Top Tech Startups in San Francisco Bay Area in 2024

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WeRide is a smart mobility company that creates leading L4 autonomous driving technologies. We have committed ourselves to new mobility services that will be accessible and beneficial to everyone. WeRide is China’s first L4 autonomous driving technology start-up company to obtain strategic investment from a top-tier global automaker Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi. We employ a highly skilled technology team of more than 300 employees globally, 70% of whom are R&D engineers. Our core management team all has extensive domestic and international experience in technology development and business operations in both China and the USA at companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Baidu, DiDi, Cisco, and others. WeRide has been focusing on the strategic alliance among AI technology companies, car makers and mobility service platforms. WeRide Robotaxi, a joint venture company of WeRide, Baiyun Taxi and SCI (Guangzhou) Group, has launched a Robotaxi program in Guangzhou, China. The operation covers 144.65 square kilometers in the Huangpu and Guangzhou Development District, providing the locals with Robotaxi services on their daily commute. It’s the first Robotaxi service open to the public in China.

Labelbox is the leading data-centric AI platform for building intelligent applications. Teams looking to capitalize on the latest advances in generative AI and LLMs use the Labelbox platform to inject these systems with the right degree of human supervision and automation. Whether they are building AI products with custom or foundation models, or using AI to automate data tasks or find business insights, Labelbox enables teams to do so effectively and quickly. The platform is used by Fortune 500 enterprises such as Walmart, P&G, Genentech, and Adobe, and hundreds of leading AI teams. Labelbox is backed by leading investors including SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), and Databricks Ventures.

Building on formative experiences at Stanford and McKinsey, Qventus was founded in 2012 with the belief that world-class healthcare requires world-class operations. With backing from leading investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and the Mayfield Fund, the company has raised more than $45M to develop a complete system for transforming the operations of health systems and hospitals nationwide. Integrating with EHRs, the Qventus real-time automation platform uses AI and behavioral science to power best practice solutions for operational challenges in inpatient and perioperative settings. Qventus is a proven partner with hundreds of deployments in community hospitals, academic medical centers, and large health systems across the country, including Bon Secours Mercy Health, CommonSpirit Health, HonorHealth, M Health Fairview, and Saint Luke’s Health System. With Qventus, these systems have been able to achieve significant and sustained outcomes, including 30-50% fewer excess days, 1 full day reduction in length of stay, and over 2 new cases added per operating room per month, translating to over $10 million dollars of annual financial value per facility. Qventus has been recognized by Black Book Market Research as #1 in Client Satisfaction for Patient Flow Solutions and has received accolades from the UCSF Digital Health Awards, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas.

Plaid is focused on democratizing financial services through technology. We build beautiful consumer experiences, developer-friendly infrastructure, and intelligent tools that give everyone the ability to create Plaid is used by thousands of digital financial apps and services like Betterment, Expensify, Microsoft and Venmo, and by many of the largest banks to make it easy for consumers to connect their financial accounts with the apps and services they want to use. Plaid connects with over 11,000 financial institutions across the U.S, Canada and Europe. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stord is on a mission to make supply chain a competitive advantage for our customers. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the heart of Atlanta’s vibrant tech community, Stord is pioneering Cloud Supply Chain. Cloud Supply Chain is the convergence of the digital and physical elements of logistics. With Stord, businesses can build, expand, and optimize their physical supply chain operations across freight, warehousing, and fulfillment, with the speed, flexibility, and ease of modern cloud software. With a single integration, businesses achieve end-to-end visibility into their whole supply chains from a single dashboard and gain access to Stord’s hybrid network of operated facilities and hundreds of premier-partner warehouses, fulfillment centers, and carriers. We’re a rapidly growing team that is backed by over $200M from leading investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, BOND, D1 Capital, and more (investors in Amazon, Google, Twitter, and more).

SIGNIFYD’s full-service cloud platform simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. SIGNIFYD is in use by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 list.

ClassDojo is a feedback platform used by over 40 million teachers, students & parents in more than 150 countries to help students develop the character skills and behaviors they need for success in life - things like persistence, resilience and curiosity. ClassDojo is one of the world's fastest-growing education technology products; it currently reaches 1 in 3 schools in the US, and is scaling globally fast. Research shows that building behaviors like persistence, self-control and curiosity have a huge effect on test scores - as well as on incomes, health outcomes and dropout rates. So how do we create an education that not only builds academic knowledge, but also the character strengths that make people successful in life? That's what we're here to accomplish. ClassDojo is backed by some great investors including Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Yuri Milner, Matt Ocko, General Catalyst, Shasta Ventures, Felicis Ventures and others.

Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom parts on-demand, to help companies accelerate new product introduction. From early-stage companies to large enterprises, thousands of companies use Fictiv to innovate with agility, de-risk their supply chains, and get products to market faster. Fictiv works with companies like Tesla, Honeywell, and NASA to build the next rockets, self-driving cars, and live-saving robots. We're transforming how teams design, develop, and deliver the next generation of hardware products. For more information about Fictiv or to learn about hardware manufacturing best practices, visit fictiv.com

Color makes data-driven health programs such as clinical genetics accessible, convenient, and cost-effective for everyone. Color partners with leading health systems, premier employers, and national health initiatives around the world including the million-person All of Us program by the National Institutes of Health. Rock Health has recognized Color as the “Best Digital Health Company to Work For.” We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team that helps make precision health programs accessible, convenient, and cost effective for everyone. For more information about Color, visit color.com.