About Accelerate NY Seed Fund
Accelerate NY Seed Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Melville, United States. As of Jun 2020, Accelerate NY Seed Fund has invested in 26 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Life Sciences to High Tech and Enterprise Applications. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Qunnect Overall, Accelerate NY Seed Fund portfolio has seen 1 acquisition, namely Monogram. A lot of funds co-invest with Accelerate NY Seed Fund, with names like Quantonation sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
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Accelerate NY Seed Fund's List of Top Investments
Accelerate NY Seed Fund has a portfolio of 26 companies. Their most notable investments are in HashLynx and Playback Health.Their portfolio spans across and United States. They have invested in Life Sciences, High Tech, Enterprise Applications and 11 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Conventional Debt stages. Here is the list of top investments by Accelerate NY Seed Fund:
1. Envisagenics
AI-driven biotechnology company that focuses on the discovery and development of novel RNA splicing therapeutics. It offers SpliceCore, is a cloud-based platform that is experimentally validated to predict drug targets and biomarkers through splicing discovery from RNA-seq data, using Artificial Intelligence.
Key facts about Envisagenics
- Founded Year: 2014
- Location: Long Island City (United States)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $46.8M
- Employee Count: 33 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Bristol-Myers Squibb, ESD and 17 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Jun 05, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. Qunnect
Provider of telecommunications infrastructure services. It enables the creation of quantum internet solutions. It offers products for distributed computing networks, scalable networks, and more.
Key facts about Qunnect
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $20.7M
- Employee Count: 43 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Motus Ventures, Airbus Ventures and 12 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jan 21, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Paladin
Platform connecting legal teams with pro bono opportunities and resources. It provides tools for legal service organizations, law firms, and in-house legal teams. The platform helps manage pro bono programs, connect with organizations, and track community impact. It also offers features for volunteer recruitment and matter assignment based on attorney interest.
Key facts about Paladin
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $12M
- Employee Count: 29 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Palm Drive Capital, R2 Ventures and 27 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Mar 26, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Platform to improve patient engagement solutions. The company provides communication solutions of clinical records of the patients to the healthcare professionals. They provide secure and personalized communication tools of video and audios for educating patients about their treatment and diagnosis. They are patient-centric mobile platform ensures to improve the patient engagement for providers and physicians.
Key facts about Playback Health
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: Mount Kisco (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $10.8M
- Employee Count: 17 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: Northwell and Accelerate NY Seed Fund
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Feb 16, 2024, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. CalmiGo
CalmiGo's is a developer of the device for relieving stress. The device is used for relieving from stress/ anxiousness. The smart technology to regulate breathing and detaches the senses from stress/anxiousness.
Key facts about CalmiGo
- Founded Year: 2010
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Funding Raised
- Employee Count: 24 as on Aug 31, 2026
- Investors: J-Ventures, Jibe Ventures and 4 Others
Accelerate NY Seed Fund's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Its most recent first time investment was in Qunnect and most recent follow-on round was in HashLynx.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2021 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Accelerate NY Seed Fund's Investments by Stage
Accelerate NY Seed Fund has made 5 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $730K and 1 investment in Conventional Debt stage with an average round size of $1.2M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 5 |
Conventional Debt | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Accelerate NY Seed Fund's Investments by Sector
Accelerate NY Seed Fund has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Life Sciences, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, HealthTech and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 24 Tech companies, 19 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 12 Software companies and at least 6 companies focusing on Tech hardware.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Life Sciences | 4 |
Enterprise Applications | 2 |
Enterprise Infrastructure | 1 |
HealthTech | 1 |
High Tech | 1 |
Others | 3 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Accelerate NY Seed Fund's Investments by Geography
Accelerate NY Seed Fund has made most investments in United States (6).Accelerate NY Seed Fund's recent investments
Accelerate NY Seed Fund has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Accelerate NY Seed Fund:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 07, 2020 | United States | Seed | 6408 | ||
Sep 16, 2018 | United States | Seed | 6991 | - | |
Jun 12, 2018 | United States | Conventional Debt | 9730 | ||
May 15, 2018 | United States | Seed | 3160 | ||
Mar 21, 2018 | United States | Seed | 9530 | - |
Acquired companies in Accelerate NY Seed Fund's Portfolio
1 company from Accelerate NY Seed Fund's portfolio has been acquired. The most recent acquisition was Monogram in Jul 2025 by Zimmer Biomet for $*****.Here are Accelerate NY Seed Fund's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 14, 2025 | - | - | 4268 |
Co-investors of Accelerate NY Seed Fund
Over the past 9 years, 18 investors have co-invested in Accelerate NY Seed Fund's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Accelerate NY Seed Fund: DOE has invested before Accelerate NY Seed Fund.
- Top Co-investors of Accelerate NY Seed Fund: 8 investors entered a company along with Accelerate NY Seed Fund. These include investors like Quantonation (1 company).
- Invested after Accelerate NY Seed Fund: A total of 9 investors have invested in Accelerate NY Seed Fund's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include HHS (2 companies), Airbus Ventures (1 company) and SandboxAQ (1 company).
Recent News related to Accelerate NY Seed Fund
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Qunnect, LLC announces the closing of $800,000 in Seed FinancingPR Newswire•Jan 07, 2020•Qunnect, Quantonation, Accelerate NY Seed Fund
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EpiVax Oncology Completes a $1.2M Bridge FinancingPR Newswire•Jun 12, 2018•Epivax Oncology, epivaxoncology.com, Morningside, Accelerate NY Seed Fund and 1 other
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Concarlo activates $1m seed roundglobaluniversityventuring.com•Mar 21, 2018•Concarlo, Accelerate NY Seed Fund
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Accelerate NY Seed Fund Awards Bioharmony Therapeutics $100,000Citybizlist•Dec 18, 2017•Bioharmony Therapeutics, Accelerate NY Seed Fund
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Mid Atlantic Bio Angels Invests in PainQx, Inc.4-Traders•Sep 08, 2017•PainQx, Mid Atlantic Bio Angels, Accelerate NY Seed Fund, Arizona Tech Investors
