Always Be Closing is nextNYC’s revenue and sales focused event.

It’s an opportunity for startups to connect with and pitch top NYC companies and organizations who can serve as potential customers. After all, that’s why so many startups decided to locate their businesses here!

We gather key decision makers in specific business areas who have shared their challenges and opportunities to run their businesses better. Startups will apply to get the opportunity to pitch their products and solutions in-person. Our partner companies may not have an obligation to work with you, but the opportunity is yours to lose!

Our first event on April 10th is hosted by Datadog

Datadog is one of NYC’s biggest startup success stories–a $40 billion public company started by two technical founders, Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, who had previously worked together at a Brooklyn-based edtech startup. Now, with over 5,000 global employees, they’re a significant buyer of tech that any startup would be lucky to have in their pipeline and on their customer list. Here’s your chance to use your tech to make Datadog an even better operation!

What can you do?

The team at Datadog has given us their wishlist and we’re selecting the best six companies to pitch key decision-makers as potential customers.

A panel will be taking pitches from companies who can add value to the company along the following interest areas:

  • Products that help their teams alleviate administrative burdens

  • AI tools such as:

    • help bots 

    • contract AI tools

    • helping review trending reports for Payroll or Travel data

    • anything that integrates with chatGPT

  • Automation tools 

  • Workflow tools

  • Products that help our teams identify opportunities to save money

  • Tools that builds how-to guides, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training manuals 

  • Knowledge bases, especially for HR

  • Faster background checks

Meet the Panel

  • Pascal Schaary

    SVP BUSINESS OPERATIONS (Real Estate, Office Operations, Construction & Design, Travel & Events, Safety & Security, Executive Support / Operations)

  • Michelle Vita

    PROCUREMENT LEADER (Procurement & Strategic Sourcing / Finance)

  • Scotty Ruane

    VP GLOBAL EOPLE OPERATIONS (People Operations, People)

The startup and emerging growth marketplace has a multitude of unique challenges, and Withum is here to help.

Withum has a variety of services focused on the start-up community and its founding members and management, including:

Qualified Small Business Stock consultations
Federal, state and international tax planning and compliance
Corporate and sales tax nexus analysis
Tax incentives and credits