Top California Design Startups (180)

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...

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.

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...

YPM is a full-service digital marketing agency with over 45 years of experience, specializing in services such as SEO, PPC, web development, social media, programmatic advertising, branding, and design to drive business growth.

Applus+ IDIADA is a global partner to the automotive industry, supporting its clients in their product development activities by providing design, engineering, testing and homologation services. We have a large team of more than 2500 professionals drawn from over 28 countries, as well as an international network of subsidiaries and branch offices in 25 countries which ensures that our clients...

Block was founded by Koda and Luke in 2017 on a simple premise: homeowners and contractors need a better way to build together. Looking at the $450 billion renovation industry, our co-founders saw how technology could dramatically change the way renovations are done from planning, through design and build. Since then, we’ve completed over a thousand different projects, raised a...

Design matters. It drives new customers, retention, employee loyalty and ultimately success. It’s harder than ever to design at the scale business needs. There are more social channels, more apps, more employees, more presentations, more events, more deadlines. We are the first service able to protect and develop visual brand across an entire company. We do this by bringing people and technology...

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

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.

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.

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...

Zoo develops modern tools for hardware design, including first-of-their-kind professional CAD platform, enhanced with ML through Text-to-CAD. Its flagship product is Zoo Design Studio, modeling software that serves as the central hub of a broader CAD ecosystem which includes innovative tools like Text-to-CAD and a suite of enterprise-ready CAD APIs for developers. Zoo’s products are built using its proprietary geometry...

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...

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...

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...

MBH Architects is a full-service architecture and integrated services firm founded in 1989. The company specializes in a wide range of project types, including retail, restaurant, multi-family housing, mixed-use, workspace, hospitality, and healthcare design. With a global reach and offices in the United States and India, MBH is committed to delivering innovative, sustainable, and high-quality design solutions that foster long-term...

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.

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.

Rising above trends and accolades to make a true difference is Bold. Using foresight and passion, we unite technology and humanity in unconventional ways. Partnering for decades with the best pioneer futures for all to thrive. NewDealDesign is the San Francisco based technology design firm behind some of the most innovative, lasting products of the last two decades. Led by Gadi Amit,...