Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

We’re the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform. HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.

At Guideline, our plans are low cost and highly automated. This makes it easy for companies to offer a valuable benefit—and easy for people to invest in their financial future with confidence. Listed on The Fintech 250 '17 - CBInsights cbinsights.com/research-fintech250

Rippling is the first HR + IT platform. Through one, easy-to-use platform, businesses can manage their employee's payroll, health insurance, benefits, HR and even IT — from their computers to their software. Hiring someone, for example? Through Rippling, you can: invite your new hire to e-sign their agreements, add them to payroll and benefits, order and configure their computer, and create their user account in over 300 apps like Gmail, MS Office, Slack, Salesforce, and Dropbox. All in just a few clicks. Rippling is HQ in San Francisco and backed by top-tier investors, including Initialized, DFJ, Y Combinator and the founders of Twitch, Quora, Khan Academy and AngelList.

Four billion people do not have access to the internet. Astranis is going to change that. We are building the next generation of smaller, lower-cost telecommunications satellites to bring the world online.

Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology. Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products.

The software used to manage networks hasn’t kept up with the dramatic expansion of networks themselves. The Forward Networks solution is designed to help network teams eliminate network outages and reduce time to remediate errors. Its platform enables engineers and operators to visualize and search complex networks, debug configuration problems, verify network-wide policy implementations, and predict network behavior prior to deploying changes. Forward Networks builds a software replica of an entire network to analyze its behavior. Using the network copy, the software traces, indexes, and stores the collected data, monitoring things like end-to-end behavior, verification of the network’s forwarding behavior and security posture, and close monitoring of configuration changes.

BlueVine is on a mission to empower small businesses with innovative banking* designed for them. Small businesses deserve accessible and modern financial services, and traditional banks have underserved them for too long. By combining industry-leading technology and security with our team's expertise and care, we help small businesses spend their time on what matters most—the next chapter of their business. Since 2013, we've provided small and medium-sized businesses with access to more than $5.4 billion in financing. As a top small business banking provider trusted by thousands of small business owners, we're proud to offer a full suite of tailored banking services, including a business checking account, line of credit, and invoice factoring. Headquartered in Redwood City, CA, and with offices in Salt Lake City, Jersey City, New Orleans, Tel Aviv, and Karmiel, we're hiring problem solvers and collaborators to help build a better financial future for small business owners. *BlueVine is a financial technology company, not a bank.

Computers are the most powerful tools to exist in the history of humanity. Today, only a relative few—professional software developers—can use this superpower to its fullest extent. This has created an unbalanced world where there are programmers and those who consume their programs. Replit is changing that dynamic by bringing the next billion software creators online.

Homebase makes hourly work easier. We help over 100,000 great restaurants, retailers, and other local businesses manage their teams in less time and with less paperwork through online scheduling, time-tracking, communication, and hiring. We help over 1M hourly employees manage their work in one place so they can make the most of their time.

At Mashgin, we are developing the future of checkout experiences. We aim to reduce the friction between customer desires and their ability to be on their way. Our ecosystem is anchored by the only 3D computer vision and deep learning based checkout system in the world. With customers across a wide spectrum of verticals including the NFL, MLB, and Aramark, our company and product adoption are growing at a rapid pace.