Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

Snackpass is building the social layer for local commerce, starting with restaurants. We believe that in 5 years, restaurants will be entirely cashier-less. Snackpass mobile order and kiosk are the next generation of the in-store customer experience, replacing traditional registers. We enable mobile ordering, group buying, and social rewards for users. On our platform, restaurants grow their brand by converting offline purchasers into digital followers, while saving on labor costs. image While we’ve seen the rise of online delivery apps, delivery makes up less than 10% of the restaurant market. The rest — takeout and dine-in — is a $600B market that remains offline, anonymous, and on the verge of disruption. There is an opportunity to make these offline transactions digital, self-service, and connected, and we’re leading this movement. Snackpass is one the largest social commerce platforms in the US, one of the fastest growing marketplaces, and a top 100 YC company. And we've built this with a team of under 40 people. The environment at Snackpass is high impact, fast paced, and empowering for everyone. We are growing fast and looking for hungry and humble builders to join us in any of our hubs (NYC, SF, LA) or remotely.

Feathery is the most powerful form and workflow automation platform. Build pixel-perfect forms, set up advanced logic, and connect to hundreds of different systems.

Boulton & Watt is perhaps the world's slowest startup incubator. We build one company at a time with focused execution and high success rates. We don't start 10 companies per year. We don't fund entrepreneurs-in-residence with a deck and a check. We think product-market fit is a hard problem and we don't think it can be industrialized or handed off - but it is possible to solve repeatedly. We get in the guts and build the thing from day zero. Most of the work of a scientist isn't generating hypotheses, it's running experiments to get the data. That's what we do. Once we've created real traction, we partner with best-in-class operators to create a second founding moment to scale the company. That's because the skills at each stage of a startup are different, even if vesting schedules pretend they're the same. We aim for unreasonable speed with each portfolio company while making decisions at Boulton & Watt like we're going to be in business for decades. We go long: building networks of talented people we someday hope to work with, waiting patiently for businesses to compound, and preferring to make the pie bigger for everyone instead of owning all of a small pie of our own.

Sally's mission is to become the most trusted vehicle and service provider in the transportation industry. We provide vehicles on a flexible basis to professional rideshare drivers looking for best-in-class support and service. The rapid growth in the on-demand economy has accelerated the movement towards data-driven transportation. In the same way that ridesharing platforms use data to help passengers efficiently get from point A to point B, Sally uses data to inform vehicle usage. We leverage data from our vehicles, drivers, public APIs to inform our business decisions. This approach enables us to incentivize driver safety, reduce insurance costs, and maximize the value of our assets. Drive better, earn more.

Sleeper's mission is to connect people over sports. We believe the most important aspect of sports is its ability to bring friends and communities together. We do this via multi-player games like fantasy leagues, with messaging at the core of the experience. We're hiring and would love to meet you!

Our mission is to advance product innovation with metal 3D printing. Current metal 3D printers are out of reach for most engineers and designers. They are industrial, cost-prohibitive, and can be dangerous. We are making an affordable, office-friendly system so that every design and engineering team has the ability to 3D print with metal. 

Today, finance and accounting teams spend most of their time collecting, cleaning, and reconciling messy, siloed data to assemble a holistic view of a company's financial health. These processes are tedious and take away from strategic, high-value activities. We've lived it. Finance teams deserve better. We're building the future of financial software, where teams have real-time visibility into their finances, a single source of truth, and the tools to supercharge collaboration. Because ultimately, better financial data means better business decisions. We're trusted by hundreds of accounting teams, are growing fast, and have built an incredible team. How we Operate We are an early startup, and our culture and values will continue to be defined by the people who join us on this journey. Today, there are a few things that we double down on that we believe will lead to outsized early success. 1. Trust & Autonomy — we are a small team with big ambitions. Speed is our advantage and we maximize it by equipping everyone with the knowledge, tools, and support to make important decisions and take ownership of their work. 2. Curiosity — finance and accounting systems need a first-principled rethink. All team members engage with our customers and take an active role in identifying opportunities to define solutions & improve our product. 3. Continuous Improvement — we care deeply about shortening the time to value for what we build and move quickly to release product and features. How we hire reflects this value as well. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept. 4. Writing Culture — We emphasize strong documentation and a scientific approach to evaluating and addressing problems. We believe a culture of writing promotes systematic thinking.

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Cloud-based modeling and planning for sales, operations, and finance. Anaplan is disrupting the world of business modeling and planning. We built our platform from the ground up to empower companies to plan, collaborate, and act—in real time. Anaplan enables business users across your organization to turn the complexity of your business operations into powerful, easy-to-use models. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts and course correct on the fly.

AspireIQ solves the massive problem that faces every consumer business of how to produce, track and optimize branded content across the web. The platform makes the process of collaborating with photographers, models, influencers and other creatives more seamless and scalable than ever before in addition to providing the infrastructure to constantly learn and target the right content for the right person through the right channel.