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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

FamiLeague is a digital media company that brings together an exciting roster of lifestyle influencers, celebrities, professional athletes and marquee brands to share positive family experiences through original, premium programming. FamiLeague currently reaches a global community of over 9 million subscribers and is headquartered in Los Angeles.

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.

Tynker is a new computing platform designed to teach children programming skills and computational thinking in a fun, intuitive and imaginative way. Tynker's goal is to provide every child with a solid foundation of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) thinking abilities to prepare them for 21st century degrees and careers. More specifics when we launch.

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.

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...

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...

Solving glasses for kids and parents.

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.