Top California Generative AI Startups (104)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Embedding VC is an early-stage venture fund backing Generative AI startups. All our investors are current and former builders and operators. We believe in the mission to develop AGI, and we are at the onset of a new computing super cycle, fundamentally driven by AI innovations.

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.

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...

CoreStory unlocks the hidden intelligence in your legacy code. By using AI to surface business logic and technical insights, we give enterprises the clarity to modernize faster, maintain apps smarter, and reduce the risk of costly failures. CoreStory overcomes the limitations of LLMs by applying recursive decomposition and recomposition, breaking down code into smaller, manageable units and rebuilding a complete,...

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

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...

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...

Our business insights, dashboards, and visualizations help our clients make sense of their data quickly and take actions that increase revenues and substantially lift profits. In the last 10 years, we've solved complex business problems for Fortune 200 companies like Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, American Century Investments and Melissa & Doug. We are a fast growing data analytics company with offices...

Creating revolutionary open-ended conversational applications through breakthrough research.

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

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.

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...

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...

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.