Proxy
Acquired
What they do:
Smart ring digital wallet
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Manufacturing Startups in California
This list has 267 startups and was last updated on Oct 16, 2026. 68 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (223), Los Angeles (22), and San Diego (4). Largest teams: Relativity Space, Bellabeat, and Human Archive. Latest round: hiyo raised $20.8M (Oct 15, 2026).
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Automatic
Acquired
What they do:
Automatic connects your car to the rest of your digital life.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pebble
Acquired
What they do:
Watch that helps you get shit done and limit the mayhem of…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Boosted
Acquired
What they do:
Simple, fun, and fast electric vehicles.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Teleo
Acquired
What they do:
Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Current Foods
Acquired
What they do:
Impossible foods of seafood.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rain Neuromorphics
Acquired
What they do:
We build artificial intelligence processors inspired by the brain.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Leftronic
Acquired
What they do:
Business dashboards
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Lockitron
Acquired
What they do:
Lockitron makes electronic locks you can control locally from your…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Lumoid
Acquired
What they do:
We are a try before you buy service for consumer electronics.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Kuna Systems
Acquired
What they do:
We're making a smart, front door camera with intercom that lets you…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
VIDA & Co.
Acquired
What they do:
Platform for unique products produced on-demand at mass-scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
WorkClout
Acquired
What they do:
Safety & quality software for industrial sectors.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Roin Technologies
Acquired
What they do:
Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vastrm
Acquired
What they do:
Mass customized active apparel. We are building a full turn key…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Layer By Layer
Acquired
What they do:
Acquired by MakerBot in February 2014. A marketplace for 3D…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Prototyping.io
Acquired
What they do:
Autonomous manufacturing for mechanical parts
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Avea Robotics
Acquired
What they do:
The human-in-the-loop system for robots
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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
Maderight
Shut down
What they do:
Global Manufacturing, Simplified
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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
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
K-Scale Labs
Shut down
What they do:
Open-source humanoid robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Shone
Shut down
What they do:
Shone makes existing cargo ships autonomous through retrofit.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Jupe
Shut down
What they do:
Just add land
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Visual One
Shut down
What they do:
AI for security cameras
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
camfer
Shut down
What they do:
Building the world’s first AI mechanical engineer.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pakible
Shut down
What they do:
We make it insanely easy to design, price, and manufacture custom…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
numericcal, inc.
Shut down
What they do:
Distributed AI for Industrial Process Monitoring and Optimization.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pashi
Shut down
What they do:
Pashi builds software to operate and optimize production lines.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Wakemate
Shut down
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
Dreamforge
Shut down
What they do:
Simple 3d modeling software for 3d printers.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Graft Concepts
Shut down
What they do:
Graft Concepts makes unique iPhone cases and other mobile accessories
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Ixiplay
Shut down
What they do:
Engaging, expressive & Android hackable robot buddy for playful…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Drive Pulse
Shut down
What they do:
Device tracks & monitors your car
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States