Top Startups in California (10,000+)

As businesses increasingly rely on data and AI to power digital products and drive better decision-making, it's mission-critical that this data is accurate and reliable. Monte Carlo, the data + AI observability leader, is the creator of the industry's first end-to-end Data & AI Observability platform. Our mission is to enable the world's enterprises to adopt trusted AI. In 2025, Monte...

Moov is a payments infrastructure platform making it easy to accept, store, send, and spend money all from a single, elegantly-designed API. Instead of stitching together multiple vendors, software companies simply add Moov to their products to get the latest in payment technology, user onboarding, licensing, compliance, and more.

Licensing education has a reputation for being dry content, clunky, and courses designed to check a box rather than actually teach anything. We decided that was a problem worth solving. Our courses are mobile-first, fully accredited, and built around one obsessive question: what’s the most effective, engaging way to get someone to actually learn this? We’re proud that our students...

VSCO is on a mission to champion photographers so they can make it. We place human creativity at the heart of new technology. Our editing and business tools honor and elevate the timelessness of the creative process while enabling our members to find community and success in exciting and innovative ways. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves...

Traditional firms rely on interviews, retroactive documentation, and billable hours. Onshore applies AI at the point of substantiation, providing documentation tied directly to source data and pairing it with expert review. The result is defensible, audit-ready work delivered in weeks, not quarters. We help companies claim R&D Tax Credits, 179D Deductions, and Cost Segregation with proof, not process. 500+ companies have trusted Onshore...

Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need.

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments

Runpod is pioneering the future of AI and machine learning, offering cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI applications. Founded in 2022, we are a rapidly growing, well-funded company with a remote-first organization spread globally. Our mission is to empower innovators and enterprises to unlock AI's true potential, driving technology and transforming industries. Join us as we shape the future of...

SentiLink is the leading fraud intelligence company, providing financial institutions and fintechs with purpose-built solutions for identity verification and fraud prevention. Our products detect synthetic fraud, identity theft, and hard-to-detect first-party fraud in real time — helping partners stop losses before they happen while approving more legitimate customers. Founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld, creators of the risk...

Revivn is a fully integrated hardware lifecycle solution, promoting global responsibility while providing IT with enterprise-class service and security. Working with companies like Instacart, Lyft & Teach for America we are changing the way companies view old technology with a new model that focuses on repurposing electronics. In partnering with Revivn, companies make the vital choice to responsibly retire, repurpose,...

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams. Compa is a compensation intelligence company...

American medicine is the best in the world. But the American healthcare system is challenged by high administrative costs that burden patients, health systems, and insurance companies with unnecessary expenses. We are focused on addressing those challenges. We use GenAI to improve the most pressing financial pain points in the revenue cycle. We’re one of the first companies to deploy GenAI...

Attain is the most trusted and comprehensive source for permissioned, real-time purchase data in the United States. By connecting directly with over 10 million consumers, Attain delivers unmatched accuracy and scale across audience activation, insights, and in-flight optimization, and measurement, helping marketers tie every dollar of media to real-world sales outcomes. Attain’s portfolio of owned and operated apps, spanning financial...

M13 is an early-stage (seed and Series A) venture capital firm that invests in visionary founders building disruptive software businesses. Established in 2016 with offices in Los Angeles and New York, the firm is a full-stack partner that brings its deep bench of full-time operators to help founders outperform and build category-defining companies. M13’s portfolio includes more than 200 direct...

MFour turns consumer behavior into a competitive advantage. We operate the largest opt-in, first-party consumer panel in the U.S., tracking 4B+ monthly signals across location, apps, web, receipts, and AI conversations. Our platform, powered by DANI™, delivers instant insights to the world's biggest brands, from Google to Walmart to Disney. We're building the future of market research, and we're just...

Parsec Automation, LLC (Parsec) is a trailblazing creator and provider of manufacturing operations management software. Consistently recognized by organizations like Gartner and IDC and a winner of numerous awards, including the Data Breakthrough Awards, American Business, and Best in Biz, Parsec exemplifies leadership in the dynamic, fast-paced manufacturing sector. With global manufacturers leveraging its innovative TrakSYS™ platform to tackle even the most complex manufacturing challenges, Parsec’s...

Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wireless networking solutions. The company focuses on mesh networking for robotic systems, providing high throughput, long-range Mesh Rider solutions for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs and other robotic applications. The company’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of choice. Doodle Labs was named one of Fast...

WorkWhile is an AI-powered next generation labor platform that helps businesses in light industrial, hospitality, and events achieve over 90% fill rates and reduce no-shows through AI and predictive machine learning. We ensure seamless shift execution with trained, on-demand workers supported by on-site leads, real-time performance monitoring, and a robust accountability system. Our worker-first model boosts retention through benefits like...

Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for BlackRock, KKR, Carlyle, Centerview, and 40% of the world’s largest asset managers. Our flagship product, Matrix, delivers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency in AI-driven analysis. It is trusted to help manage over $15 trillion in assets globally. We deliver the intelligence that...

Axle Health builds scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers to deliver exceptional, personalized care right where patients feel most comfortable—at home. Some of the biggest providers in the country use our software (like Cityblock Health and Grandcare) to improve the utilization of their field teams by 17%+, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching. Our platform...