Qohash selected for NYC’s inaugural International AI Landing Pad

What is the NYC International AI Landing Pad?

The NYC International AI Landing Pad is a first-of-its-kind program designed to bring the world’s most promising AI companies to New York City — not to pitch, but to deploy. Built in partnership with NYCEDC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, Airwallex, and Perkins Coie, the program selected 10 companies from hundreds of applicants across seven countries to prove their technology inside the real systems that keep a city of 8 million people running.

This isn’t an accelerator. It’s a launchpad for AI that works in the real world.

Qohash was selected as one of 10 global AI companies

Out of hundreds of applicants across seven countries, Qohash was handpicked for the inaugural NYC International AI Landing Pad — a first-of-its-kind program bringing 10 global AI companies to New York to deploy real technology inside real infrastructure.

The thesis is simple: the next chapter of AI gets written inside the systems that power everyday life, not on slides.

Qohash is here to find and protect sensitive, unstructured data inside the organizations that can least afford to lose control of it. This is the kind of stage you show up for.

Why sensitive data protection matters in New York

New York City runs on critical infrastructure — financial services, healthcare, government, and thousands of businesses that handle sensitive data every day. Most of that data isn’t sitting neatly in a database. It lives in files, emails, shared drives, and legacy systems — unstructured, unseen, and unprotected.

That’s the problem Qohash solves.

What is unstructured data?

Unstructured data refers to information that doesn’t live in a traditional database format — think Word documents, PDFs, emails, spreadsheets shared across teams, or files stored in cloud environments. It accounts for the majority of enterprise data, and it’s the hardest to find and protect.

Why is unstructured sensitive data a risk?

When organizations don’t know where their sensitive data lives, they can’t protect it. That creates exposure to data breaches, regulatory non-compliance (GDPR, PIPEDA, Law 25, CMMC, PCI DSS), and reputational damage — all of which carry real financial consequences.

How does Qohash help?

Qohash discovers sensitive, unstructured data across an organization’s environment — identifying what exists, where it lives, who has access to it, and what risk it carries. That visibility is the foundation of any serious data security program.

The full NYC International AI Landing Pad cohort

The 10 companies selected represent seven countries and a range of industries — all united by one mandate: AI that works in the real world.

• Auquan — Agentic AI for smarter institutional investing
• Firstwork — AI agents helping frontline workers get hired and onboarded faster
• nybl — Predicting equipment failures before they shut down essential systems
• Pyler — AI video analysis for brand safety and ad relevance
• Qohash — Discovering and protecting sensitive, unstructured data
• Quibim — AI medical imaging for faster, more accurate disease detection
• Spore.Bio — Microbiology testing that detects bacteria in minutes
• Swoop Funding — Connecting growing businesses to loans, equity, and grants
• SynaXG — AI-native wireless infrastructure for cities and workers
• Zepo — Defending people and companies from social engineering attacks

What this means for Qohash

Being selected for this cohort reflects where enterprise data security is headed: out of the lab and into the infrastructure organizations actually depend on. New York is one of the most demanding markets in the world for data security — regulated industries, global organizations, complex environments, and zero tolerance for failure.

That’s exactly where Qohash belongs.

Learn more about the NYC International AI Landing Pad → landingpad.supermomos.com

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FAQ

What is the NYC International AI Landing Pad? It is a first-of-its-kind program selecting 10 global AI companies to deploy real technology inside New York City’s critical systems, built with NYCEDC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Anthropic, Airwallex, and Perkins Coie.

Why was Qohash selected? Qohash was chosen for its ability to discover and protect sensitive, unstructured data inside the complex environments that enterprises and public sector organizations operate in — a critical and often overlooked problem.

What does Qohash do? Qohash is an AI-powered data security platform that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive unstructured data at scale. Its zero-copy architecture enables enterprises to enforce security and governance directly at the source without moving or duplicating data.

What is unstructured data in cybersecurity? Unstructured data is information that doesn’t live in a database — files, emails, documents, and shared drives that contain sensitive information but are difficult to discover and govern at scale.