Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

Veel helps businesses produce high-quality product videos with top social media influencers, video creators and UGC creators to drive maximum engagement. Our influencer marketing platform, made specifically for brands, simplifies the entire process—from managing contracts and payments to sharing videos across social media and embedding them directly on your website and eCommerce platform.

Sapient is a stealth startup revolutionizing the gaming industry with its cutting-edge enterprise Generative AI game mechanics platform. We're addressing a $47B market by simplifying and reducing the cost of creating hyper-immersive character mechanics for enterprise game development studios. Our mission is to equip game developers with the tools to accelerate development and craft digital experiences that redefine storytelling and immersion. We're pioneering the seamless integration of AI in gaming, and we're committed to leading this exciting frontier.

Unriddle helps researchers make breakthrough discoveries faster. We are a single platform to find, understand and produce research papers. In just one year, we’ve grown to $1M ARR and 1.5M users. We’re growing 20% month-over-month and our users include teams at Stanford, GSK and Johns Hopkins. We use language models to surface and breakdown relevant information, suggest novel connections between papers and automate rote research tasks. This free’s up headspace for higher reasoning and insight - essentially expanding the researcher’s mental RAM and letting them load larger problems into memory. We’re starting with software to read, write and find papers, but our ultimate goal is to build the researcher of the future: a human-AI hybrid that’s an order of magnitude more effective than any single researcher. And we just closed a $2.4M seed round with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of Github) and Steve Huffman (co-founder and CEO of Reddit).

We're currently in Stealth Mode, meticulously developing solutions behind the scenes to accelerate product development for engineering teams. Our dedication to pushing the boundaries of innovation allows us to provide our partners with advanced solutions, our goal is to revolutionize the Manufacturing industry Founded by serial entrepreneurs with proven track records of success. Stay tuned for updates, industry insights, and more from Apiphany!

Sponsor a Pet is a fundraising platform, dedicated to providing Animal Non-Profits a platform to share their stories and help raise the necessary resources to save the lives of animals. We do this by working together with passionate local organizations to amplify our impact in communities as we come together as one. The mission of Sponsor a Pet is to provide every animal a loving environment that they can call home. Every animal deserves the opportunity to have their basic needs met; food, medicine, a safe and loving family. Our overarching goals are to eliminate Kill Shelters, Animal Abuse, and the destruction of their habitats. We strive to share stories of positivity, laughter, uplifting stories, animals who need our help, and to give thanks to the volunteers who work tirelessly to help find these animals find their forever home. If this resonates with you, join our team and lets grow our community! Who We Are We are passionate individuals who came to together under a common vision to help all animals. We understand working together, moving in the same direction will have a greater impact. Sponsor a Pet provides an audience across the country that local non-profits do not have access to. As we come together we can create a lasting impact in all of our communities. How to get Involved Singing up as one of our members as a PetStar is a great Start. On top of that, there’s much more you can do to get involved. The easiest way is to share your story with us. We would love to hear from you and share your story. What drives your passion for animals and a little about your background. Another way would be to share local organizations that need our help, or local communities who would want to get involved. Our goal is to provide a platform for animals, non-profits, Individuals, and companies alike.