Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Lightmeter is the first sales email delivery service. It works with existing sales tools like Apollo, HubSpot, and Salesforce. It enables salespeople to boost their reply rates and revenues, while cutting sales mail maintenance and troubleshooting to zero.

Jawnt connects people to their cities by making transportation available to everyone. We do this today by helping organizations distribute transportation passes and information to their members. Our innovative transportation technology powers everything from an enterprise company’s commuter benefits program to universal mobility programs for low-income residents. Jawnt is supported by world-class investors and notable angels including Crossbeam Ventures; Mucker Capital; Triple Impact Capital; Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code; and more.

AutoComplete is bringing AI to the point of sale, starting with the $311B market for car insurance. Our three founders have successfully built VC-backed companies with exits to Allstate, Groupon and Ford. Our CEO Ahmed Khaishgi founded SquareTrade, an Insurtech leader acquired for $1.43 Billion by Allstate in 2017. SquareTrade has over 150 million active policy holders, approaching $2 billion in annual revenues, over $200mm in annual EBITDA, and is live in 15 countries with the largest retailers (Amazon, Walmart, The Home Depot, Target, Costco, Hutchison, T-Mobile, Wayfair, eBay etc.) in the world. We are seeking to rapidly expand a small but mighty team. Our team is remote-friendly with a headquarters in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation, full health benefits, vacation policy, equipment budget and more.

At The Lobby (fromthelobby.com), our mission is to bridge the gap between online and offline shopping to become the go-to shopping destination for fashion-forward Millennials and Gen Z-ers. Our next-gen video shopping platform is like a shoppable TikTok that allows you to discover, learn about and buy products — via shoppable videos created by your favorite influencers.

We're an early-stage, Techstars and Western Union-backed startup building the first investment-based peer-to-peer payment platform that allows users to create value from every transaction, by making investing as easy as getting paid by your friends through fractional shares of stock. You will be working with an exciting team of founders leaving a big mark in the fintech space.

KYC is the hotel industry's most comprehensive Suite of Systems, eliminating 25+ legacy systems while providing truly efficient, streamlined workflows for an industry battered by labor shortages. With a heavy focus on genuine Artificial Intelligence to empower Hoteliers to focus on Guests, KYC delivers an empathetic, caring experience to our partners.

Beacon AI is a California-based aviation software technology company specializing in developing advanced AI systems to augment commercial and defense pilots. The company's mission is to enhance the future of flight by making flight operations safer and more efficient. Beacon's innovative solutions address the complex challenges faced by the aviation sector, backed by leading investors such as Costanoa Ventures, Scout Ventures, Sam Altman through Apollo Projects and Hydrazine Capital, and JetBlue Ventures, and guided by aviation industry advisors including Hon. Robert Sumwalt (former Chairman of the NTSB) and Ali Bahrami (former Associate Administrator of the FAA).

We are a passionate team crazy about autonomous vehicles. We are building an edge cloud for the autonomous driving that empowers businesses and individuals to store, share, and distribute their data assets. We are backed by the prestigious Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator and looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic people who are passionate about autonomous vehicles, proud of their work, and desire to help create a world with less accidents and better driving experience using world-class edge computing and decentralized ledger technologies. You will have the opportunities to work with world class PhDs, engineers, professors, and industry gurus to change the future of transportation.

We want to eliminate the ever-so-frustrating duplication of effort when it comes to schedules consumed by more than one person. Think about the schedules you receive in PDFs, Docs, Sheets, and emails. Every recipient of these documents has to manually duplicate the schedule information to their own calendars. Schedules change frequently, which means the plan is quickly inaccurate. For everyone. We’re changing this. And we’re doing so with design and joy at the center of the solution.

Mathpix is building the most sophisticated software for extracting structured data from images and PDFs, bundled into a productivity tool for creating and managing research documents. We are profitable, funded, growing, and having lots of fun building things that have never been built before.