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Best Natural Language Processing Companies in New York, United States

The 39 best Natural Language Processing companies in New York, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ElevenLabs.

39companies tracked
$373.7Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
24have raised

Ranked: Best Natural Language Processing companies in New York

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1ElevenLabs 🦄
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
$101M5 mo ago15Mati Staniszewski
Co-Founder & CEO
SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+29—4 launchs · 1 partnership · 2 expansions
2Planck
Provider of GenAI-powered risk insights and underwriting solutions for commercial insurance
$73M30 mo ago80Amir Cohen
Co Founder and CTO
Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+11——
3Leena AI
Provider of an autonomous conversational AI platform to serve enterprise internal employees
$40M59 mo ago268
268 → 292 (+9%)
Anand Prajapati
Co-Founder & CTO
SentryNode.jsReact+25—1 partnership
4Merlyn Mind
Developer of an AI voice assistant designed for classroom environments
$29M62 mo ago114Ravi Kokku
Co-Founder
WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+2523 patents
Multimodal user interfaces and remote-control task orchestration for intelligent devices.
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5Whiz
Provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions for healthcare industries
$21M46 mo ago106Amitabh Patil
Co-Founder & CTO
WebflowVimeocore-js+17——
6Loris
Platform offering conversational intelligence solutions
$19M52 mo ago47Nancy Lublin
Founder
———
7Agolo
AI powered unstructured data analytics platform
$18M53 mo ago46John Kanarowski
Chief Executive Officer
WebflowTypekitGoogle Font API+13——
8TextIQ
Provider of artificial intelligence software for legal e-discovery and analysis
$16M86 mo ago90Omar Haroun
Co-Founder
———
9Yseop
Provider of automated natural language generation software for regulatory writing
$13M33 mo ago84Alain Kaeser
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer​
WordPressPleskApple iCloud Mail+38—2 awards
10Agamon
AI and cloud-based online platform offering clinical data analytics
$10M46 mo ago22————
11Ayfie
Cloud based text analytics and enterprise search platform
$10M84 mo ago30—HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+18——
12Resolute AI
Provider of tools for researchers to find, access, and organize research
$7M64 mo ago10——20 patents
Engineered cellulosic fibers and filter/composite materials for high‑performance filtration
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13FinTech Studios
Provider of AI-based business and regulatory intelligence from global sources
$7M84 mo ago13
13 → 9 (-31%)
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14Vellum
Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent workflows
$5M13 mo ago8Noa Flaherty
Co-Founder & CTO
Webflow EcommerceWebflowSentry+24——
15dMetrics
AI/NLP platform empowering domain experts with accessible, transparent, and scalable AI
$2M158 mo ago25Paul Nemirovsky
Co-Founder & CEO
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16Dasha
Developer of a platform for building conversational voice AI applications
$2M89 mo ago35—SentryAmazon Web ServicesAzure+35——
17SkyPhrase
NLP powered text data analytics platform
$250K160 mo ago4————
18BUDDI.Ai
AI-based clinical and revenue cycle automation platform
$201K155 mo ago350Venkatesh Prabhu
Co-Founder
WordPressMySQLPHP+22——
19Xplr
Intelligent Data Exploration Platform
$150K168 mo ago—Stéphane Bonhomme
Co-Founder
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Top 12 Natural Language Processing companies in New York

