Top California Hardware Startups (259)

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Cavnue is building smart roads for smart vehicles, and future-proofing the nation’s roadways. The interstate highway system defined mobility in the second half of the 20th century. Now, transportation is changing again. Mobility in the 21st century will be defined by intelligent, connected, and autonomous vehicles and while billions have been invested into developing in-vehicle technologies, only a small fraction has...

Efficient is building the world’s most energy-efficient general-purpose processor by combining ultra-efficient hardware with an intuitive, developer-friendly compiler and software stack that unlocks 10–100× efficiency gains across every part of an application, including AI. Efficient was founded in 2022 to commercialize a breakthrough in efficient computation developed over nearly a decade by a team of world-leading computer architects. Efficient's world-class...

MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models: We dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance for large models. For these models, we deliver 10× more computing power, enabling AI labs to make models an order of magnitude smarter and more useful. Our hardware would make it possible to train GPT-4 and run ChatGPT, but on the budget of...

i3D.net is a global operating high performance hosting provider. We are specialized in global game hosting for publishers and developers. With i3D.net's own low-latency network and global coverage we also offer solutions for Enterprises and IT Service providers.

InnoPhase IoT, a fabless semiconductor company, specializes in ultra-low-power wireless connectivity solutions for IoT products. Its award-winning Talaria TWO™ Wi-Fi modules with BLE5 enable battery-based, intelligent, always-on, cloud-connected IoT products by increasing battery-life performance up to 8x current solutions with its patented digital radio design. It is ideal for remote security cameras, video doorbells, connected sensors, wearables, lossless audio, and...

Umbra builds next-generation space systems that observe the Earth in unprecedented fidelity. Our mission: Deliver global omniscience. To stay ahead of climate change, geopolitical risk, and other major crises and issues, we need a global understanding of what is changing, where, and how fast. Umbra provides easy access to the highest quality commercial satellite data available, which is an indispensable tool for...

Powering the future of hardware design

Fidus specializes in leading-edge electronic product development. Our hardware, software, FPGA and signal integrity teams architect, design and deliver next-generation products for clients in emerging technology markets. We build long-term relationships by consistently exceeding expectations. Since 2001, Fidus has completed nearly 3000+ projects for 400+ customers in a variety of industries. By leveraging in-house expert knowledge and utilizing industry leading tools,...

Brilliant NextGen is transforming the smart home experience for builders, home owners, smart home professionals, and condos/apartment residents and property managers. Our award winning, all-in-one control hardware and platform, mobile app and connected ecosystem make it easy for integrators, builders, and homeowners to create beautifully designed, easily approachable intelligent living spaces. With a focus on design, simplicity, and performance, we’re...

Billions of unstructured engineering and manufacturing data points turned into actionable insights. The most accurate AI for product engineering and manufacturing unstructured data. 5x more relevant output than generalized LLMs. Apiphany connects and transforms your existing unstructured systems, including RFPs, program planning, design specs, functional requirements, test data, purchasing, finance, field reports, and FMEAs, into real-time intelligence.

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...

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...

Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing and important problems. These systems will perform computations that today’s fastest supercomputers are incapable of — unlocking entirely new classes of problems and offering a direct path to solutions. We believe quantum computing is going to significantly affect health care, how we treat disease, how...

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...