AI agents startups in New York

The agentic wave in New York: enterprise and vertical agents automating knowledge work across finance, real estate and operations.

8 companies building in AI agents here.

Ramp Fintech

Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Gene Lee

Founded 2019, Ramp is a corporate card + spend-management platform that has become NYC's fastest-rising fintech. It crossed $1B annualized revenue in 2025 and raised repeatedly through the year, culminating ...

Basis AI agents

Matthew Harpe, Mitchell Troyanovsky

NYC-based, Basis builds 'long-horizon' AI agents that autonomously complete accounting, tax and audit workflows end-to-end for CPA firms (used by ~30% of the top 25 firms). Raised a $100M Series B (Feb 2026,...

Credal.ai AI agents

Ravin Thambapillai, Jack Fischer 🇮🇳 (South Asian / Tamil-origin)

Founded 2022 (YC W23) by two ex-Palantir engineers, Credal is a security/control plane for enterprise AI agents — connecting internal data to LLMs while redacting/anonymizing sensitive data and enforcing com...

EliseAI Proptech

Minna Song & Tony Stoyanov

Founded 2017 (as MeetElise) in NYC. Conversational-AI platform automating leasing, resident communication and property-management workflows for multifamily housing (expanded into healthcare in 2023). Reached...

Hebbia AI/enterprise search

** 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.

Norm Ai AI agents

John Nay

Founded by John Nay (ex-Stanford CodeX fellow), Norm Ai converts regulations, laws and corporate policies into compliance AI agents for finance and regulated industries; clients collectively manage $30T+ in ...

Rogo AI agents

Gabriel Stengel, John Willett, Tumas Rackaitis

Founded 2022 by ex-Lazard banker Gabriel Stengel and two Princeton peers, Rogo is agentic GenAI for financial services — an 'AI analyst/investment banker' automating Wall Street research and modeling. Raised...

Tabs AI agents

Ali Hussain, Rebecca Schwartz, Deepak Bapat 🇮🇳

Founded 2023, Tabs uses AI agents to automate B2B revenue/accounts-receivable workflows (contract-to-cash, billing, collections) for finance teams; Indian-origin co-founder/CTO Deepak Bapat. Raised a $55M Se...

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