Radar · AI Infrastructure in New York
Best AI Infrastructure Companies in New York, United States
The 163 best AI Infrastructure companies in New York, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ReflectionAI.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
163companies tracked
$5.8Bdisclosed funding
5unicorns
83have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · AI INFRASTRUCTURE × NEW YORK
Our analysis of 50 AI Infrastructure companies
$46.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
24unicorns
2021median founding year
997kcombined LinkedIn audience
68%of audience held by top 3
4companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best AI Infrastructure companies in New York
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ReflectionAI 🦄 Developer of autonomous coding systems 84Funding top 12%Growth top 28%AI top 30%Moat top 32% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 12% Growthtop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 32% Techtop 34% Talenttop 38% Markettop 44% Globalbottom 48% Funding: Raised $2.1B across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 1 yrs (3.0/yr) Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 84/100 | $2.1B | 8 mo ago | Series B | — | 2025 | Misha Laskin Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 partnership · 1 expansion |
| 2 | FluidStack Provider of managed high performance computing clusters for artificial intelligence 87Partners top 12%Growth top 14%Fin. health top 19%Talent top 23% All 11 signals ▾Partnerstop 12% Growthtop 14% Fin. healthtop 19% Talenttop 23% Fundingtop 25% Newstop 26% AItop 30% Techtop 39% Moattop 48% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 40% Partners: 25 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 25 deals Growth: Revenue +140% YoY · Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100 | $1.0B | 5 mo ago | Series B | 3 | 2017 | Daniel Fedder Co-Founder | — | — |
| 3 | Dataiku 🦄 Provider of a platform for end-to-end enterprise AI and analytics | $1.0B | 42 mo ago | Series F | 1,339 | 2013 | Clément Stenac Co-founder & CTO | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 3 awards |
| 4 | SpinVox Voice to Text service | $225M | 202 mo ago | Acquired | 78 | 2003 | Daniel Doulton ex-Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder | 3 patents Speech-to-text conversion and audio loudness normalization for voice messaging services. | — |
| 5 | Emergence AI Developer of an agentic platform for automating and scaling enterprise workflows | $197M | 23 mo ago | Series C | — | 2018 | Ravi Kokku Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 6 | Clarifai Provider of AI based image and video recognition solution for multiple industries | $101M | 56 mo ago | Series C | 97 | 2013 | Matthew Zeiler Founder & CEO | 82 patents AI-driven computer vision and distributed machine learning orchestration platforms | 1 launch |
| 7 | ElevenLabs 🦄 AI platform for speech, voice cloning, music, and AI agents 93Customers top 10%Funding top 14%Growth top 18%Tech top 19% All 13 signals ▾Customerstop 10% Fundingtop 14% Growthtop 18% Techtop 19% AItop 20% Newstop 23% Moattop 26% Producttop 31% Innovationtop 32% Partnerstop 32% Talenttop 40% Markettop 41% Globaltop 42% Customers: Play-Store rating 4.76★ across 129,012 ratings (1 apps) Funding: Raised $101M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 3 yrs (2.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 93/100 | $101M | 3 mo ago | Series D | 15 | 2022 | Mati Staniszewski Co-Founder & CEO | — | 4 launchs · 1 partnership · 2 expansions |
| 8 | Lightning Provider of low code AI application development software | $77M | 18 mo ago | Series C | 64 | 2017 | William Falcon Co-Founder & CEO | 19 patents Detecting ad fraud, privacy violations, and data leakage in online advertising ecosystems. | 1 launch |
| 9 | Hume Developer of text to speech and speech to speech application programming interfaces and software | $66M | 31 mo ago | Series B | 24 | 2021 | Alan Cowen Founder & CEO | 10 patents Emotion-aware AI platforms for healthcare and mental‑health diagnostics and support | — |
| 10 | Comet AI and SaaS-based ML solutions | $63M | 55 mo ago | Series B | 109 | 2017 | Nimrod Lahav Co-Founder | 4 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 11 | Arthur AI Provider of AI and cloud-based solutions to control and monitor AI models | $63M | 44 mo ago | Series B | 51 51 → 38 (-25%) | 2018 | Adam Wenchel CEO | 64 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 launch |
