Top California Kids + Family Startups (35)

Million Dollar Baby Co. started in 1990 and is proudly family-owned and operated in Los Angeles. Since then, MDB has grown to 7 distinct brands of children’s furnishings ranging in style, aesthetic, and price, while carrying some of the industry’s most eco-conscious and award-winning designs. We can be found in retailers like Target and Amazon, and specialty retailers like Pottery...

Seesaw is a learning platform that brings educators, students and families together to deepen student learning. Teachers design and facilitate powerful learning experiences, students create, reflect, collaborate, and make their learning visible, and families actively support and celebrate student learning. Seesaw is used by over 10 million teachers, students and family members every month across more than 75% of schools...

There are too many kids sitting on waiting lists for services such as speech therapy and occupational therapy. The problem is not that there are too few providers; the problem is that too few take insurance. We enable more SLPs, OTs, and others to take insurance by handling the backend insurance processes and facilitate families to find, schedule, and pay...

Our Vision: Resources never stand in the way of the best possible health for all kids and moms. Our Mission: The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health is here to unlock philanthropy to transform health for all kids and moms, in Northern California and around the world. We are champions for children—driving extraordinary care for families today while fueling research, discovery,...

For more than 50 years, Children’s Council has been the heart of child care and early education in San Francisco, advancing the belief that high-quality child care can transform lives and communities. Our more than 150 team members help families navigate their child care and preschool options and secure financial assistance to pay for it. We provide home-based child care businesses with the training and resources to succeed. Through a...

Exploding Kittens is a leading game and entertainment company with a mission to inspire people to connect, laugh, and play fun games in the physical world. After initially seeking to raise $10K through Kickstarter, the Exploding Kittens campaign raised $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, Exploding Kittens is the #1 most-backed project in Kickstarter history and has...

Having experienced first-hand the toll of sleep deprivation and the lack of tailored and accessible help for parents, we set out to solve this problem in a new way with a team of sleep experts and data scientists. Huckleberry's first product gets kids from newborns to 5 years old sleeping better and longer. After understanding your child's sleep scenario, our algorithms...

Your Super is a fun and fast-moving start-up that’s determined to make a difference. Our mission is to make healthy eating easier with organic, plant-based superfood mixes. Our supply chain is 100% transparent and sustainable. And for every mix sold, we donate a life-saving food bar (1:1) to those in need.

StoryWorth is the easiest way to privately record your family stories. Each week, we email our customers a questions about their life. All they have to do is reply to that email. We collect all their stories in one place and share them with the family members they've chosen to invite.

Our mission is to help everyone build the emotional strength and confidence to handle whatever comes their way. Our award-winning apps (SBT and SBT Kids) allow users to check-in with how they're feeling and recommend short activities based on those emotions. With over 4.5 million downloads, we are commended by therapists & educators across the US.

A Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) is an expert in applied behavior analysis. The Behavior Analyst Credential Board awards this certification to BCBAs. Applied behavioral analysis (ABA) utilizes scientific and systematic methods to transform a person's behavior. They can work in schools, classrooms, hospitals, clinics, and non-profit organizations. They basically need to handle the patients who are facing autism, developmental...

PuppySpot is a service committed to helping responsible breeders place their puppies with caring individuals and families. But, more than just a service, PuppySpot is a community of dog lovers whose mission is to make lives better by placing healthy puppies into happy homes.

Freestyle is a Santa Monica-based high-performance baby care brand known for its eco-friendly, EWG-verified diapers and wipes. Our products are sold at Target, Walmart, Whole Foods, and other national retailers as well as on our website and on Amazon.

KitHub empowers educators and parents to help kids dive into hands-on, fun and creative electronics STEM projects in the classroom and at home by providing theme-based kits and easy to follow lesson plans and instructions. With the support of KitHub, aspiring engineers will gain the confidence and skills they need to create, experiment and design creative projects using electronics.

UNest's fintech app helps parents save and invest in their children's future. The company’s iOS and Android apps have achieved an outstanding level of success since becoming widely available across the United States in February 2020. UNest demystifies the previously complex process of setting up saving plans for education and other important life stages with a paperless approach that takes...

We share stories for kids that address friendship, family, and health. We have a growing collection of books for children that are not only fun to read, but also serve as an educational resource for parents and caregivers.

Kinderloop is a private, fun & cost effective way for child care teachers to record and share a child’s development with family in real-time, saving time and money. Simply take a photo, tag the children in it and share with their parents through Kinderloop's secure loop allowing you to capture special moments and keep your parents informed and engaged. Kinderloop...

We just accept that the early years of raising children are hard. The struggle is presented everywhere, often comically, from movies to daily interactions with families struggling to wrangle young children. As a society, we believe that achieving balance with young kids is impossible. But why? That’s the question we asked ourselves, when we started Brella. As two working moms with...

TPIRC is a non-profit clinical care and research center that focuses on the development of cutting-edge, individualized treatment protocols for rare and orphan diseases utilizing comprehensive diagnostic tools and patient-driven research.

Cradlewise is a smart crib for babies from 0 to 2 years of age that provides uninterrupted quality sleep. It has a built-in baby monitor that learns from the baby's sleep schedule, spots the first signs of wakeup and starts bouncing along with soothing music - just like a mom! How does Cradlewise help your baby sleep better ? Responsive...