Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

GF-ACCORD AI was voted the runner-up startup in Geneva in 2023 by the Hackernoon magazine: hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-geneva-switzerland?ref=hackernoon.com hackernoon.com/company/gfaccord An AI project with mid-sized company level traction. In the fundraising phase. Top Google USA position for “AI Global Business Consulting” for the website of our Geneva based start-up gf-accord.biz and the sur.ly cybersecurity, “brilliantly safe” award in 2022 Benefitting from over 40-years’ combined experience in the use of IT to replace human work GF-ACCORD AI inherits the know-how of the original non-AI GF-ACCORD. Our AI replaces business analysts, marketers, strategists, financiers and representatives by software. Our products are the software modules which do a lot of the intermediate- advanced intellectual work and involve AI text processing. The employees are much less needed which is cost-efficient. The processes are accelerated and can be freely combined. Our software outputs can be tokenized and sold as NFTs “The global artificial intelligence market was valued at USD 65.48 billion in 2020, projected to reach USD 1,581.70 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 38.0% from 2021 to 2030”. Global value of IP trading in tech companies in general circa 1 trillion USD. 80% of value in Tech comes from intangible assets. Based on research of similar Silicon Valley start-ups, past history, digital impact, IP assets and the current technical valuation trends, the projected value of GF-ACCORD AI in 4 years will between 135 and 360 million CHF

Our data infrastructure automates and powers the world's largest platforms and marketplaces, including food delivery companies.

AirGarage is repurposing the 30% of real estate in the average American city currently dedicated to parking. We are building a future where real estate is digitized and can be transitioned from one use to another seamlessly on-demand, moving every piece of urban real estate toward its highest and best use. We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. As a full-stack parking operator, we automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages. We handle everything from advertising to collecting payments from drivers and enforcing against illegal parking. We already operate 150+ parking lots and parking garages across 30 US states and we are growing quickly. We are backed by top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.

At Stitch Fix we are redefining retail shopping being the first fashion retailer to blend expert styling, proprietary technology and unique product to deliver a shopping experience that is truly personalized for you. Using a unique blend of art and science we deliver a deeply personalized shopping service to our customers. This novel juxtaposition—at once analytic and artistic, technical and adventurous—attracts an extraordinary collection of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. Our diverse workforce has catalyzed enormous company growth over the past three years in terms of customer satisfaction and service efficacy. We’d love for you to help us carry on the trend.

Mendel’s confounders are a physician and a computer scientist. Each dreamed of building a “Jarvis” for medicine since they were 15 years old. Mendel envisions a future where machines learn from all patients and power better decisions across the entire spectrum of healthcare.

FINESSE is the new age of fashion, Zara meets Netflix - a vertically integrated fashion house leveraging AI on big data & community feedback to predict trends, forecast demand, and optimize distribution, producing hit sell-outs every time in record time & eliminating the guesswork and overproduction inherent to fashion today. Founded out of Stanford by computational artist Ramin Ahmari and backed by top investors across deep tech & consumer, FINESSE is creating the new age of fashion. With a largely female & POC team comprised of ex-execs & talent from leading fashion houses, published AI researchers and scientists who’ve worked under Nobel Prize winners, FINESSE strives to create an entirely new, tech-led paradigm of sustainable & ethical fast fashion. Beyond being the first, truly AI-led fashion house, FINESSE caters to an unapologetic new generation - one that refuses labels and stereotypes, denounces the lack of sustainability in fashion and lives for true self-expression.

We are a critical link between growers of a community and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. We are committed to supporting the smaller and mid-size growers who are doing their farming sustainably. We are committed to creating transparency around what is in your food and where the food comes from, and we want to create more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. We set up our spaces with real food and preserve the building structure, decorating with works from local artist that will blend with the communities we serve. Our food is healthy and real and we help communities make the best choices for what they eat by having sustainably grown food in our spaces.

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale application infrastructure and applications. Combining metrics, traces, and logs from servers, databases, and applications, Datadog delivers sophisticated, actionable alerts, and provides real-time visibility of your entire stack. Datadog includes 350+ vendor-supported, pre-built integrations, and monitors hundreds of thousands of hosts. datadog.com

Recent Awards / Mentions: - Apple's Top 10 Apps in the World - Business Insider's most innovative companies in the world along with Uber and Snapchat: At Lark, we’re on a mission to improve people’s health and happiness through our digital health coach AI which has become the first A.I. nurse to be reimbursed as a live healthcare professional. Our app takes data from phones and wearables, and uses it to create a personalized health "chat bot" buddy that sticks with users and helps them stay active, sleep more, and eat healthy. We are using NLP to process millions of meals, and accelerometer data to compute activity and sleep amounts from users' phones. Our chat AI is the most sophisticated digital health engagement tool in the world. Join us and make it even better!

We launched Riot Games in 2006 to develop, publish, and support games made by players, for players. In 2009, we released our debut title, League of Legends. League has gone on to be the most-played PC game in the world and a key driver of the explosive growth of esports. Players are the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve the League experience both in and out of game. Founded by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill, and currently under the leadership of CEO Nicolo Laurent, we're headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and have 2,500+ Rioters in 20+ offices worldwide.