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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

We are an engineering consulting and design firm specializing in custom electronics and end-to-end electronic systems. We develop cross-disciplined solutions and products to help solve some of the world’s most difficult problems by optimizing solutions beyond the first order. Our team members have industrial experience developing power converters, motor controllers, analog sensor drivers, RF amplifiers, antennas, mixed signal circuits, and embedded...

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.

Accelerated Growth Studio is a tight-knit collective of full-funnel growth marketing experts. With over a decade of experience scaling successful brands across a variety of industries - our goal is to be your trusted growth partner from 0-figure revenue, to 9-figure, from boot-strapped and all the way through acquisition.

Savas Labs is a highly-skilled team of designers, developers, and consultants who build elegant web products. We care about code quality, designing for the user, and above all partnering with our clients to solve interesting business problems through best in class technology solutions.

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...

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...

Left Field Labs is the creative technology partner that builds what’s next. We transform breakthrough technology into extraordinary products, platforms, and experiences for the world's most ambitious brands. Since 2008, we've delivered end-to-end transformation—seamlessly integrating strategy, innovation, and execution for industry leaders including Google, Amazon, and Meta.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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]

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...

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...