Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2024

Productboard is a customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster. Over 5,400 companies, including Microsoft, Zoom, 1-800-Contacts, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap. With offices in San Francisco, Prague, and Vancouver, Productboard is backed by leading investors like Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Credo Ventures. Learn more at productboard.com.

Calm is the leading mental wellness brand with the #1 App for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation™, designed to help you manage stress, sleep better and live a happier, healthier life. With hundreds of hours of original audio content available in seven languages, Calm supports users in more than 190 countries. Apple’s 2017 iPhone App of the Year and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020, Calm boasts over 100 million downloads to date, with more than 4 million paying members.

SingleStore is one platform for all data, built so you can engage with insight in every moment. Trusted by industry leaders, SingleStore enables enterprises to adapt to change as it happens, embrace diverse data with ease, and accelerate the pace of innovation. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Portland, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv. Defining the future starts with The Database of Now™.

Serving 20 trillion feature flags daily, LaunchDarkly helps development teams innovate faster by transforming how they deliver software to customers. LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOps teams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, an

Most things these days are instant and on-demand, except the money you're working hardest for. At EarnIn, we’re reimagining the way money moves to empower every person’s potential. We believe your hard-earned pay should flow more freely to give you more options, wherever life takes you. It starts with access to your earnings as you work. We like to think of it as “everyday payday.” But it’s much more than that. It’s a first-of-its-kind financial hub plus a unique card built entirely around streamed earnings. It’s more of your money to spend, transfer, and save as you want — at the lowest possible cost. And it’s all moving at the speed of you to bring more possibilities for today and tomorrow. After all, you've earned it. EarnIn is a financial technology company, not a bank. The Deposit Account, Secured Account, and EarnIn Card are issued by Evolve Bank & Trust, Member FDIC. The EarnIn Card is issued pursuant to a license from Visa USA Inc. Mission: We’re reimagining the way money moves to empower every person’s potential. We believe your hard-earned pay should flow more freely to give you more options, wherever life takes you.

WeRide is a smart mobility company that creates leading L4 autonomous driving technologies. We have committed ourselves to new mobility services that will be accessible and beneficial to everyone. WeRide is China’s first L4 autonomous driving technology start-up company to obtain strategic investment from a top-tier global automaker Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. We employ a highly skilled technology team of more than 300 employees globally, 70% of whom are R&D engineers. Our core management team all has extensive domestic and international experience in technology development and business operations in both China and the USA at companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Baidu, DiDi, Cisco, and others. WeRide has been focusing on the strategic alliance among AI technology companies, car makers and mobility service platforms. WeRide Robotaxi, a joint venture company of WeRide, Baiyun Taxi and SCI (Guangzhou) Group, has launched a Robotaxi program in Guangzhou, China. The operation covers 144.65 square kilometers in the Huangpu and Guangzhou Development District, providing the locals with Robotaxi services on their daily commute. It’s the first Robotaxi service open to the public in China.

Labelbox is the leading data-centric AI platform for building intelligent applications. Teams looking to capitalize on the latest advances in generative AI and LLMs use the Labelbox platform to inject these systems with the right degree of human supervision and automation. Whether they are building AI products with custom or foundation models, or using AI to automate data tasks or find business insights, Labelbox enables teams to do so effectively and quickly. The platform is used by Fortune 500 enterprises such as Walmart, P&G, Genentech, and Adobe, and hundreds of leading AI teams. Labelbox is backed by leading investors including SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), and Databricks Ventures.

Plaid is focused on democratizing financial services through technology. We build beautiful consumer experiences, developer-friendly infrastructure, and intelligent tools that give everyone the ability to create Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stord is on a mission to make supply chain a competitive advantage for our customers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the heart of Atlanta’s vibrant tech community, Stord is pioneering Cloud Supply Chain. Cloud Supply Chain is the convergence of the digital and physical elements of logistics. With Stord, businesses can build, expand, and optimize their physical supply chain operations across freight, warehousing, and fulfillment, with the speed, flexibility, and ease of modern cloud software. With a single integration, businesses achieve end-to-end visibility into their whole supply chains from a single dashboard and gain access to Stord’s hybrid network of operated facilities and hundreds of premier-partner warehouses, fulfillment centers, and carriers. We’re a rapidly growing team that is backed by over $200M from leading investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, BOND, D1 Capital, and more (investors in Amazon, Google, Twitter, and more).

SIGNIFYD’s full-service cloud platform simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. SIGNIFYD is in use by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 list.