#1
Series D · New York City, New York · founded 2022 · 15 employees
$101Mraised
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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 — 61.2% 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
Mati StaniszewskiCo-Founder & CEOPiotr DabkowskiCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Smash Capital, SV Angel
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailBase UiCloudflare
#2
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2023 · 8 employees
$5.1Mraised
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Provider of a platform for building and deploying AI agent workflows. The platform allows users to create agents that automate tasks across various business functions. It offers integrations with numerous applications and provides tools for monitoring and interacting with agents. The platform supports custom interfaces and code-based agent deployment.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series A$20M
  • Jul 2023Seed$5M
  • 2023Seed$500K
Founders & team
Noa FlahertyCo-Founder & CTOAkash SharmaCo-Founder & CEOSidd SeethepalliCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Rebel Fund, Eastlink Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, Leaders Fund, Socii Capital
Tech stack
ClickceaseCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Cloud
#3
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2016 · 80 employees
$72.6Mraised
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Provider of GenAI-powered risk insights and underwriting solutions for commercial insurance. It offers a platform that leverages generative AI to analyze business risk, classify businesses, and provide insights for underwriting. The platform offers data and classifications, a risk workbench, and a chat interface to assist underwriters in risk assessment and decision-making. It provides solutions for streamlining underwriting processes, improving data accuracy, and uncovering potential risks. The company's solutions are designed for enterprise-level integration across the insurance continuum, from lead generation to policy monitoring.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers · 24 engagements/post (2.1× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Series D$1.6M
  • Apr 2023Series D—
  • Sep 2022Series D$23M
  • May 2021Series C$20M
Founders & team
Amir CohenCo Founder and CTO
Investors
Arbor Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures, Viola Group, 3L Capital, Team8, Greenfield Partners
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesDreamdataFramer SitesGoogle Analytics
#4
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2008 · 84 employees
$12.6Mraised
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Provider of automated natural language generation software for regulatory writing. The software streamlines document creation, ensures compliance, and accelerates submission timelines. It automates core reporting tasks, reduces drafting time, and enhances team collaboration. The platform integrates regulatory standards directly into document creation, automating compliance checks and minimizing risk.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 15k LinkedIn followers — 2.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series A—
  • Jun 2018Series A$9.3M
Founders & team
Alain KaeserCo-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer​Emmanuel WalckenaerCEO
Investors
NextStage AM, Wille Finance, Novartis, Lilly, Chowdahead Growth Fund
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerApple Icloud MailAstraCloudflare
#5
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2017 · 106 employees
$21Mraised
▾

Provider of data, analytics, and technology solutions for healthcare industries. The company offers services across life sciences, including research and development, real-world evidence, and commercialization. It provides solutions for pharmaceutical, MedTech, and emerging biopharma companies. The company also serves financial institutions, government, public health organizations, and patient organizations.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2022Series A—
  • Dec 2021Series A$8M
  • Jun 2020Seed$5.8M
  • Dec 2018Seed$1.1M
Founders & team
Amitabh PatilCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
AmerisourceBergen, Shanda, Vertical Venture Partners, Healthy Ventures, Trigyn Technologies, Bling Capital
#6
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2015 · 268 employees
$40.1Mraised
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Provider of an autonomous conversational AI platform to serve enterprise internal employees. It offers a suite of enterprise products primarily centered around its autonomous AI assistants designed to automate and enhance employee support and workflows across multiple business functions. The company's products include Enterprise autonomous agent, workflow automation, Knowledge management and analytics.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 155k LinkedIn followers — 28.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Thrive) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Series B$30M
  • Nov 2020Series A$8M
  • Aug 2018Seed$2M
  • Jun 2018Seed$120K
Founders & team
Anand PrajapatiCo-Founder & CTOMayank GoyalCo-Founder & Chief Scientist & Head of AIAdit JainCo Founder & CEO
Investors
Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greycroft, B Capital, FundersClub, Quiet Capital
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesBabelCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#7
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2018 · 47 employees
$19.1Mraised
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Platform offering conversational intelligence solutions. The platform offers conversation navigation solution around harassment and other charged topics. It could be used by businesses to improve internal culture and by the sales and customer care teams. Employees could be trained and educated around conversations regarding performance, human relations, upset customers, firings and layoffs, and diversity and inclusion.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Engineering Manager, Senior Backend Engineer
Activity: 1 awards announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series A$12M
  • Dec 2019Seed$5.1M
  • Feb 2018Seed$2M
Founders & team
Nancy LublinFounderEtie HertzChief Executive Officer
Investors
Kapor Capital, Omidyar Network, Homebrew, Precursor Ventures, WeWork, Floodgate
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpHello ElementorWpmu Dev SmushElementor
#8
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2012 · 46 employees
$18Mraised
▾

