NYC AI categories

Explore The NYC AI Scene By Category.

Browse NYC AI companies across finance, legal, creative, healthcare, infrastructure, and more.

13 categories·curated by hand·updated agentically.

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Industrial & Robotics AI

18 startups

Robots, autonomous labs, and AI for physical operations.

Traba · An AI operating layer for industrial work

Structify · Industrial AI that customers can own and operate

Fintech & Trading AI

28 startups

AI for markets, risk, capital, and financial operations.

Hebbia · Hebbia equips financial and legal teams with AI agents that analyze large document collections through transparent workflows, cited answers, and a spreadsheet interface

Canoe Intelligence · Alternative-investment data automation

Legal & Compliance AI

11 startups

AI for legal research, compliance, and policy workflows.

Norm Ai · Regulatory AI agents for enterprises

WorkFusion · AI compliance analysts for financial crime work

Cybersecurity AI

11 startups

AI for threat detection, response, and security operations.

Reality Defender · Evidence against convincing synthetic impersonation

ORION Security · Data loss prevention can use contextual intelligence about how information moves, reducing dependence on security teams continually defining and tuning rules

Media, Ads & Creative AI

23 startups

AI for content, creative workflows, and media production.

Mirage (formerly Captions) · AI video generation for creative teams

Agentio · Creator-led advertising automation

Health & Clinical AI

17 startups

Clinical admin, care operations, and healthcare intelligence.

Anterior · Anterior automates clinical workflows for health plans, including prior authorization, payment integrity, and risk adjustment

Tennr · Keep every patient moving through referral-based care

Life Sciences AI

7 startups

AI accelerating discovery, research, and lab workflows.

Owkin · AI-led scientific workflows can connect patient evidence to testable hypotheses, with biomedical experts and wet labs validating promising results

Formation Bio · Drug development can advance faster when clinical assets, operational workflows, and accumulated evidence are coordinated through software rather than fragmented manual processes

AI-Native Consumer & Social

6 startups

AI experiences for everyday users and communities.

Sentience · A personal AI built around one person's memory and judgment

Sandbar · Voice-first AI wearable for everyday computing

Agent Infrastructure

21 startups

Infrastructure for building, deploying, and operating agents.

Emergence AI · Agents that orchestrate enterprise workflows

Brightwave · Investment research from filings and transcripts

Model Tools & Dev Platform

22 startups

Developer platforms and tooling for model builders.

Weights & Biases · Track, evaluate, and improve the AI development lifecycle

Reflection · Open models with deployment control

Enterprise GTM & RevOps AI

29 startups

AI for sales, marketing, customer success, and revenue ops.

Kalepa · AI underwriting for commercial insurance

Topline Pro · An AI back office for local service professionals

Data & Memory Layer

16 startups

Data infrastructure, memory, and context for AI systems.

Aaru · Aaru simulates populations of AI agents grounded in demographic and behavioral data, helping businesses model consumer choices, market responses, and strategic decisions