Top Tech Startups in Northern California in 2024

We started Caliva because we believe our customers want high quality products, an educated, friendly team and a comfortable, easy buying experience. The products we carry are considered among the finest available in Northern California. Each one of our wide variety of strains is selected for its genetics, superior effects and then tested to ensure that the quality we are offering our customers is only the best. Our attitude is easy, but our focus is to provide our members with a higher level of service in the industry, an educated team to help you determine the best way to use our products and determine a program that will accommodate members needs, as well as a beautiful facility to visit!

Kick Health helps smart, capable professionals overcome the fears that hold them back from being the very best versions of themselves. Our personalized telemedicine service offers easy access to sleep medicine and beta-blocker prescriptions, the insider's edge to blocking nervous symptoms like racing heartbeat, shaky hands, or trembly voice. Kick is partnered with leading experts from Stanford, Yale, and Harvard in psychiatry, medicine, and emotional fitness.

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marco provides collateral-free, working capital from SME exporter trade receivables. Platform by marco provides a seamless digital process to upload your documents and invoices and receive faster, friendlier, financing.

Brightseed believes that food should nourish. We believe that plants have the answers to many diet-caused chronic illnesses and we have built the tools to find them. Using machine learning to bring nature’s intelligence to life, we discover naturally occurring compounds with proven clinical benefits for health and incorporate them into everyday foods. At Brightseed, we are committed to achieving transformative results with a team-first mentality. Above all, we seek team members who are truth-seeking and trusting. This means we hold ourselves and each other accountable in our quest for groundbreaking knowledge. We are also a highly collaborative team that prioritizes shared goals over individual tasks. As such, we share workload, information and feedback generously and look out for each other’s wellbeing. Ultimately, we realize that achieving our purpose of improving lives through nutrition will take our collective intelligence and efforts.

At Valandor AI, we are building the future of talent discovery. Our mission is simple but bold: to uncover extraordinary human potential across sports, entertainment, and business using cutting-edge AI technology. We believe that the next global superstar, world-class innovator, or industry leader is already out there, waiting to be discovered—whether it’s the future football prodigy playing in an under-scouted league or the rising entrepreneur with groundbreaking ideas. Backed by top-tier investors, including Nas, Chad Hurley (YouTube Co-Founder), Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks Co-Founder), and Andrew Bogut (NBA Champion), we are reimagining how talent is found and nurtured. Our AI-driven platform leverages large datasets, advanced machine learning, and decentralized contributions to deliver insights and predictions that traditional scouting methods often miss. We’re not just another startup—we’re a SportsIcon Venture Studio company, with deep expertise in sports, media, and emerging tech. As we scale, we’re looking for visionary engineers, data scientists, and tech enthusiasts to join us on this exciting journey. At Valandor, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of talent discovery, grow into leadership roles, and be part of a company with global ambition. Are you ready to help us uncover the stars of tomorrow? Join Valandor AI and make an impact today.

Headquartered in Berkeley, our product development company specializes in building high quality products from scratch. We build things to scale, and we build products people love. We work with all kinds of stacks & frameworks including React, React Native, web3.js, Solidity, Python Django, Node.js, Golang, Ruby on Rails, Docker, and AWS. At the end of the day, we're a group of software engineers building a company for software engineers. If you like freedom, building products, being fairly compensated, then join us on our quest to bring great products to the world.

Japa is a leading smart parking company delivering smart data and advanced analytics to solve parking issues for customers. Japa's pioneering technology makes the parking experience for consumers easier, while making corporate campuses and cities more efficient. Japa helps cities and universities to further enhance their Smart Campus or Smart City initiatives. Our vision is simple—to solve parking and make smart cities a reality. We want everyone to park smart and stress less. Japa is a privately-held company headquartered in Davis, CA with smart parking deployments in the United States. Japa is currently partnered with the Transportation Services at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, Siemens, Paysafe Group, and Nwave technologies.

Motiv Power Systems is the medium-duty commercial electric vehicle (EV) leader that Frees Fleets From Fossil Fuels. Founded in 2009, the Bay Area-based, commercial EV company draws on 15 years of experience to create accessible, cost-effective, and innovative electric trucks and buses for organizations that are the backbone of the economy. Motiv has more than 150 all-electric trucks and buses on the road with businesses of all sizes, across a broad spectrum of industries, including linen, parcel, food, hospitality, airports, higher education, pupil transportation, and more. Motiv vehicles operate at over 98 percent uptime, and have logged more than four million miles, while also offering fleets up to 85 percent operation and maintenance cost savings. Motiv’s proven EV technology provides operators with a healthier, smoother, and more profitable driving experience.