| 12 | OpenRouter 🦄 Platform offering access to LLM models 84Funding top 20%Market top 28%Tech top 28%Talent top 28% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 20% Markettop 28% Techtop 28% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 37% Globalbottom 48% Growthbottom 47% Newsbottom 27% Funding: Raised $60.1M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Market: Top-50,000 web property · Unicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 84/100 | $60M | 0 mo ago | Series B | — | 2023 | Chris Clark Co-Founder & COO | — | 3 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 13 | Wallaroo.AI Provider of an enterprise platform for AI production data | $34M | 23 mo ago | Series A | 33 33 → 42 (+27%) | 2017 | Vid Jain Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 14 | TollBit Provider of AI bot monetization solutions for publishers | $31M | 20 mo ago | Series A | — | 2023 | Toshit Panigrahi Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 15 | Augmented Intelligence Developer of neuro-symbolic AI platform for building conversational agents 69AI top 8%Funding top 26%Talent top 38%Market top 49% All 6 signals ▾AItop 8% Fundingtop 26% Talenttop 38% Markettop 49% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 45% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Funding: Raised $30.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $30M | 7 mo ago | Series B | 109 | 2017 | Ohad Elhelo Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 16 | io.net Decentralized GPU cloud platform for AI and machine learning workloads | $30M | 27 mo ago | Series A | 11 | 2022 | Saad Alenezi Co-Founder | — | — |
| 17 | Patronus Automated evaluation and security platform | $23M | 24 mo ago | Series A | — | 2023 | Rebecca Qian Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 18 | Modal 🦄 Provider of serverless platform for developing and deploying AI applications 78Funding top 23%AI top 26%Growth top 28%Tech top 28% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% AItop 26% Growthtop 28% Techtop 28% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Newstop 43% Globalbottom 45% Marketbottom 43% Funding: Raised $23.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: generative ai, machine learning rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $23M | 1 mo ago | Series C | 10 | 2021 | Erik Bernhardsson Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 launch |
| 19 | Sequen Provider of behavior design engine optimizing user experience and business outcomes 65Funding top 26%Talent top 35%Global bottom 33% All 3 signals ▾Fundingtop 26% Talenttop 35% Globalbottom 33% Funding: Raised $22.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 65/100 | $22M | 3 mo ago | Series A | — | 2024 | Mo Afshar Co-Founder | — | — |
| 20 | Adaptive ML Cloud-based platform for building and testing large language models | $20M | 27 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Julien Launay Co-Founder & CEO | 11 patents Fire‑resistant UAVs for aerial wildfire suppression and fire‑fighting operations | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 21 | Pienso Cloud based unstructured data analytics platform | $17M | 27 mo ago | Series A | 10 10 → 23 (+130%) | 2016 | Karthik Dinakar Co-Founder | — | — |
| 22 | Cake Provider of an AI development platform with pre-integrated open-source components | $13M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | Skyler Thomas Co-Founder & CTO | 5 patents Online-to-offline commerce facilitation and activity tracking | — |
| 23 | Paxos Provider of infrastructure for issuing branded stablecoins and tokenized yield products | $12M | 5 mo ago | Series B | — | 2025 | Bhaumik Kotecha Co-Founder | — | 2 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 24 | Runlayer Provider of a platform for managing and securing MCPs 55Talent top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 37%Tech top 46% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Fundingtop 37% Techtop 46% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 36% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $11M | 7 mo ago | Seed | — | 2025 | Andrew Berman Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 25 | Revin Provider of AI-powered customer service for home service industries | $11M | 10 mo ago | Series B | — | 2024 | Quinn Litherland Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 26 | Protege Provider of platform that connects data holders and model builders 60Talent top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 31%Tech top 34% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Fundingtop 31% Techtop 34% Moattop 39% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 32% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $10M | 5 mo ago | Series A | — | 2024 | Engy Ziedan Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer | — | 4 partnerships |
| 27 | OpenGradient Decentralized platform for scaling verifiable AI 78AI top 20%Tech top 23%Growth top 28%Funding top 37% All 7 signals ▾AItop 20% Techtop 23% Growthtop 28% Fundingtop 37% Globaltop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 47% AI: Classified as an AI company Tech: 44 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $8M | 2 mo ago | Seed | — | 2024 | Adam B Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 28 | Everstar AI Developer of artificial intelligence to accelerate nuclear power deployment | $8M | 16 mo ago | Seed | — | 2024 | Kevin Kong Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 29 | Daytona Provider of secure and elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code 64AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 35%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 35% Growthtop 35% Newstop 36% Techtop 43% Moattop 48% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 36% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $7M | 4 mo ago | Series A | — | 2023 | Goran Draganic Co-Founder | — | — |
