founders in new york
new york founders build around finance, media and fashion in new york city, optics and advanced manufacturing upstate, and research universities across the state, with the harbor moving goods in and out. reagent capital and reagent creative fit the city, and reagent matter fits the upstate factories.
talk to reagentnew york at a glance
- new business applications
- 324,822
- filed in the twelve months to september 2026, up 10.2% on the twelve months before.
- likely employers
- 121,215
- applications the Census Bureau flags as likely to hire, over the same twelve months.
- economy
- $2.47 trillion
- gross domestic product in 2025, up 5.9% on the year before in current dollars.
- population
- 20.0 million
- residents in 2025, about $123,273 of output per person.
- manufacturing jobs
- 397,600
- people employed in manufacturing, september 2026.
our companies
- reagent capital funding the earliest stage.
- reagent creative the community and the craft.
- reagent matter materials and physical products.
- reagent defense technology that protects.
- reagent logistics moving what we make.
- reagent research open science and new architectures.
also serving
all areas servedsources
- business applications, U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics
- high-propensity business applications, U.S. Census Bureau
- gross domestic product, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- resident population, U.S. Census Bureau
- manufacturing employees, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
figures retrieved 2026-11-07.