Top California Design Startups (183)

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.

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...

Yardzen, the online landscape design and build company, is on a mission to help people live a better life outside. Yardzen’s expert team connects homeowners with talented landscape designers and contractors for the easiest, most delightful outdoor renovation experience available. Leveraging plant science, data, and modeling software, Yardzen’s remote design team creates custom, executable landscape designs that reflect a homeowner’s...

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...

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]

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...

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...

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.

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

DevDocs is a technical consultancy comprising impassioned technical writers, developers, designers, and project managers. We have over a decade of experience fulfilling documentation duties and technical needs for small and large businesses covering a range of industries. Our technical consultants help teams define processes, improve workflows, reduce troubleshooting, and boost operational efficiency. Based in the U.S., but with technical consultants...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

AE is a software development, data science, and design agency. That part is common. The rest is extraordinary. Founded in 2016, AE has bootstrapped its way to 150+ individuals working to increase human agency through technology. No venture capital. No private equity. No outside shareholders. This allows a longtermist perspective for clients and employees that leads to unparalleled thought-partnership and...

Rive is a real-time interactive design tool that allows you to design, animate, and immediately integrate your assets into any platform thanks to our open source runtimes.

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...