Software Development startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Parity

San Francisco

Parity builds AI SRE for incident response, line of defense for on-call engineers, with adoption and backing from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Sugar Free Capital, and angels from Midjourney and Crusoe; founded by Jeffrey, Coleman, and Wi

Plaud

San Francisco

Plaud, a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco–based company, is building the world’s most trusted AI work companion to boost productivity via note-taking. Operating since 2023 with 1+ million users, it combines hardware and software and maintains SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, EN18031 compliance.

Redpanda Data

San Francisco

Redpanda is pioneering the Agentic Data Plane (ADP) - a new category in AI infrastructure that makes it simple and secure to connect AI agents with enterprise data and systems. Built on a multi-modal data streaming engine, Redpanda empowers agentic applications that reason and act in real-time with speed, autonomy, and precision. Global leaders including Activision Blizzard, Cisco, Moody's, Texas Instruments, Vodafone and 2 of the top 5 banks in the U.S. rely on Redpanda to process hundreds of terabytes of data a day. Backed by premier venture investors Lightspeed, GV and Haystack VC, Redpanda is a diverse, people-first organization with teams distributed around the globe.

Firebolt

Palo Alto

Firebolt is a cloud data warehousing platform that allows users to streamline their analytics and access to insights.

Weights & Biases

San Francisco

Weights & Biases: the AI developer platform. Build better models faster, fine-tune LLMs, develop GenAI applications with confidence, all in one system of record developers are excited to use. W&B Models is the MLOps solution used by foundation model builders and enterprises who are training, fine-tuning, and deploying models into production. W&B Weave is the LLMOps solution for software developers who want a lightweight but powerful toolset to help them track and evaluate LLM applications. Weights & Biases is trusted by over a 1,000 companies to productionize AI at scale including teams at OpenAI, Meta, NVIDIA, Cohere, Toyota, Square, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Sign up for a 30-day free trial today at http://wandb.me/trial.

Jerry.ai

Palo Alto

Jerry provides an AI-based car and home insurance comparison and shopping app with car maintenance reminders and safe-driving rewards.

Observe.AI

Redwood City

Observe.AI builds AI Agents for Customer Service

OpenSpace

SAN FRANCISCO

OpenSpace is the Visual Intelligence Platform for builders. Capture the reality of your sites with smartphones, 360° cameras, and drones, and turn that reality into real-time, actionable intelligence and simpler workflows. One platform that fits how you work, integrated with Procore and Autodesk. Clarity for better decisions, faster.

Labelbox

San Francisco

Labelbox provides critical AI data infrastructure that powers model development for leading research labs and enterprises. Founded in 2018, it emphasizes data-centric approaches fundamental to AI development.

Afresh

San Francisco

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software!

Bear Robotics

Redwood City

Bear Robotics is an AI-automated robotics platform that offers for the food service and hospitality field.

Trusted Health

San Francisco

Trusted, Inc. is the leading labor marketplace and workforce management platform for the healthcare industry. The company was founded in 2017 with a focus on the largest profession in healthcare: nursing. Since then, they've taken a process that has been dominated by recruiters and phone calls and turned that into a a fully digital experience, connecting nurses directly to job opportunities and facilitating everything that needs to happen in between—including handling benefits, payroll, onboarding, and compliance. Their platform also provides full employer-of-record services for employers in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In 2020, they launched their proprietary staffing platform, Works (www.works.ai). Works helps hospitals meet one of their single biggest challenges: ensuring that every shift gets filled in an environment where both demand for healthcare services and the cost of labor are increasing exponentially. With Works, facilities can create their own on-demand nursing workforce and access one source of truth for all of their clinical workforce needs, from sourcing and onboarding to ongoing compliance. With predictive insights and recommendations, Works helps hospitals easily react to fluctuations in demand, while its staffing marketplace creates competition to fill open job requisitions with high-quality, active talent from a pre-onboarded network of talent suppliers. The company has support from top institutional investors such as Craft Ventures, Felicis Ventures, StepStone Group and Founder Collective, as well as healthcare innovators like Texas Medical Center, Mercy Health, Intermountain Ventures, Town Hall Ventures, and Healthbox. In 2020, they were featured on Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups List.

Prophecy

Palo Alto

Prophecy is the AI data prep & analysis platform.

