Top California Kids + Family Startups (36)

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rec is building the operating system for the activity economy. Every day, millions of people look for ways to play, learn, move, compete, and connect in their communities. Yet the technology powering recreation has been largely ignored for decades. modernizing the $105B activity industry – parks & recreation departments, golf courses, campgrounds, gyms, and play agencies. Our platform powers registrations, facility...

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...

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,...

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.

Upwards provides access to high-quality childcare for all families, supports childcare providers in operating sustainable businesses through a technology-based marketplace, and helps employers of all sizes offer their employees childcare benefits. Parents use Upwards to find, tour, and enroll with the perfect care provider.

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...

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.

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.

The Connected Learning Alliance (http://clalliance.org) is an educational nonprofit startup supported by the MacArthur Foundation (http://www.macfound.org/). Our mission is to harness the tools of the digital age to connect learners with their passions and to facilitate new educational opportunities for both learners and educators. New Venture Fund CareersThe Connected Learning Alliance is a project of the New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3)...

Heirloomology | Home for Family Memories. Archive, share and cherish your family videos, photos and memories... forever. Remember Together. Heirloomology is leading the way on how memories are experienced and shared in a family-exclusive, private-social network designed to digitally preserve family content and become the safe, simple home for family memories. Redefining how multigenerational family content is accessed, Heirloomology focuses on memories...

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...

Sweetyhigh.com is a market leading, vertically integrated media company focused on the Gateway Girls (10-16). As both a studio and platform, we are a highly creative, editorialized business that serves a critical niche.

Red Tricycle is a digital lifestyle brand that fuels the parenting universe with daily inspiration for family fun. We believe there’s an opportunity to tell new family stories every day and that the best memories are created when families connect through fun experiences together. It’s not just our point of view, there is science to back up the notion that...

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.