Tech:NYC Digest: October 21

October 21, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Friday, October 21, 2022

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

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Index Ventures partner Martin Mignot: My first two months in NYC (LinkedIn)

We relaunched our Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg speaker series last night, bringing our community together fully in-person to hear from Index Ventures partners Martin Mignot and Shardul Shah. Mignot and Shah relocated to open Index’s office in New York because, as they pointed out in our fireside chat, New York sits squarely in the middle of a ten-hour timezone that captures 70% of the world’s top 30 most vibrant startup ecosystems. We loved Mignot's post about his first couple of months here — come for the ecosystem insights; stay for the newbie food recs.

Black Tech Entrepreneurs Find a Home in NYC — and Challenges to Their Success (THE CITY)

NYC’s tech workforce is more diverse than those in the other two leading US tech hubs (San Francisco and Boston) combined, but there’s still plenty more to do before it reflects the city’s demographics as a whole. One model that’s been a welcome bright spot is Google’s Black Founders Fund, which to date has given 176 Black tech founders $15 million and the institutional backing that’s helped them raise another $130 million from other sources.

Actually, workers are putting in the effort (Axios)

Quiet quitting is out, or maybe wasn’t all that real in the first place. New research found 81% of workers say they’re putting in as much effort — or more — as they were six months ago. But in the hybrid work world, working harder doesn’t always automatically mean being more engaged, and employers are on the hook to themselves put in the extra effort to keep company culture positive.

After $250K Donation, Brooklyn Nonprofit Digital Girl Unveils Updated Technology Hub (BKReader)

The gift came from an unlikely source — the Brooklyn Nets — to support the Crown Heights center focused on empowering girls to pursue STEM careers. Just six years ago, Digital Girls was struggling to win the grants it was applying for, but since then, the center has served 90,000 students, and this gift is a major infusion of resources to scale its impact.

Listening In Outside Goldman Sachs’s Headquarters (Curbed)

If you can’t help but eavesdrop on the street gossip while you’re standing in the pickup line for your lunch salad, this is the story for you.

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