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In The Lead: Startups

LIBN Staff//July 18, 2025//

In The Lead: Startups

LIBN Staff//July 18, 2025//

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ABOUT THIS YEAR’S IN THE LEAD: Startups

Long Island’s entrepreneurial landscape is experiencing unprecedented growth, with innovative startups emerging across diverse industries. These visionary companies are tackling complex challenges with creative solutions. Many are leveraging Long Island’s strategic location, utilizing the region’s established business networks to accelerate their growth.

What sets these emerging businesses apart is their commitment to innovation while maintaining strong community roots. They’re not just creating jobs and driving economic growth–they’re positioning Long Island as a hub for entrepreneurial excellence. These startups demonstrate that groundbreaking ideas can flourish in our region’s collaborative environment, where seasoned business leaders mentor emerging entrepreneurs and venture capital increasingly recognizes Long Island’s potential.

As you read through the following profiles in this special section—In the Lead: Startup Businesses—you’ll note that they are a showcase of companies that are reshaping industries and defining tomorrow’s marketplace today.

Vintage Rose Marketing & Events

Vintage Rose Marketing & Events is a woman-owned boutique concierge agency specializing in strategic marketing, event production, branding, creative design, public relations, and social media management.

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Newfield Law Group

Based in Melville, Newfield Law Group is a premier law firm specializing in disability insurance claims, led by Super Lawyer attorney Jason Newfield.

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TNC Chocolate Lab

Known as a company focused on sweet treat with a special mission, TNC Chocolate Lab offers delicious treats, training and jobs to autistic individuals who face 85% unemployment and under engagement following their academic careers.

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Boch Creative

Boch Creative, based on Long Island, is revolutionizing how high-earning coaches and lean marketing teams access professional design.

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VHF Legal Seminars, Inc.

VHF Legal Seminars is a women-founded and led business, which actively models and promotes female leadership in both legal practice and legal entrepreneurship—encouraging inclusion and inspiring the next generation of legal professionals.

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YHP Cares

YHP Cares is a woman-founded service coordination agency redefining how Long Island supports individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and those transitioning from institutional care.

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Meadow and Bark

Meadow & Bark’s trajectory from seaside storefront in Long Beach, to global plant-based skincare powerhouse reads like a startup fairy tale—one that’s rooted in family, science and sheer ambition.

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La Pinta, Lesko & Miskiewicz, P.C.

Veteran federal prosecutors Mark Lesko and James Miskiewicz – both former shareholders at the national law firm Greenberg Traurig – have teamed up with prominent criminal defense attorney Anthony La Pinta.

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Salty Dawgs Pet Care, Inc.

Salty Dawgs Pet Care, Inc. was founded by Margaret Pepitone in West Islip as a woman-owned, minority-owned, LGBTQ+-affirming company rooted in compassion, safety and generational change.

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Trellus

Trellus is a Long Island-based local-first marketplace and same-day delivery platform, created to help small businesses compete in today’s fast-paced digital economy.

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