AI is rebuilding every enterprise – finance, media, healthcare, real estate, fashion, energy markets, legal, advertising – on top of foundation models, agents, and the data infrastructure that makes them useful.
New York is the center of gravity for this transition. The enterprises being transformed are headquartered here. And the founders transforming these enterprises – those doing the messy work of deploying AI application by application, use case by use case – live here.
Lorimer exists to support these founders – and we obsess over these use cases. We are structurally closer to the buyer and the talent than firms anchored in the Bay. We back inception-stage founders building the systems of record, the workflows, and the infrastructure for the AI enterprise, from the city built to ship.
Founders building enterprise AI are moving where the buyers, the data, and the operators are. They’re choosing NYC.
Wall Street, Madison Avenue, Mount Sinai, Condé Nast, Hearst – the enterprises being transformed all live on the same island.
Our 100+ operator LPs sell, hire, and design alongside our founders. This compounding community reflects our 15+ years of building in NYC tech.
We back inception-stage founders rebuilding the systems and workflows the modern enterprise actually runs on.
Agents and AI-native software replacing the high-end services labor that runs the modern firm – research, analysis, drafting, decisioning.
Underwriting, credit, payments, and embedded finance – the workflows where AI changes both the unit economics and the risk model.
Measurement, attribution, and retention infrastructure for the brands rewriting their marketing on top of AI.
Software for a grid being rebuilt in real time – markets, trading, distributed assets, demand response, and the AI compute load itself.
Robotics, automation, and AI-native software bringing software margins to the physical economy – manufacturing, logistics, the built world.
The picks-and-shovels layer – data platforms, runtimes, and developer surfaces that every AI-native company will spend on.
Working memos, conversations, and writing from the Lorimer team on the AI enterprise build-out.
Why proximity to the buyer is the most underpriced edge in venture right now.
How agents will rebuild the services economy from the inside out.
Energy markets are getting rebuilt in software – and the operators are in NYC.
What 100+ operator LPs change about the way an inception-stage fund actually works.
A conversation on what writing the first check looks like in an AI-native world.
The data, runtime, and developer surfaces every AI-native company will buy.