Top Tech Startups in California, US in 2026

We have 3 products: Pure Rose Nectar Pure Rose Mist Pure Rose Yummies Our products have the following benefits: - hydrate skin from within - elevate mood - boost immunity - raise vibrations - guard against free radical damage and aging Our target market are health-conscious women and men (95% currently women) who value high quality, products that help them live a healthier, happier, longer life.

Cypris is the vertical AI platform for corporate R&D and innovation teams. We centralize scientific papers, patents, market news, and company intelligence into a single platform with over 500M+ global data points. On top of this foundation, we’re building AI Agents tailored to R&D workflows, powered by the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others. With Cypris, teams can manage projects, automate research workflows, and track markets, competitors, and technologies to accelerate product development and R&D strategy. Today, leading mid-size to Fortune 100 companies in aerospace, genomics, cancer research, and autonomous systems rely on Cypris to innovate faster and with more clarity. Customers include the US Airforce, NASA, J&J, Yamaha and more.

Litmos Learning Seat Compliance Library provides compliance and professional development training through SAP Litmos. It integrates with the Litmos LMS, using AI tools like adaptive learning and AI Assistant for course assignment and learner support.

Action on AI Search with Athena. Backed by Y Combinator, FCVC (seed investor in Coinbase, Instacart, Webflow, Rippling), Eli Schwartz, and current and former CMOs, AthenaHQ is the preferred AI-search partner for forward-thinking marketing organizations Featured on Forbes, WSJ, and Business Insider. Trusted by hundreds of next-gen marketing teams at Paperless Post, Ollie, Checkr, OneSignal, and more. athenahq.ai/careers

Higher education runs on fragmented data — across the SIS, LMS, CRM, and many others. Straia unifies it all.We’re building the AI-native intelligence layer for colleges and university systems, allowing administrators and leaders to ask questions in plain English and receive instant, decision-ready insights, visualizations, and reports without relying on manual queries or lengthy reporting cycles.By connecting siloed data sources and embedding intelligent agents into decision workflows, Straia helps institutions improve student success, optimize operations, and build a much more resilient higher education ecosystem.

Loamy is an AI-powered system of record for food shippers and growers that unifies field-to-fork traceability, inventory, and operations so teams can run faster, stay compliant, and cut waste. Loamy empowers food businesses to move beyond reactive firefighting and rejections to consistent quality and improved margins.

AngryPages is a California-based publishing platform built around one idea: Stories earn on AngryPages™. We help writers, founders, creators, businesses, and public figures turn stories, books, essays, and ideas into published pages people can read, buy, share, and support. The product is live at AngryPages.com. We support story cards, paid pages, book-style publishing, creator earnings, advertising, and AI-assisted publishing workflows. The hard problem is simple: most people have something worth saying, but they do not have a serious way to package it, publish it, monetize it, and build reputation from it. AngryPages is building that system. We are looking for serious operators, engineers, salespeople, advertisers, creators, and partners who can help scale this into a global publishing company for the internet age.

Samara Aerospace provides spacecraft design and satellite control technology services. The company develops the Hummingbird satellite bus, leveraging its proprietary MSAC (Multifunctional Structures for Attitude Control) system to achieve precise attitude control and active jitter cancellation without traditional reaction wheels. It supports integration of solar-panel–embedded piezoelectric actuators for high-precision pointing in Earth observation and optical‑communications missions.