Top California Digital Media Startups (422)

Academia.edu is the world’s leading platform for researchers and scholars to share their work, discover research and connect with fellow academics globally. Our bold vision: to democratize and accelerate the world's research, enhancing the speed of scientific discovery and technological progress for the benefit of everyone. We imagine a world where accessing academic papers is effortless, keeping track of cutting-edge...

Golden Pet Brands is leading America’s pet health revolution by making longevity-focused nutrition simple for pet parents, and rewarding for pets, through product excellence, education, and storytelling.

Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model, Character-3, which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3, the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images, video, and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral...

VSCO is on a mission to champion photographers so they can make it. We place human creativity at the heart of new technology. Our editing and business tools honor and elevate the timelessness of the creative process while enabling our members to find community and success in exciting and innovative ways. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves...

Philo is a streaming television service that's reimagining the TV experience for the modern viewer. Founded by a group of technology and product enthusiasts, we set out to build the future of television by combining the best of modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented—delivering the TV experience we've always wanted for ourselves. At our core, Philo provides an...

Cie is a venture studio that serves as an innovation lab and accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into thriving ventures. Cie blends Silicon Valley DNA with the business maturity of serial entrepreneurs, seasoned venture capitalists, and Fortune 500 executives. Combined with the team’s strategic and operational expertise in technology, product development, brand building, and customer acquisition,...

Optimal is a performance marketing agency on a mission, to bring together the best data, technology, and people to achieve our clients’ marketing goals. Brand, campaign, or cause: we maximize performance at every moment. We are not only digital media strategists – we’re award-winning industry leaders, with deep knowledge spanning all things digital: from advertising and paid media to marketing and...

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.

Proto is the leader for inclusive multilingual contact centre automation. Governments and businesses use Proto's AI Customer Experience (AICX) platform to ensure local language service, long-term operational efficiency, and citizen protection. Proto deployments are powered by its HermesAI™ engine for local and mixed languages.

Zefr is the leading data and technology company that enables responsible marketing for brands, agencies and platforms. The company leverages a patented AI and machine learning engine, called Cognition AI, to offer brands and agencies more accurate and transparent activation and measurement solutions on scaled video platforms.

Founded in 1898, Sunset is the leading Western lifestyle brand. We deliver travel ideas, home design and gardening inspiration, and recipes that celebrate the West and its bounty.

Weeklys is a regional media company based at 380 S 1st St., San Jose, California, United States.

Z1 Tech is a technology-first company that aims to revolutionize digital content consumption experiences. Our quest started in 2015 to provide future-proof solutions to businesses and empower them in a technologically-dominated environment. Through collaborative efforts of more than 200 innovators spread over 4 countries, we have successfully created revolutionary brands like VDO.AI and Plunic. Our products and services stream over...

Genies is the world’s largest avatar technology company, bringing the power of NFTs and crypto to culture through its mission to own the “virtual being identity layer.” The company has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars as virtual beings in society through its consumer-first future vision coined “Decentralized Disney of the metaverse.” Genies provides consumers and celebrities with...

A category leader in results-driven growth marketing, Darkroom’s success is attributed to our unique partnership model, purposefully built to launch brands to market and accelerate growth. Our model is predicated on four major disciplines — Brand & Identity, Digital Products, Creative Production and Growth Marketing – threaded by one cohesive, interdisciplinary team.

Writesonic is the complete GEO/AEO platform that tracks your brand's AI search visibility, identifies where competitors beat you, and executes the fixes—creating new content, refreshing existing pages, earning citations, and engaging on Reddit. In partnership with Microsoft, we're helping brands improve their presence on AI Search i.e. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) - because 89% of B2B buyers now use AI for...

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...

We empower districts with accredited middle and high school original credit, credit recovery, and multilingual courses that meet the needs of today’s learners and educators. Our platform was built from the ground up based on extensive feedback from educators and team members who understand firsthand the challenges of teaching today's digital-native students. Teachers told us they needed better ways to...

Select Management Group is the leading management company representing next generation talent, producing award-winning content, and building original business ventures. As pioneers of the creator economy and industry leaders since 2010, Select continues to bridge the gap between traditional and digital media building long-lasting careers for entrepreneurial talent. Select offer full service talent management across all categories including endorsements, live...

Designed for unlimited discovery and unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids. Reaching more than 50 million children in homes and classrooms, Epic fuels curiosity and reading confidence in kids to explore their interests and learn in a fun, safe, kid-friendly environment. Our award-winning service is built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books, audiobooks...