At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Hardware companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Hardware Companies & Startups (California, United States)
GoPro
GoPro is a brand of personal cameras used in extreme action video photography.
Founder(s): Jill Woodman, Nicholas Woodman
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: 3D Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Photography, Software, Video, Wearables
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Revl
AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Founder(s): Bruce Pla, Eric Sanchez, Nelson Vazquez
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Machine Learning, Motion Capture, Robotics, Software, Video, Wearables
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Block
Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Founder(s): Buzz Andersen, Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Finance, FinTech, Hardware, Mobile Payments, Payments, Retail Technology
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Span.IO
Span.IO develops products to enable rapid adoption of renewable energy and deliver an intuitive interface for the home.
Founder(s): Arch Rao
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Energy, Hardware, Internet of Things, Renewable Energy, Software
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Fictiv
Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that delivers precision parts on-demand through its digital platform and global partner network.
Founder(s): Dave Evans, Nathan Evans
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: 3D Printing, Hardware, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering
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Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.
Founder(s): Alex Wright-Gladstein, Chen Sun, Mark Wade, Vladimir Stojanovic
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Hardware, Information Technology, Semiconductor
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Rigetti Computing
Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and manufactures integrated circuits.
Founder(s): Alissa M. Fitzgerald, Chad Rigetti
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Hardware, Quantum Computing, Software
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Particle
Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
Founder(s): Zach Supalla, Zachary Crockett
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Information Services, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, Software
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Ampere Computing
Ampere Computing develops data center processors for cloud servers.
Founder(s): Renee James
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Services, Hardware
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Corsair
Corsair Memory is a computer peripherals and hardware company providing DDR3 memory upgrades, USB flash drives, power supply units and more.
Founder(s): Andy Paul, Don Lieberman, John Beekley
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Hardware, Manufacturing
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Afero
Afero is a comprehensive and secure platform for cloud-connected devices in any industry.
Founder(s): Joe Britt, Shin Matsumura
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Internet, Mobile
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Sensel
Building the next wave of touch, force, and haptics technologies to revolutionize interaction with the digital world.
Founder(s): Aaron Zarraga, Ilya Rosenberg
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Hardware, Human Computer Interaction, Information Technology, Innovation Management, Sensor
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Pebble
Pebble is a company that develops a technology designed for smart watches to connect with iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth.
Founder(s): Eric Migicovsky
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Manufacturing, Software, Wearables
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Wristcam
Computer Vision for Wearables
Founder(s): Adam Korbl, Ari Roisman, Jonathan Caras, Matt Frischer, Roi Ginat
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Communication Hardware, Photography, Real Time, Software, Telecommunications, Video, Video Chat, Video Streaming, Wearables
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Jawbone
Jawbone is an audio technology company developing and selling wearable technology and portable audio devices.
Founder(s): Alexander Asseily, Hosain Rahman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Fitness, Hardware, Mobile, Personal Health, Wearables
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Identiv
A global security technology company that establishes trust in the connected world, including premises, information, and everyday items.
Founder(s): Scott Austin
Location: Fremont, California, United States
Industries: Cyber Security, Developer Platform, Hardware, Identity Management, Internet of Things, Network Security, NFC, RFID, Security
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WHILL
WHILL designs and creates personal mobility products for indoor and outdoor applications.
Founder(s): Junpei Naito, Muneaki Fukuoka, Naoto Sakakibara, Satoshi Sugie
Location: San Carlos, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Hardware, Internet of Things, Medical Device, Mobile, Robotics
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Ava
Ava empowers 400M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to have accessible in-person conversations, anytime, anywhere.
Founder(s): Pieter Doevendans, Skinner Cheng, Thibault Duchemin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Communication Hardware, Health Care, Mobile Apps, Speech Recognition
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ChemiSense
ChemiSense manufactures wearable air quality monitors.
Founder(s): Brian Kim, Geena Kim, Michael Keaton, William Hubbard
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Environmental Engineering, Hardware, Manufacturing, Software
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Isign Solutions
Isign Solutions is a supplier of digital transaction management (DTM) software.
Founder(s): John Ostrem, Robert Williams
Location: Redwood Shores, California, United States
Industries: Electronics, Hardware, Software
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SmartThings
SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Founder(s): Alex Hawkinson, Andrew Brooks, James Stolp, Jeff Hagins, Jesse O’Neill-Oine, Scott Vlaminck
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet, Internet of Things, Mobile, Open Source, Small and Medium Businesses, Smart Home
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Tintri
Tintri is an IT company which provides products designed for enterprise cloud, virtual machines, and containers.
