Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Luma's mission is to enable everyone to capture and experience the world in lifelike 3D. We are building world's best neural capture and rendering system that makes photorealistic 3D capture from casually captured smartphone photos a reality. Our first target verticals are high-end e-commerce, real-estate, and 3D games industry.

Our mission at Column Tax is to democratize access to financial help and meaningfully improve people’s lives by providing game-changing tax solutions. To get there, we are building the infrastructure and APIs to power year-round income tax products for all mobile banking and fintech companies. This approach is uniquely suited to change the industry.

Pibit.ai is an insurtech company turns unstructured submission documents like loss runs, SOVs, policies, applications into structured data, enrich data from third-party sources, provides a comprehensive view of information, enabling better decision-making and automation within the commercial underwriting workflow.

At Inkitt, we believe that every author should have an equal chance to succeed. Our mission is to discover hidden talents from all around the world and turn them into globally successful authors. Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed. At present, we are an international team of 85 passionate and dedicated inventors and entrepreneurs and we are growing quickly. We invent new solutions to problems we encounter, as opposed to simply iterating upon existing solutions. Join us to build the Disney of the 21st Century!

Pinterest is the world's first visual discovery engine. People use Pinterest to discover ideas to try in their daily lives. More than 300 million people around the world use Pinterest to dream, plan and prepare for things they want to do in life. We always start by asking: whose problem are we solving? Is it significant? Are we making Pinners lives better? If products don't work for people they don't work for us. The success of Pinterest depends on the ownership of every Pinployee. We all own Pinterest and work to achieve results that benefit everyone, not just specific teams or individuals.

Pets make us better humans – people who care. At Kinship, we envision a world where everyone cares. So, we use data, tech, and compassion to help everyone bring the best care to their pets. Our purpose is meant to provide the pet parent with resources and products they need at the time of pet adoption, and beyond. We combine insights, products, and services to help people be the best pet parents they can be, and ultimately create a better world for pets. Today, our business includes: - Adopt-a-pet.com: Adoption support & services - TheWildest.com: Information hub & pet-parenting lifestyle site - GoodFriend: Marketplace to find & book your pet's people - Whistle: Insights into total pet health, fitness & location monitoring - Wisdom Panel: DNA/breed analysis & health issue detection - Vet Insight: 24/7 telehealth services and nutrition recommendations

Our data infrastructure automates and powers the world's largest platforms and marketplaces, including food delivery companies.

AirGarage is repurposing the 30% of real estate in the average American city currently dedicated to parking. We are building a future where real estate is digitized and can be transitioned from one use to another seamlessly on-demand, moving every piece of urban real estate toward its highest and best use. We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. As a full-stack parking operator, we automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages. We handle everything from advertising to collecting payments from drivers and enforcing against illegal parking. We already operate 150+ parking lots and parking garages across 30 US states and we are growing quickly. We are backed by top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.

At Stitch Fix we are redefining retail shopping being the first fashion retailer to blend expert styling, proprietary technology and unique product to deliver a shopping experience that is truly personalized for you. Using a unique blend of art and science we deliver a deeply personalized shopping service to our customers. This novel juxtaposition—at once analytic and artistic, technical and adventurous—attracts an extraordinary collection of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. Our diverse workforce has catalyzed enormous company growth over the past three years in terms of customer satisfaction and service efficacy. We’d love for you to help us carry on the trend.

Mendel’s confounders are a physician and a computer scientist. Each dreamed of building a “Jarvis” for medicine since they were 15 years old. Mendel envisions a future where machines learn from all patients and power better decisions across the entire spectrum of healthcare.