Auro Robotics
Acquired
What they do:
Autonomous shuttles for campus-like environments.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S15Early stage
Top Deep Tech Startups in San Francisco
This list has 704 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 180 of them are hiring right now. Largest teams: DoorDash, GrubMarket, and Instacart. Latest round: Aikido Technologies raised $1.72M (Oct 8, 2026).
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Iris Automation
Acquired
What they do:
Enabling autonomous drone operations globally through AI software
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Starcity
Acquired
What they do:
Starcity was one of the largest co-living brands. Exit to Common in…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S16Growth stage
Moxion Power Co.
Shut down
What they do:
Mobile Energy Storage Technology
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Mighty Buildings
Shut down
What they do:
3D printing beautiful, high-quality, and sustainable homes.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Inevitable Tech
Shut down
What they do:
To make food a renewable resource, for everyone
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
TrueNorth
Shut down
What they do:
TrueNorth gives truckers a single place to manage their business.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Airware
Shut down
What they do:
Airware provides end-to-end solutions that enable enterprises to…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Maderight
Shut down
What they do:
Global Manufacturing, Simplified
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Purple Plate
Shut down
What they do:
We license brands for delivery and pick-up
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pippin / Rent the Backyard
Shut down
What they do:
Autonomous homebuilding factory for the $1.7 trillion housing crisis.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
HomeBreeze
Shut down
What they do:
The fastest and easiest way to make home upgrades
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Sunfolding
Shut down
What they do:
Sunfolding builds next generation infrastructure for solar farms. By…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Seerslab
Shut down
What they do:
We are providing AR technologies and contents to app developers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
SpaceRyde
Shut down
What they do:
The Rocket Network: Sustainable & On-Demand Delivery Anywhere in Space
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Atmos
Shut down
What they do:
The entire homebuilding process, all online
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Underground Cellar
Shut down
What they do:
Upgrading Your Wine Experience
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
AlphaFlow
Shut down
What they do:
AlphaFlow is a technology-driven investment manager.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Faction
Shut down
What they do:
Driverless electric vehicles at a fraction of the cost of a car.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Mosaix.ai
Shut down
What they do:
Mosaix builds the NLP for the local languages at the emerging markets.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Unfurl
Shut down
What they do:
A virtual food hall that delivers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
GoBuild (fka Brick)
Shut down
What they do:
The payments solution for small scale construction.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Social Construct
Shut down
What they do:
Social Construct designs and assembles large apartment buildings …
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Correlia Biosystems
Shut down
What they do:
Next-gen blood testing to provide 1000x more data to pharma companies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pathmind
Shut down
What they do:
Pathmind helps industrial engineers and simulation modelers achieve…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Medinas Health
Shut down
What they do:
Medinas helps hospitals manage their inventory and buy and sell their…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Transcriptic
Shut down
What they do:
The robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Queenly
Shut down
What they do:
Leading marketplace for formalwear
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Ridejoy
Shut down
What they do:
Long-distance carpooling marketplace. Shut down in early 2013.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rentobo
Shut down
What they do:
The easiest way to find a tenant. Rentobo is a tool that makes it…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
CarWoo
Shut down
What they do:
The best way to buy a new car.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Foodoro
Shut down
What they do:
Foodoro is a marketplace where people can buy specialty food directly from artisanal Foodmakers Our goal is to help people discover amazing food products and…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Terravion
Shut down
What they do:
Real time Google Earth for agriculture -- imagery collected weekly…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nomiku
Shut down
What they do:
Wave our food in front of your Nomiku and have dinner for everyone…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Open Motors
Shut down
What they do:
Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is a B2B company that is developing…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Robby Technologies
Shut down
What they do:
We are building a fleet of autonomous mobile robots that travel on…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States