Top California Design Startups (181)

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Walker Warner Architects is a full-service architectural firm based in San Francisco, specializing in custom residential, hospitality, and winery design.

Building one of the world's biggest YouTube channels

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...

Founded in 2005, our services include product development, delivering next-generation digital solutions; cyber security, helping teams protect against emerging cyber threats; and artificial intelligence, unlocking the potential of your data and people.

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...

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...

As one of the fastest growing startups in Los Angeles, we're revolutionizing the way in which companies approach successful video advertising. Our team of award-winning Producers, Editors, Directors, Engineers, and Performance Marketing Managers are building a global studio where we can conceptualize, shoot, and produce hundreds of videos per day. Unlike traditional advertising agencies that pitch creative concepts for companies,...

Acorn Product Development is based in Silicon Valley with design centers in Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, and China. We provide comprehensive mechanical engineering, industrial design, and program management service—from turnkey product development, subassembly development, engineering analysis, materials and manufacturing cost analysis & reduction to UX/UI design, research strategy, and brand identity—for leading companies around the globe. Our team of engineering and...

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...

Hickok Cole is a forward-focused design practice connecting bold ideas, diverse expertise, and partners with vision to do work that matters. Informed by research and fueled by creative rigor, we look beyond today’s trends to help our clients embrace tomorrow’s opportunities. Whether designing complex mixed-use projects, bringing your brand to life, or reinvigorating your workplace, we want to have an...

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...

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,...

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...

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...