Founder(s): Kieran Harty, Mark Gritter
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Cloud Data Services, Data Center, Enterprise Software, Hardware
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Oblong Industries
Oblong Industries is a multi-stream collaboration platform that specializes in developing gesture-based computing tools.
Founder(s): John Underkoffler, Kwindla Kramer
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Collaboration, Hardware, Software
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HP
HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Founder(s): Bill Hewlett, David Packard, jessica jones
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Hardware, IT Infrastructure, Software
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Brightloom
Brightloom provides a cloud-based software as a service platform that weaves digital solutions into the entire guest experience.
Founder(s): David Friedberg, Tim Young
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Mobile Apps, Restaurants, SaaS, Software
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Wonder Workshop
Wonder Workshop provides a platform that makes programming fun and accessible for children while they play.
Founder(s): Imran Khan, Mikal Greaves, Saurabh Gupta, Vikas Gupta
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Children, Consumer Electronics, EdTech, Hardware, Robotics, Software, STEM Education, Training
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Coin
Coin is a consumer electronics and financial technology company.
Founder(s): Kanishk Parashar
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, FinTech, Hardware, Mobile, Payments
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Bumblebee Spaces
Bumblebee Spaces creates a new way to live by thinking about space in cubic feet instead of square feet.
Founder(s): Garrett Rayner, Prahlad Athreya, Sankarshan Murthy
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Machine Learning, Robotics, Smart Home, Software
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Kura Technologies
Kura Tech is a tech firm and platform that produces compact AR glasses, with customized displays, optics, ASICs, system.
Founder(s): Alexander Turin, Bayley Wang, Kelly Peng
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Hardware, Optical Communication, Software
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A10 Networks
A10 Networks offers solutions for accelerating web application delivery, bandwidth management and network identity issues.
Founder(s): Lee Chen
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Hardware, Security, SEO, Virtualization, Web Hosting
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GigaIO
GigaIO develops high performance interconnect memory fabric solutions for computing clusters.
Founder(s): Alan Benjamin, Alan Benjamin, Joey Maitra
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Electronics, Information Technology, Network Hardware, Network Security, Software
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Viptela
Viptela provides technology for businesses to virtualize their Wide Area Networks.
Founder(s): Amir Khan, Khalid Raza, Ramesh Prabagaran
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Infrastructure, Network Hardware, Virtualization
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Flo Technologies
Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
Founder(s): Gabriel Halimi, Henry Halimi
Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Internet of Things, Security, Smart Building, Smart Home, Software, Water
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Zygo
Zygo is a fitness tech that uses a wireless headset for underwater streaming audio and live coaching.
Founder(s): Charlie Melvoin, Sheera Goren
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Fitness, Hardware, Sports, Swimming, Wearables, Wellness
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Future Motion
The Self-Balancing Electric Skateboard
Founder(s): Kyle Doerksen
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: Hardware
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Crossbar
Crossbar is a startup company pioneering a new class of non-volatile resistive RAM (RRAM) memory technology.
Founder(s): George Minassian, Hagop Nazarian, Wei Lu
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Internet of Things, Semiconductor
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Habana
Habana Labs is a semiconductor company focusing on developing disruptive solutions for data center and cloud efficiency.
Founder(s): David Dahan, Ran Halutz
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Data Services, Cloud Management, Hardware, Software
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Moffett AI
Moffett AI is building the world’s next generation AI computation platform, from ground up.
Founder(s): Ian Yen, Wei Wang, Yong Lu, Zhibin Xiao
Location: Los Altos, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Machine Learning
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Therma
Therma is combating climate change by eliminating waste from the global refrigeration system
Founder(s): Aaron Cohen, Manik Suri
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Information Technology
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Spinn
Spinn makes wifi connected coffee machines that brew coffee using patented centrifugal technology.
Founder(s): Roderick de Rode, Serge de Warrimont
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Coffee, Food Processing, Hardware, Internet of Things, Sustainability
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Click & Grow
Click & Grow has developed smartpots that take care of plants automatically with no external assistance needed.
Founder(s): Mattias Lepp
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Software
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Boosted USA
Boosted USA builds and develops lightweight, wireless, and remote-controlled motorized electric longboards.
Founder(s): John Ulmen, Matthew Tran, Sanjay Dastoor
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Goods, Hardware, Software, Wireless
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KETOS
KETOS provides hardware and software analytics solutions and real-time data for usage and flow across water systems.