| 30 | Oort Provider of decentralized AI data collection, processing, and monetization services | $6M | 29 mo ago | Seed | 36 | 2021 | Chong Li Founder | — | — |
| 31 | true AI-powered lending intelligence software | $6M | 18 mo ago | Series A | 32 | 2017 | Ari Gross Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 32 | Channel3 Developer of an API providing product data and monetization tools | $6M | 6 mo ago | Seed | — | 2025 | George Lawrence Co-Founder & CTO | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 33 | Fraction AI Platform offering machine learning training data | $6M | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Rohan Tomar Co-Founder | — | 2 launchs |
| 34 | Ciphero AI Technologies Developer of technology focused on artificial intelligence security and safety 72AI top 22%Talent top 28%Funding top 34%Global bottom 36% All 4 signals ▾AItop 22% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 34% Globalbottom 36% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $6M | 2 mo ago | Series A | — | 2025 | Rob Gross Co-Founder | — | — |
| 35 | HoneyHive Provider of a platform for AI observability, evaluation, and prompt management | $6M | 14 mo ago | Seed | 4 | 2022 | Mohak Sharma Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 launch |
| 36 | Phidata Provider of framework for building AI Assistants with memory, knowledge, and tools | $5M | 22 mo ago | Series A | — | 2014 | Ashpreet B CEO | — | — |
| 37 | Vellum Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent workflows | $5M | 11 mo ago | Series A | 8 | 2023 | Noa Flaherty Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 38 | Cornerstone Developer of an AI assistant for cleaning healthcare data | $5M | 19 mo ago | Series A | 11 | 2014 | Andrew Howland Co-Founder & President | 52 patents Vacuum-insulated beverage containers and accessories for dispensing and preservation | — |
| 39 | PromptLayer Providing tools for tracking, managing, and sharing GPT prompt engineering | $5M | 16 mo ago | Seed | 3 | 2021 | Jonathan Pedoeem Co-Founder | — | 5 launchs |
| 40 | Vibranium Labs Provider of an AI platform for incident response and on-call | $5M | 9 mo ago | Seed | — | 2024 | Tanny Kang Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer | — | 1 launch |
| 41 | Datalinx Developer of an AI platform for data preparation and refinement | $4M | 4 mo ago | Seed | — | 2025 | Jeff Collins Co-Founder & CTO | 2 patents Testing and validation of broadband network performance and application services | — |
| 42 | Memori Developer of a memory fabric for enterprise artificial intelligence applications | $4M | 25 mo ago | Seed | — | 2024 | Michael Montero Co-Founder & CTO | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 43 | Libretto AI-powered tool designed for software developers | $4M | 26 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Sasha Aickin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 44 | Libretto Platform to generate and test prompts | $4M | 26 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Sasha Aickin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 45 | Hypr Developer of artificial intelligence architecture for robotic learning at run-time | $3M | 5 mo ago | Series A | — | 2017 | Werner Duvaud Co-Founder & Director of AI | 48 patents Mobile-initiated authentication and secure tokenized digital payment solutions | — |
| 46 | Deeptune Provider of simulation environments where AI agents practice complex digital work | $3M | 4 mo ago | Series A | — | 2022 | Tim Lupo Co-Founder & CEO | — | 1 job opening |
| 47 | Nobody Who Developer of on-device inference engine for local large language models | $2M | 6 mo ago | Seed | — | 2022 | Cecilie Falkenstrom Founder | — | 4 launchs |
| 48 | Modlee Machine learning model platform | $670K | 12 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Brad Magnetta Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 49 | CiferAI Developer of decentralized privacy-preserving AI infrastructure and collaborative learning platform | $650K | 6 mo ago | Seed | — | 2023 | Krikamol Muandet Co-Founder & CRO | — | — |
| 50 | Scott AI Developer of workspace software for engineering team alignment and specification design | $500K | 8 mo ago | Seed | — | 2025 | David Maulick Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
Top 12 AI Infrastructure companies in New York
#1
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2017 · 3 employees$1Braised▾
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2017 · 3 employees
Provider of managed high performance computing clusters for artificial intelligence. These infrastructure resources facilitate large scale model training and inference tasks. The hardware is isolated at the network and storage levels to ensure dedicated access for computational workloads. Engineering support maintains the systems to ensure operational availability for technical teams.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 87how this company ranks against its industry peers
