Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Course Hero is an online learning platform with over 60 million course-specific study resources contributed by our community of students and educators, and produced by our team of educational content specialists in collaboration with subject experts. You’ll find practice problems, study guides, videos, class notes, and step-by-step explanations for every subject you’re studying—from economics to literature, biology to history, accounting to psychology, and everything in between. Through Course Hero, you can quickly find what you need to learn deeply. We work closely with educators to help support student learning and complement what’s happening in the classroom. We want to see more students walking up to the podium on graduation day, proud of what they’ve accomplished, and ready to build great lives for themselves. We aim to help them get there.

Launched in 2015, MasterClass is the streaming platform where anyone can learn from the world's best. With an annual membership, subscribers get unlimited access to 90+ instructors and classes across a wide range of subjects including Arts & Entertainment, Business, Design & Style, Sports & Gaming, Writing and more. Step into Anna Wintour’s office, Ron Finley’s garden and Neil Gaiman’s writing retreat. Get inspired by RuPaul, perfect your pitch with Shonda Rhimes, and discover your inner negotiator with Chris Voss. Each class features about 20 video lessons, at an average of 10 minutes per lesson. You can learn on your own terms — in bite-sized pieces or binge it all at once. Cinematic visuals and close-up, hands-on demonstrations make you feel one-on-one with the instructors, while the downloadable workbooks help reinforce your learning. Stream thousands of lessons anywhere, anytime, on mobile, tablets, desktop and Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV® and Roku® devices.

Trunk is an a16z backed startup founded by a team of senior and staff engineers from Uber and Google. From first-hand experience, we knew that top tech companies rightly treated developer experience as a mission-critical competitive investment. But hiring full-time developer tools and developer experience teams, as the biggest companies do, isn’t a scalable solution. From one-person hobby projects to 800-person engineering juggernauts, we’re building the rock-solid tooling solution every team needs. Maintaining development velocity is impossible when you’re constantly babysitting pull requests. Putting your product roadmap on hold to triage a sick repo shouldn’t be a regular occurrence. Because the treatment for death by a thousand paper cuts isn’t a thousand band-aids. Enter Trunk. No, we didn’t invent trunk-based development—but we’re here to accelerate it.

Veeva builds enterprise cloud technology that powers the biggest names in the pharmaceutical, biotech, consumer goods, chemical & cosmetics industries. Our customers make vaccines, life-saving medicines, and life-enhancing products that make a difference in everyday lives. Our technology has transformed these industries; enabling them to get critical products and services to market faster. Our core values, Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed, guide us as we make our customers more efficient and effective in everything they do.

We have created a revolutionary silicon-based DNA synthesis platform, that offers precision at a scale otherwise unavailable to our customers. We provide an innovative silicon-based DNA Synthesis Platform which enables production of high-quality synthetic DNA which is faster and more affordable than ever before. Our platform allows you to work with genes, oligo pools (with CRISPR), variant libraries, DNA data storage and NGS target enrichment.

Snackpass is building the social layer for local commerce, starting with restaurants. We believe that in 5 years, restaurants will be entirely cashier-less. Snackpass mobile order and kiosk are the next generation of the in-store customer experience, replacing traditional registers. We enable mobile ordering, group buying, and social rewards for users. On our platform, restaurants grow their brand by converting offline purchasers into digital followers, while saving on labor costs. image While we’ve seen the rise of online delivery apps, delivery makes up less than 10% of the restaurant market. The rest — takeout and dine-in — is a $600B market that remains offline, anonymous, and on the verge of disruption. There is an opportunity to make these offline transactions digital, self-service, and connected, and we’re leading this movement. Snackpass is one the largest social commerce platforms in the US, one of the fastest growing marketplaces, and a top 100 YC company. And we've built this with a team of under 40 people. The environment at Snackpass is high impact, fast paced, and empowering for everyone. We are growing fast and looking for hungry and humble builders to join us in any of our hubs (NYC, SF, LA) or remotely.

Feathery is the most powerful form and workflow automation platform. Build pixel-perfect forms, set up advanced logic, and connect to hundreds of different systems.

Sally's mission is to become the most trusted vehicle and service provider in the transportation industry. We provide vehicles on a flexible basis to professional rideshare drivers looking for best-in-class support and service. The rapid growth in the on-demand economy has accelerated the movement towards data-driven transportation. In the same way that ridesharing platforms use data to help passengers efficiently get from point A to point B, Sally uses data to inform vehicle usage. We leverage data from our vehicles, drivers, public APIs to inform our business decisions. This approach enables us to incentivize driver safety, reduce insurance costs, and maximize the value of our assets. Drive better, earn more.

Sleeper's mission is to connect people over sports. We believe the most important aspect of sports is its ability to bring friends and communities together. We do this via multi-player games like fantasy leagues, with messaging at the core of the experience. We're hiring and would love to meet you!

Today, finance and accounting teams spend most of their time collecting, cleaning, and reconciling messy, siloed data to assemble a holistic view of a company's financial health. These processes are tedious and take away from strategic, high-value activities. We've lived it. Finance teams deserve better. We're building the future of financial software, where teams have real-time visibility into their finances, a single source of truth, and the tools to supercharge collaboration. Because ultimately, better financial data means better business decisions. We're trusted by hundreds of accounting teams, are growing fast, and have built an incredible team. How we Operate We are an early startup, and our culture and values will continue to be defined by the people who join us on this journey. Today, there are a few things that we double down on that we believe will lead to outsized early success. 1. Trust & Autonomy — we are a small team with big ambitions. Speed is our advantage and we maximize it by equipping everyone with the knowledge, tools, and support to make important decisions and take ownership of their work. 2. Curiosity — finance and accounting systems need a first-principled rethink. All team members engage with our customers and take an active role in identifying opportunities to define solutions & improve our product. 3. Continuous Improvement — we care deeply about shortening the time to value for what we build and move quickly to release product and features. How we hire reflects this value as well. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept. 4. Writing Culture — We emphasize strong documentation and a scientific approach to evaluating and addressing problems. We believe a culture of writing promotes systematic thinking.