Tech:NYC Digest: June 23

Tech:NYC Digest: June 23

June 23, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Friday, June 23, 2023 

Happy Pride to all celebrating in NYC this weekend! We’re back with another Friday Five roundup of our favorite highlights in New York tech this week. 

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The initiative expanding in NYC with Google’s help in effort to diversify tech workforce (amNewYork)

  • Earlier this year, Tech:NYC, alongside many of our member companies and the city's Dept. of Education, kicked off a new program to provide paid work experiences to NYC youth interested in kickstarting their careers in tech. We worked with 20 public schools serving over 500 students, and now that program is getting a major expansion: FutureReadyNYC will invest another $19 million to reach 100 high schools. It’s just the latest step NYC is taking to ensure New York tech jobs remain accessible to New Yorkers right here at home.

$1 Trillion Market Tapped By Female VCs Focused On Women’s Work (Forbes) 

  • First-time fund managers Courtney Leimkuhler, Elana Berkowitz, and Jen Lee Koss launched the NYC-based firm Springbank to focus on serving the overlooked needs of women and working families. Now, with the close of its debut $35 million fund, it adds another proof point that New York has quickly emerged as a global hub for women’s and family health.

The New York tech companies among TIME100 Most Influential (Time)

The ROI of Made in NY and How It Has Changed Lives (Variety) 

  • Here’s another bright spot on the industries growing alongside (and oftentimes, in close collaboration with) tech: The city’s Made in NY Production Assistant Training Program has provided an onramp to careers in TV and film production for more than 1,100 low-income New Yorkers in the past 16 years. A new study has found the program boosted the annual average salary of participants from $15,600 to $37,000. 

How TKTS helped to save theater and Times Square (Gothamist) 

  • Have plans this weekend? Maybe a last-minute show is in the cards? The famed TKTS discount ticket booth will celebrate 50 years in operation next week, a period during which Times Square cleaned up and Broadway boomed. “It has become that kind of town square – which I think is really powerful, because theater is part of community.”

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