Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2027

Glacier’s goal of ending waste begins with the recycling industry. We’re launching an AI-based sorting robot that is significantly cheaper and more portable than the competition, without sacrificing accuracy. Using our robot, recycling facilities can process America’s trash more cleanly and efficiently, meaning more manufacturers can use recycled commodities as a viable alternative to our precious natural resources.

Clipboard is a two-sided labor marketplace that matches workers from all types of industries (nurses, dental hygienists, teachers, etc) with workplaces (Long Term Care facilities, dental offices, schools, etc ) for both short and long term work.

Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, and HR. More than 150,000 small (but mighty) businesses, and 2M+ hourly workers rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and superpower their teams. Our mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.

Manychat is a Meta Official Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, and one of America's Best Startup Employers. With 110+ teammates across three global offices — New York, Barcelona, and Yerevan — Manychat helps more than one million businesses worldwide interact with billions of customers in real-time at scale. No matter the use case — generating leads, increasing engagement, providing 24/7 customer support, accepting payments, and beyond — Manychat helps businesses improve their ROI and grow faster.

Agave connects the field and the back office in construction. We automate real-time data flow between project management and finance systems, so construction companies can stay aligned, reduce errors, and make better financial decisions—without the manual work.

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Through the development of a first of its kind open platform, Platform Science provides the hardware and software that allows clients to fully capture, analyze and apply a wealth of data, dramatically increasing performance, compliance, time management and savings.

Databricks' vision is to dramatically simplify big data processing. It was founded by the team that created and continues to drive Apache Spark, a powerful open source data processing engine built for sophisticated analytics, ease of use, and speed. Databricks offers a cloud-based integrated workspace for big data that lets users go from data ingest, to visual exploration and production jobs, making it easy to turn data into value, without the hassle of managing complex infrastructure, systems and tools. Databricks is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz and NEA.

Our mission is to reinvent the way people learn, starting with language. Learning a language can change a life by opening doors to new cultures, careers, and communities. Two billion people around the world are actively trying to learn a language, but the best way to learn (one-on-one tutoring) is hard to access at scale and hasn’t been meaningfully improved in decades. Speak is building a human-level, AI-powered tutor in your pocket: a conversation-first experience that lets learners actually speak, get instant feedback, and progress through carefully designed lessons. The result is a complete path from beginner to confident speaker across multiple languages. Speak first launched in South Korea in 2019, where Speak has now become the number one language learning app, and we now serve learners across many markets and 15+ languages. Speak is one of the world’s leading AI companies, with over $150m raised in venture investment from OpenAI, Accel, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and more, with a distributed team across San Francisco, Seoul, Tokyo, Taipei, and Ljubljana.

Q Bio is revolutionizing primary care with the first clinical digital twin platform, powered by breakthrough whole-body scanning technology, that highlights the most important changes in a person’s physiology for sharing with physicians and specialists anywhere in the world. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Carlos, California. Q Bio was founded by Jeffrey Kaditz, serial entrepreneur and Founder of Affirm, Dr Michael Snyder, Chair of Genetics and Director of Personalized Medicine and Stanford University, and Dr Garry Choy, physician, radiologist, and former Chief Medical Information Officer at Mass General Hospital. We are fortunate to be backed by some of the best venture groups in the world including: A16Z, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, SciFi VC, and Kevin Durant.