Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Ever talk to a really good AI when you call customer service? That’s (probably!) powered by us at Flip - a profitable, fast-growing startup raising our Series A. Having Flip's voice assistant makes for: ✅ Happier customers: 24/7 on-brand resolutions, with high success rates. ✅ Happier agents: instead of an avalanche of tickets, more of a 'manageable handful' :) ✅ Happier businesses: happier customers & happier agents, all while saving $$$$! Flip: where rich conversations happen and brand love is built, at scale. Check us out at flipcx.com!

Oklo is a California-based company developing clean energy plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy using advanced fission. Oklo is a fast-growing startup with a history of reliable funding and milestones for more than 5 years. Oklo’s first product is a microgrid scale powerhouse. The powerhouse can produce clean energy for decades without needing to refuel, and also has the capability to turn nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, demonstrated fabrication of its fuel, was awarded fuel from the Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first accepted advanced fission license application to the regulator. Oklo has been featured in Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, and has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and was featured in the documentary The New Fire, among many other features.

At Persona, we’re humanizing online identity. To us, this means making it easy for businesses to verify customers’ identities and offering a secure, streamlined, and personalized experience for each end-user. This helps businesses understand their customers. And most importantly, people know they are being treated as a unique person, not just another anonymous user. At Persona, what brings our team together is our desire to help our fellow teammates succeed and our motivation to make the internet a safer place. Funding: $217M in funding; Series C (Founders Fund, Index, Coatue, First Round) Offices: San Francisco (HQ), New York Team Size: 250 Website: withpersona.com Noteworthy Customers: OpenAI, AngelList, Etsy, LinkedIn, Twilio, Reddit, DoorDash, Coursera, Gusto, Square, Simple Health, Instacart LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/persona-identities/life Glassdoor: glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Persona-Identities-EI_IE4135645.11,29.htm

Away is a modern lifestyle brand creating thoughtful products designed to transform travel. Since our launch in February 2016, we have become one of the fastest growing consumer brands in the world. We have sold millions of travel products, grown from a team of four to over 250, expanded shipping to nearly 40 countries, opened seven stores across two countries, and launched several new products and experiences that are inspiring more people to travel the world. And we know that’s just the beginning! In just over three years, we have already been twice named one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” one of TIME’s “50 Most Genius Companies,” one of LinkedIn's "Top Startups,"​ and a Forbes “Next Billion Dollar Startup.” We have also raised more than $156M in total equity funding to fuel our next phase of growth.

Baseten makes going from machine learning models to production-grade applications fast and easy. With Baseten, data science and machine learning teams can ship full-stack ML applications without backend, frontend or MLOps knowledge, enabling faster, smarter decision-making at their organizations.

Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit unity.com. Download Unity: unity3d.com/get-unity We're hiring! Visit our careers site: careers.unity.com For support, please email: [email protected] Check us out on our other social channels: Twitter: twitter.com/unity3d Facebook: facebook.com/unity3d LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/unity-technologies Instagram: instagram.com/unitytechnologies

Motiv Power Systems has a vision, to free fleets from fossil fuels. To do this we deliver intelligent all-electric chassis for commercial vehicles, enabling traditional vehicle builders to move away from fossil fuels while continuing to serve the same fleets. Our Electric Powered Intelligent Chassis (EPIC) is Ford eQVM approved, and available for a number of different medium-duty vehicle configurations including walk-in vans, box trucks, work trucks, shuttle buses, school buses, trolleys, and other specialty vehicles.

Software discovery is broken. Tech buyers are bombarded with cold sales outreach from established vendors, leaving startups with truly innovative solutions struggling to gain the market awareness they deserve. At Sagetap, we believe buyers need to be in the driver's seat, where they aren't being sold to unless they want to be sold to. We also believe that a startup's success should be driven by the actual product-market-fit of their solution, and not by their marketing budgets. As a team, we are dedicated to building the first online platform that helps promising technology solutions get the recognition they deserve. We are proud to have the support of some of the best advisors and investors in the world, including NFX Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Emergent Ventures, who have helped create some of the products that you may already be using. If you're excited about revolutionizing the tech industry and want to join a team that shares your passion, we'd love to hear from you.

Our company has recognized that today’s consumer is evolving at a speed that is difficult to keep pace with. Leverage our technology platform and exclusive access to mobile intelligence, and create new paths to understand, identify, engage and acquire consumers.

Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences at any price point, with over 2M listings in 34K cities and 192 countries. With a growing community of users, Airbnb also provides an easy way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.