Founder(s): Meena Sankaran
Location: Milpitas, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Hardware, Software, Water
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DAQRI
DAQRI is professional-grade AR. We build the AR platform that empowers you solve the most meaningful problems.
Founder(s): Brian Mullins, Gaia Dempsey, Philip Tolk
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Internet of Things, Wearables
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Silver Peak
Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Founder(s): David Hughes
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Network Hardware, SaaS, Software, Virtualization
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Clarity Movement
Clarity Movement create solutions that empower communities to make more informed decisions and improve the quality of life.
Founder(s): Baljot Singh, David Lu, Deepak Talwar, Hannah Laura Hagen, Paolo Micalizzi
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Internet of Things, Sensor, Smart Building, Smart Cities, Software
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Naya Health
Naya Health reinvents nutrition for both babies and families with ingenious products and game-changing insights.
Founder(s): Janica Alvarez (Pebley), Jeffery Alvarez
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Hardware, Nutrition
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i.am+
i.am+ designs and manufactures wearable products, aiming to create a community of creators and coders.
Founder(s): Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan, William Adams
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Fashion, Hardware, Machine Learning, Software, Virtual Assistant
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Barefoot Networks
Barefoot Networks sells ultrafast programmable P4 chips for infrastructure
Founder(s): Dan Lenoski, Martin Izzard, Nick McKeown
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Hardware, Network Hardware
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ICON Aircraft
ICON Aircraft manufactures consumer-friendly, safe, technologically advanced aircrafts.
Founder(s): Kirk Hawkins, Steen Strand
Location: Vacaville, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Hardware, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Transportation
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Tegile Systems
Tegile Systems provides hybrid and all flash storage arrays for a wide range of enterprise applications.
Founder(s): Rajesh Nair, Rohit Kshetrapal
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Data Storage, Flash Storage, Hardware, Virtualization
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Lytro
Lytro is the imaging startup that began as a ground-breaking camera company for consumers.
Founder(s): Ren Ng
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Film, Hardware, Photography, Software, Video, Virtual Reality
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Lightform
Lightform designs software & hardware for projected visuals.
Founder(s): Brett Jones, Kevin Karsch, Rajinder Sodhi
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Art, Augmented Reality, Digital Signage, Hardware, Internet of Things, Software, Virtual Reality
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LIFX
LIFX is the creator of Wi Fi-enable, multi-colored LED lights controllable via a smart device.
Founder(s): Andrew Birt, Andy Gelme, Ben Hamey, Bevan Clark, Daniel May, Guy King, Jake Lawton, John Bosua, Marc Alexander, Phil Bosua, Shane Hanna
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Electronics, Hardware, Internet of Things, Lighting
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Spireon
Spireon connects companies to their mobile assets and workforce through game-changing information platforms.
Founder(s): Brian Boling
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, SaaS, Software
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Ceremorphic
Ceremorphic provides energy efficient AI supercomputing.
Founder(s):
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
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Leap Motion
Leap Motion is a software and hardware company that develops 3D motion-control technology for virtual reality and additional platforms.
Founder(s): David Holz, Michael Buckwald
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: 3D Technology, Augmented Reality, Hardware, Human Computer Interaction, Software, Virtual Reality
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Prisma SD-WAN
Prisma SD-WAN is the leader in software-defined wide area networks developer.
Founder(s): Kumar Ramachandran, Mani Ramasamy, Navneet Yadav, Venkataraman Anand
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Internet, Network Hardware, Network Security, Software
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ThreeSixty
ThreeSixty is a consumer goods company specializing in remote control vehicles and educational toys.
Founder(s): Kirk McLean
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Consumer Goods, Drones, Education, Hardware
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Petcube
Petcube is a worldwide leader in pet cameras & software, connecting pets to the internet and giving them a voice.
Founder(s): Alex Neskin, Andrey Klen, Yaroslav Azhnyuk
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Internet of Things, Mobile, Robotics, Software
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Motiv
Motiv is a personal technology brand focused on making devices that fit seamlessly into people’s lives.
Founder(s): Curt von Badinski, Eric Strasser, Haakon Faste, Mike Strasser, Peter Twiss
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Electronics, Hardware, Mobile Apps, Software, Wearables, Web Apps
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Osi Systems
OSI Systems is a vertically integrated designer and manufacturer of specialized electronic systems and components for critical applications.
