Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

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.

We are a critical link between growers of a community and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food. We are committed to supporting the smaller and mid-size growers who are doing their farming sustainably. We are committed to creating transparency around what is in your food and where the food comes from, and we want to create more accessibility to healthy, real food for more people. We set up our spaces with real food and preserve the building structure, decorating with works from local artist that will blend with the communities we serve. Our food is healthy and real and we help communities make the best choices for what they eat by having sustainably grown food in our spaces.

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale application infrastructure and applications. Combining metrics, traces, and logs from servers, databases, and applications, Datadog delivers sophisticated, actionable alerts, and provides real-time visibility of your entire stack. Datadog includes 350+ vendor-supported, pre-built integrations, and monitors hundreds of thousands of hosts. datadog.com

Recent Awards / Mentions: - Apple's Top 10 Apps in the World - Business Insider's most innovative companies in the world along with Uber and Snapchat: At Lark, we’re on a mission to improve people’s health and happiness through our digital health coach AI which has become the first A.I. nurse to be reimbursed as a live healthcare professional. Our app takes data from phones and wearables, and uses it to create a personalized health "chat bot" buddy that sticks with users and helps them stay active, sleep more, and eat healthy. We are using NLP to process millions of meals, and accelerometer data to compute activity and sleep amounts from users' phones. Our chat AI is the most sophisticated digital health engagement tool in the world. Join us and make it even better!

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to empowering new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 1,000 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time.

Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation. Zoox will provide mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We will handle the driving, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. The rider will simply pay for the service. In 2020, Zoox joined forces with Amazon. And in the process, solidified our future in the autonomous vehicle industry. We are focused on testing on private and public roads as we move towards launching the first Zoox ride-hailing service.

Highnote is the world’s most modern card platform, purpose-built to grow customer loyalty, engagement, and revenue through embedded card issuance experiences. With an all-in-one platform and a fully integrated issuer processor built from scratch to address the use cases of today and tomorrow, Highnote gives enterprises unparalleled control, flexibility, and speed to realize their customer vision through innovative embedded finance experiences. Utilizing the developer-friendly Highnote platform, product and engineering teams at digital enterprises of all sizes can easily and efficiently embed virtual and physical payment cards (commercial and consumer prepaid, debit, credit, and charge), ledger, and wallet capabilities into their existing products, creating compelling value for users while growing revenue and building a unique and differentiated brand.

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1."​ What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and focus on delighting our customers.

We have six main products that utilize Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to do everything from making Renewable Energy more efficient to helping Drones navigate urban air traffic, to predicting catastrophic events, to cybersecurity, to the latest Defense Department initiatives.

Integral employs complex heuristics to evaluate all content on web pages through multiple layers of proprietary and best-in-class data science technologies. We currently have industry-leading visibility, at the individual page level, across over 98% of the commercial web. Integral’s proprietary data science and human verification technologies have been designed by leading academicians in the data science and machine learning fields. Our rating methodology never relies on single source data to evaluate content — it weighs competing evidence sources to create the most accurate and comprehensive rating of page content.