When I ask people about the NYC startup scene, most people can only rattle off a short list of startups, typically it’s Foursquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Gilt Groupe and Kickstarter. Those are all great companies but there are at least 60 additional tech companies in NYC that I think will have a substantial exit (in the next few years) and you should be aware of them.

1. 1010data
2. 10gen
3. 2u (fka 2tor)
4. Aereo
5. Appnexus
6. Arkadium
7. Blip.tv
8. Birchbox
9. Bit.ly
10. Bonobos
11. Boxee
12. Buddy Media (update – acquired for $698M by Salesforce on 6/4/12)
13. Buzzfeed
14. Chloe & Isabel
15. Collective Media
16. Comixology
17. DoubleVerify
18. Enterproid
19. Etsy
20. Everyday Health
21. Fab.com
22. Fancy
23. Foursquare
24. Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG)
25. Gilt Groupe
26. HowAboutWe
27. ideeli
28. Indeed (update – acquired on 9/25/12 for $750M+)
29. Intent Media
30. Kaltura
31. Kickstarter
32. Knewton
33. Learnvest
34. Lot18
35. Major League Gaming
36. Makerbot (update – acquired on 6/19/13 for $403M+)
37. Medialets
38. MediaMath
39. Media6Degrees
40. Meetup
41. MOAT
42. Moda Operandi
43. Newscred
44. Offerpop
45. OMGPOP (update – acquired for $180M by Zynga on 3/21/12)
46. On Deck Capital
47. OpenSky
48. Outbrain
49. Quirky
50. Rent The Runway
51. Return Path
52. SailThru
53. SecondMarket
54. Shapeways
55. Stack Exchange (aka Stackoverflow)
56. SumAll
57. Tapad
58. TheLadders
59. Thrillist
60. Tremor Video
61. Tumblr (update – acquired by Yahoo on 5/19/13 for $1.1B)
62. Undertone Networks
63. Unified
64. Vibrant Media
65. Warby Parker
66. Yext
67. Yodle
68. Zocdoc

There are ~600 NYC startups that have raised VC funding in last two years (per CBInsights). I wanted to keep the list closer to 50 but as you can see it is beyond 60 at this point. If there are any obvious breakout startups that I missed, please let me know.

NYC hasn’t had a large IPO ($1B+ valuation and/or raised $100M+ at IPO) in the last 10 years, yes, isn’t that shocking?! Assuming the stock market stays steady, I can see at least 10 of these startups mentioned above going IPO in the next few years.

Disclosure: This list of companies was put together based on insights gathered during conversations with VCs and other players who are an active part of the NYC startup scene. In addition, I used the following sites for research: LinkedIn, CBInsights (a NYC startup), Crunchbase, Compete, Quantcast and Made in NY.