Reflection
A frontier-model lab founded in March 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin (who…
New York
is #4 in AI funding.
New York sits in the upper half of the AI race — $7.1B of all-time AI capital across 18 orgs.
LIVE #4 OF 12 HUBS 2% OF UNITED STATES UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$7.1B
all-time AI capital raised
#4/ 12 AI ORGS
18
notable AI organisations
#3/ 12 NOTABLE MODELS
4
shipped to date
#5/ 12 OPERATIONAL MW
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Where New York sitsall hubs ranked by AI funding
RANK-SPACED · HEIGHT ∝ SQRT(FUNDING) NAVY = NEW YORK
New York 2/100 rest of united states 98/100
New York =
2%
of United States's AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding in United States: $347.2B.
New York: $7.1B.
New York: $7.1B.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF UNITED STATES AI FUNDING
Top 9 of 18 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding
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ORG LATEST FUNDING
Oct 2025
$2.1B
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Reflection AI
Oct 2025
$2.1B
Runway
A New York generative-video lab founded in 2018 by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis…
Feb 2026
$860M
Hugging Face
An open-source ML platform founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and…
Aug 2023
$395M
EliseAI
A New York property-tech company founded in 2017 by Cambridge classmates Minna Song and…
Aug 2025
$392M
VAST Data
A New York-headquartered data platform company founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, Jeff…
$381M
Rogo
A New York financial-AI company founded by former junior bankers to build Wall Street's…
Apr 2026
$300M
EvolutionaryScale
A New York protein-AI lab founded in 2024 by Alex Rives and former colleagues from Meta's…
Jun 2024
$142M
Actively AI
A New York sales-AI startup founded in 2022 by Stanford AI researchers Mihir Garimella…
Apr 2026
$68M
Superblocks
A New York enterprise app-builder founded by Brad Menezes (ex-Datadog) and Ran Ma.
May 2025
$60M
Aaru
A New York synthetic-research startup founded in 2024 by Cameron Fink, Ned Koh, and…
Dec 2025
$50M
Avantos
A New York wealth-management AI startup founded in 2024 by ex-McKinsey partner Bassam…
Feb 2026
$35M
Raspberry AI
A New York generative-AI design platform for fashion brands, founded by CEO Cheryl Liu.
Jan 2025
$29M
Thread AI
A New York enterprise AI-orchestration startup founded by ex-Palantir AI product and…
Jun 2025
$26M
TidalWave
An agentic AI mortgage startup founded in 2023 by Diane Yu (former CTO of Better.
Nov 2025
$24M
Oboe
An AI learning app founded in 2024 by Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, the duo behind…
Dec 2025
$20M
AgentSmyth
A New York fintech-AI startup founded in 2024 by Daniel McCooey, Michael Block, and…
Jun 2025
$11M
EleutherAI
A non-profit AI research institute founded in July 2020 by Connor Leahy, Sid Black, and…
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