Series C rounds almost always expand their clinical workforce and technology teams simultaneously. Pomelo's model requires both clinical staff and engineers — expect aggressive hiring across both tracks.

Roles to watch: Midwives · OB Nurses · Care Coordinators · Software Engineers · Data Scientists

8. Garner Health · Series D · $118M Backed by: Kleiner Perkins Founded: 2019 · Industry: Health Tech / Benefits

Garner Health is a healthcare benefits platform that helps employees find high-quality, in-network doctors based on outcomes data. With $219.3M raised total, Garner is scaling a fundamentally different approach to employer-sponsored healthcare.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Kleiner-led Series D rounds signal institutional confidence in a company's ability to reach enterprise scale. Garner will be growing its sales team to land larger employer accounts and expanding engineering to support more data integrations.

Roles to watch: Enterprise Account Executives · Customer Success · Software Engineers · Data Analysts · Healthcare Partnerships

9. Anterior · Venture · $40M Backed by: Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, FPV Ventures, Kinnevik Founded: 2022 · Industry: AI / Healthcare Admin

Anterior automates prior authorization and insurance approval workflows for health plans — one of the most painful and costly processes in US healthcare. With $64M total raised and Sequoia on board, Anterior is a breakout healthtech company to watch.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Healthcare AI companies solving administrative workflows are in extremely high demand. With Sequoia and NEA behind them, Anterior will be aggressively hiring to land major health plan contracts before competitors catch up.

Roles to watch: Clinical Informatics Engineers · Health Plan Sales · Implementation Managers · ML Engineers · Product Managers

10. Proxima Bio · Seed · $86.3M Backed by: DCVC, Roivant Sciences, AIX Ventures, NVentures, Braidwell, Alexandria Venture Investments Founded: 2019 · Industry: Biotech / AI Drug Discovery

Proxima Bio develops programmable medicines that modulate protein interactions to address disease at the molecular level. The combination of AI and biology, backed by Roivant Sciences and DCVC, puts Proxima at the frontier of computational drug discovery.

Why they'll be hiring in March: An $86M seed from biotech-specialized investors means Proxima will be expanding its scientific team rapidly to run more programs in parallel. Foundational roles across computation and wet lab.

Roles to watch: Computational Biologists · Medicinal Chemists · Research Scientists · Bioinformatics Engineers

11. Somethings · Series A · $19.2M Backed by: Catalio Capital Management Founded: 2022 · Industry: Health Tech / Teen Mental Health

Somethings is a digital peer-mentorship service connecting teenagers with trained Certified Peer Specialist mentors for social and emotional support. With youth mental health at a generational crisis point, Somethings is building infrastructure to address it at scale.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Series A mental health companies scale by growing their clinical and peer specialist networks alongside technology. Somethings will be expanding its team of trained specialists and the engineers who support them.

Roles to watch: Certified Peer Specialists · Software Engineers · Clinical Partnerships · Product Managers

12. Take2 · Series A · $14M Backed by: Human Capital Founded: 2023 · Industry: AI / Healthcare Recruiting

Take2 is an AI agent network that automates end-to-end healthcare recruiting — sourcing, screening, scheduling, and hiring clinical staff for healthcare systems that are perpetually understaffed.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Healthcare staffing is a massive and chronic problem, and Take2 is selling directly into that pain. With fresh Series A capital, they'll be hiring to expand their sales footprint and grow the customer base.

Roles to watch: Healthcare Staffing Sales · Software Engineers · Customer Success · ML Engineers

🤖 AI, Data & Developer Tools

13. Runway · Series E · $315M Backed by: General Atlantic Founded: 2018 · Industry: AI / Generative Video

Runway is the generative AI platform powering text-to-video, image editing, and multimedia creation tools used by filmmakers, studios, and creators worldwide. With $859.5M raised in total, Runway is one of NYC's most valuable AI companies — and the largest single NYC raise of early 2026.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Post-Series E, Runway is in full commercialization mode — growing enterprise sales, research teams, and creator partnerships at scale to out-hire competitors in the generative video space.

Roles to watch: ML Engineers · Research Scientists · Enterprise Sales · Developer Relations · AI Safety

14. Protege · Series A · $30M Backed by: Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg Beta, CRV, Flex Capital, Footwork Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Data

Protege is an AI training data platform that enables compliant, seamless data exchange for AI development teams. Founded in 2024 and already backed by a16z, Protege is solving one of the most critical bottlenecks in enterprise AI: access to high-quality licensed training data.

Why they'll be hiring in March: A 2024-founded company closing a $30M Series A backed by a16z is in aggressive early-team-building mode. Almost every new hire at this stage is a foundational role. Expect 15–30 open positions.

Roles to watch: Software Engineers · Data Partnerships · ML Researchers · Sales · Product Managers

15. FLORA · Series A · $42M Backed by: Menlo Ventures, Redpoint, a16z Games, Long Journey Ventures, Guillermo Rauch, Justin Kan Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Creative Tools

FLORA is an applied AI company building next-generation creative tools at the intersection of AI and human-computer interaction. With a star-studded investor list and $48.5M raised total, FLORA is building for the future of creative work.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Founded in 2024 with a massive Series A already closed, FLORA is actively building its core product and team. This is a ground-floor opportunity at a company that top VCs are betting on heavily.

