Software Development startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Tavus

San Francisco

Tavus is a human computing research lab and pioneer in human computing, building AI Humans to bridge the gap between people and machines and teach machines to be human. Founders Hassaan Raza and Quinn Favret lead Tavus, which is growing.

Incident.io

San Francisco

Incident.io is an all-in-one incident management platform for engineering teams, integrating on-call scheduling, incident response, and status pages with AI-powered automation, serving 10,000+ responders at 600+ companies including Netflix,

Firebender

San Francisco

Firebender is an AI software company that develops AI coding assistance tools. Founded in 2024, it has raised $3.5 million in funding and currently has a team of three.

Chalk

San Francisco

The data platform for inference. Build, deploy, and iterate faster with Chalk's feature engine.

HappyRobot

San Francisco

HappyRobot offers an AI-native operating system for real economy, starting with supply chains. It has raised $62M, including a $44M Series B in Sept 2025, from YC, Andreessen Horowitz, and Base10, led by Pablo and Javier Palafox and Luis Pa

Neuron 7

San Jose

Agentic AI for Complex Service

Outset

San Francisco

Outset, a Y Combinator–backed startup, uses AI and ChatGPT to conduct in-depth qualitative interviews at scale, aiming to revolutionize qualitative research and deliver rich, scalable insights through innovative research tooling.

Albert Invent

Bay Area

Albert Invent provides a digital platform for materials science research and development.

Coactive AI

San Jose

Coactive AI enables enterprise media companies to search and analyze images and videos without metadata or tags, unlocking value in visual content by discovering assets and trends and laying the groundwork for future AI-powered use cases.

Greybeam

San Francisco

Greybeam is an early-stage data platform company that routes each query to its optimal engine, directing large queries to MPPs and smaller ones to in-process engines. It currently targets Snowflake BI workloads, delivering ~80% cost reducti

Tailor

San Francisco

Tailor is the first and only headless ERP. Tailor helps retail companies connect all their off-the-shelf tools, omnichannel marketplaces, and people on one open platform. Other ERPs are monolithic or lack the sophistication and reliability to rapidly scale operations. Tailor is built using the cutting edge of API-first and low-code technology — so you can launch ERP solutions in weeks instead of months. Tailor helps you react to changing markets, increase margins and take advantage of new opportunities with solutions for inventory management, supply chain, purchasing, production, accounting, omnichannel orders and more.

Foxglove

San Francisco

Foxglove provides interactive visualization, debugging, and data management tools for robotic development, helping developers understand how robots sense, think, and act in dynamic and unpredictable environments, with a focus on performance

TrueClaim

San Francisco

TrueClaim provides an AI-enabled platform for health plans, focused on advancing health-plan technology and modern operations.

Headquarters

San Francisco

The company provides best-in-class concussion care accessible to everyone, based in San Francisco, and is backed by world-class doctors and investors, including the founding teams of OpenAI and Facebook AI Research.

Prophecy Gov

San Francisco

GovTech startup building a nationwide data network and AI agents for US cities to enable AI-powered municipal solutions, targeting a $3 trillion annual city spend; 15+ cities in 10+ states with plans for 100+ by 2026, and $2M raised.

Cleanlab

San Francisco

Cleanlab democratizes safe, trustworthy generative AI and leads with cleanlab, an open-source ML data quality framework used by top companies. Its research in AI conferences and wide adoption establish Cleanlab as a leading provider of resp

Stainless

San Francisco

✱ Stainless provides robust & polished SDKs for your REST API.They're idiomatic, type-safe, and engineered to feel like handwritten code.API-first companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Cloudflare, and Scale use Stainless to generate SDKs

Mage AI

Santa Clara

Mage is a modular workflow system that executes executable blocks to deliver reliable, relevant, and timely AI-ready data outputs; its tractable, compositional, and adaptive blocks enable teams to manage and update data pipelines as needs e

Composio

San Francisco

Composio builds infrastructure allowing agents to connect with GitHub, Gmail, Notion, and Salesforce, bridging agents and tools. It raised a $25M Series A from Lightspeed, grew ARR 3x by 2026, and counts Wabi, Glean, and Zoom as customers.

