Top California Design Startups (182)

Million Dollar Baby Co. started in 1990 and is proudly family-owned and operated in Los Angeles. Since then, MDB has grown to 7 distinct brands of children’s furnishings ranging in style, aesthetic, and price, while carrying some of the industry’s most eco-conscious and award-winning designs. We can be found in retailers like Target and Amazon, and specialty retailers like Pottery...

Mixbook is an award-winning design platform that gives people unrivaled creative freedom to tell their stories through beautiful, personalized photo goods. Since our start, we’ve helped more than 6 million people create one-of-a-kind books, cards, prints, and calendars, earning over 35,000+ 5-star reviews and becoming the #1 rated photo book service in the US. Our platform blends trend-forward design with a...

As the trusted choice for digital agencies, SaaS platforms, and web professionals, Duda powers over 1 million websites worldwide. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable users to efficiently create pixel-perfect, feature-rich websites at scale.

Uptech is an international software development company that helps build profitable products with product market fit for companies on Fortune 500, Inc. 5000 lists and scale-up teams fast for technology startups. Our customer-centric approach to app development and industry know-how results in our client’s remarkable growth and our long-term partnership.

NCSOFT is a premier digital entertainment company with global presence and 4,000+ employees. Established in Southern California, NC AMERICA, an affiliate of NCSOFT, is best known for critically acclaimed franchises including Lineage 2, Lineage 2M, Aion and Blade & Soul. Our core goal is making people in this world happier by delivering games that entertain a globally connected audience has...

Chase Design Group is a creative agency dedicated to innovative brand-building. Founded in 1986 by creative director Margo Chase, we believe that effective design creates an emotional connection that transcends language and culture. In the growing global market, this human connection is crucial to the success of any brand. Our award-winning work for clients including P&G, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Mattel, and...

FSSI is a full-service outsourcing company focused on the design, production and delivery of time-critical customer communications and transactional documents. Our print and online solutions reduce clients’ overhead, capital and postal expenses, while providing unprecedented job-tracking and audit controls, with real-time compliance monitoring and reporting. Industries served include: financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, public utilities and government agencies. Specialties • Regulatory Compliant Production...

Meet the Al platform to Revolutionize Engineering. We started this company because manufacturing and engineering are overdue for a digital revolution. These fields are complex, and while agile, lean, and just-in-time methods have driven progress, AI now offers a transformative opportunity to reshape how work gets done. Foundation’s EGI platform is built to accelerate every stage of the product development cycle—from...

Space Kinetic is focused on our nation’s most urgent national security priorities. Our goal is to rethink space operations down to first principles to deliver game-changing capabilities for missile defense and space superiority.

Higharc's Homebuilding Cloud gives your homebuilding team the tools they need to design, estimate, sell, and build. Say goodbye to disconnected teams, outdated software, and repetitive manual work. Go to market faster than ever with one connected platform to design, estimate, sell, and build new homes and communities buyers love. Higharc is VC-backed and is led by a founding team that...

MojoTech is a 100% US-based software development company that integrates strategy, engineering, and design to create results-driven digital products and experiences. We've written the playbook for how to discover, define, design, and build tomorrow's innovations, empowering companies to unlock future market potential, maximize returns on innovation, and drive transformational change.

We are a full-service creative and experiential agency that lives for sport, music, and culture. From the biggest moments to the smallest details, we pride ourselves on being in the know and building relationships that matter for brands that matter.

Maze empowers product and marketing teams to test anything from prototypes to copy, or round up user feedback—all in one place. Rapidly collect user insights across teams and create better user experiences, together. Works with: Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, Marvel & Sketch.

Are you hungry to make people’s lives better? Do you frame problems around people’s actual lived needs? Do you wish you could work across disciplines, across industries, and across cultures? If you’re nodding excitedly, you should know about Moon. Moon Creative Lab is a human-centered venture studio that powers the creation of new businesses. Moon’s mission is to help Mitsui & Co, one...

The AI design tool loved by product managers, designers, and website builders. Iterate on components & designs in our AI-native editor. Use your custom components and existing styles. Export to React or Figma.

We’re Hook—an award-winning creative content agency. We make ads, campaigns, and experiences that drive growth for innovative brands like Google, YouTube, Amazon, and Mailchimp. Our strength lies in our collaborative spirit, with our team of creatives, designers, animators, developers, and producers bringing a variety of experiences from different industries. We leverage our diverse perspectives to get more from the creative process...

We help brands navigate the complex challenges of this ever-changing world. Using design and strategy we create emotionally compelling, authentic brands and the experiences that bring them to life.

Blacksmith Agency is a full-service agency, focuses on offering its services within web designing, wireframing and content creation.

Innovative. User Focused. We specialize in human-centric customer experiences across digital product innovation, transformative business processes and inventive marketing. With clients in categories like Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Consumer Products and Technology, across both enterprise and consumer, Momentum looks at the totality of a client’s enterprise and develops solutions that can have impact on how their clients do business. From AI to...

Blink UX is a global product design consulting firm creating products and experiences people use, love, and remember. Blink has over two decades of experience in UX research, strategy, and design, partnering with innovative industry leaders, including Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Google, Meta, The New York Times, and NASA.