Roles to watch: Creative Engineers · AI Researchers · Product Designers · Frontend Engineers · Developer Advocates

16. Brandlight · Series A · $30M Backed by: Pelion Venture Partners, Cardumen Capital, G20 Ventures Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Brand Intelligence

Brandlight is a monitoring and optimization platform helping brands understand how they appear in AI-driven search. As LLMs replace traditional search for millions of users, knowing how your brand is represented in AI answers is a brand new critical category.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Founded in 2024 with a fresh Series A, Brandlight is hiring its founding go-to-market team and expanding product. This is an early-stage company in a genuinely new category with a lot of ground to cover.

Roles to watch: Sales Engineers · Software Engineers · Customer Success · Product Managers · Marketing

17. Didero · Series A · $30M Backed by: Chemistry, Headline Founded: 2023 · Industry: AI / Procurement

Didero is an AI agent for automating routine procurement processes — helping companies reduce costs and manual work in sourcing, supplier management, and purchasing workflows.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Enterprise AI companies at Series A scale their product and sales teams simultaneously. Procurement has a lot of unsophisticated tooling, giving Didero a wide open field to capture.

Roles to watch: Enterprise Sales · Procurement Specialists · Software Engineers · Customer Success · Product Managers

18. Limy AI · Seed · $10M Backed by: Flybridge Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / GEO

Limy AI is a generative engine optimization (GEO) tool that helps brands improve how they appear in AI-driven search answers — a brand new category as LLM-powered search replaces traditional Google results for many queries.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Seed-stage companies in fast-moving AI search spaces hire founding team members who will define the product and go-to-market from the ground up. Early, career-defining roles.

Roles to watch: AI/SEO Engineers · Growth Marketing · Enterprise Sales · Content Strategists · Product Managers

19. Pace · Seed · $10M Backed by: Sequoia Capital Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Insurtech

Pace is an AI-powered platform for handling insurance back-office tasks including submission intake, policy servicing, claims, and data management. A Sequoia seed is a massive vote of confidence in a founding team and idea.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Sequoia seed companies are expected to hire fast. Pace will be building its founding team across product, engineering, and insurance domain expertise — small team, high-impact roles.

Roles to watch: Insurance Operations Engineers · AI/ML Engineers · Insurance Domain Experts · Product Managers

20. Chamelio · Seed · $10M Backed by: Work-Bench, Emerge Ventures Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Legal Tech

Chamelio is a legal intelligence platform for structured analysis, review, and tracking of contracts and critical legal documents for in-house legal teams. Work-Bench-backed and targeting Fortune 500 legal departments.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Enterprise legal AI is a fast-moving category. Foundational team members only at this stage — high ownership, high impact.

Roles to watch: Legal Engineers · Enterprise Sales · Legal Domain Specialists · Software Engineers · Product Managers

🛡️ Cybersecurity

21. Outtake · Series B · $40M Backed by: ICONIQ Capital, CRV, S32, Satya Nadella, William Ackman, Nikesh Arora, Trae Stephens Founded: 2023 · Industry: AI / Cybersecurity

Outtake is a digital trust platform using AI to automate threat classification, detection, and response for enterprise security. The investor list — which includes the CEOs of Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks — signals serious strategic credibility.

Why they'll be hiring in March: With celebrity-tier investors and $56.5M total raised, Outtake will be building go-to-market fast. Early-stage cybersecurity companies at Series B typically double headcount within 18 months.

Roles to watch: Security Engineers · Sales Engineers · Enterprise Sales · Threat Detection Researchers · Product Managers

22. Claroty · Series F · $150M Backed by: Temasek Holdings Founded: 2015 · Industry: Cybersecurity / Industrial IoT

Claroty protects cyber-physical systems and industrial IoT from cyber threats — a critical area as infrastructure increasingly becomes a target. With $890M in total funding, Claroty is NYC's largest pure-play OT/IoT security company.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Even at Series F, Claroty is actively expanding as demand for industrial cybersecurity grows. Expect hiring in government/federal verticals and international expansion markets.

Roles to watch: Security Engineers · Federal Sales · Solutions Architects · Threat Intelligence Analysts · Customer Engineering

🏢 HR Tech, Benefits & Insurance

23. Benepass · Series B · $40M Backed by: Centana Growth Partners, Portage Ventures, Threshold, FoW Partners Founded: 2019 · Industry: HR Tech / Employee Benefits

Benepass is a benefits administration platform helping companies manage and distribute employee perks. Founded by a YC-backed team, Benepass has raised $74.7M total and is addressing the growing complexity of employer-sponsored benefits.

Why they'll be hiring in March: HR tech companies at Series B are in full commercial expansion. Benepass will be hiring sales and customer success heavily to grow their employer base and deepen product integrations.