AI-powered unstructured data analytics platform. It offers summarization as a service by leveraging natural language processing and machine learning tools to generate insight. It provides summarization capabilities for extracting information from enterprise documents. It enables users to identify and reconcile data errors, extract data trends, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 9k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2022Series A—
  • May 2017Seed$3.5M
  • Aug 2015Seed—
  • Jun 2013Seed$40K
Founders & team
John KanarowskiChief Executive Officer
Investors
CRV, Point72 Ventures, Franklin Templeton Investments, M12, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, Lytical Ventures
Tech stack
CloudflareGreenhouseCdnjsHstsPwaOpen Graph
#9
Series B · New York City, New York · founded 2004 · 114 employees
$29Mraised
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Developer of an AI voice assistant designed for classroom environments. The AI assistant offers voice control of technology and generative AI chat. It aims to reduce technology-related stress and increase student engagement. The AI is built on a language model designed for educational content and resources.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2021Series B$29M
Founders & team
Ravi KokkuCo-FounderSatya NittaCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Learn Capital, Noetic Psychedelic Fund, Fifth Down Capital
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#10
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2018 · 22 employees
$10Mraised
▾

AI and cloud-based online platform offering clinical data analytics. The platform enables healthcare providers to access health data. The platform provides insights based on clinical data analytics. It has features for detecting actionable findings in radiology reports for professionals.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 4k LinkedIn followers · 151 engagements/post (13.2× cohort median)
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. Caris Life Sciences) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Seed$5M
  • Jun 2020Seed$3M
Investors
eHealth Ventures, MMC Ventures, Inhealth Ventures, Seedcamp, G4A, Florida-Israel Business Accelerator
#11
Acqui-Hired · New York City, New York · founded 2014 · 90 employees
$16Mraised
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Provider of artificial intelligence software for legal e-discovery and analysis. The software transforms complex data into insights, offering proactive security features. It supports legal hold, early case assessment, investigations, and contract review. The platform provides capabilities such as A/V transcription and conversational AI collection. It also offers tools for data breach response and case strategy.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2019Series A$12.7M
  • May 2017Series A—
  • 2016Series A$3M
  • May 2015Seed$300K
Founders & team
Omar HarounCo-Founder
Investors
FirstMark, Sierra Ventures, Alchemist Accelerator, Floodgate, Intel, Pathbreaker Ventures
Tech stack
YoutubeBootstrapVimeoAmazon Web ServicesJsrenderJsobservable
#12
Acquired · New York, New York · founded 2015 · 10 employees
$7.1Mraised
▾

Provider of tools for researchers to find, access, and organize research. It offers a platform providing streamlined access to scholarly articles, book chapters, and conference papers. The platform supplements school collections with access to journals and usage tracking. It also provides an AI-powered research tool showing how claims are supported across literature. A reference management tool helps organizations organize, share, and collaborate on scholarly literature.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2021Series A$1.6M
  • Jul 2019Series A$1M
  • Sep 2017Series A$4.6M
Investors
Revolution, MIT Alumni Angels of Boston
Tech stack
Hubspot Cms HubGoogle AdsHubspotLinkedin Insight TagLinkedin AdsJquery

Funding & investor landscape

$373.7Mtotal disclosed funding
21companies funded
51disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Alchemist Accelerator2 rounds
Cerity Partners Ventures2 rounds
Floodgate2 rounds
Y Combinator2 rounds
3L Capital1 rounds
5G Open Innovation Lab1 rounds
AAF Management1 rounds
Accel1 rounds
Alumni Ventures1 rounds
AmerisourceBergen1 rounds

Notable founders

Mati Staniszewski
Co-Founder & CEO · ElevenLabs
Piotr Dabkowski
Co-Founder & CTO · ElevenLabs
Noa Flaherty
Co-Founder & CTO · Vellum
Akash Sharma
Co-Founder & CEO · Vellum
Amir Cohen
Co Founder and CTO · Planck
Alain Kaeser
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer​ · Yseop
Emmanuel Walckenaer
CEO · Yseop
Amitabh Patil
Co-Founder & CTO · Whiz
Anand Prajapati
Co-Founder & CTO · Leena AI
Mayank Goyal
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist & Head of AI · Leena AI
Nancy Lublin
Founder · Loris
Etie Hertz
Chief Executive Officer · Loris
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,745,135 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Natural Language Processing coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time flat

