Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming security operations for large enterprises by preventing security incidents before they happen. Ambient.ai has a globally deployed footprint with several F500 companies. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver physical security monitoring and detect threats in real-time. Ambient.ai does this while simultaneously decreasing false alarms by over 95%, allowing security teams to focus on legitimate threats and on rapid response. The future of enterprise physical security is data-driven, intelligent, and proactive. With Ambient.ai, companies can do more with less, while also improving their security posture. We were founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna. They are experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford University who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Dropbox. We are a Series-B company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, YCombinator, and investment angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil. Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021 and 2022, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We are always looking for passionate people, who enjoy solving the toughest problems with cutting-edge AI/ML.

Becoming the standard for all physical data movement will allow Airbyte to have a great distribution channel for all other data movement products that sit on top of the data pipeline, including data quality and observability, privacy, compliance, data discovery, and more. That’s our vision: with Airbyte, we want to commoditize all types of data integration, power all organizations’ data movements, and make these movements smart.

LILT is a language translation services and technology company. We're building the next generation of localization, making it possible for every organization to communicate with their customers in the language of their choice through LILT's high-quality, scalable, and affordable translation services. We recruit the world's best human translators and equip them with our software, allowing them to translate better and faster than ever. By combining human expertise and machine efficiency in a complete enterprise localization solution, we can deliver technology-enabled translation services to our customers. Lilt is backed by some of the world's leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Redpoint. Our customers include some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world who rely on Lilt every day to provide more personal customer experiences in 300+ languages. Our team is headquartered in the Bay Area with additional hubs in Indianapolis, Washington DC, Berlin, Dublin, and the UK.

We help nurses (CNAs, LVNs, RNs) find work that fits their schedule close to home. There are 4 million nurses (second most popular job in the US). There are tens of thousands of healthcare facilities (such as hospitals, nursing homes, rehab centers) who need nurses. We bring them together by working with our healthcare facility clients to find the nurses they need.

Hey! We're Kula, the AI sales team for busy professionals. We believe AI will soon replace human salespeople, and we're working hard to build that future. Our growth rate has rocketed up (reach out for specific numbers). We're now hiring to keep up with demand. Kula is being built by a team of MIT, IIT, Cambridge and Oxford grads, backed by some of the best investors in the world, including Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, Acequia Capital and angel investors behind companies like Ironclad, OpenSea and Stripe.

The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people's heads, or buried in books and papers that only experts can access. More than a billion people use the internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.  Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge, and we're building a world-class team to help us achieve this mission.

Mux is an API-first video platform designed to make world-class video streaming and analytics possible for every development team. Self-optimizing videos take the guesswork out of encodings, delivery, and renditions. Mux makes your video look beautiful on every device, every time. Mux Video is a simple API to advanced video streaming. Post a video or live stream with a single API call, and watch it within seconds. Mux Video handles the encoding, storage, and delivery. This real-time data is used to create the right renditions for every device and title, resulting in better viewer experiences. Mux Data is a Quality of Experience analytics platform that measures the performance metrics that actually matter to viewers: rebuffering, startup time, video quality, and errors. Our intuitive dashboard quickly gives users the insight to find issues and make improvements through features like A/B testing, industry-wide scores, alerts, and detailed information about every single video view.

The future of hiring is here. And it's thrilling. Come work with us to find and empower talent, while solving the biggest problem facing retail today. We're looking for innovative thinkers and rebellious spirits to join our team. If this sounds like you, drop us a line at [email protected].

Moloco is a machine learning company that enables businesses to unleash the power of their own data for fast, sustainable growth and performance through the advertising ecosystem. Our technology is best-in-class as we received the SMARTIES X silver award for Machine Learning and AI and were named the Cross-Industry Winner for Google Cloud Customer Awards. Moloco is in hyper-growth mode, ranked #91 among Deloitte’s 2021 Fast 500, and recently certified by 91% of the company via Great Places to Work. There isn’t a better time to join this innovative team in our Silicon Valley HQ or our offices in San Francisco, Seattle, London, Seoul, Singapore, China, and Tokyo.

Metropolis develops advanced computer vision and machine learning technology that make mobile commerce remarkable. Our platform is already deployed in hundreds of mobility facilities and industries with billions in opportunity. We’re building the digital pipes through which the future of mobile commerce will move.