Roles to watch: Account Executives · Customer Success · Software Engineers · Benefits Operations · Partnerships

24. WithCoverage · Series B · $42M Backed by: Sequoia Capital, 8VC, Khosla Ventures, Crystal Venture Partners Founded: 2023 · Industry: Insurtech / Risk Management

WithCoverage is a modern insurance broking platform built for fast-growing companies — helping them navigate commercial insurance with the same speed they expect from modern software.

Why they'll be hiring in March: A Sequoia-backed Series B in insurtech means a significant distribution push. Expect hiring in insurance licensing, technology, and sales across more business verticals.

Roles to watch: Insurance Brokers · Software Engineers · Sales · Underwriting Operations · Product Managers

25. Sixfold AI · Series B · $30M Backed by: Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Guidewire Software, Brewer Lane Ventures Founded: 2023 · Industry: AI / Insurtech

Sixfold AI uses generative AI to automate underwriting processes and support risk evaluation for insurance carriers. Backed by Bessemer and Salesforce Ventures, Sixfold is embedding AI into the core of the insurance industry.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Insurance technology companies backed by Salesforce Ventures benefit from CRM distribution channels — meaning growth accelerates quickly post-raise. Engineering and insurance domain talent will be priorities.

Roles to watch: ML Engineers · Underwriting Specialists · Insurance Sales · Data Scientists · Customer Success

📚 EdTech & Media

26. BoldVoice · Series A · $21M Backed by: Matrix Founded: 2021 · Industry: EdTech / Language Learning

BoldVoice is an accent training app for non-native English speakers, using AI to give personalized pronunciation coaching. With $27M total raised and Matrix leading the round, BoldVoice is accelerating both product and go-to-market.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Matrix-backed Series A edtech companies typically focus post-raise on content expansion, enterprise B2B partnerships, and engineering. BoldVoice has a clear consumer-to-enterprise path worth building out now.

Roles to watch: Speech AI Engineers · Linguistics Specialists · Enterprise Sales (B2B2C) · Marketing · Product Designers

27. Semafor · Venture · $63.6M Backed by: Antenna Group, PSP Capital Partners, Henry Kravis, David Rubenstein Founded: 2022 · Industry: Media / News

Semafor is a global news company built for the modern internet — mixing traditional journalism with new formats designed for distributed, social, and AI-powered discovery. With $107.6M total raised, it's one of the best-capitalized new media startups in the world.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Significant venture funding in media means Semafor is expanding coverage areas, hiring editorial talent, and building the product and technology team that powers its platform.

Roles to watch: Journalists · Editorial Roles · Product Engineers · Audience Growth · Sales & Sponsorships

🏗️ PropTech & Real Estate

28. Cubby Storage · Series A · $63M Backed by: Goldman Sachs Alternatives Founded: 2021 · Industry: PropTech / Self-Storage

Cubby Storage supports self-storage owners and operators with technology and capital solutions. A Goldman Sachs-backed Series A of this size in real estate tech signals serious institutional appetite for the self-storage sector.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Real estate tech companies with institutional capital scale by expanding market footprint and operations teams. Cubby will be hiring across both real estate and technology functions.

Roles to watch: Real Estate Operations · Property Tech Engineers · Sales · Business Development · Customer Success

29. Garner Health · Series D · $118M Backed by: Kleiner Perkins Founded: 2019 · Industry: Health Tech / Benefits

A Kleiner-led $118M Series D is one of the biggest healthtech raises in NYC this year. Garner's approach to matching employees with the highest-quality in-network doctors is resonating with large employer groups nationwide.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Series D healthtech companies backed by Kleiner typically push hard into enterprise employer sales. Garner will be building out large enterprise account teams alongside data infrastructure.

Roles to watch: Enterprise Employer Sales · Benefits Consultants · Data Engineers · Healthcare Partnerships · Customer Success

30. Pace · Seed · $10M Backed by: Sequoia Capital Founded: 2024 · Industry: AI / Insurtech

Pace is building AI infrastructure for insurance back-office operations at a moment when the entire industry is under pressure to modernize. A Sequoia seed at this stage means the founding team has serious conviction behind them.

Why they'll be hiring in March: Sequoia seed companies move fast. Every hire is foundational. If you have insurance domain expertise and want to be employee #10 at a Sequoia-backed startup, this is the one to watch.

Roles to watch: Insurance Operations Engineers · AI/ML Engineers · Insurance Domain Experts · Product Managers · Sales

The bottom line

The companies on this list just received a mandate from their investors to grow. That means hiring is coming — the only question is whether you get in front of them before the job posts go live or after hundreds of other applicants have already applied.

Use this list to do your research now. Follow these companies on LinkedIn. Read about what they're building. Reach out directly to founders and hiring managers with a specific, thoughtful message that references what they just accomplished.

That's how you get a startup job in 2026.

Funding data sourced from AlleyWatch and Crunchbase. All rounds from January–February 2026. Hiring predictions are editorial analysis based on stage, round size, investor backing, and sector dynamics — not confirmed hiring plans from the companies listed.