69 Best Startups in New York to Watch in 2025

Developer of low-latency and high-throughput broadband networks for AR/VR, IoT, robotics, and other emerging technologies.

Forbes is an American media company focused on business, technology, and finance.

Wavel.ai is a voice AI solution for scaling and localizing video content.

Jupiter Exchange is a swap aggregator on Solana.

Company providing user behavioral analytics for revenue optimization for websites and smartphone applications

Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.

Clearview AI is a software company offering a computer vision system using artificial intelligence for serving the law enforcement industry.

Owkin is a medical treatment and therapeutics company founded by Thomas Clozel. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to augment and develop medical and biological research.

Praxis is a membership-based community of creatives and technologists building a city-cryptostate.

Tempus, a technology company advancing precision medicine through the practical application of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Personetics' self-driving finance platform for banks to anticipate a customer's personalized banking needs through artificial intelligence.

Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.

ItBit is a platform for institutions and active investors to trade cryptocurrency assets.

SirionLabs provides a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform for enterprises.

Urban Electric Power is a Pearl River, New York-based developer of a zinc manganese dioxide battery technology. The company was spun out of the CUNY Energy Institute in 2013.

Alloy is a San Francisco-based software company developing a platform for inventory and shipment visibility, including sell-in and sell-through analytics.

Unqork is a software company that offers a no-code, software as a service (SaaS) development platform for creating and managing enterprise applications for companies providing insurance and financial services.

SAM Seamless Network is a cybersecurity technology platform that protects the connected home by tackling cyber security threats at the source.

BlockFi is a blockchain platform for high-interest crypto accounts and low-cost credit products.

A federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. It was founded in 2019 and is located in New York, New York.

Iguazio is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based data science company providing a multifunctional MLOps and machine learning automation-based solution for businesses in a variety of industries.

Zeel is a New York City-based provider of in-person and virtual on-demand massage and health services from vetted therapists.

Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.

Ramp is a New York-based company focusing on a finance automation platform.

Paige provides AI-based digital diagnostics and a vendor-neutral platform designed to drive diagnostic confidence and a more productive pathology workflow.

Antidote.me closes the gap between clinical trials and patients

Back Market is an online refurbished goods marketplace connecting consumers with sellers of electronic devices.

A company offering a full-service digital asset management platform with its own stablecoin cryptocurrency pegged to US treasury bonds called the Arca UST Coin.

Zocdoc is a company an online medical care appointment booking service.

Deep Instinct is a Tel Aviv- and New York City-based cybersecurity company that applies deep learning to cybersecurity.

InVision is New York City based startup building a collaborative and wireframing design tool.

Also known as the Daily Muse, The Muse is a company developing an online career platform that provides job listings and career advice to people. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator. It was founded in 2011 and is located in New York City, New York.

SmartAsset is a financial technology company that provides automated personalized financial advice. It participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

Voximplant is a Palo Alto, California-based company that provides a cloud communications platform with voice, video, and messaging solutions for enterprises, startups, and nonprofit organizations.

EquityZen is an international investment marketplace for shareholders to purchase and sell shares from pre-IPO companies.

TripleLift is an American multinational technology company developing a platform that enables scalability for native, branded content and OTT advertising.

A healthcare company using artificial intelligence to help track and predict the onset of human diseases.

MoneyLion is a mobile banking platform for borrowing, saving, and investing.

Big Time is a multiplayer action RPG that makes collectable NFTs accessible to everyone.

Yewno is a company that has built AI technology for research and idea generation.

An artificial intelligence company developing a platform that helps analysts process and understand information.

Handshake is a Caliornia-based college career recruiting network for college students, career centers, and employers.

Branch offers microloans through a free-to-download Android app in emerging markets.

Skillshare is a New York-based educational technology company offering an online learning community for creative entrepreneurs.

Abra offers a cryptocurrency trading application created to streamline online cryptocurrency transfers and investments.

Dataminr is a company providing a real-time AI platform delivering information on high-impact events and breaking news.

Nydig is a provider of bitcoin infrastructure and institutional financial services.

NestApple is a New York City-based real estate company.

A company offering a software platform for the commercial real estate industry that is leveraging big data and machine learning.

Wallaroo provides an enterprise AI platform that enables clients to deploy ML and analytics projects into production.

AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.

AlphaSense is a technology company that has developed an artificial intelligence platform for market intelligence and analysis. It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.

An insurance company using analytics and technology to offer insurance premiums to small businesses.

EDITED is a London-headquartered retail intelligence and real-time analytics platform.

Massive Bio is a New York-based company founded by Selin Kurnaz, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla and Cagatay M. Culcuoglu, offering precision oncology services to cancer patients, providers, and pharmaceutical companies.

A biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics to attack cancer stem cells.

Vestwell is a Manhattan-based digital retirement platform providing turnkey solutions for financial advisors.

Ocean Hugger Foods is making a plant-based raw tuna substitute called Ahimi out of a mixture of 5 ingredients; tomatoes, filtered water, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. The company is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2015.

Accern is a data design company automating research and data analysis using artificial intelligence.

K Health is an AI-powered health app that empowers consumers with health information based on the experiences of others.

Sure is an insurance technology company that powers digital insurance programs.

T-REX is a cloud-based SaaS company which combines big data and asset class expertise to provide solutions and enhance performance of complex investments, including renewable energy and structured credit markets.

Headout provides an online platform for locals and tourists to discover and book tours, excursions, day trips and get last-minute tickets to major tourist attractions, museums, shows and events. It was founded by Varun Khona, Suren Sultania, and Vikram Jit Singh in 2014 with headquarters in New York, USA.

Ocrolus is a solution provider of automated document reviews in the financial services industry.