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...

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...

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...

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.

Closet World is a complete home organizing service. Our products are custom designed and built with your needs in mind. We offer a huge selection of finishes and accessories to enhance every room of your home. Closet World believes that in order to achieve complete home organization, our units must be more than just functional. That’s why our designs fully...

EmotionalABCs.com is America's #1 Awarded Social Emotional Learning (SEL) program. Currently Free for Teachers nationwide (and used in more than 50,00 schools across the country), Emotional ABCs was recently awarded the Common Sense Media "Top Pick for Learning" for 2019.

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...

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...

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...

Studies show that families with children are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in America. This is especially true in Orange County, where one of the most expensive housing markets in the nation creates an immense gap between income and affordable housing. In 2007, the Illumination Foundation was founded to create a safety net for these homeless families...

The Baby Box Co. is about much more than babies and boxes—we improve outcomes for infants and children by supporting parents in a way no other company can. We educate them with video parenting courses vetted by healthcare professionals, and reward their participation with useful products, including high quality Baby Boxes designed for safe sleep.

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.

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...

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.

Founded by a team of physicians and parents, Ready, Set, Food! is a groundbreaking solution to childhood food allergy prevention, making it easy for families to prevent 80% of food allergies. Although food allergies are on the rise, Ready, Set, Food!’s goal is to help reverse that trend and give families a head-start towards an allergy-free future.