November 19, 2025

Dear Friends,

As we get ready for Thanksgiving, we are reminded to appreciate what we are truly grateful for. We feel immense pride in what our dedicated team - and the entrepreneurs we serve - accomplished together. Please scroll down to see our latest news:

Please scroll down to see our latest news:

• Our Annual Report for FY 2024 for details on the impact of our services. 

• The Accompany Capital Queens Small Business Survey report on a survey of 188 small businesses in Queens, a blueprint for support that these businesses need to thrive and grow.

• We have welcomed new Board members, who join our current members, to whom we are grateful for their steadfast support and guidance.

• We were delighted to once again sponsor the Momo Crawl, which broke all records this year



• We offer congratulations and share our hopes for our mayor-elect (and his excellent choice for lunch!).

And finally, a note of gratitude during this Thanksgiving season to all our funders, partners, and other stakeholders who enable us to meet our mission.  

Yanki Tshering

Executive Director

Our FY 2024 Annual Report is Out

In FY 2024, Accompany Capital continued to empower New York City’s small businesses and entrepreneurs, dispersing 201 new loans totaling 11.8 million dollars to micro and small businesses. This included providing critical relief to Yellow Taxi drivers by refinancing high-cost loans they'd incurred to purchase medallions.

Learn more in our FY24 Annual Report, now available here:

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The 13th Annual Momo Crawl

Once again this year we were proud to sponsor the 13th annual Momo Crawl in Jackson Heights, Queens. It was another record-breaker - close to 8000 momo lovers turned out to taste delicious momos and celebrate the great businesses that make Jackson Heights such a terrific community and destination for New York foodies! Congratulations to everyone who made it such an incredible success: the Momo Crawl organizers from Students for a Free Tibet all our fellow co-sponsors, and to this years big winner Om Wok and runners-up Himalayan Yak Restaurant and AC client Nepali Bhanchha Ghar!

Our Queens Small Business Survey 

Accompany Capital is pleased to share insights from our new report on Queens small businesses, which surveyed and interviewed local entrepreneurs, recent borrowers, and community stakeholders. The report highlights key trends, needs, challenges, and opportunities to better support Queens’ diverse small business community.

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New Board Members

We are delighted to welcome our newest Board Members: Olga Yangol - 2nd from left, top row - who is a Managing Director and the Head of Emerging Markets Research and Strategy, Americas, at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, and Candy Baffour-Awuah Danquah - 2nd from right, top row - who was most recently Chief Operating Officer for iShares Marketing at BlackRock.

Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Mamdani

We were very pleased to see that Mayor-elect Mamdani's first day included supporting a small business in Jackson Heights, Queens, particularly because it was Accompany Capital client Laliguras Bistro (!), and commend his inspiring commitment to advancing affordability for all New York City residents.

Read our blog post here

Webinar: Cybersecurity for Small Business

Wednesday, December 3

2-3 PM 

An overview of cybersecurity risk management and best practices that can be used to protect a business from computer related crimes. We’ll also discuss NYS cybersecurity regulation and other regulations impacting small businesses.

Presenter: Jasleen Madaan, CRVPM, AVP, Vendor Risk Manager with DIME Community Bank and Jonathan Lara, Sr. Cybersecurity Risk Analyst with DIME Community Bank

For more information, please contact Tshering Gurung at tgurung@accompanycapital.org or 347-730-6468

This workshop is provided in partnership with the Queens Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by DIME Community Bank.

Register here

A Special Thank You to Our Funders

Thanks to Speaker Adrienne Adams & the City Council for renewing the CDFI Initiative and to Council Member Shekar Krishnan for funding to support emerging entrepreneurs.

Thanks to TD Charitable Foundation which provided programmatic funding.

And many thanks to Capital One Bank, Dime Community Bank, and Santander Bank for their continued funding and support of small businesses and their communities.