Generative AI startups in New York

Gaurav Misra, Dwight Churchill 🇮🇳

Founded by Indian-origin founder Gaurav Misra (ex-Snap design lead), Captions is an AI video-creation platform (AI avatars, editing, dubbing) with 10M+ creators. Raised a $60M Series C in July 2024 led by In...

Piotr Dąbkowski, Mati Staniszewski

Founded 2022 by ex-Google ML engineer Dąbkowski and ex-Palantir strategist Staniszewski, ElevenLabs is the leader in generative voice/audio AI — text-to-speech, dubbing, voice cloning. Global HQ in NYC with ...

Alex Vratskides, Assaf Baciu, Moray Maclennan, Guy Krief

Founded 2012 in NYC, Persado is a 'Motivation AI' generative-language platform that generates and optimizes marketing copy at scale, trained on 1M+ A/B tests. An early NYC GenAI leader used by JPMorgan Chase...

Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala

Founded 2018 by three NYU Tisch/ITP grads, Runway is the pioneer of generative AI video (Gen-1/2/3/4 models) letting creatives generate and edit video from text and brushstrokes. A defining NYC media-AI brea...

** 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...

Alex Schmelkin, Jane Tran, Brian Moseley

Founded 2023, Sixfold builds generative-AI underwriting for P&C insurers — an 'AI Underwriter' that automates risk assessment with straight-through quote-and-bind. Processed 1M+ submissions across 40+ lines ...