Top California Generative AI Startups (97)

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...

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...

Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for BlackRock, KKR, Carlyle, Centerview, and 40% of the world’s largest asset managers. Our flagship product, Matrix, delivers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency in AI-driven analysis. It is trusted to help manage over $15 trillion in assets globally. We deliver the intelligence that...

American medicine is the best in the world. But the American healthcare system is challenged by high administrative costs that burden patients, health systems, and insurance companies with unnecessary expenses. We are focused on addressing those challenges. We use GenAI to improve the most pressing financial pain points in the revenue cycle. We’re one of the first companies to deploy GenAI...

Collectly is a fast-growing healthcare tech startup leading the charge in transforming the U.S. healthcare market through AI-driven innovation. In the U.S., millions of patients interact with healthcare providers daily, navigating a system that often struggles with inefficiencies, administrative burdens, and suboptimal financial experiences. At the forefront of the AI boom, Collectly is redefining revenue cycle management (RCM) by applying cutting-edge...

ClickMint pairs proprietary generative-AI diagnostics with senior CRO operators to uncover friction, launch precision tests, and unlock compounding gains—helping high-growth e-commerce brands scale faster without buying more traffic. Founded by the creator of one of the nation’s top-performing digital marketing firms—honored by Inc. as a Fastest-Growing Company for seven consecutive years and ranked among the Top 50 U.S. marketing agencies...

Bellagent is an enterprise-level AI agent platform built to automate everyday business operations with zero-touch integrations that connect instantly to more than 1,300 applications. Launched in 2025 by Proactifi Inc., and headquartered in Chicago, the platform is built for practicality with industry-leading compliance and security standards, enabling organizations to deploy AI agents without friction from day one. Bellagent’s mission to...

Eve Legal is pioneering the future of legal technology by focusing on AI-driven solutions that empower plaintiff-side law firms. With a robust platform designed for efficiency and effectiveness, Eve leverages artificial intelligence to streamline case analysis, enhance decision-making, and optimize client outcomes. Our mission centers on providing attorneys with the tools needed to stay competitive and navigate the legal landscape...

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...

Inhouse.ai is the #1 AI lawyer for small to midsize businesses. We combine AI, lawyers from our own law firm, and an expert feedback loop to deliver fast, compliant, high-quality legal work at a fraction of the cost and turnaround time of traditional firms. Business owners, founders, and entrepreneurs turn to the Inhouse.ai legal platform to draft legal agreements and get...

Koah is the GenAI Ad Network: Publishers can monetize AI chat without compromising UX — and advertisers can reach high-intent users with 1:1 engagement inside GenAI environments. Native-built for AI, optimized for performance, and backed by Forerunner Ventures and South Park Commons — Koah is the go-to ad network for monetizing GenAI. ? Reach out at [email protected] to get started.

CSquared Labs is an agentic AI company whose founding team comes from Google, Meta, Uber, Palanti, and the like. We've raised a large Seed round from top Silicon Valley VCs with the mission to help companies understand their customers.

Plaud.ai is building the next generation of intelligence infrastructure and interface to transform how people captures, extract, and utilize intelligence from what they say, hear, see and think. Our Mission: Amplify your intelligence. Our Vision: To transform how the world captures, extracts, and utilizes intelligence. Brand Owner: PLAUD Inc. Founded in: Dec 2021 Headquarter: San Francisco, US Offices: San Francisco, Seattle, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Singapore Team: 180+ and...

Unlike generic AI, Coworker can answer, plan, and execute tasks for you with full company context across 40+ enterprise apps — no custom coding required.

DeepSky is a business insights and research agent designed to accelerate research and strengthen conviction. Our proprietary agent leverages first principles thinking, strong finance fundamentals, and premium data sources to analyze the implications of market events and other types of strategic questions.

Parakeet Health is building the AI-powered operating system for medical practices. Today, healthcare runs on phone calls, faxes, and manual labor, and everyone feels it. Practices burn through staff juggling inbound calls, chasing referrals, and filling last-minute cancellations, while patients sit on hold, wait weeks to hear back, and fall through the cracks when overloaded teams can't keep up. Our conversational...

Generative AI employee helpdesk for smarter support in seconds. Streamline your operations across the company with our LLM-trained Virtual Agent, Workflow Automation and Business Insights. Powerful AI support capabilities - Auto-resolve issues: Reset passwords, update groups and email lists, and so much more. - Automate processes: Streamline onboarding, offboarding and other repetitive activities. - Offer instant answers: Give accurate answers...

Flagright sets the modern standard for AI-native transaction monitoring. The platform enables financial institutions to centralize detection, investigation, and reporting of suspicious activity, streamlining regulatory workflows and strengthening financial crime controls. A high-performance, no-code scenario builder with sub-second API response times powers real-time monitoring, supported by tailored rules, dynamic risk profiling, and simulation tools that reduce false positives and improve...

We build AI agents for Risk and Compliance that do complex workflows like underwriting and investigations. Trusted by the world's largest marketplaces and payments companies.

daydream builds your organic growth engine for the AI Search era. We identify search patterns, create content at scale, and automatically improve that content to drive traffic to your site and grow your presence in AI Search Results (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude).