On Yieldstreet, users can invest in areas previously reserved for institutional investors. The platform provides users with the opportunity to invest in things like real estate, fine art, legal finance and commercial loans.
From big name West Coast transplants like Amazon, Google and Apple to local, homegrown companies like Bloomberg, Vice and Etsy, New York City's tech scene is growing up to be a globally recognized hotbed for innovation.
SEPT. 2017: People are getting back from vacation, summer is coming to an end and now it’s time to focus. For some, that means landing a new job — and for these NYC tech startups, it means finding new members to support their explosive growth.
Over the past decade, StockTwits has gone from an idea — a social network for stock traders — to a platform where investors are exchanging more than 200,000 messages a day. This summer, the startup will go one step further to being a one-stop-shop for investors by launching a mobile trading platform that lets users buy and sell stock for free.