Partners
top 12%Growth
top 14%Fin. health
top 19%Talent
top 23%Funding
top 25%News
top 26%Partners: 25 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 25 deals
Growth: Revenue +140% YoY · Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Fin. health: Revenue ~$67.3M · Revenue +140% YoY
Audience (LinkedIn): 22k LinkedIn followers — 2.2% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 partnerships · 1 expansions (incl. Anthropic) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jan 2026Series B$842.5M
- Feb 2025Series A$200M
- Feb 2019Seed$3M
Founders & team
Investors
Seedcamp, Mercuri, 7GC, SPROCKIT, Episode 1 Ventures, GMG Ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDocusignFramer SitesGoogle Analytics
#2
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2025$2.1Braised▾
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2025
Developer of autonomous coding systems. It utilizes artificial intelligence and reinforcement learning to build tools that automate coding tasks. The platform provides a coding agent API that helps automate rote engineering work. It integrates with organizations codebase and engineering workflows to streamline development tasks. It leverages reinforcement learning and large language models to create AI systems that helps in writing, debugging, and optimizing code.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 84how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 12%Growth
top 28%AI
top 30%Moat
top 32%Tech
top 34%Talent
top 38%Funding: Raised $2.1B across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 1 yrs (3.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Oct 2025)
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Audience (LinkedIn): 25k LinkedIn followers — 2.5% of this cohort's audience · 283 engagements/post (2.9× cohort median)
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public)
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches · 2 partnerships · 1 expansions (incl. Dell Technologies) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Oct 2025Series B$2B
- Mar 2025Series A$105M
- Mar 2025Seed$25M
Founders & team
Investors
Sequoia Capital, CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVentures, Databricks, SV Angel
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailGodaddyGoogle Tag ManagerGoogle WorkspaceHstsHubspot
#3
Series D · New York City, New York · founded 2022 · 15 employees$101Mraised▾
Series D · New York City, New York · founded 2022 · 15 employees
AI platform for speech, voice cloning, music, and AI agents. It provides tools for creating realistic speech, converting text to natural-sounding audio, cloning voices, generating music and sound effects, and building conversational AI agents. It serves developers, enterprises, and creators through APIs and integrated products designed for applications such as content production, customer support automation, media localization, and interactive AI experiences.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 93how this company ranks against its industry peers
Customers
top 10%Funding
top 14%Growth
top 18%Tech
top 19%AI
top 20%News
top 23%Customers: Play-Store rating 4.76★ across 129,012 ratings (1 apps)
Funding: Raised $101M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 3 yrs (2.3/yr) · Last round Series D (Mar 2026)
Growth: App-install growth +500% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 338k LinkedIn followers — 33.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 4 product launches · 1 partnerships · 2 expansions (incl. Google DeepMind) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series D$20M
- Feb 2026Series D$500M
- Sep 2025Series C$10M
- Jun 2025Series C—
Founders & team
Investors
Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Smash Capital, SV Angel
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBase UiCloudflare
#4
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2023$60.1Mraised▾
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2023
Platform offering access to LLM models. It offers access to solutions including GPT-4 32K and Google PaLM, for developers to use in their AI models. The platform offers API keys for authentication and allows for batch calling of Chat Completion.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 84how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 20%Market
top 28%Tech
top 28%Talent
top 28%AI
top 30%Moat
top 37%Funding: Raised $60.1M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series B (May 2026)
Market: Top-50,000 web property · Unicorn
Tech: 40 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Ses, Amazon Web Services · Observability: Datadog, Sentry
Audience (LinkedIn): 20k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 3 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. Coinbase) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jun 2025Series A$47.6M
- Jun 2025Seed$12.5M
Founders & team
