Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2026

Arcway lets buyers design and price a home in sixty seconds.

Evonaire is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation building foundational infrastructure for the emotional web. Our platform combines voice-first experiences, ethical AI, creator licensing, and privacy-first technology to help people safely create, share, and protect emotional knowledge. We are developing proprietary systems including UPstream™ Licensing, ClaimChain™, GAIA™, and consent-based creator tools designed for the next generation of emotional intellectual property. Our mission is to make emotional creativity ownable, licensable, and protected while advancing accessibility, privacy, and human dignity.

Apt is building an AI-native workplace for building and measuring professional capability through real work. Today, people are largely evaluated through CVs, degrees, interviews, and credentials, claims about what they can do. We believe a better signal is what someone actually does when given meaningful work. Apt gives people a realistic workplace where they can take on roles, solve real problems, collaborate with AI coworkers and other people, make decisions, and build a verifiable history of how they think, collaborate, and execute.

We believe in hiring exceptional, motivated talent, and bringing the best the world has to offer you at a fraction of what you’re currently paying for staff now. We do this by finding the best person to fill the seat on the bus you need at the best compensation possible for both you and them. Basically, they’re paid above-average wages for their work. We focus on talent from the Philippines because of their fluent English and highly skilled and available workforce with a culture of excellence, high work ethic, and strong personal values. We learned from the pandemic that we don’t need to be constrained by the walls of our offices, or bounded by the geography of where we live.