Top California Design Startups (184)

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...

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.

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.

Tentworks Interactive is a video game company operating in multiple countries, holding an Indian license and headquartered in Bangalore. We aim to create interactive tycoon games to a vast audience with purpose to bring about a sense of challenge and accomplishment. Our projects are driven by a passionate and creative team. Contact us for development, work-for-hire, or publishing inquiries. We are...

We build simple, powerful tools that help people work better, smarter. We’re building the next generation of tools designed not just to capture notes, but to fundamentally improve how people learn, think, and collaborate. Our app brings the natural expressiveness of paper into the digital age, empowering millions of students, educators, and professionals worldwide to organize their ideas, deepen their...

Unlimited is an AI-native engineering and construction company. We're here to fix the 50-year decline in our ability to build critical infrastructure: power plants, factories, data centers, and the like. We envision a future of unprecedented abundance - where energy is limitless, the built world assembles itself, and our physical environment constantly inspires us to reach for more. This will...

For over 20 years, Passport has partnered with those looking to challenge their category. To think, create and activate. To rebrand and reinvigorate with new stories, and to inspire consumers to press forward. From global brands to start-ups, it's the vision we share. Just like us, they’ve got a hunger for bold new thinking and partnerships that can move the...

New Honor Society (San Francisco | Chicago | Saint Louis) is an award-winning creative boutique that has helped clients like Microsoft, Logitech, Heluva Good and Nestlé Dreyer's/Edy's create greater engagement and advocacy by behaving more like "people."​ As an FCB Company, New Honor Society has the creative fire of a start-up, with the resource depth of a global network. Join...

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.

Enterpret enables companies to analyse their customer feedback at scale. We are on a mission to help companies build better products by uncovering insights from their customer feedback. We are solving complex problems in API design, analytics UI/UX and natural language processing, pushing the envelope of what's possible by applying first principle thinking. Reach out to us at [email protected]

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.

Gantri is a new kind of design manufacturer. We help designers create high-quality, affordable and sustainable modern designs and sell directly to consumers. Our secret? Manufacturing products on-demand using cutting-edge 3D printing and innovative plant-based materials. Since launching lighting in 2017, we've collaborated with some of world's best designers, studios and brands, including Ammunition, Dims and Muka Design Lab. We’re the...

Building one of the world's biggest YouTube channels

Information Technology Partners, Inc. (ITP), founded in 1991, is a technology design and support services company specializing in distributed processing technologies. ITP is a small sized company with business entities in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. ITP provides services, such as, technology design, long-term technology support, technology best practice products, and application development to clients that specialize in manufacturing, distribution, retail,...

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...

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.

Miris is a cutting-edge technology company building the future of 3D content delivery at global scale. Our mission is to empower creators and developers to deliver high-fidelity, photorealistic 3D experiences to billions of users instantly, seamlessly, and across all major platforms and devices. Backed by patented innovations, Miris leverages state-of-the-art advancements in neural rendering, including radiance fields, gaussian splatting, and...

Violet St stands out by partnering with creatives from design, music, culture, and sports to offer them their own independently designed and owned footwear lines at scale.

LottieFiles is the creator of the animation file format, dotLottie (over 600% smaller in size than a GIF), the animation workflow platform LottieFiles, and is one of the largest, most active community of Motion Designers, Animators and Developers around Lottie Animations. LottieFiles is now used by over 65,000+ Global Companies. The company aims to streamline the animation workflow and create...

Clay is a global UX design and branding agency headquartered in San Francisco. We build transformative digital experiences for the world's leading brands by blending AI, design, and technology. Clients include Amazon, Google, Facebook, Coinbase, Slack, Sony, ADP, VMware, SanDisk, Credit Karma, Zenefits, and UPS. WHAT WE DO User Experience: UI/UX Design and Development We define, design, and develop world-class digital products that people...