Top Tech Startups in San Francisco, CA in 2024

Jaxon dramatically increases AI project success rates, fosters collaboration, increases staff efficiency, and continuously learns what works and when. Through R&D efforts with the U.S. Department of Defense, Jaxon has created a way of simulating model system performance and getting the design right the first time. By formalizing the AI design process, design tradeoffs are able to be explored. It allows all talent levels to quickly and easily create, test, and iterate on AI system designs without the need for extensive coding or data preparation. It uses an AI-powered ‘Fact Checker’ to address the hallucination problem and bring trust into the output of large language models (LLMs). As a pre-trained Data Science Agent, Jaxon makes decisions based on established conventions and guides users to the right design. Rather than requiring the developer to specify every detail of how the application should work, this approach makes it much easier and faster to build applications.

Propeller typically steps in when firms outgrow basic bookkeeping and start to require more sophisticated financial planning and analysis but can't yet rationalize the hiring of 2-3 full-time people to manage all of it. We're responsible for everything a full-time CFO would manage and we use outside CPA firms to do income tax and/or audit work. This keeps us focused on building the business while giving you one point of accountability -- just as you would have with a full-time CFO. As the company scales, we'll help you hire full-time financial staff and gradually phase ourselves out (that typically takes 3-5 years). Until then, whether it’s defending the financial plan in board meetings or processing payables, we can handle everything.  

We’re the most active seed-stage venture firm in the country – and collectively our partners have helped fund and start over 200 companies, so there’s not much we haven’t seen before. We believe in collective teamwork: each portfolio company gets the support of the entire First Round Capital family, not just one board member.

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Unlock the potential of every investment partnership. Juniper Square empowers GPs and LPs to focus on building enduring relationships and exceptional investment opportunities. Our partnership enablement solutions empower investment partners to connect and communicate seamlessly across every interaction, freeing teams from the disjointed and siloed systems, operations, and processes holding organizations back from realizing their full potential today.

We’re building a platform that powers the biggest AI groups in the world, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google with human feedback data for evaluating and training their models. Surge was founded by former ML engineers focused on providing the highest quality data in the industry to push the state of the art forward. Instead of outsourcing to call centers overseas, we’ve built an elite workforce based in the US, custom annotation tools, and sophisticated quality control systems. Our product has been a “game-changer” for ML teams, and we’ve been able to run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

New York City's largest born-and-bred tech startup, MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a full service solutions provider delivering world-class digital experiences for more than 16 years and distributing content through all forms of interactive media. Its digital leadership and capabilities are a direct result of an appreciation for designing dynamic functionality for web, mobile applications, and connected devices while integrating live and on-demand multimedia, providing valuable products for millions of fans around the globe. MLBAM also develops, deploys and distributes the highest-grossing sports app, At Bat.

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.