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, CapitalG, NVentures, ServiceNow
Tech stack
AlgoliaAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBase UiClerk
#5
Modal 🦄Series C · New York City, New York · founded 2021 · 10 employees$23Mraised▾
Modal 🦄
Series C · New York City, New York · founded 2021 · 10 employees
Provider of serverless platform for developing and deploying AI applications. The platform offers tools for scaling machine learning inference, data processing, and other compute-intensive tasks. It provides features such as autoscaling, container management, and integration with cloud storage solutions. The platform supports various use cases, including generative AI, fine-tuning, and batch processing.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 23%AI
top 26%Growth
top 28%Tech
top 28%Moat
top 37%Talent
top 38%Funding: Raised $23.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) · Last round Series C (May 2026)
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: generative ai, machine learning
Growth: Web rank 1,000,000 → 500,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 26k LinkedIn followers — 2.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- May 2026Series C$355M
- Jul 2025Series B$87M
- Jun 2023Series A$16.5M
- 2022Seed$7M
Founders & team
Investors
Redpoint Ventures, Amplify, Lux Capital, Definition, General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementExpress
#6
Series A · Long Island City, New York · founded 2024$22Mraised▾
Series A · Long Island City, New York · founded 2024
Provider of behavior design engine optimizing user experience and business outcomes. It offers in-session behavior optimization using large event models. These models predict optimal user events based on designed outcomes. The engine delivers real-time, contextual application optimization. It provides solutions for search, recommendations, and chat to shape user actions. The engine offers auditing and insights for strategy adjustments.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 65how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 26%Talent
top 35%Global
bottom 33%Funding: Raised $22.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Mar 2026)
Talent: 3 named leaders on record
Global: Single-market focus (United States)
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Mar 2026Series A$16M
- May 2025Seed$6M
Founders & team
Investors
White Star Capital, Threshold, Greycroft, VINYL, Correlation Ventures
#7
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2024$8.5Mraised▾
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2024
Decentralized platform for scaling verifiable AI. The company offers a full-stack solution, including an application layer with a web interface for model hosting, developer tooling for model deployment management, and an execution layer with smart contracts supporting AI inferencing. The platform utilizes a blockchain with a heterogeneous AI compute architecture. It enables developers to leverage open-source models and build decentralized AI applications, focusing on model composability and secure inferencing through cryptographic verification. The company also conducts research in areas such as DeFi risk analysis and AMM optimization.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 78how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Tech
top 23%Growth
top 28%Funding
top 37%Global
top 45%Talent
bottom 49%AI: Classified as an AI company
Tech: 44 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Devops: Nginx, Varnish
Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 1,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Seed—
- Oct 2024Seed$8.5M
Founders & team
Investors
a16zcrypto, Coinbase, SV Angel, SALT, Symbolic Capital, Foresight Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesBase UiEmotionFastly
#8
Series A · New York, New York · founded 2025$5.8Mraised▾
Series A · New York, New York · founded 2025
Developer of technology focused on artificial intelligence security and safety. It builds technology designed to enhance the security and safety of artificial intelligence. The company focuses on developing solutions for the future of humanity. It is actively hiring engineers with expertise in machine learning, security, natural language processing, and full-stack development.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 72how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 22%Talent
top 28%Funding
top 34%Global
bottom 36%AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $5.8M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 371 LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Ciphero) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series A$3.2M
- Dec 2025Seed$2.5M
Founders & team
Investors
Sovereign's Capital, Chingona Ventures, BlueWing, Bullpen Capital, Everywhere, Propeller
#9
Series B · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2017 · 109 employees$30Mraised▾
Series B · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2017 · 109 employees
