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Building AI companions and agents for consumer and enterprise.
Controlled chaos. Fine tuning is the bulk of the work. Know what you're walking into.
AI-native sales motion for B2B companies.
SDRs debate pricing with the COO. Everyone is low ego and it's a hiring non-negotiable. That's rare.
AI-powered outbound that personalizes at scale.
Culture 5 is the honest read of an early company still finding its identity. Trust is high at 8.
Credit market trading infrastructure.
The playbook is always changing since this has never been done before — relationships are everything here.
AI-powered compliance and quality monitoring for healthcare.
Low culture score but high trust signals a place where the work is hard and the mission is real — not a fun culture, but a focused one.
AI-powered social engineering defense — deepfake phishing simulations, voice cloning detection, human attac....
a16z, OpenAI Startup Fund, NVIDIA, and Bain Capital Ventures all in. That's the highest-conviction cybersecurity round in NYC this year. AI-enabled attacks are real — Adaptive is the company that trains humans to survive them.
AI agents that automate accounting end-to-end.
Finance + AI convergence is the wave — Basis is at the center before most people know the category exists.
Peer-to-peer sports prediction markets via sweepstakes model.
Prediction markets are having a serious moment. Still under the radar — not for long.
Giving computers a sense of smell.
Either the most interesting company in NYC or the hardest to explain at dinner. Probably both.
The data enrichment and outbound platform that turned GTM into a programmable system.
Culture honest at 6.7 — leadership trust high at 8.7. The people there are all-in and they know it.
AI that automates healthcare document processing — referrals, prior auths, intake.
"Tennr time is real. You'll feel like a veteran after only 3 months." Culture 9, Trust 9, Autonomy 8.
AI search optimization — helps brands appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, LLMs.
Series C in their first year. Every company that depends on search traffic needs someone paying attention to this.
The first federally regulated prediction market exchange in the US.
Hours 10:30am–10:30pm. Friday at 6pm you're already at your desk. One insider: "You're not new after one week here."
The leading AI voice platform — text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing.
Culture 8, Trust 8. You have to figure out how to improve on your own — autonomy is both the perk and the challenge.
AI platform purpose-built for investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds.
Wall Street's AI analyst. They're not trying to replace bankers — they're trying to make them 10x. When Sequoia, Thrive, and JP Morgan all invest alongside Henry Kravis, the institutional conviction is real. NYC-built, finance-native, and moving fast.
Virtual psychiatry that takes real insurance — actual licensed psychiatrists, not a wellness app.
Went after hard infrastructure — real psychiatrists, real billing, real outcomes. That's why the checks keep coming.
Uses claims data to connect employers and employees to high-performing doctors.
When a major health system validates you with their balance sheet, that's a different kind of signal.
Practice management for therapists — scheduling, billing, insurance handled.
Goldman co-leading a Series D into mental health infrastructure is not a 2022 sentence. Quietly one of the most important NYC companies right now.
Virtual intensive outpatient program for teens, young adults, and families facing mental health, substance ....
The IOP model they built is genuinely hard — real clinical outcomes, real insurance billing, real therapists. Not a wellness app. They're solving the tier of care that falls between outpatient and inpatient, and nobody else is doing it at this scale.
The AI video and creative tools platform used by every major film studio, ad agencies, and the next generat....
Runway built the creative AI category before anyone was paying attention, and now they're the infrastructure layer for the entire media industry. $5.3B valuation in Brooklyn. The film industry's relationship with AI runs through them.
Modern retirement savings infrastructure — 401(k), 529s, HSAs — for small businesses.
The biggest NYC round in February and barely anyone is talking about it. Quiet company, enormous moat.
Marketplace for digital products — communities, courses, SaaS.
The Gen Z commerce layer nobody in enterprise saw coming — and now Tether is betting hundreds of millions on it.
Early. Honest. NYC only.
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