Tech:NYC Digest: June 24

Tech:NYC Digest: June 24

June 24, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

Friday June 24, 2022 

We’re back with another summer Friday edition of the Tech:NYC Digest, featuring our favorite Friday Five highlights in New York tech this week.

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Like many tech leaders we’ve spoken to today, we’re devastated by the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse decades of protections for women’s rights. By overturning Roe v. Wade, today’s ruling denies half of the country’s population from full access to healthcare and the ability to equitably participate in our economy. Read our full statement here. 

We remain committed to a principle that has defined the Tech:NYC community since our founding: We are New Yorkers first. We’re grateful to our elected leaders in New York for passing a range of abortion protections during this year’s legislative session to ensure New York remains a safe haven for all women to exercise their fundamental rights. 

Our team will be joining fellow New Yorkers this evening at rallies planned across the city tonight:

  • 6:30pm: in Washington Square

  • 7:00pm: in Queens at the corner of Bliss and 46th Street (under the 7 train station)

  • 8:00pm: in Union Square

  • Details on other rallies across the state can be found here.

To drive tech equity, reimagine internships (New York Daily News)

  • Earlier this week, we hosted the kickoff event for our new Tech Year NYC pilot, and in this op-ed, our own Jason Myles Clark and Girls Who Code CEO Dr. Tarika Barrett wrote about what we hope to accomplish with the program. In short: Internships have long served as pathways into tech careers, but it’s time we revamp them to ensure they’re truly accessible and deliver real work skills to New Yorkers of all backgrounds. (This thread from our Tech Year NYC lead Bethany Crystal highlights some of the context around our work in this area.)

Half of New US Entrepreneurs Are Women, Leading a Creation Boom (Bloomberg)

  • The new data is a significant uptick from 28 percent in 2019, perhaps confirming just how much the pandemic has led workers to dive into that career move they’ve been dreaming about. If these trends continue moving in the same direction, it could also mean another banner year for women tech founders — in 2021, female founders in NYC raised $7 billion in new funding in 2021, more than double the $3.2 billion raised in all of 2020. 

Aidoc, an AI Healthcare Startup, Nabs $110 Million Expansion Round (Wall Street Journal)

  • The NYC and Tel Aviv-based startup is providing software that’s already being used by more than 12,000 doctors at 1,000 medical centers to quickly spot strokes and other illnesses — and importantly, to help medical professionals make sense of the trove of data more sophisticated imaging systems can now churn out. Aidoc’s Series D was New York tech’s biggest funding announcement this week, and we’re proud to say ‘we knew them when’ — we sat down with co-founder and CEO Elad Walach at the end of 2020, fresh off his Series B!

A Stonewall Visitor Center Will Celebrate LGBTQ History (New York Times)

  • Wonderful news just in time for Pride weekend: The new visitor center dedicated to honoring the history of the Stonewall uprising will open in a vacant storefront next door to the Stonewall Inn bar, becoming the first in the national park system devoted to the gay rights movement.

The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years (New York Times)

  • Have you read any of the books that made the list? Send us your recs!

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