Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content they love. Best known as a top streaming service delivering AVOD and SVOD content, Crunchyroll also provides experiences to deepen fan engagement through content distribution, social, events, games, consumer products, and manga publishing. Fans have access to the largest collection of licensed anime through Crunchyroll, Anime Digital Network (in partnership with Citel, a subsidiary of Média-Participations), and Anime on Demand video streaming services, translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast. Crunchyroll's services also extend to licensing of theatrical, TV, home video, and consumer product rights. Fans engage further with events (including owned events Crunchyroll Expo, Anime Awards, Crunchyroll Movie Nights, KAZÉ Movie Nights), consumer products through eCommerce and retail partners (Crunchyroll, KAZÉ, AV Visionen), Crunchyroll Games, KAZÉ Games, and manga (KAZÉ Manga, Crunchyroll Manga app, Crunchyroll Manga Store). Crunchyroll was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Lausanne, Berlin (AV Visionen) and Chisinau. VRV (U.S.) and Eye See Movies (Germany) are also Crunchyroll brands.

Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) is a leading, comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and brands they love. With Braze, global brands like Burger King, Delivery Hero, HBO Max, Mercari, and Venmo can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns, and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies. And we do it at scale – last fiscal year our customers used Braze to send approximately 1.5 trillion messages to billions of monthly active users.

Upbound is the industry’s first platform for building internal cloud platforms. Designed around control planes, Upbound offers a new methodology for building an internal cloud platform, purpose-built for your organization. Customers can quickly build, deploy, manage, secure, and use their platforms all from a single point of control.

Established in 2018, we are a London-based company started by deep learning veterans with huge ambitions. V7's goal is to develop a single platform to develop the sense of sight for any visual task, from microscopy identification, to manufacturing, or robotic picking. We believe neural networks and learnt approaches will replace hand-coded software as we know it. Our goal is to power the intelligence of 1 billion devices by 2030.

Vori is the only modern B2B operating system for the grocery industry (think Instacart or DoorDash but for grocery retailers and their wholesale suppliers). Our technology seamlessly connects data across the food supply chain, streamlining operations for grocers and suppliers while democratizing food supply access. Our customers include everyone from Safeway and CVS properties on down to local corner stores.

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company in 2021, Lime has powered more than 300 million electric bike and scooter rides in nearly 250 cities, replacing an estimated 75 million car trips and preventing 26,000 tons of CO2. Learn more at li.me! We're on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Guided by our core pillars of safety, sustainability, community, and innovation, we're helping to decarbonize transportation and change the way people move in cities for good.

Explo provides a powerful embedded dashboard and reporting solution, enabling companies to securely share customizable product analytics, project reports, and KPIs with each of their end-users all while seamlessly matching the product's design. If you're interested in joining our team, please reach out to [email protected] or visit explo.co/careers.

Atlan is a data democratization platform that helps data teams collaborate frictionlessly. We are creating a home for data teams—allowing them to truly democratize both internal and external data, while automating repetitive tasks. Data can be chaos, work shouldn't be! We’re proud to be working with teams ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, including Milkbasket, Unilever, WPP & GroupM, Mahindra Group, Kotak Mahindra Bank, United Nations and the Government of India. We are headquartered in Singapore, with teams in New Delhi and Bengaluru (India), San Francisco (US) and Nairobi (Kenya).

We are on a mission to reinvent knowledge sharing and decision-making for work in the age of AI. Today, teams are drowning in a sea of information that is siloed across hundreds of SaaS apps (think Notion, Dropbox, Slack, Jira, Github, Gmail, Salesforce, Airtable, etc.). Using Dashworks, teams transform how their employees find, discover, and learn from their company knowledge. Our first product connects with all the cloud apps used in a company and uses state-of-the-art NLP to power intelligent, personalized, and deep search across company documents, messages, comments, emails, code, tasks, meeting transcripts, and everything else.

Join a team of mission-driven engineers from top aviation, aerospace and robotics companies. Together we are working to realize a future where automated air transportation expands the possibilities of commerce and communities everywhere.