Top Tech Startups in New York, US in 2027

At Snout, our mission is to ensure no one ever has to make a healthcare decision for their pet based on the money in their bank account. As a modern financing alternative to traditional pet insurance, Snout wellness plans cover 100% of routine veterinary care like vaccinations, unlimited visits, and other valuable member benefits — designed to be used, not forgotten. We help pet owners prioritize care while removing financial risk for veterinary practices.

Post-human ideas that once belonged to science fiction are becoming material reality, embedded into technical systems through AI, robotics, biotechnology and new forms of computation. Yaya Labs is a technology studio born from science fiction. It started with a humanoid robot: a vector for experimentation that led to our first personality protocol, an embodied AI persona trained on ethics, memory, aesthetics and emotional grounding, and road-tested at cultural events around the world. From there, we began exploring what happens when human wetware, artificial intelligence and machine systems begin to converge. Today, Yaya Labs operates at the conceptual edge of human-machine relations, developing new interfaces between biology, technology and culture. We explore AI personality protocols, embodied intelligence, brain-computer interfaces and systems that challenge the boundaries of individual agency. The next phase of AI isn't simply about making machines more intelligent. It's about what happens when intelligence becomes embodied, networked and alive.

Realm is building the modern financial advisor for your house. Primary residences account for 62% of the average American’s total assets, but there’s no accessible platform homeowners can turn to for unbiased, actionable advice — until now. From the day you buy your home to the day you sell it, you’re making a series of expensive and confusing decisions. To navigate these decisions, homeowners try to cobble together information from biased experts, googling, and friends. Realm's free insights and tools help homeowners across the US make informed decisions. Our nationwide product is powered by technology, with a human touch. Our insights help homeowners navigate complex & expensive home decisions, ranging from how much to spend on a kitchen renovation to when to refinance.

Ethos is on a mission to transform how banks govern their AI and machine learning models. We're an early-stage startup in NYC backed by leading investors, including Better Tomorrow Ventures and Capital One Ventures. AI and machine learning models are already used today for many of the most critical decisions in society. Especially in financial services, this technology comes with deep questions around testing and governing these models to make sure their behaviors are trustworthy. We started Ethos because we saw firsthand the critical need for a modern platform for Model Risk Management in financial services. Changing technologies and regulatory requirements pose huge challenges for the industry, as well as enormous opportunities for positive change. At Ethos, you will be a fundamental part of this change.

Peerbound is the AI platform that helps you find, create, and deliver customer proof at scale. Win your market by unlocking and amplifying the voices of your happy customers.

Starbridge.ai connects providers of software and services with public sector buyers. Founded by entrepreneurs who previously built and sold a public sector software company for nine figures. We believe that founders avoid sectors like government, education, and healthcare due to perceived barriers and red tape. Our mission is to simplify entry into these sectors, empowering a new generation of mission-driven unicorns. Like OpenAI and Stripe, we aim to enable startups, but on a larger scale: some of our early customers are solving student debt & homelessness. This role is an NYC based position for someone who will lead one of our products from 0 to 1 and work directly with the founders. We are looking for someone who is an incredibly fast learner, entrepeneurial and adaptable, that also has experience building full-stack web applications and demonstrated ability to build a great product. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work hands on with LLM's, some of the problems we are solving include: Scraping data at scale using GPT powered web scraper and creating insights (you should sell to New York City this product) on top of the data. AI powered proposal automation: rather than write an RFP from scratch use our GPT powered writer that references your product documentation FOIA automation: extracting purchasing data from government entities at scale using a GPT agent that interacts with government entities to get data.

Kombo (YC S22) is building a unified API for HR, payroll and recruiting systems that saves engineering teams hundreds of hours by needing to integrate only one API instead of 50+. We raised $8M+, hit strong product market fit (0-> $4M+ ARR in 2-years) and are processing the equivalent data of ~10% of Germany's workforce. Culturally, we are looking for ambitious yet kind builders - we like to describe ourselves as a "SF startup but in Berlin".