Top California Software Startups (3,522)

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...

Rundoo gives independent paint and hardware stores the best technology to rise above the competition, so you can win customers, streamline operations, and grow your business.

Turion Space is building the infrastructure to secure and sustain the future of space. Founded to address the growing need for space domain awareness, in-space servicing, and debris mitigation, Turion designs, builds, and operates spacecraft with real-world operational capability. Our vehicles are built for national security and commercial missions that require speed, autonomy, and resilience. We believe the next chapter of...

Blacksmith is the fastest way to run your GitHub Action workflows. We orchestrate your workflows over our fleet of bare-metal gaming CPUs with your build caches co-located right next to your CI jobs. All it takes is a one-line code change. Get started with Blacksmith https://docs.blacksmith.sh/getting-started/quickstart

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. 200,000+ developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency and pricing. Customers include software companies building voice products, co-sell partners working with large enterprises, and enterprises solving...

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...

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,...

Our mission is to remove inefficiency from the foundation of AI. By combining new research in information theory, probabilistic modeling, and distributed systems, we’re creating self-optimizing data infrastructure that continuously improves how information is represented and used by intelligent systems.

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...

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...

Cie is a venture studio that serves as an innovation lab and accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into thriving ventures. Cie blends Silicon Valley DNA with the business maturity of serial entrepreneurs, seasoned venture capitalists, and Fortune 500 executives. Combined with the team’s strategic and operational expertise in technology, product development, brand building, and customer acquisition,...

Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews. We created this new category of research technology and now it's growing wildly. Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale. The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated,...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model, Character-3, which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3, the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images, video, and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral...

Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility. We are a tight-knit crew of engineers, designers, and data aficionados....

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...