Top California Hardware Startups (260)

Turion Space is building the infrastructure to secure and sustain the future of space. Founded to address the growing need for space domain awareness, in-space servicing, and debris mitigation, Turion designs, builds, and operates spacecraft with real-world operational capability. Our vehicles are built for national security and commercial missions that require speed, autonomy, and resilience. We believe the next chapter of...

Headquartered in sunny Los Angeles, GrayMatter Robotics is an AI robotics company that builds the factories of the future today, empowering people, creating safer workplaces, and shaping a more prosperous society. We build next-generation factories that transcend human constraints, driving exponential productivity and sustainable economic growth. Our technology brings together robotics, Physical AI, and human ingenuity to create intelligent systems...

Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wireless networking solutions. The company focuses on mesh networking for robotic systems, providing high throughput, long-range Mesh Rider solutions for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs and other robotic applications. The company’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of choice. Doodle Labs was named one of Fast...

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments

The Future of Microsurgery is Robotics and AI. We are a visionary team striving to revolutionize the field of eye surgery by leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies available today. Our groundbreaking product, Polaris, leverages state-of-the-art robotics, advanced medical imaging, and AI to extend the capabilities of surgeons beyond their current limitations.

Our bet with Meter is simple: we’ll all use the internet more than we do today. That future depends on networking infrastructure—the invisible plumbing powering every application, space, and data center. But today’s infrastructure is dated and inconsistent, so we’re rebuilding it from the ground up. We design the hardware, write the firmware, build the software, deploy the networks, and run support. It’s...

Samara Aerospace is revolutionizing satellite design by addressing the challenges of deploying and managing large satellite constellations. Our innovative Hummingbird spacecraft bus offers a modular and scalable platform that streamlines satellite production and deployment, significantly reducing launch costs. Hummingbird's compact architecture maximizes launch capacity, making it the most efficient and agile spacecraft in the industry. At the core of our...

Freeform is deploying software-defined, autonomous metal 3D printing factories around the world, bringing the scalability of software to physical production. Our proprietary technology stack leverages advanced sensing, real-time controls, and data-driven learning to produce digitally-verified, flawless parts at unprecedented speed and cost. Our mission is to make the transformative power of 3D printing available to all industries at scale and...

Atomic Machines is redefining humanity’s relationship with matter. We see a future where our tools will allow us to reorganize matter at the atomic level at will, where we will go from bits to atoms for any object or machine that can be designed in alignment with physical laws. We have begun our journey with the development of a robotic...

We see a future where the cannabis experience is built on community, science, and safety. Puffco was founded with the mission to bring the world the best possible portable vaporizer. Using the most advanced technology around and our knowledge of what our community wants, we did just that. The Puffco Peak is our flagship product, and the industry’s best portable...

Lightmatter is a startup photonics company that has pioneered a new paradigm in processor chip architecture that uses photons instead of electrons. Now the leader in the photonic AI compute “space race,” this new class of high performance semiconductors is the foundation of Lightmatter’s mission to enable the growth of computing, reduce harmful emissions associated with this growth, and democratize...

HP IQ (formerly Humane) is HP’s new AI innovation lab focused on building an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s products and services for the future of work.

Quadric has built a unified hardware/software architecture optimized for on-device machine learning inference. Only the Quadric GPNPU (general purpose neural processing unit) delivers high ML inference performance while also running C++ code without forcing the developer to artificially partition application code between two or three different kinds of processors. Quadric's GPNPU is a licensable processor IP core that scales from...

Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Mojio’s platform and mobile apps deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. Force by Mojio helps small businesses manage, monitor and maintain their fleets, while delighting their customers with real-time tracking...

Over a century after the Wright Brothers changed the course of aviation at Kitty Hawk, we are working to open up the skies to the masses. By combining technology and human ingenuity, we want to usher in the next great era of transportation. Skyryse wants to allow anyone, to fly anywhere, in any aircraft, safely and as a highly experienced pilot...

Rockbot is the leading media platform transforming the in-location experience for businesses and brands since 2010. Backed by Google and trusted by nearly 50,000 businesses across North America, Rockbot’s clients include Planet Fitness, Walmart, Shake Shack, and Ashley Furniture. We deliver premium content and cutting-edge technology to power dynamic audio and visual solutions including, music, TV, digital signage, and advertising....

Avive Solutions, Inc. is a growth stage Automated External Defibrillator (AED) company with a connected response system that is rapidly gaining market share. We are a mission driven team that is quite literally saving lives. Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and we are on a mission to change that! We are...

Parasail is the first AI Deployment Network built for the new era of open and scalable AI. We connect teams to the world’s largest pool of on-demand GPU compute—giving AI builders fast, flexible, and cost-efficient infrastructure to deploy and scale models without contracts, quotas, or cloud complexity. From real-time inference to massive batch jobs, Parasail intelligently matches workloads across a global...

Sofar connects the world's oceans to power a more sustainable future. Sofar unlocks ocean data at scale. We deployed hundreds of Spotters globally to create the world’s largest privately-owned network of ocean sensors that collects 1.5 million real-time observations daily. Our team of ocean scientists assimilates this real-time data into our marine weather forecasts, which are up to 50% more...

Lumafield is here to make it possible for humanity to solve our hardest problems as quickly as possible. Lumafield has developed the world's first accessible X-Ray CT scanner for engineers. Lumafield’s easy-to-use scanner and cloud-based software give engineers the ability to see their work clearly, inside and out, at an extremely affordable price. Engineers make million-dollar decisions every day, and they...