CompaniesCalifornia
251 recordsHealth Services / Delivery
Wonderdog
● CA
Defense / Aerospace
Apex Space
● CA
Apex - Productized Satellite Platforms: Apex combines traditional aerospace techniques with innovative new-space approaches and lessons from high-rate terrestrial manufacturing to build high-reliability buses at constellation-scale. Our three product lines — Aries, Nova, and Comet — serve a broad range of customer missions with configurable designs optimized for operations across orbital regimes. | Apex - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding: Apex <strong>designs and manufactures small satellites tailored for various space missions</strong>. The company focuses on streamlining satellite produc
Energy & Climate / Environment
Valar Atomics
● El Segundo, CA
Valar Atomics, a Hawthorne, California-based nuclear startup making small fission reactors for AI data centers, is in talks to raise $1 billion at approximately a $5 billion pre-money valuation, potentially as a mix of debt and equity. Sequoia Capital is in talks to lead the funding round.
Robotics
1X
● CA
AI Application
8090
● Menlo Park, CA
AI software / coding startup (Chamath Palihapitiya).
Energy & Climate / Environment
Aboard
● Orange, CA
AI Transformation Consulting & Custom Software | Aboard: Your partner for AI transformation. Aboard offers <strong>strategic consulting, roadmapping, and custom software solutions</strong>. Modernize your stack at record speed. | Aboard | LinkedIn: Report this company · Aboard is <strong>an AI-powered data management platform</strong> that makes digital life less messy for users and accelerates software development for enterprises. Aboard helps users organize and collaborate on any kind of data, whether ... | About - Aboard, Defining the Future of Custom Software: Aboard <strong>delivers profe
Enterprise SaaS
Abstract Security
● Palo Alto, CA
Abstract Security, a Palo Alto startup that helps security teams route data across tools and detect threats in motion, raised $25 million in a Series A extension co-led by Cheyenne Ventures and Atlantic Vantage Point, with prior investors Crosslink Capital and Rally Ventures also participating. Total raised ~$50 million.
Enterprise / General Business
Adobe
● San Jose, CA
Creative software, document services. NASDAQ: ADBE. Acquired Omniture $1.8B 2009 (becoming Adobe Analytics).
Finance
Affirm
● San Francisco, CA
San Francisco CA. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) fintech. Founded by Max Levchin (PayPal CTO) + others. NASDAQ: AFRM. $2.6B+ revenue FY2025. One of largest BNPL platforms globally.
Network / Marketplace
Airbnb
● San Francisco, CA
Online marketplace for short-term rentals and experiences. San Francisco CA. Y Combinator W09 + Sequoia + a16z. IPO Dec 2020 at $47B. Co-founders: Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, Nathan Blecharczyk.
Financial Services
Allworth Financial
● Folsom, CA
US wealth-management advisory firm; PE investment by Integrum, Lightyear and Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (announced 2026-05-18, PE Hub Canada). Domain not captured.
Operating Company
Alphabet Inc.
● CA
Alphabet is Google's parent holding company, encompassing Google's core businesses alongside Waymo, DeepMind, and other bets.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Althea Technologies
● San Diego, CA
Althea Technologies was a San Diego, California-based fully integrated contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) providing clinical and commercial manufacturing of biopharmaceutical and injectable products. The company was acquired by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. and its operations continue under the Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services brand.
AI Application
AMD
● Santa Clara, CA
AMD designs CPUs and GPUs, competing directly with Nvidia and Intel in both traditional computing and AI accelerator chips.
Media & Entertainment
Amiga
● Santa Clara, CA
The multimedia computer that ran a decade ahead — custom chips (Agnus, Denise, Paula) for graphics, animation, and sound. Founded 1982 (as Hi-Toro) in Santa Clara by a team including Jay Miner, the "father of the Amiga," who had designed Atari's earlier chips; acquired by Commodore in 1984. Pioneered desktop video and prosumer multimedia — NewTek's Video Toaster turned it into a TV-production and early-CGI workstation (Babylon 5's effects ran on Amigas). A progenitor of democratized digital media — the prosumer branch, distinct from Pixar/Hollywood's high end.
Defense, Intelligence & Government
Anduril
● Costa Mesa, CA
Anduril raised at $61B valuation in round led by Thrive Capital and a16z.. Anduril. Google Alert - a16z investment
Defense, Intelligence & Government
Anduril Industries
● Costa Mesa, CA
Costa Mesa CA. Defense tech platform company. Founded by Palmer Luckey (Oculus) + Trae Stephens + others. Lattice OS: AI-powered command-and-control platform integrating sensors, drones, autonomous systems. Products: Sentry Tower (border surveillance), Ghost (autonomous drone), Altius (loitering munition), Pulsar (electronic warfare), Roadrunner (reusable interceptor). IQT investment 2017. Series F $1.5B Aug 2023 at $8.5B valuation. Revenue $500M+. Palmer Luckey TIME 100 AI 2024. Now partnered with Palantir on DOD AI consortium.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Antiva Biosciences
● Redwood City, CA
Clinical-stage therapeutics company. Canaan Partners portfolio company.
Robotics
Apex.AI
● Palo Alto, CA
Provider of safety-critical operating system software for autonomous vehicles. Has raised over $75 million from investors including AGCO and Airbus Ventures.
Defense, Intelligence & Government
Applied Intuition
● Mountain View, CA
Applied Intuition, a $15 billion startup that supplies software infrastructure for self-driving cars and military drones, unveiled Dana, a new service that allows users with minimal technical expertise to use natural language to build and test autonomous machines. Dana is starting with large enterprise customers like Isuzu and Komatsu before expanding to hobbyists.