Founder(s): Deepak Chopra
Location: Hawthorne, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Health Diagnostics, Manufacturing, Software
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imgix
imgix is a platform for managing, processing, rendering, optimizing and delivering your existing images, wherever they already live.
Founder(s): Chris Zacharias, Jeremy Larkin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Developer Tools, Hardware, Internet
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Arteris IP
Arteris provides network on chip interconnect IPs that improve performance, power consumption and die size of SoC devices.
Founder(s): Alain Fanet, Alain Finet, Philippe Boucard
Location: Campbell, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Intellectual Property, Semiconductor, Software
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Preemadonna
Preemadonna is the maker of Nailbot, a patented nail robot and intelligent manicure product line disrupting the $15B nail care industry.
Founder(s): Casey Schulz, Pree Walia
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Beauty, Consumer, Hardware, Mobile, Robotics
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Morpheus Space
Morpheus Space is disrupting the NewSpace industry by introducing Agile Constellations, a fusion between cutting edge propulsion and AI.
Founder(s): Daniel Bock, István Lőrincz
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Satellite Communication, Software
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DarkHorse
DarkHorse is an automated sports operating system that provides integrated vision and IoT-SaaS solutions.
Founder(s): Billy Brush, Juan Delgado
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Computer Vision, Hardware, Machine Learning, SaaS, Software, Sports
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BRELYON
Brelyon is a developer of a display used to replace traditional monitors and virtual reality headgear.
Founder(s): Alok Mehta, Barmak Heshmat, Reza Khorasaninejad
Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Software
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Pixelworks
Pixelworks is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets innovative video and pixel processing chips and software.
Founder(s): Allen Alley, Bradley A. Zenger
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Manufacturing, Semiconductor
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StartX (Stanford-StartX Fund)
StartX is an educational non-profit that helps Stanford’s top entrepreneurs.
Founder(s): Cameron Teitelman, Christopher Morace, Dan Ha, Jonathan Golden, Karen Katz, Matt Man, Richard Rabbat, Steve Petersen
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Automotive, Big Data, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computer Vision, Consumer Software, E-Commerce, Education, Enterprise Software, Finance, Financial Services, Hardware, Internet, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Medical Device, Non Profit, Venture Capital
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Lantronix
Lantronix is a global provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) solutions.
Founder(s): Bernhard Bruscha
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Internet of Things, IT Infrastructure, Network Security, Software
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SonicEnergy™
SonicEnergy is a wireless power startup that transmits power to charge electronic devices over-the-air.
Founder(s): Meredith Perry
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Energy, Hardware, Internet of Things, Wireless
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Misfit Wearables
Misfit Wearables develops wearable products with sensor technology for the health and fitness industry.
Founder(s): John Sculley, Sonny Vu, Sridhar Iyengar
Location: Burlingame, California, United States
Industries: Fitness, Hardware, Health Care, Sensor, Wearables
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The Linksys Group
The Linksys Group provider of home networking products.
Founder(s): Janie Tsao, Victor Tsao
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Hardware, Internet, Network Hardware, VoIP, Wireless
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HEXO+
HEXO+ is the first Autonomous FlyingCam.
Founder(s): Antoine Level, Christophe Baillon, Matthieu Giraud, Medhi Mugnier, Sylvain Montreuil, Xavier de Le Rue
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Robotics, Software, Video
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Vitesy
We’re Vitesy, producer of IoT devices that improve your daily life.
Founder(s): Alessio D’Andrea, Paolo Ganis, Vincenzo Vitiello
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Electronics, Hardware, Health Care, Internet of Things, Product Design
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Luminous Computing
Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry.
Founder(s): Marcus Gomez, Michael Gao, Mitchell Nahmias
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Hardware, Software
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ROOMBUS
Building smarter cities – starting with fully autonomous and modular smart houses.
Founder(s): Dami Rafael Jegede
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Clean Energy, Hardware, Industrial Design, Internet of Things, Smart Home
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Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
Delivers unmatched performance, density, & ultra-low latency at scale, w/out the cost & complexity of traditional storage via nextgen flash
Founder(s): Kiran Malwankar, Sundar Kanthadai, VR Satish
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Data Center, Data Storage, Data Visualization, Database, Hardware, Information Technology, Software
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Fungible
Fungible creates hardware and software platforms for data centers.
Founder(s): Bertrand Serlet, Krishna Yarlagadda, Pradeep Sindhu
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Computer, Data Center, Hardware, Software
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VergeSense
VergeSense is the leading workplace analytics platform and provides spatial intelligence to enterprise companies.
