Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Commonwealth fusion systems (cfs) was spun out of mit's plasma science and fusion center to leverage the decades of fusion research combined with the innovation and speed of the private sector. supported by the world’s leading investors in breakthrough energy technologies, the cfs team is uniquely positioned to deliver the fastest path to commercial fusion energy. cfs has assembled a world class team that includes experts in magnets, manufacturing and plasma physics dedicated to the mission of delivering clean, limitless fusion power to the world.

Company Overview Nitricity is a startup addressing climate change. We are innovating in an essential chemical industry that supports global food systems. The bedrock of modern agriculture is the production, distribution, and application of the essential nutrients found in fertilizers. However, nitrogen fertilizer is currently made in coal- and gas-fired facilities located hundreds to thousands of miles away from farmers who need it. The $120B industry is responsible for as much as 6% of global CO2eq emissions. Nitricity Inc. has developed a new technology that produces fertilizer using air, water, and renewable electricity (e.g., solar). Growers will have access to a more reliable, low cost, and environmentally friendly fertilizer supply. We are actively growing our team to help us turn this vision into a reality.

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.

Unison is a San Francisco-based company that is pioneering a smarter, better way to buy and own homes. We are a team of financial and real estate professionals who are committed to helping homebuyers get the home they want, and homeowners finance their life needs without adding debt. We are radical enablers of enlightened capitalism pioneering optimal homeownership for all.

Vanta automates security and compliance, starting with SOC 2, to protect customer data and build trust in internet businesses. We started Vanta in 2017 as Equifax lost every American’s social security number, Home Depot leaked its customers’ credit card numbers, and Facebook admitted it sent user data to groups trying to influence the US Presidential election. Our goal is to demystify internet security to the average person, equipping beginners with sane defaults and growing them into security-savvy principals who can explain how their company protects customer data and why their business is worthy of your trust. We’re a growing team, passionate about making the internet more secure by raising the standard for security and building tools to help today’s businesses surpass that bar. We’d like your help – we can’t do this alone.

Space Runners has 3 main products: 1. Our open fashion metaverse (see demo at spacerunners.com/spaceverse), where users can show off their digital fashion wardrobes and brands can build gamified retail experiences for their fans. We are building the next generation platform for fashion retail and events that will also engage users with a wear-to-earn mechanic that rewards the most fashionable with token awards. 2. Digital fashion collections, launched in collaboration with the most beloved fashion brands. Our team of fashion and 3D designers build beautiful fashion items that rival real life clothing, but with a fun reality-defying quality only digital items can have, that you can wear across different metaverse platforms. 3. Experiences to enhance the fun of socializing in the metaverse, including a Web 3 dating application called Fame

Realm is building the modern financial advisor for your house. Primary residences account for 62% of the average American’s total assets, but there’s no accessible platform homeowners can turn to for unbiased, actionable advice — until now. From the day you buy your home to the day you sell it, you’re making a series of expensive and confusing decisions. To navigate these decisions, homeowners try to cobble together information from biased experts, googling, and friends. Realm's free insights and tools help homeowners across the US make informed decisions. Our nationwide product is powered by technology, with a human touch. Our insights help homeowners navigate complex & expensive home decisions, ranging from how much to spend on a kitchen renovation to when to refinance.

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

We provide modern big data back up recovery solutions that work using cloud integration, development and testing, and ransomware protection all from a single unified online platform.

Kaedim is a fast-growth AI startup solving the hard problem of 2D to digital 3D reconstruction. We are the first tech startup with a product in the market producing ready-to-use digital 3D models for game developers to use in their production pipelines and we currently support more than 200 game studios in production allowing for a 10x speedup compared to traditional methods.