Developer of neuro-symbolic AI platform for building conversational agents. The platform combines generative and symbolic AI to create agents that converse fluently and act reliably. It enables structured reasoning, steerable outputs, and reliable actions without sacrificing conversational fluency. The platform allows companies to fine-tune the AI for guided experiences, multiple tools, guardrails, and live integrations.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 8%Funding
top 26%Talent
top 38%Market
top 49%Global
bottom 48%Tech
bottom 45%AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company
Funding: Raised $30.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Nov 2025)
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding rounds
- Nov 2025Series B$20M
- Sep 2024Series A$10M
Founders & team
Investors
New Era Capital Partners, eGateway, Argo Investments, NewEra
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesGoogle WorkspaceHstsNext.JsNode.JsOpen Graph
#10
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2024$10Mraised▾
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2024
Provider of platform that connects data holders and model builders. It enables the safe and secure sharing of training data for artificial intelligence (AI) models, empowering data-driven innovation.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 60how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%AI
top 30%Funding
top 31%Tech
top 34%Moat
top 39%Global
bottom 36%Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Funding: Raised $10.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Jan 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 4 partnerships (incl. VLGE AI) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Jan 2026Series A$30M
- Aug 2025Series A$25M
- Sep 2024Seed$10M
Founders & team
Investors
CRV, SV Angel, Liquid 2 Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Flex Capital, Footwork
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebot
#11
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2023$7Mraised▾
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2023
Provider of secure and elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code. It offers isolated environments for executing code, file system operations, and Git integration. The platform supports programmatic control, language server features, and real-time analysis. It facilitates AI evaluations, code interpretation, and coding agents.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Talent
top 28%Funding
top 35%Growth
top 35%News
top 36%Tech
top 43%AI: Classified as an AI company
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $7.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 3 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series A (Feb 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 13k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- Feb 2026Series A$24M
- Jun 2024Seed$5M
- Nov 2023Seed$2M
Founders & team
Investors
Upfront Ventures, e2vc, 500 Global, Tiny, Silicon Gardens, Firestreak Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
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Series B · New York, New York · founded 2025$12Mraised▾
Series B · New York, New York · founded 2025
Provider of infrastructure for issuing branded stablecoins and tokenized yield products. It offers APIs for collateral management, yield distribution, reporting, and liquidity optimization. It enables partners to integrate on-chain financial products within their own workflows. It operates under Paxos’s regulatory framework to deliver compliant, programmable digital assets.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 3 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. Para) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Series B$12M
Founders & team
Investors
Blockchain Capital, Robvc, Maelstrom, Uniswap
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareGoogle Font ApiGoogle Hosted Libraries
Funding & investor landscape
$5.8Btotal disclosed funding
83companies funded
161disclosed rounds
4rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Y Combinator11 rounds
SV Angel5 rounds
Notable founders
Daniel Fedder
Co-Founder · FluidStack
Peixian Wu
Co-Founder · FluidStack
Misha Laskin
Co-Founder & CEO · ReflectionAI
Ioannis Antonoglou
Co-Founder & CTO · ReflectionAI
Mati Staniszewski
Co-Founder & CEO · ElevenLabs
Piotr Dabkowski
Co-Founder & CTO · ElevenLabs
Chris Clark
Co-Founder & COO · OpenRouter
Louis Vichy
Co-Founder · OpenRouter
Erik Bernhardsson
Co-Founder & CEO · Modal
Akshat Bubna
Co-Founder & CTO · Modal
Mo Afshar
Co-Founder · Sequen
Alexander Thom
Co-Founder · Sequen
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,520,514 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of AI Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States
How research on AI Chips & Accelerators is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around AI Chips & Accelerators — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 530 United States-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
201620212026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 62% → 67% across 2016–2026.
