Top Tech Startups in Berkeley, CA in 2026

At Veo, we're bringing the next generation of mobility sharing to cities and universities globally through our dockless pedal bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. We also offer fat-tire bikes, cargo bikes and ADA-compliant bikes – making us the only shared mobility provider with this breadth of options. We design and engineer our own vehicles, hardware and software systems to provide a greener, healthier mode of transportation to make the communities we serve more sustainable and livable. Our mission is to offer the best combination of multi-modal sharing technology and seamless customer service, so users can unlock joy in their day. We are looking for exceptionally talented individuals who are ready to take on exciting challenges and own solutions. We are headquartered in Chicago, IL, but we are hiring across the U.S. Join us!

Sardine helps fintech, crypto, and web3 companies "move money confidently" by developing fraud, compliance, and payment infrastructure. With Sardine, builders can focus on growing their business instead of spending time, fighting against fraudsters. We're growing incredibly fast and powering over 100 customers around the world like Brex, MoonPay, Bakkt, Luno, Transak, Chippercash, Candy Digital, Metamask, Brave, and RelayFi.

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

Pair Team is on a mission to build the primary care infrastructure for America’s most vulnerable communities. They are the first tech-enabled care team that empowers safety-net primary care systems and the Medicaid & Medicare patients they serve. They act as an extension of the clinical staff to provide a personalized, high-touch care experience while addressing patients' barriers to care such as lack of transportation, housing/food insecurity, and mobile phone access. Internally, they are building a unique care delivery platform to ensure clinical best practices, integrate care with community-based organizations, and automate administrative work so that clinicians can focus on time with our patients.

Postman is the leading API platform, used by 17 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so developers and teams can create better APIs—faster. Postman is a global company with headquarters in San Francisco, a large office in Bangalore (where the company was founded), and distributed team members on four continents. Postman is privately held, with funding from Insight Partners, CRV, Nexus Venture Partners, Coatue, Battery Ventures, and BOND. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

Archesys provides a wide range of technical services and has been doing so for over 20 years, making a significant impact in the areas of organization, culture, and technology in both the private and public sectors. From digital modernization to process management, our team is the go-to resource for various government agencies looking to improve or overhaul their operations.

At Vested, we are on a mission to make global investing accessible. We provide seamless access to a wide range of international assets - including US Stocks & ETFs, Global Mutual Funds, Private Markets and Managed Portfolios. Since 2019, we’ve empowered over 3 lakh Indian investors to diversify globally and build smarter, future-ready portfolios. With ₹10,000 Cr+ in Assets Under Management, Vested is now a thriving and fast-growing community of global investors. We believe in constantly challenging the status quo and creating products that people never had access to.

Briidge.one, builds applied AI into how professional firms actually operate, not as another bolt on subscription but as systems grounded in a firm's own record, running inside the workflows people already use and owned outright once we hand over the keys. Another AI subscription doesn't change a firm. AI changes a firm when it runs inside the actual work, grounded in the firm's own data. Most professional firms, MSPs, private equity, investment firms, law firms, real estate, other professional services carry client relationships and institutional knowledge scattered across 5-10, sometimes 15 disconnected tools. Hours leak, records fragment and decisions wait on someone's memory instead of on data that should already be there. How we work We're a company, not a subscription. Every engagement runs through five stages: 1.Diagnose- an audit of how the firm actually operates, run by the people who will build the solution 2.Design- a roadmap naming which workflows, in what order, and what each is worth 3.Build- AI grounded in the firm's record, shaped to the workflow rather than a template 4.Integrate- connected to the tools the firm already runs, so one record moves instead of being retyped between systems 5.Improve- iteration after handover, sized to what's at stake. We build on the platforms professional firms already rely on Atera, ConnectWise, NinjaOne, HaloPSA, Datto, Autotask, DealCloud, Affinity, Datasite, Intralinks, Carta, PitchBook, Clio, iManage, NetDocuments, DocuSign, Yardi and MRI rather than asking firms to rip out what already works. What we put our name on: No outside logos to borrow. Clients own the code, the schema and the data outright with documentation complete enough for another team to take over. No lock in, nothing trained on a client's record and an exit built into every engagement from day one. We're building the team that will define what applied AI looks like for the firms that run the professional world.

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