Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to empowering new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 1,000 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time.

UpGuard is a complete third-party risk and attack surface management platform. Our security ratings engine monitors millions of companies every day. VendorRisk enables UpGuard's enterprise customer to control third-party risk and improve their cyber security posture by monitoring, rating and sending targeted security questionnaires to its vendors. upguard.com/product/vendorrisk UpGuard's BreachSight continuously monitors businesses for data exposures, enabling them to prevent breaches, protect their reputation and avoid regulatory fines. upguard.com/product/breachsight Companies in regulated industries such as financial services, energy and health count on UpGuard daily to guarantee their systems. UpGuard.com

Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation. Zoox will provide mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We will handle the driving, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. The rider will simply pay for the service. In 2020, Zoox joined forces with Amazon. And in the process, solidified our future in the autonomous vehicle industry. We are focused on testing on private and public roads as we move towards launching the first Zoox ride-hailing service.

NNectir is a seed stage VC-backed EdTech company founded by students at UC Santa Barbara with the mission of reinventing how we teach and learn to create the classroom of the future. Our flagship platform, Nectir Chat, is campus-wide communication infrastructure built to create a community in every class. Our newest software, Nectir AI, is conversational AI infrastructure that allows educators to utilize powerful LLMs to create FERPA/COPPA-compliant, customizable AI Assistants that sit within the LMS.

disguise is THE platform to imagine, create and deliver world class immersive and visual experiences Everyone around the world has SEEN and FELT disguise in action, in : - Film & TV Production Sets (Netflix, Amazon & Apple TV) - Theatre Sets (inc. frozen, Back to the Future) - Live Broadcast (inc. Eurosport, MTV News) - Music Concerts (inc. Guns & Roses, Beyonce) - Landmark Projections (inc. Burj Khalifa & Sydney Opera House) - Corporate Visuals (inc. TikTok & Siemens) disguise provide their customers with everything they need make experiences come to life (from their mind-blowing software, as well as hardware inc. the physical elements such as staging and lights) see showreel below.

Highnote is the world’s most modern card platform, purpose-built to grow customer loyalty, engagement, and revenue through embedded card issuance experiences. With an all-in-one platform and a fully integrated issuer processor built from scratch to address the use cases of today and tomorrow, Highnote gives enterprises unparalleled control, flexibility, and speed to realize their customer vision through innovative embedded finance experiences. Utilizing the developer-friendly Highnote platform, product and engineering teams at digital enterprises of all sizes can easily and efficiently embed virtual and physical payment cards (commercial and consumer prepaid, debit, credit, and charge), ledger, and wallet capabilities into their existing products, creating compelling value for users while growing revenue and building a unique and differentiated brand.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1."​ What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.

We have six main products that utilize Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to do everything from making Renewable Energy more efficient to helping Drones navigate urban air traffic, to predicting catastrophic events, to cybersecurity, to the latest Defense Department initiatives.

The largest online marketplace offering artistic flower arrangements from top local florists across the country. Matched with exceptional service, each original design is made and delivered by hand to recreate the in shop customer experience.

Integral employs complex heuristics to evaluate all content on web pages through multiple layers of proprietary and best-in-class data science technologies. We currently have industry-leading visibility, at the individual page level, across over 98% of the commercial web. Integral’s proprietary data science and human verification technologies have been designed by leading academicians in the data science and machine learning fields. Our rating methodology never relies on single source data to evaluate content — it weighs competing evidence sources to create the most accurate and comprehensive rating of page content.