top research entities
- Arizona State University47
- University of Central Florida31
- Georgia Institute of Technology22
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign21
- Columbia University20
leading researchers
Deliang Fan · Sumit Kumar Jha · Shihui Yin · Muhammad Rashedul Haq Rashed · Naresh R. Shanbhag · Rickard Ewetz · Mingoo Seok · Zhezhi He
▲
Breakthroughs341 · 64%
64%→64% share
▲1.0× share momentum6 median citations77% since 2021mostly methods-led
Parallel computing research is surging — papers rose from 9 to 50, driving 64% of breakthrough activity in US AI chip research.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Parallel computing9→50
- Computer architecture5→34
- Scalability3→27
- Static random-access memory2→23
- Embedded system3→21
Newly emergingArtificial neural network 0→30 · Inference 0→23 · Macro 0→14
Landmark In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit · 4,353 cites
◆
Advancements129 · 24%
▼ 36%→23% share
▼0.6× share momentum3 median citations74% since 2021mostly methods-led
Resistive random-access memory advancements are intensifying — papers nearly doubled from 6 to 13 within the advancements segment.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Parallel computing2→10
- Resistive random-access memory6→13
- Crossbar switch2→8
- In-Memory Processing1→4
- Scalability2→5
Newly emergingComputer architecture 0→19 · Artificial neural network 0→10 · Optoelectronics 0→9
Landmark Photonic In-Memory Computing Primitive for Spiking Neural Networks Using Phase-Change Materials · 139 cites
▼
Concerns49 · 9%
▲ 0%→10% share
4 median citations88% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns around AI chips are newly emerging — Resistive random-access memory, Artificial neural networks, and In-Memory Processing all appeared fresh at 10, 8, and 6 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Resistive random-access memory10
- Artificial neural network9
- Computer architecture8
- Crossbar switch6
- In-Memory Processing6
Newly emergingResistive random-access memory 0→10 · Artificial neural network 0→8 · In-Memory Processing 0→6
Landmark In-Memory Computing: Advances and Prospects · 410 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States
Where ai accelerators is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
New York35 · +0.73
SF Bay Area29 · +0.81
Atlanta23 · +0.63
Los Angeles17 · +0.83
San Diego11 · +0.87
Chicago10 · +0.77
Ann Arbor10 · +0.49
Boston8 · +0.79
Pittsburgh7 · +0.53
Austin6 · +0.55
PATENT SIGNAL · United States
Who's filing ai accelerators patents in the United States
United States ai accelerators patent filing is accelerating — 135,096 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Google, Microsoft; annual filings 1628→19890.
135,096 filings8,000 assigneespeak 22291/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- IBM11089
- Google8903
- Microsoft6399
- Intel6250
- Qualcomm4753
- Nvidia3254
- Adobe2461
- Capital One Services2200
Common questions
How many AI Infrastructure companies are there in New York, United States?
Radar tracks 163 indexable AI Infrastructure companies headquartered in New York, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by AI Infrastructure companies in New York, United States?
The AI Infrastructure companies in New York, United States on this list have raised a combined $5.8B in disclosed equity funding across 83 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded AI Infrastructure company in New York, United States?
ReflectionAI is the highest-funded AI Infrastructure company in New York, United States, with $2.1B in disclosed equity funding.
How many AI Infrastructure companies in New York, United States are funded?
83 of the 163 AI Infrastructure companies in New York, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many AI Infrastructure unicorns are there in New York, United States?
5 AI Infrastructure companies in New York, United States on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in New York, United States AI Infrastructure companies?
The most active investors in New York, United States AI Infrastructure companies on this list include Y Combinator, SV Angel, Alumni Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Databricks.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
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