Disclosures

AI in NYC is operated by AI Media Concepts Inc.. It publishes the AI in NYC Show, a weekly newsletter, a dinner series, an events calendar, a funding and deals tracker, the jobs index, the NYC AI Hiring Index and the NYC AI 100. The show is hosted by Rob May, Anna Kirk, Lauren Slyman and Stephen Messer, who are introduced on the about page.

It makes money in these ways:

• Sponsorship. Companies sponsor the show, the newsletter and the dinner series. Our current sponsors are Zo Computer, Datamatics, Boon.ai and Lorimer Ventures, and they are shown on the partnerships page.
• Paid job listings. Employers pay to list a role on the job board. A listing runs month to month and is sold together with a labelled paid listing in the newsletter.
• Dinner seats. A seat at the AI Founders & Builders Dinner is paid for by the guest, or given as a complimentary seat on application.

The show, the newsletter and the data on this site are free to watch, listen to and read.

Sponsorship and paid job listings are advertising. They sit apart from what we report, under these rules:

• Paid listings are labelled. Every role on the job board is a paid listing and is marked “Paid listing” on the board and on its own page. Its links to the employer are marked as sponsored. The listing that goes with it in the newsletter is labelled as paid too.
• Two separate things. The paid job board and the jobs index are different pages made in different ways. The board holds what employers send us. The index is read from companies’ own job boards every day, by the rules on the methodology page.
• Counted like anyone else. Hiring figures come only from public job boards, so the roles of a sponsor or of an employer who buys a listing are counted exactly as anyone else’s.
• Sponsorship is not endorsement. Sponsoring the show, the newsletter or a dinner does not mean we endorse a sponsor’s products, and sponsors do not control our editorial content.
• We can say no. The job board takes roles at AI companies, or AI roles at other companies, that candidates in New York can apply for, and we may decline a listing that does not fit.
• Applications are not ours. An application made through a listing goes directly to the hiring company. We do not see it and are not part of the hiring decision.
• Your data. We use analytics to improve the site and not for advertising. If we change what we collect or how we use it, the privacy policy is updated before the change takes effect.

Some of our sponsors are also companies in our data:

• Zo Computer is listed among the companies we cover.
• Datamatics is listed among the companies we cover.

The people behind AI in NYC do other things in the market we cover, and you should know what.

• Rob May, host: Co-Founder & CEO, Neurometric.
• Anna Kirk, host: Sales Lead, Thread AI.
• Lauren Slyman, host: User Researcher, Microsoft.
• Stephen Messer, host: Co-Founder, Collective[i].

Rob May has made more than a hundred angel investments in AI companies and writes the Investing in AI newsletter. Stephen Messer invests as an angel. Vik Chadha, who writes the weekly Hiring Index issues, is the founder and chief executive of Scalable Ventures and a general partner at Unbridled Ventures, and invests in early-stage companies.

Where a host’s company is also in our data:

• Microsoft (Lauren Slyman: User Researcher) has a New York office that we list among the big-technology outposts, outside the NYC AI 100.
• Collective[i] (Stephen Messer: Co-Founder) is on the NYC AI 100.

The rules that follow from that:

• Holdings do not touch the data. Our lists and datasets are compiled by published rules from public sources. Whether one of us holds an interest in a company has no effect on whether it is included, how it is ranked, or how it is counted.
• The deals tracker is checked entry by entry. Each entry in the funding and deals tracker is checked against the holdings of the people who compile it. Where one of them holds a financial interest in a company named in an entry, that entry carries a disclosure. A holding never decides whether an entry is included.
• Assume some overlap in the lists. We do not currently annotate the NYC AI 100 or the Hiring Index with holdings. The people behind AI in NYC have backed well over a hundred early-stage companies between them, so some of the companies we track are likely to be among them. That is one reason the lists are built by rule and not by judgment.

The show and the data are published by the same people, so we are not a neutral observer of the companies whose founders and executives we interview. A guest appearance is also one of the two ways a company enters our hiring coverage: we track the companies on the NYC AI 100 and the companies whose people have appeared on the show, wherever they publish their open roles through Greenhouse, Ashby or Lever. That rule is on the methodology page.

Once a company is tracked, its roles are counted by the same rules as every other company’s. Guests for the dinner series are sourced first from people who have been on the show.

Company and hiring data comes from the public posting interfaces that Greenhouse, Ashby, and Lever provide so that third parties can display a company’s open roles, and from public filings and announcements. We keep the derived figures and discard the posting text. We do not collect personal data from job postings.

If you subscribe to the newsletter, your address goes to beehiiv, the platform that sends it. Dinner requests and event submissions are stored so that we can review them, and an approved event is published without the name or email of the person who submitted it. We do not sell or rent personal information. How we handle it is governed by the privacy policy.