New York is a tech startup hotbed after almost a decade-long run of IPOs
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Albert Wang, a native Californian, moved to New York from Boston with his wife a decade ago and got a job as a product manager at Datadog , which at the time was a fledgling startup helping companies monitor their cloud servers and databases. Eventually, Index Ventures, a firm that was founded in Europe, joined in the funding round for Datadog, giving the company the fuel to grow up in the city. In July of this year, Silicon Valleys most prized firm, Sequoia Capital, which was MongoDBs largest venture investor, opened a New York office. Wainer said that companies like DigitalOcean, which had over 1,200 employees at the end of last year, have helped people gain skills in cloud software marketing, product management and other key areas in technology. When Steph Johnson, a former communications executive at DigitalOcean and MongoDB, got serious about raising money for Multiplayer, which she started with her husband, the couple called Graham Neray.
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