Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Unriddle helps researchers make breakthrough discoveries faster. We are a single platform to find, understand and produce research papers. In just one year, we’ve grown to $1M ARR and 1.5M users. We’re growing 20% month-over-month and our users include teams at Stanford, GSK and Johns Hopkins. We use language models to surface and breakdown relevant information, suggest novel connections between papers and automate rote research tasks. This free’s up headspace for higher reasoning and insight - essentially expanding the researcher’s mental RAM and letting them load larger problems into memory. We’re starting with software to read, write and find papers, but our ultimate goal is to build the researcher of the future: a human-AI hybrid that’s an order of magnitude more effective than any single researcher. And we just closed a $2.4M seed round with participation from Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Tom Preston-Werner (co-founder of Github) and Steve Huffman (co-founder and CEO of Reddit).

Veel helps businesses produce high-quality product videos with top social media influencers, video creators and UGC creators to drive maximum engagement. Our influencer marketing platform, made specifically for brands, simplifies the entire process—from managing contracts and payments to sharing videos across social media and embedding them directly on your website and eCommerce platform.

Our goal at P-1 AI is to develop an artificial general engineering intelligence—and eventually superintelligence—that can help the human species design physical systems more efficiently and at unprecedented levels of complexity. Going beyond existing foundation models, our autonomous AI agent learns from synthetic training data and real-world feedback and reasons over an internal multi-physics representation of a product design that encompasses both geometry and function. We are a world-class team of AI researchers, engineers, and top industry executives backed by some of the best investors in Silicon Valley and beyond.

We work with early-stage startups funded by some of the world's leading VC firms.

Coastal Carbon is a seed-funded startup on a mission to create positive impact through earth observation and AI. Founded at the University of Waterloo by a team of PhDs and engineers, we’re backed by some of the best AI and climate tech investors like HF0, Inovia Capital and Propeller Ventures, angels like James Tamplin (cofounder Firebase) and Sid Gorham (cofounder OpenTable, Granular), and partners like Amazon AWS and the United Nations. We’re building multimodal foundation models for the natural world. We believe there’s more to the world than the internet + more to intelligence than memorizing the internet. Our models are trained on satellite remote sensing and real world ground truth data, and are used by our customers in nature conservation, carbon dioxide removal, and government to protect and positively impact our increasingly changing world. Our ultimate goal is to build AGI of the natural world.

Our consulting and staffing services help technology companies find well-qualified engineering talent that will help advance their product development.