AI startups in New York

Adam Wenchel, John Dickerson, Priscilla Alexander

Founded 2018 by ex-Capital One VP of AI Adam Wenchel, Arthur is an AI performance/observability platform — monitoring, evaluation, explainability, bias mitigation and now LLM/generative-AI guardrails for ent...

Matthew Zeiler

Founded 2013 in NYC by NYU deep-learning PhD Matthew Zeiler (winner of the 2013 ImageNet localization challenge), Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform spanning computer vision, LLMs, model orchestration and ...

Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol, Marc Batty

Founded 2013 in Paris; HQ moved to NYC (125 W 25th St) in 2015. Dataiku is an end-to-end enterprise data-science, ML and generative-AI platform (LLM Mesh, agents) for building and governing AI without heavy ...

** NYC-based (founded 2020) enterprise AI search / knowledge-work platform used heavily in finance and law. Raised $160M+ (a16z, Index, GV, Peter Thiel, Radical Ventures). Breakout AI-for-enterprise name.

NYC-based (founded 2020) enterprise AI search / knowledge-work platform used heavily in finance and law. Raised $160M+ (a16z, Index, GV, Peter Thiel, Radical Ventures). Breakout AI-for-enterprise name. - **l...

** NYC-headquartered open-source AI/ML platform and model hub, led by co-founder/CEO Clément Delangue; the default community layer for open ML development. AI-native unicorn and a cornerstone of NYC's AI inf...

NYC-headquartered open-source AI/ML platform and model hub, led by co-founder/CEO Clément Delangue; the default community layer for open ML development. AI-native unicorn and a cornerstone of NYC's AI infras...

Peter Brodsky, Vladimir Tzankov, Krasimir Marinov

Founded 2014, Hyperscience is an AI document-processing / intelligent-automation platform (ML-based data extraction, handwriting-to-digital) for enterprises and government. Raised $439M+ across 9 rounds; HQ ...

Allon Bloch, Ran Shaul, Israel Roth & Adam Singolda

Founded in 2016, K Health is a clinical-AI company delivering virtual primary care by comparing a patient's symptoms against a large de-identified clinical dataset, deployed through health-system partnership...

Erik Bernhardsson, Akshat Bubna 🇮🇳

Founded 2021 by ex-Spotify/Better CTO Erik Bernhardsson and Indian-origin ex-Scale engineer Akshat Bubna, Modal is a serverless AI-infrastructure platform giving developers instant GPU compute for inference/...

Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan (CEO Dev Ittycheria 🇮🇳)

NYC-founded and HQ'd public database company now central to the AI stack: Atlas Vector Search enables semantic search/RAG on the same platform. Acquired embeddings/reranking startup Voyage AI (2025) to nativ...

Edo Liberty

Founded 2019 by Edo Liberty (ex-Head of Amazon AI Labs), Pinecone is the leading managed vector database powering RAG and knowledgeable AI apps — core GenAI infrastructure. Raised $100M Series B (a16z, ICONI...

** NYC AI-powered analytics startup that raised ~$30M in 2025. Data/AI analytics play surfacing in the 2025 NYC Series A cohort.

NYC AI-powered analytics startup that raised ~$30M in 2025. Data/AI analytics play surfacing in the 2025 NYC Series A cohort. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-development/new-york-tech-startups-se...

** NYC-based generative-AI video/media company. Raised $308M in April 2025 (~$3B+ valuation) and has raised $540M+ total (General Atlantic, Google, Nvidia, Coatue, Felicis, Amplify). In 2026 launched a $10M ...

NYC-based generative-AI video/media company. Raised $308M in April 2025 (~$3B+ valuation) and has raised $540M+ total (General Atlantic, Google, Nvidia, Coatue, Felicis, Amplify). In 2026 launched a $10M fun...

Evan Beard, David Golden, James Cordle

NYC-metro (Long Island) maker of AI-native, no-code robot arms and industrial humanoids trained by demonstration for machining, welding, assembly and inspection. Positioned as America's largest AI-native ind...

** NYC AI startup for government and education markets (public-sector go-to-market intelligence); raised a $42M Series A in 2025. Govtech/edtech-adjacent breakout.

NYC AI startup for government and education markets (public-sector go-to-market intelligence); raised a $42M Series A in 2025. Govtech/edtech-adjacent breakout. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-de...

** NYC AI SaaS helping home-service SMBs run their online presence/marketing; closed a $27M Series B in Aug 2025 led by Northzone (Tactile Ventures, Industry Ventures). SMB-AI vertical software.

NYC AI SaaS helping home-service SMBs run their online presence/marketing; closed a $27M Series B in Aug 2025 led by Northzone (Tactile Ventures, Industry Ventures). SMB-AI vertical software. - **link:** htt...

Sidd Seethepalli, Noa Flaherty, Akash Sharma 🇮🇳

Founded 2023 (YC W23) by MIT engineers Sidd Seethepalli (ex-Quora ML) and Akash Sharma (ex-McKinsey) plus Noa Flaherty (ex-DataRobot), Vellum is a NYC dev platform for building, testing, evaluating and deplo...