Akuity

Sunnyvale

Cloud Native Software Delivery, Powered by AI

Kira

Palo Alto

Kira is the first and only fully interactive, end-to-end AI operating system that replaces the entire K–12 teaching and learning tech stack.

Runpod

San Francisco

Runpod provides cost-effective GPU cloud computing services for training, deploying, and scaling AI models. With GPU Cloud, users can spin up an on-demand GPU instance in a few clicks. With Serverless, users can create autoscaling API endpoints for scaling inference on their models in production. Runpod was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in New Jersey.

Enterpret

San Francisco

Enterpret uses AI and large language models to turn customer feedback into actionable insights for product and CX leaders, counting Notion, Chipotle, and Perplexity among its notable clients.

Slate Technologies

San Mateo

Slate Technologies is a AI driven digital enabler platform for the construction industry.

Parspec

San Francisco

Parspec revolutionizes the materials supply chain for the global construction industry and is backed by leading venture investors; trusted by designers, builders, distributors, manufacturers, and sales agents as it pursues a more innovative

Beacon AI

San Carlos

Beacon AI builds pilot assistant technology, effectively R2-D2 for pilots.

Hyperbolic Labs

San Francisco

At Hyperbolic, we’re building the leading open-access AI cloud. Access inference and compute at a fraction of the cost, and build AI applications without relying on centralized infrastructures. We invite builders, compute providers, researchers, and individuals to join us on this journey.

Applied Intuition

Mountain View

Applied Intuition is a Mountain View-based Tier 1 vehicle software supplier accelerating the adoption of safe, intelligent machines, serving automotive, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and defense, and trusted by 18 of the top

Verita AI

San Francisco

Verita AI is a company pioneering the next generation of intelligence systems trusted by innovators, enterprises, and market leaders. Advancing how people learn, work, and think is the most meaningful problem we can tackle.

TestBox

San Francisco

TestBox provides real, live product environments for demos and proofs of concept, not clones, simulations, or overlays. Its data-first approach accelerates deal cycles, builds trust, and reduces reliance on technical resources for B2B custo

VESSL

San Mateo

Founded in Seoul, the company is expanding to the United States after a $12 million Series A, with about 40 employees and backing from top-tier Korean investors. It serves AI-native startups, research labs, and enterprises, supporting AI in

Altimate AI

Sunnyvale

Altimate AI, founded in 2022 in San Francisco, delivers AI-driven automation for enterprise data operations and analytics to automate and accelerate data tasks, aiming to ease overworked data teams; backed by prominent investors and serving

SparkPlug

San Francisco

In complex CPG verticals like beauty, electronics, and outdoor gear, customers rely on the product recommendation of point-of-purchase experts up to 92% of the time. SparkPlug allows brands to directly reward these key influencers for every sale they generate with cash via gamified commissions, contests, and goals. We drive more revenue for brands, improve employee performance for retailers, and empower frontline workers across the world with fair compensation and economic equality, all based on the sales revenue they generate each day.

deCircle

San Francisco

deCircle is a boutique recruitment agency focused on blockchain and Web3, helping decentralized-technology organizations hire across technical and non-technical roles. Founded in 2019, with offices including London and San Francisco.

Paramark

San Francisco

Paramark helps CMOs and CFOs invest in marketing with confidence, building a system of record to forecast impact and test ideas. Founded in 2023, based in San Francisco, it serves $10M–$100M+ spenders with an $80k ACV and has raised $8M.

Base.org Careers Page

San Francisco

Make more intelligent business decisions in web3 using Spindl’s attribution tooling.

Blaze

San Francisco

Blaze is the first AI agent that handles marketing for you, founded by Faiyam Rahman and Luc Succès and backed by Y Combinator. Its mission is to free business owners and marketing teams to focus on high-impact growth.