Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

Making the “Best Ideas Win” is our mission. We believe that innovation has the power to make the world a better place, is too important to be left to chance, and that every individual deserves an opportunity to make the most of their ideas. Our software is used by the most innovative companies in the world. We have over 200 customers that use Brightidea to give people a voice in sharing their ideas at large organizations. The problem we’re solving is complex, creative, and exciting. Each of our products can function as a powerful stand-alone tool or utilized as part of a tightly-integrated system. Our suite provides the most mature solution available to support the entire end-to-end innovation process.

Miles is a universal rewards app empowering anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers such as HP, DoorDash, Garmin, Peet’s, Shipt, Pandora, Reebok, Chewy, Home Chef, and many more. Similar to a frequent flyer program, but for all forms of transportation, Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - with the value increasing every month as more merchants accept them as a form of payment. Miles is a Silicon Valley-based startup with backing from prominent VCs (Porsche, Scrum, Panasonic, and Urban.us). Join the Miles family and be part of this revolutionary program!

LAUNCH! is an AI consulting and solutions startup that is working on an exciting new technology solution. Our mission is to help companies get the most out of their resources. Our team has 75+ years of combined experience developing cutting-edge technologies and are using it to help mid-sized enterprises create their Future-of-Work. EIVA is an innovative Enterprise Intellectual Virtual Assistant in the form of a chatbot. It acts like an employee concierge by supporting employees in the workplace, helping them to make better informed decisions & work more efficiently. It not only answers their questions on demand, but helps enterprises capture tacit organizational knowledge and fill in knowledge gaps through crowdsourcing accurate & up-to-date knowledge from experts across your organization. EIVA is built with the employee in mind because unlike current solutions, EIVA incentivizes knowledge sharing through recognition and rewards. Our unique consultancy approach establishes LAUNCH! as an AI expert positioning us to take the lead in enterprise AI. Our premier AI product is a holistic solution with unprecedented functionalities that support employees through their entire career journey with a company, from recruitment to succession planning. Some Use-cases: - Career advice specific to the company testified by employees - Navigate through tough workplace situations - Avoid starting from scratch by leveraging learnings from previous initiatives and projects - Employee recommendations on vendors, eats, etc

To create a high-quality product you need a high-performance team. It’s important to build your team keeping the product’s business objectives in mind. It’s also important that your team members have all the necessary skills. We will make sure that each member of the development team we build for you is an expert in their respective fields. How do you transform a good team into a great one? With team cohesion. Our approach to software development is based on this simple rule: one team for one project. We will assemble a team of professionals exclusively for your product with your business goals in mind.

Bumblebee Spaces is a robotics company that is changing the way we live. We take urban living spaces and make designs that are not just beautiful, but very efficient. It's not just about making space. It's about making space better. Get the most out of your space by turning your living room into a bedroom—and back again—with a clever queen-size bed hidden in the ceiling.

There are 30M developers in the world but only 24k devs are actively contributing to the web3 ecosystem as of now. Blockchain and protocol companies need more devs in web3 to survive and thrive. Metaschool helps these companies by building fun, free and exciting projects for web2 devs to propel to web3. Metaschool produces courses for devs to build, ship and learn web3. We have over 70K devs signed up from 50+ countries within 5 months of launch. We’re a decentralized, remote-first company with teammates based in Singapore, India and Pakistan (for now ?). We are divided by borders but our common mission to help devs build and flourish in the web3 ecosystem has brought us very close.

Our EC3 (Empowered Collaborative Commerce Cloud) Platform bridges cutting-edge blockchain technology with current enterprise IT realities for seamless adoption of our solutions across a supply chain. Our platform includes Skuchain's Popcodes® app for tracking and tracing goods that provides greater visibility and, more importantly, greater control over the supply chain. Skuchain's Brackets® smart contracts app enables the continuous flow of transactions and data and, ultimately, fine-grained automation with precise control. These foundational technologies enable companies to turn their inventory from an illiquid asset and balance sheet burden into a blockchain asset that generates cash flow relief and reduced COGS. Underpinning all of this is Skuchain's Zero Knowledge Collaboration® technology, which solves the information gap in the supply chain without sacrificing privacy so that companies can plan with unprecedented precision and turn firewalled information into capital.

