Top California Generative AI Startups (105)

As businesses increasingly rely on data and AI to power digital products and drive better decision-making, it's mission-critical that this data is accurate and reliable. Monte Carlo, the data + AI observability leader, is the creator of the industry's first end-to-end Data & AI Observability platform. Our mission is to enable the world's enterprises to adopt trusted AI. In 2025, Monte...

ClickMint helps e-commerce brands generate more revenue from the traffic they already pay for. We build and operate channel-adapted shopping funnels for paid social, affiliate, PPC and other acquisition channels—aligning the post-click experience to traffic intent instead of sending every visitor through the same generic path. Our system combines diagnostics, experimentation, measurement and senior operator oversight to improve revenue per...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The architectures that power modern AI were designed for language, not for science. They were never built to understand DNA, interpret experiments, or learn the rules that govern living systems. Closing this gap represents one of the defining opportunities of our time. Our team has pioneered advances across frontier AI, including the first models trained with one-million-token context windows, and now...

Merge is the leading provider of agentic tools and customer-facing integrations for frontier LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Our platform offers two core products that solve the most challenging integration problems. With Merge Unified, businesses can add hundreds of integrations to their products through a single API. Instead of building and maintaining each integration in-house, your developers can...

Deploy generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and more on Modal's platform. We help data science and machine learning teams accelerate development, reduce costs, and effortlessly scale workloads across thousands of CPUs and GPUs. Our pay-per-use model ensures you're billed only for actual compute time, down to the CPU cycle. No more wasted resources or idle costs—just efficient, scalable...

Unlearn is advancing AI to eliminate trial and error in medicine, starting with reinventing clinical trials for the 21st century. We create AI-generated digital twins of individual trial participants that are forecasts of their future health outcomes. Digital twins of participants are used to run smaller, more efficient clinical trials that help bring new treatments to patients sooner.

The proactive AI assistant built for high-velocity teams.

Every leap in AI has followed the same pattern: first we made models bigger, then we tailored them, and now we let them think longer. Each step (scaling law) truly adds intelligence. But in the end we land on the same runway: inference, and demand is exploding while power supply lags. We asked: what if the next step isn’t stacking another...

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.

Guidde is the generative AI platform enabling teams to deliver know-how 11x faster for easy sharing with customers or employees. Market leading companies use Guidde video documentation to answer customer questions, onboard and train employees and drive self-service, enabling teams to perform better.

Craft illuminates the path to global supply chain resilience. We empower businesses to strengthen their supplier networks and supply chains with the industry's most trusted and comprehensive data fabric and advanced risk mitigation engine. Our easy-to-use platform provides 360-degree visibility to quickly explore and evaluate supplier networks, AI-driven insights to detect and mitigate disruptions, and collaborative tools to optimize supply...

Fireworks.ai offers generative AI platform as a service. We optimize for rapid product iteration building on top of gen AI as well as minimizing cost to serve. https://fireworks.ai/careers

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.

Enabling the next billion AI video creators with Genmo

Roger is empowering the home health care industry with breakthrough generative AI technology to alleviate organizations from staffing shortages. Roger Docs allows home health clinicians to complete OASIS and routine documentation in minutes instead of hours. Roger is fully implemented at agencies serving tens of thousands of patients each day.