We're thrilled to introduce our Fall 2025 Grand Central Tech Cohort—a remarkable group of founders and early-stage companies representing the full breadth of AI innovation in NYC today. Some are building foundational AI capabilities and infrastructure, while others are deploying AI to transform established industries—from insurance and franchising to manufacturing and healthcare.
For over a decade, Grand Central Tech has been home to more than 400 founders building the next generation of tech companies. Together, they've created 220+ companies that have attracted over $4.8B in backing from top-tier investors.
Please join us in welcoming the Grand Central Tech Fall 2025 Cohort:
Advance is rebuilding financial infrastructure for insurance, turning premium flows into revenue. We provide free interest-bearing premium accounts, low-cost payment processing, and flow-of-funds visibility across every dollar moved. Optimize their yield, automate payables, and save thousands in processing fees with Advance.
Dakota Prep is the platform for tradespeople to launch, grow, and own their careers. Their first product, Exam Prep, helps electricians pass their licensing exams through an AI-powered app and tutor.
DigiChem is building a digital platform for developing and synthesizing specialty chemicals. DigiChem makes custom synthesis faster, simpler, and more efficient, from lab-scale to production.
Forgepoint builds AI workers for the manufacturing back office. Their agents handle critical but repetitive tasks like quoting, invoicing, and customer support so American manufacturers can focus on production.
GhostEye is building the first BAS platform to assess human-layer security vulnerabilities using AI agents that simulate complete breach scenarios. Their platform validates the full attack path—from social engineering compromise to data exfiltration—providing security teams with actionable intelligence on their organization's true risk exposure.
Glidepath is the AI platform purpose-built to empower franchise business owners. Using their Glidepath AI agent, prospective franchise owners can find the right opportunities, connect with leading brands, and successfully navigate the franchise ownership journey.
Joseph Brennan is exploring an AI company focused on biothreats as they relate to defense capabilities and priorities.
Nadav Timor and his team are building AI Infra House: the backbone of open-source AI. A community of contributors to vLLM and SGLang.
Polynomic is the AI-native way for brands to grow revenue through ads. Brands spend $431B on ad agencies that still run performance marketing on intuition and outdated playbooks. Powered by proprietary agentic reinforcement learning, their autonomous agents scan the entire ad universe, generate creatives, run thousands of ad experiments, and exploit underpriced opportunities to deliver 10x return on ad spend.
Retriever is customer intelligence for conversational AI. Retriever builds persistent user profiles from every chat interaction, enabling their AI to personalize experiences while giving ytheir team the insights to impact engagement, retention, and churn. Built by second-time founders who've deployed AI at Fortune 500 scale.
Sonder Health is an AI-native platform that streamlines transitions of care to unlock operational efficiencies while increasing revenue for health systems and post-acute care facilities.
Trapeze is building AI medical scheduling agents for specialty clinics.
Trestle is building Ledger, a data management system purpose-built for collecting and reporting data to the government. It automates data re-entry into government systems, redesigns data collection with seamless workflows, and gives administrators direct control over collection methods. The result: a dramatic reduction in administrative burden, freeing government contractors to focus on delivering critical public services.
These companies join the Spring 2025 cohort in their space at Grand Central: 2nd Set AI, Alchemi, Architect Health, Keru.ai, Krexin, Prefix, and Quantro Security.
Applications are open on a rolling basis, and in early 2026 we will begin screening for the Spring 2026 cohort. To join and build alongside these exceptional teams, apply now.