Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

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.

BigID is transforming enterprise protection and privacy of personal data. Organizations are facing record breaches of personal information and proliferating global privacy regulations with fines reaching 4% of annual revenue. Today enterprises lack dedicated purpose-built technology to help them track and govern their customer data for regulations like GDPR. By bringing data science to data privacy, BigID aims to give enterprises the software to safeguard and steward the most important asset organizations manage: their customer data.

Brooklinen, home of The Internet’s Favorite Sheets, was founded in 2014 with one goal in mind: We want you to be comfortable. We believe everyone deserves beautiful home essentials, and our approach to provide these is simple: Create high-quality products using the finest materials – from bedding to towels and everything in between – and offer these products directly to our customers (without the luxury markup!). As we’ve expanded beyond the bedroom, introducing bath goods, accessories, loungewear, our Spaces marketplace and IRL retail stores (with many more opening in 2022 and beyond!), our goal of keeping you comfortable has remained at the forefront. We take pride in our products and think you will, too: Our sheets, towels and more have received over 100,000 5-star reviews and been recognized by numerous industry tastemakers such as Apartment Therapy, Good Housekeeping, The New York Times’ Wirecutter and many more.

Plastiq is bill pay with benefits, enabling business owners and consumers to use a credit card for virtually any expense, even ones that normally require a check. With Plastiq, it's easier to earn credit card rewards, tap early-payment discounts, and use your cash in ways that make the most sense for you. Plastiq works with all major credit card providers, including American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa, and JCB, and its payments platform has signed up more than one million clients, processing billions in payments for a wide range of expenses, from business supplier payments, to contractors, to taxes and rent. Learn more at plastiq.com.

Mixmax makes email as powerful as web pages by enabling actions like completing purchases, confirming expense reports, scheduling events, and answering surveys—all within an email, no plugins required. Any developer can bring interactive apps into email using Mixmax as a platform, without worrying about client idiosyncrasies. After building communications products at companies like Apple, Google, and Skype we saw a huge opportunity to build a world where email maximizes both your productivity and expressiveness. Our team met at Inkling, where together we built Inkling Habitat, the WYSIWYG ebook editor now used by the world’s biggest publishers. We have unique experience in enabling interactivity cross-platform. Get Mixmax here: mixmax.com Check out our Twitter Wall of Love here: twitter.com/MixmaxHQ/timelines/676913925221449728 Check out our engineering stack: stackshare.io/mixmax

FlixBus is a European long distance mobility provider with headquarters in Munich, Berlin, Milan, Paris and Zagreb. Since 2013, FlixBus have offered a new, convenient and green way to travel which suits every budget. Thanks to a smart business model and innovative technology, the startup has established Europe’s largest intercity bus network in less than four years and has no intention of stopping to expand anytime soon.

Helix is a growth stage company focused on personal genomics. Helix has a simple but powerful mission: to empower every person to improve their life through DNA. We’re creating an ecosystem where people can explore diverse and uniquely personalized applications provided by high-quality partners. Helix handles sample collection, DNA sequencing, and secure data storage so that our partners can develop on-demand products in areas such as health, fitness, nutrition, lifestyle, genealogy, and inherited traits. Helix is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and operates one of the world’s largest next-generation sequencing laboratories in San Diego. You can learn more at helix.com or follow @my_helix.

Founded in 2013, Thistle is an early stage food-tech startup empowering our customers to get and stay healthy. We deliver delicious, organic, healthy, plant-forward meals, cold-pressed juices and snacks to customers in California who want to put their nutrition on auto-pilot. We don’t want to be just another food delivery startup or meal-kit company. Our focus is on the health and happiness of our customers, and we are revolutionizing how fresh, nutritious, high-quality food is purchased, manufactured, and delivered at scale. Thistle is headquartered in San Francisco and we are backed by some amazing investors in the Bay Area and beyond.

MaestroQA helps companies transform their customer service from a department that is viewed as a cost into a growth driver - one that drives customer loyalty and happiness. We do this by building software that helps managers coach customer service agents on best quality practices.

SKALE Labs is the foundation behind SKALE, the gas-free invisible blockchain network designed to scale gaming, AI, social, and high-performance dApps to the masses. SKALE is BUILT DIFFERENT. Chains are gas-free, fast, modular, and fully EVM-Compatible, making them ideal for a wide range of decentralized applications. With a commitment to driving the mass adoption of Web3 technologies, SKALE empowers developers and businesses to build scalable, efficient, and user-centric blockchain applications. Harmonizing speed, security, and decentralization, SKALE Labs was born in Cali in 2018 by Jack O’Holleran and Stan Kladko, PhD. As of Q3 2024, the network serves over 5 Million monthly active users and has saved $8 Billion in gas fees. SKALE supporters include Arrington Capital, Blockchange, ConsenSys Labs, Hashed, HashKey, Floodgate, Multicoin Capital, Recruit Holdings, Signia VP, and Winklevoss Capital.