Top California Software Startups (3,752)

As businesses increasingly rely on data and AI to power digital products and drive better decision-making, it's mission-critical that this data is accurate and reliable. Monte Carlo, the data + AI observability leader, is the creator of the industry's first end-to-end Data & AI Observability platform. Our mission is to enable the world's enterprises to adopt trusted AI. In 2025, Monte...

Licensing education has a reputation for being dry content, clunky, and courses designed to check a box rather than actually teach anything. We decided that was a problem worth solving. Our courses are mobile-first, fully accredited, and built around one obsessive question: what’s the most effective, engaging way to get someone to actually learn this? We’re proud that our students...

VSCO is on a mission to champion photographers so they can make it. We place human creativity at the heart of new technology. Our editing and business tools honor and elevate the timelessness of the creative process while enabling our members to find community and success in exciting and innovative ways. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves...

Traditional firms rely on interviews, retroactive documentation, and billable hours. Onshore applies AI at the point of substantiation, providing documentation tied directly to source data and pairing it with expert review. The result is defensible, audit-ready work delivered in weeks, not quarters. We help companies claim R&D Tax Credits, 179D Deductions, and Cost Segregation with proof, not process. 500+ companies have trusted Onshore...

Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need.

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

Runpod is pioneering the future of AI and machine learning, offering cutting-edge cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI applications. Founded in 2022, we are a rapidly growing, well-funded company with a remote-first organization spread globally. Our mission is to empower innovators and enterprises to unlock AI's true potential, driving technology and transforming industries. Join us as we shape the future of...

SentiLink is the leading fraud intelligence company, providing financial institutions and fintechs with purpose-built solutions for identity verification and fraud prevention. Our products detect synthetic fraud, identity theft, and hard-to-detect first-party fraud in real time — helping partners stop losses before they happen while approving more legitimate customers. Founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld, creators of the risk...

Revivn is a fully integrated hardware lifecycle solution, promoting global responsibility while providing IT with enterprise-class service and security. Working with companies like Instacart, Lyft & Teach for America we are changing the way companies view old technology with a new model that focuses on repurposing electronics. In partnering with Revivn, companies make the vital choice to responsibly retire, repurpose,...

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams. Compa is a compensation intelligence company...

American medicine is the best in the world. But the American healthcare system is challenged by high administrative costs that burden patients, health systems, and insurance companies with unnecessary expenses. We are focused on addressing those challenges. We use GenAI to improve the most pressing financial pain points in the revenue cycle. We’re one of the first companies to deploy GenAI...

MFour turns consumer behavior into a competitive advantage. We operate the largest opt-in, first-party consumer panel in the U.S., tracking 4B+ monthly signals across location, apps, web, receipts, and AI conversations. Our platform, powered by DANI™, delivers instant insights to the world's biggest brands, from Google to Walmart to Disney. We're building the future of market research, and we're just...

Parsec Automation, LLC (Parsec) is a trailblazing creator and provider of manufacturing operations management software. Consistently recognized by organizations like Gartner and IDC and a winner of numerous awards, including the Data Breakthrough Awards, American Business, and Best in Biz, Parsec exemplifies leadership in the dynamic, fast-paced manufacturing sector. With global manufacturers leveraging its innovative TrakSYS™ platform to tackle even the most complex manufacturing challenges, Parsec’s...

WorkWhile is an AI-powered next generation labor platform that helps businesses in light industrial, hospitality, and events achieve over 90% fill rates and reduce no-shows through AI and predictive machine learning. We ensure seamless shift execution with trained, on-demand workers supported by on-site leads, real-time performance monitoring, and a robust accountability system. Our worker-first model boosts retention through benefits like...

Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for BlackRock, KKR, Carlyle, Centerview, and 40% of the world’s largest asset managers. Our flagship product, Matrix, delivers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency in AI-driven analysis. It is trusted to help manage over $15 trillion in assets globally. We deliver the intelligence that...

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...

Sortly is the simplest inventory platform for business and teams to stay on top of their stuff. Our visual system enables business to easily track what they have, where it is, and who has it. Anytime, anywhere, on any desktop, tablet or mobile device. Sortly is trusted by tens of 1000’s of small businesses and teams at large enterprises including HP, Honeywell,...

Opto Investments (“Opto”) are engineering the future of private markets, offering the solution for wealth managers to efficiently build and manage differentiated private investment programs. Opto’s end-to-end technology solution dramatically streamlines building, fundraising for, and managing a bespoke private markets fund or program, allowing independent investment advisors, family offices, and private banks to scale their offerings without scaling their team. Founded by...

Gynger is a cash flow management solution with embedded financing that gives B2B technology vendors the power to offer flexible payment terms to customers while securing up front payment. With Gynger, finance leaders can leverage a combination of actionable insights and capital to optimize day-to-day cash flows, accelerate deal flows, mitigate risk, and execute long term strategic vision with ease. In 2024,...

Rundoo is the AI-native, all-in-one ERP for independent supply stores: point of sale, inventory, payments, and the general ledger in one system. We serve independent paint, hardware, and farm & feed retailers who've been stuck running their business on outdated point-of-sale systems and a patchwork of disconnected software, and we're built to help them modernize: better experiences for them, their...