Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

DecisionNext is the only prescriptive analytics solution built especially for commodities-driven industries. It helps them maximize profit margins, minimize uncertainty, and gain competitive edge by providing meaningful context for their decisions about what to produce and where to sell it. DecisionNext is helping commodities-based industries achieve the same profit margin gains enjoyed by the airline and retail industries.

Galxe is a decentralized super app and Web3’s largest onchain distribution platform. Through its robust infrastructure and product suite of modular AI, digital identity, and blockchain technologies — Quest, Passport, Score, Compass, and Alva — Galxe supports the development of advanced, user-friendly Web3 applications with an emphasis on secure and self-sovereign digital identity management. The recent introduction of Gravity, a layer 1 omnichain leveraging Galxe’s infrastructure, enables developers to tap into Galxe’s 20 million users and create new products that help onboard the world to Web3.

SocialChat provides the social commerce solution to e-commerce stores giving brands the ability to run livestream shopping, simulating the in-person shopping experience for customers. The brands in turn get all the interactions to further optimize the experiences for the users both on the site and through CRM channels for best branding and performance ROI.

Financial Technology Partners ("FT Partners"​) is the only investment banking firm focused exclusively on the financial technology ("FinTech"​) sector. We broadly define the sector as the dynamic convergence of technology-based solutions and financial services. FT Partners was recently recognized as "Dealmaker of the Year"​ and "Investment Banking Firm of the Year"​ by The M&A Advisor. The firm was founded by Steve McLaughlin, Managing Partner, formerly a senior investment banker in Goldman Sachs & Co.'s Financial Technology Group and Financial Institutions Group in New York and San Francisco. The firm's senior members are all highly experienced investment bankers formerly with the financial technology, M&A and investment banking groups of principally Goldman, Sachs & Co. Clients want and deserve the best in overall investment banking services, industry knowledge, relationships and senior level experience. In the complex financial technology sector, we believe no other firm offers a higher set of skills, expertise and mission critical advice to leading CEOs and industry decision makers. When you want to explore your firm's full potential, consider FT Partners'​ full suite of strategic and financial advisory services. With years of transaction experience on some of the largest transactions in history, we bring our unique approach to your firm to maximize value to your shareholders.

We are a tech consultancy, working with big fitness brands to design and build next-level fitness technology. We're entrepreneurs, having started 3 product-tech companies and 1 prior consultancy. We're ex-Silicon Valley and ex-Google. We're hands-on designers and product people who are passionate about the details and love creating epic product experiences. We are tri-coastal and nomadic -- living in inspiring places, traveling freely, and working with influential clients all over the world. Oh, and of course, we love working out. Join us to help build the next gen of epic fitness tech.

Docyt is a document driven automation system for small business back-offices. It uses AI and machine learning to extract data from docs and automate painful back-office tasks like Accounts Payable. This saves business-owners hundreds of hours of lost productivity each year, and thousands of dollars in penalties, late fees, and accounting hassles. docyt.com

Each day, very smart people find themselves looking to augment their understanding of a topic before making major investment and business decisions. Guidepoint helps to answer clients’ most pressing business questions by opening unique windows into the minds of the most experienced and enlightening experts, known as Guidepoint Advisors. Since our launch in 2003, we’ve set up more than 500,000 connections between our clients and Advisors. Our multinational client list includes seven of the top 10 global consulting firms, seven of the top 10 largest hedge funds, and many of the largest private equity firms and Fortune-ranked companies. Guidepoint’s five offices, New York, London, Singapore , Shanghai and Hong Kong, provide 24/7, quick and agile, service.

We are building a digital entertainment company to celebrate brain athletes, like we do physical athletes in the world. Centered around a core MMO cognitive race, where players from all walks of life can come race, and showcase their cognitive abilities. In a 'brain race', players have to complete a series of challenges that engage their core mental skills and basic knowledge. Core mental skills include focus, flexibility, attention to detail, processing speed, and memory, fundamental brain components of life. Basic knowledge assesses English, math, science, and general knowledge, the building blocks of further education. We will create the 'Michael Jordan' of mind sports, through an epic game and entertaining game show that celebrates brain performance.

Decagon is building the most advanced conversational AI agents for the enterprise. Since starting the company, we've been on a tear, winning over customers like Duolingo, Notion, Rippling, Eventbrite, Webflow, BILT and many more. Our AI agents provide a human-like customer support experience that enables enterprises to better serve their customers and efficiently manage their customer experience organizations. We've raised $100M in total funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels, including the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.

RedDot 2024 winner, the Luna Ring is designed to silently monitor you 24*7 and its AI guides you to become your most efficient self. A high precision device that tracks Sleep metrics, Heart Health, Activity Data and helps you understand your readiness and stress.