Top Tech Startups in San Francisco Bay Area in 2024

Minted is a lifestyle brand and design marketplace connecting you with the world’s best artists to create something one of a kind. Minted crowdsources graphic design and artwork from a global community of independent artists and sells these as products addressing the $10 billion stationery market, $48 billion art market, and $100 billion home decor market. Minted’s mission is to enable the design independence of both consumers and artists around the world, and the company is a platform for the strongest emerging artists in the world to be seen and discovered. We aim to build a lasting brand representing the most commercially successful design community in the world. Minted was founded by successful serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy.

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

We have pioneered the focus on creating accessible Electric Vehicle charging platforms and stations through our products, we've assisted a range of individuals, companies and sectors and continue to promote access to EV charging platforms.

We are redefining business communications once again. We're making communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal, to help enterprises the world over, stay ahead. We provide unified communications, contact centers and programmable communications APIs, built on the world's most flexible cloud communications platform. True to our roots as a technology disruptor, our flexible approach helps us to better serve the growing collaboration, communications, and customer experience needs of companies, across all communications channels.

Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. We're building a virtual classroom to support millions of learners in assessing knowledge, encouraging cooperative learning, and providing real-time learner data. We're radically rethinking how to leverage technology inside and outside the classroom. khanacademy.org/about Interested in social ROI? Contact donate at khanacademy.org.

Finix is the smartest way for businesses to own, manage and monetize payments. Created by payments experts from First Data, PayPal, and Worldpay, Finix is trusted by companies like Lightspeed POS Inc. and Clubessential. to build and scale their payments infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Finix is a privately held company funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Insight Partners, Aspect Ventures, Visa, Precursor Ventures, Class 5 Global, and Village Capital.

XP Health is reinventing vision care by providing employees access to everything from eye exams to complete prescription glasses in 1 hour, using machine learning and augmented reality.

ID.me lets you prove your identity and group affiliations online, and puts you in charge of how your personal information is shared. Our mission is to make the world a more trusted place by enabling transparent and efficient interactions between people and organizations.

Rhombus provides cloud managed video security and IoT sensors for enterprises to better manage their physical spaces. Companies can setup smart cameras anywhere in their organization in minutes without the need for complicated NVR's, servers or hard drives. It’s all plug and play where setting up a new camera just takes a matter of minutes (it can be set up over WiFi or Ethernet). It’s like Nest but built for the enterprise and IT. Furthermore, the platform leverages AI with computer vision to power features like facial recognition, license plate recognition, and people analytics.  

We are a community of designers, entrepreneurs, engineers, teachers, researchers, and more. Our shared values and beliefs influence the work that we do, and the impact we hope to achieve. ideo.com/case-study/nurturing-a-creative-culture