Founder(s): Dan Ryan, Kelby Green
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Information Technology, Real Estate, SaaS, Sensor
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Arista Networks
Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Founder(s): Andy Bechtolsheim, David Cheriton, Kenneth Duda
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Computing, Data Center Automation, Hardware, Information Technology, Software
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Yubico
Yubico offers USB and wireless authentication solutions.
Founder(s): Stina Ehrensvard
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Cloud Security, Consumer Electronics, Cyber Security, Electronics, Hardware, Open Source, Software, Wireless
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Swift Navigation
Swift Navigation offers hardware and software that makes GPS positioning technology available for autonomous vehicle and device guidance.
Founder(s): Colin Beighley, Fergus Noble, Timothy Harris
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Autonomous Vehicles, Drones, GPS, Hardware, Robotics, Software
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Petnet
Petnet is a connected pet device company that offers a pet analytics platform to find solutions for fundamental problems of petcare.
Founder(s): Carlos Herrera, Chris Diebner, Dustin Morales
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Pet, Robotics, Software
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Next Level Networks
Next Level Networks has developed a Broadband-as-a-Service platform enabling customer-owned 10-gigabit fiber broadband networks.
Founder(s): Darrell Gentry
Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Network Hardware, Telecommunications
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Neato Robotics
Neato Robotics is a venture-funded startup developing robotic-based household appliances.
Founder(s): JB Gomez, Joe Augenbraun, Linda Pouliot
Location: Newark, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Robotics, Software
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Soma
Soma is a premium water filter service that includes a beautiful glass carafe and the world’s most innovative water filters.
Founder(s): Ido Leffler, Mike Del Ponte, Rohan Oza, Zach Allia
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Green Consumer Goods, Hardware, Product Design
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Nervana
Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications.
Founder(s): Amir Khosrowshahi, Arjun Bansal, Naveen Rao
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Open Source, Software
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Mote
Mote is an audio tool kit for educators and learners.
Founder(s): Alex Nunes, Will Jackson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Communication Hardware, Software
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Praan
Praan is a deep tech company focused on particulate matter and CO2 capture using patent-pending technology.
Founder(s): Angad Daryani, Angad Daryani
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: CleanTech, Hardware, Internet of Things, Renewable Energy
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Metabrain
Brain interfaces to bridge the gap between humans and technology.
Founder(s): Louis Lambert, Remy Fabre
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Human Computer Interaction, Neuroscience, Software
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Armada Aeronautics
Aerial is a developer of modern aircraft to improve the future of air transportation.
Founder(s): Constantine Kisly, Jim Dukhovny, Oleg Petrov, Pavel Markin
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Automotive, Hardware, Logistics, Transportation
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LuxVue Technology
LuxVue Technology Corporation develops low-power, microLED-based displays for consumer electronics applications.
Founder(s): Andreas Bibl
Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Manufacturing, Software
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Altierre
Altierre is a provider of wireless dynamic pricing solutions for retail chains.
Founder(s): Anurag Goel, Sunit Saxena
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Hardware, Internet of Things, Software, Wireless
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Keyssa
Keyssa reinvented the connector and created Kiss Connectivity.
Founder(s): Gary McCormack
Location: Campbell, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Hardware, Mechanical Design
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Waggit
A health & safety monitor providing key indicators to help detect health conditions early, improving/possibly extending dogs’ lives
Founder(s): Carrie Dolan, Susan Sierota
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Consumer, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Health Care, Internet of Things, Pet
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Eggtronic
Revolutionary micro-sized and eco-friendly AC/DC & DC/DC power converters – inductive and capacitive wireless charging & data technologies
Founder(s): Igor Spinella
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Hardware, Intellectual Property, Wireless
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Carbon Robotics
Carbon Robotics makes advanced robotics dramatically more accessible to help solve some of society’s most intractable problems.
Founder(s): Dan Corkum, Rosanna Myers
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Computer Vision, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Robotics
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ODG (Osterhout Design Group)
ODG is the leader in extended reality smartglasses, delivering AR, MR & VR solutions & experiences to customers in enterprise and industry.
Founder(s): Ralph Osterhout
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Consumer Electronics, Eyewear, Hardware, Mobile Devices, Wearables
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Pod Trackers
Pod Trackers is a smallest & lightest GPS + WiFi pet tracker.
Founder(s): Damien Cantelo, Mark Gabriel, Sebastian Langton
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: GPS, Hardware, Internet of Things, Software
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