Venuetastic
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What they do:
Venue marketplace.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Startups in California
This list has 3,698 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 827 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (3,173), Los Angeles (197), and San Diego (39). Largest teams: DoorDash, Stripe, and Airbnb. Latest round: Renue Life Sciences raised $250K (Oct 14, 2026).
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Chirply
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What they do:
Crowdsourced design marketplace for paper goods.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Upbeat
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What they do:
Upbeat: Building the next generation of Public Relations (PR)
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Opzi
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What they do:
Q&A for businesses.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Koduco
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What they do:
iPad games.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
LaunchHear
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What they do:
LaunchHear was a startup attempting to make PR scale in the same way…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Zenedy
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What they do:
Zenedy Zenedy was started as a means to showcase information about obscure topics from around the web.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Gamador
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What they do:
Gamador is a social game developer that has released three games so far. The company says that it differentiates itself from other developers by releasing…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Data Marketplace
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Data Marketplace helps people find, buy and sell data online. It helps users seeking a specific data to creating a request for free, explain their needs, add…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Newcope
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What they do:
Virtual goods commerce
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Infoharmoni
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Inforharmoni is a data visualization company that visualizes real-time social web and aggregates content.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Notifo
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What they do:
Notifo is a mobile application and platform which allows any web site or service to easily create mobile notifications. While it's currently only an iPhone…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Plurchase
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What they do:
Plurchase is an online social shopping site. From it, you can visit online shopping sites like Zappos with the additional of a social toolbar on the right…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
NudgePad
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What they do:
Online IDE. We joined Microsoft in 2014.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Wakemate
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What they do:
WakeMate makes personalized alarm clocks that sync with both a user's body and their cell phone, enabling the iPhone alarm system to sound at the end of a REM…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Instantq
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InstantQ is an online platform that enables restaurants to distribute JIT promotions to its customers. It was launched in 2009 by Dana Levine and is based in…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Picurio
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Picurio is web-based photo sharing and photo management software.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Voxli
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Voxli offers browser-based group voice chat for gamers and teams. Users of Voxli can voice chat with up to 200 people at a time without leaving the browser…
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HQ: CA, United States
OhLife
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What they do:
OhLife is a personal journal that you'll actually keep. Every day we send you an email asking "How'd your day go?" You type as much as you want and hit reply.…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Snipd
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What they do:
Grab pieces of enjoyable content from any page, save them online, and share without having to copy/paste using a simple bookmarklet. For bloggers and media…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Popcuts
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What they do:
Popcuts is an online music store where fans participate in the…
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HQ: Lucerne Valley, CA, United States
Slinkset
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What they do:
Votable lists
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
MightyQuiz
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What they do:
MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Wundrbar
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What they do:
Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Mixwit
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What they do:
Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Kirkland North
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What they do:
Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YumDots
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What they do:
YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Joberator
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What they do:
Joberator was formed to tackle head-on the growing challenges and connection-gap issues in the STEM employment and recruitment marketplace. Our goal is to…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
iJigg/Top440
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iJigg is a social music site that lets users vote on submitted singles using Digg-like voting. The site's home page shows what popular or recent singles the…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Fuzzwich
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What they do:
Fuzzwich is an online animation platform developed by Habit Industries.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Whitenoise
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What they do:
Whitenoise is like a social network for the music industry. It comes with specially made tools for bands, agents, publicists, and venues to manage each part…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Socialmoth
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What they do:
Socialmoth is a community to post your thoughts anonymously. You can view postings (mostly gossip and secrets) from the whole community as well as get updates…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Likebetter
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What they do:
An online personality test game, where you look at two photos and choose which one you “Like Better”.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Jumpchat
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What they do:
A platform bridging mobile text messages, email, and IM communication without needing to download anything. Users can send mass messages on any of the…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
TomoGuides
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What they do:
Mobile travel guides done right. Personalized, context-aware, and…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
LeanMarket
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What they do:
Mobile advertising
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States