Fresh food is the cornerstone of health, happiness and culture. It should always be an option for all people. Unattended fresh food retail is seeing explosive growth across the United States right now. FoodSpot is the first sales and marketing company focused exclusively on the US smart vending market. Our founders own a mature smart fridge vending platform in Asia. Our advanced technology, experience and scalability far surpasses anything currently found in the US market. Consumers experience affordable, convenient access to fresh food with omnichannel food brand connectivity. Our customers can launch a microstore with A+ real estate, 24-hour sales and no onsite labor. Adoption for unattended fresh food retail technologies has accelerated in recent years and now soared through pandemic related shifts in the marketplace.

martini.ai uses deep learning to reimagine corporate debt REMOTE < 10 EMPLOYEES < 10 ENGINEERS $5M - $10M FUNDING PRE-SERIES A martini.ai is focused on bringing the power of deep learning and quant modeling to the fixed-income world. Our differentiating edge is the use of machine learning and quantitative techniques to model the pricing of illiquid assets (specifically, corporate bonds and credit spreads). By dramatically improving the pricing of credit, we aim to better match credit liquidity providers to companies and businesses that are great credit risks. In particular, CFOs and corporate finance professionals can use our deep learning models to understand their company's risk profile and benchmark against peers. This can help lenders understand the business better and unlock cheaper credit. The co-founders, Rajiv Bhat and Rohit Singh, are repeat entrepreneurs with backgrounds in deep learning and quant trading. Rajiv was co-founder at social intelligence startup Mertado (YC W202) through its acquisition by Groupon. Later, he led data science at ad tech unicorn InMobi. He also worked at McKinsey and Kosmix and has a Ph.D. in Physics from Boulder. Rohit was co-founder and CEO at Tech Square Trading, a quant hedge fund trading up to ~$300M daily. He is a research scientist at MIT and is affiliated with the Computer Science and AI Lan (CSAIL) there. He is the recipient of MIT's George M. Sprowls Award for Best CS PhD Theses and of Stanford's Christopher Stephenson Memorial Award for Masters Research in CS.

JobPrepped makes sure our customers get hired fast for full-time paid marketing jobs. Our full-service program was created by Marketing Hiring Managers to quickly turn our customers into every Marketing Hiring Manager's dream candidate to ensure they get hired faster. We perfect each stage of their job application process and we're the only program to immediately give our customers the exact in-demand work experience their resume needs as work experience is the #1 thing hiring managers look at in determining who to hire. Here's how 94.3% of JobPrepped students get marketing interviews or job offers within 3 weeks. Our proven program works in 4 simple steps: Step 1: We Immediately Train Our Customers In Digital Marketing in an On-Demand SettingSocial Media, - Email, PPC, and SEO Marketing Step 2: We Give Our Customers Immediate Work Experience In The Exact Areas Hiring Managers Want - Work experience is the #1 thing hiring managers look at in determining who to hire - Our customers work 1-on-1 (remotely) with a former Fortune 500 top-level marketing exec where they’ll immediately put their training to use and complete Social Media, Email, PPC, and SEO Marketing tasks for JobPrepped as a Digital Marketing Associate. All assignments are 100% optional, there aren't any deadlines, and this all goes under their work experience section of their resume. Step 3: We Help Fix Their Marketing Resume, Cover Letters, and Linkedin Profiles To Ensure They Get Interviews ASAP - We train them on: - How to properly sell themselves on their resume - Which work experience to add and which to leave out - The specific order their work experience needs to be in - Exactly how their work experience should be phrased and formatted - And more Step 4: We Train Our Customers On Exactly What To Say To Ace Their Marketing Interviews We’ll: - Give them 100+ high-level marketing strategies to pitch during their interview so they feel confident and sound incredibly knowledgeable - And much more