Funding & growth over time

funding flat · growth flat

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States

How research on Natural Language Processing is moving in the United States

A read on the academic research around Natural Language Processing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 5,087 United States-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 24% → 38% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • Stanford University209
  • Carnegie Mellon University173
  • Google170
  • University of Washington104
  • Johns Hopkins University97
leading researchers
Christopher D. Manning · Lee Sharks · Richard Socher · Percy Liang · Bing Liu · Quoc V. Le · Jianfeng Gao · Noah A. Smith
▲ Breakthroughs2,251 · 44%
▼ 48%→43% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations69% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are cooling (48%→43% of field), led by Language model.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Language model19→149
  • Semantics (computer science)25→119
  • Benchmark (surveying)24→113
  • Key (lock)2→86
  • Feature (linguistics)18→95
Newly emergingScalability 0→73 · Transformer 0→61 · Robustness (evolution) 0→45
Landmark Glove: Global Vectors for Word Representation · 33,362 cites
◆ Advancements1,214 · 24%
▼ 26%→24% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations73% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (26%→24% of field), led by Language model.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Language model7→74
  • Context (archaeology)15→59
  • Generative grammar3→46
  • Key (lock)3→43
  • Task (project management)28→61
Newly emergingTransformer 0→24 · Generative model 0→23 · Chatbot 0→17
Landmark Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality · 18,060 cites
▼ Concerns729 · 14%
▲ 12%→15% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations77% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are rising (12%→15% of field), led by Language model.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Language model1→65
  • Feature (linguistics)1→35
  • Context (archaeology)8→40
  • Key (lock)1→31
  • Semantics (computer science)2→30
Newly emergingGenerative grammar 0→33 · Benchmark (surveying) 0→30 · Reliability (semiconductor) 0→13
Landmark The Chip Is the Network: Toward a Science of Network-on-Chip Design · 6,110 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States

Where nlp 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.

SF Bay Area331 · +0.56
Hot · Natural language processingAdvancing · ParsingOpportunity · Reliability (semiconductor)Concern · Data science
Boston304 · +0.52
Hot · DocumentationAdvancing · Semantics (computer science)Opportunity · ScalabilityConcern · Variation (astronomy)
New York265 · +0.44
Hot · SemEvalAdvancing · Face (sociological concept)Opportunity · ScalabilityConcern · Empirical research
Pittsburgh218 · +0.52
Hot · Natural language processingAdvancing · ModalitiesOpportunity · Information extractionConcern · Machine translation
Seattle152 · +0.50
Hot · Commonsense reasoningAdvancing · Open domainOpportunity · ENCODEConcern · Task (project management)
Chicago110 · +0.51
Hot · Social mediaAdvancing · Data modelingOpportunity · Baseline (sea)Concern · Sentiment analysis
Atlanta110 · +0.60
Hot · Matching (statistics)Advancing · Foundation (evidence)Opportunity · AnnotationConcern · Natural language processing
Philadelphia110 · +0.48
Hot · CalibrationAdvancing · Unified Medical Language SystemOpportunity · Language modelConcern · Linguistics
Los Angeles103 · +0.53
Hot · Domain (mathematical analysis)Advancing · Domain knowledgeOpportunity · Code (set theory)
San Diego61 · +0.46
Hot · Data modelingAdvancing · Speech recognitionOpportunity · ScalabilityConcern · Comprehension
PATENT SIGNAL · United States

Who's filing nlp patents in the United States

United States nlp patent filing is accelerating — 3,366 filings from 1,105 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Microsoft, Google; annual filings 265→347.

3,366 filings1,105 assigneespeak 433/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • IBM1054
  • Microsoft271
  • Google206
  • Amazon145
  • Oracle107
  • Salesforce COM102
  • Xerox79
  • BANK Of America70

Common questions

How many Natural Language Processing companies are there in New York, United States?
Radar tracks 39 indexable Natural Language Processing companies headquartered in New York, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Natural Language Processing companies in New York, United States?
The Natural Language Processing companies in New York, United States on this list have raised a combined $373.7M in disclosed equity funding across 21 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Natural Language Processing company in New York, United States?
ElevenLabs is the highest-funded Natural Language Processing company in New York, United States, with $101M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Natural Language Processing companies in New York, United States are funded?
21 of the 39 Natural Language Processing companies in New York, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Natural Language Processing unicorns are there in New York, United States?
1 Natural Language Processing company in New York, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in New York, United States Natural Language Processing companies?
The most active investors in New York, United States Natural Language Processing companies on this list include Alchemist Accelerator, Cerity Partners Ventures, Floodgate, Y Combinator, 3L Capital.
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