Tech:NYC Digest: December 2

December 02, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Friday, December 2, 2022

Happy Friday! We’re back with another “Friday Five” roundup of our top stories in New York tech.

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NYU Putting $1 Billion Into Its Engineering School in Brooklyn (New York Times)

ICYMI: The investment is a vote of confidence in a trend Tech:NYC pointed out in research we released last month: tech jobs in the borough have grown a whopping 42% over the past decade, outpacing all other boroughs. This is a major step in the right direction to keep that number growing.

645 Ventures, Which Brought A Growth Playbook to Early-Stage VC, Launches Growth Fund (Forbes)

Seed-stage startups are oftentimes a tad scant on their own market data, and 645 Ventures co-founders Aaron Holiday and Nnamdi Okike set out to change that — through the apparatus of VC. It seems to be working: the firm just announced $348 million across two new funds that bring its data-driven approach to supporting both early- and growth-stage companies.

Forbes 30 Under 30 List 2022 (Forbes)

The list that every young entrepreneur loves to covet dropped this week. We’re thrilled (but not all that surprised) to see so many New York tech leaders honored this year, including OpenSea co-founder Alex Atallah, WhoseYourLandlord founder Ofo Ezeugwu, Diem CEO Emma Bates, Circle CEO Sid Yadav, Thrive Capital partner Gaurav Ahuja, and many, many others.

How This NYC Neighborhood Is Working to Become One of America’s Greenest Dining Destinations (Travel + Leisure)

The neighborhood that remains a popular choice for startup office space is now also the center of a campaign to get the restaurant industry — from the corner food truck to the nicest Michelin-starred restaurant — to agree on a set of urban sustainability goals. Many great spots have already signed up, a list that now conveniently doubles as our shortlist for deciding on a reservation or the next Tech:NYC team lunch.

Rat czar isn’t the only weird government job in NYC (City & State)

Anyone have big dreams of becoming the city’s next NYPD beekeeper or Parks Dept. puppeteer?

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