Since our founding in 2014, we've had the privilege of supporting more than 380 founders across 200+ companies, who have collectively raised $4.2+ billion in funding from the world's leading venture firms.
Today, we're proud to introduce our Spring 2025 Grand Central Tech Cohort – like their predecessors, this cohort represents the brightest tech talent in NYC. If building alongside exceptional companies like these is of interest, drop us a line.
Please join us in welcoming the Spring 2025 cohort to Grand Central Tech:
2nd Set AI is working in fundamental research in generative visual media.
Alchemi develops AI agents that accelerate Pharma R&D through automation, compliance, and seamless integration. It takes over 10 years and $2bn to bring a new therapy to market, driven largely by the millions of hours devoted to ensuring compliance and producing regulatory reports - Alchemi changes this by automating regulated workflows, thus cutting timelines, reducing costs, and increasing access to life saving medicines.
Architect Health is an AI-powered vendor management and evaluation platform that makes it easy for payers and their members to navigate virtual-first care vendors. Architect Health evaluates vendors for clinical efficacy and financial ROI, proactively recommends virtual care interventions for targeted member populations through agentic claims analyses, and automated procurement and RFPs to onboard new vendors.
Keru.ai is building a next-gen, portable, enterprise data platform that enables organizations to operationalize their most mission-critical data.
Krexin is an AI-powered asset-liability management platform that gives insurers and alternative asset managers capital-markets-grade analytics for the multi-trillion-dollar private credit market. By decomposing structured credit deals, derivatives, and insurance liabilities into basic building blocks inside a single engine, Krexin surfaces optimization levers that unlock capital, reduce regulatory friction, and boost risk-adjusted returns.
Persona is the AI customer insights team. Persona’s first product is an AI qualitative researcher that talks to customers and generates insights - in hours, not weeks.
Prefix helps leading financial institutions get the most from their data—whether buried in spreadsheets or spread across complex enterprise systems—by unifying it into a single, real-time source of truth without the headache of process change. With secure, tailored implementations, Prefix integrates seamlessly into existing workflows, unlocking the full potential of analytics, automation, and AI.
Quantro Security is building an AI analyst focused on risk reduction, starting with vulnerability management. GenAI is accelerating the discovery and weaponization of vulnerabilities, and slow, manual remediations leave organizations exposed to risk - by automating vulnerability management workflows end-to-end via a human-like AI Analyst experience, Quantro Security helps protect organizations and reduce their cybersecurity risks and saves valuable time for security engineers.
These companies join the exceptional teams at Distill, Docsum, Knox Networks, Ldgr, Lume Security, Manuscript, Permanence, Revin, Traversal and Unison Labs in the Fall 2024 cohort.
If building alongside these teams interests you, we're accepting applications for future cohorts on a rolling basis: Apply now.