Semgrep

San Francisco

Semgrep provides a popular static application security testing (SAST) solution used by Snowflake, Plaid, Figma, Lyft, and Dropbox to secure software; backed by top venture investors like Sequoia, Lightspeed, Felicis, Menlo, and Redpoint.

Gatik AI

Mountain View

Gatik is developing technology for autonomous light & medium duty trucks for B2B short-haul logistics.

Sendoso

San Francisco

Sendoso is the gifting and direct mail platform that helps revenue teams 6x second call rates, double win rates and close deals 29% faster.

Honeycomb.io

San Francisco

Honeycomb is the observability platform that enables engineering teams to find and solve problems they couldn't before. Honeycomb’s approach is fundamentally different from other tools that claim observability, and is built to help teams answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications. Other tools silo your data across disjointed pillars (logs, metrics, and traces), are too slow, and constrain teams to only answer predetermined questions. Honeycomb unifies all data sources in a single type, returning queries in seconds – not minutes – and revealing critical issues that logs and metrics alone can’t see. Using the power of distributed tracing and a query engine designed for highly-contextual telemetry data, Honeycomb reveals both why a problem is happening and who specifically is impacted. Every interface is interactive, enabling any engineer – no matter how tenured – to ask questions on the fly, drill down by any dimension and solve issues before customers notice. Powered by machine learning, BubbleUp enables you to quickly spot outliers that reveal the cause of hidden issues. Engineering teams can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster and focus on high-value work that drives innovation.

Retool

San Francisco

Build internal software better with AI. Create apps, agents, and workflows with any LLM, datasource, or API to deploy AI across your business. Retool is the application layer for AI and leading platform for internal software development, trusted by over 10,000 companies worldwide, including Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitness. Using Retool, developers deploy sophisticated apps and agents dramatically faster without sacrificing quality or control, combining powerful building blocks with the flexibility of custom code. To learn more and start building for free today, visit https://retool.com

Linear

San Francisco

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring magic back to software. To empower product teams to do their best work, we are building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the tool of choice for thousands of high-impact companies to build their products better. Linear was set up as a fully remote company from the start. Today, our small but mighty team is distributed across North America and Europe. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and our passion for software craftsmanship. We are all makers at heart and care deeply about the quality of our work.

Notable

San Mateo

Notable is the AI platform for healthcare operations.

Workstream

San Francisco

Workstream is the modern all-in-one HR and payroll solution built specifically for restaurants, and trusted by 30,000+ locations. 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands, including Burger King, Jimmy John’s, Taco Bell, and more, rely on Workstream power their restaurants.

LucidLink

San Francisco

LucidLink transforms how organizations work with data. Recognized with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award, our platform provides instant, secure access to large files through a shared, encrypted filespace—empowering teams to collaborate in real time from anywhere in the world.

Cortex

San Francisco

Cortex is an internal developer portal built to accelerate the path to engineering excellence. Companies like Blackstone, Xero, and SoFi use Cortex to automatically catalog, continuously assess, and confidently deploy high quality software.

Replicant

San Francisco

The company develops AI solutions for contact centers, delivering tools tailored to their needs and branded as AI that contact centers love.

Mirage

San Francisco

Custom LLMs to accelerate your productivity!

CoinTracker

San Francisco

CoinTracker enables global users to track assets across 300+ exchanges and 8,000+ cryptocurrencies, managing over $50B and representing 3% of the market; profitable, rapidly growing, and recently raised a $100M Series A, with partnerships i

Render

San Francisco

Render is the modern cloud for developers and software teams of all sizes, targeting a broad development ecosystem and serving teams across the size spectrum.

Snackpass

San Francisco

Snackpass is an all-in-one software platform for quick-serve restaurants. It has raised over $90 million from top VCs and celebrity backers, highlighting its status as a well-funded player in the quick-serve software market.

Fiddler AI

Palo Alto

Fiddler Labs is an explainable AI engine that will allow companies to analyze, manage and deploy their machine learning models at scale.

AiDASH

Palo Alto

Making critical infrastructure industries climate resilient and sustainable with satellite-first AI applications.

Sense

San Francisco

Sense is a leading Conversational AI recruiting platform helping organizations hire faster, smarter, and at scale—without losing the human touch. We power personalized, omnichannel candidate experiences while automating time-consuming recruiting tasks, so teams can focus on what matters most: people. Trusted by more than 1,000 customers—including HCA Healthcare, Bath & Body Works, Allegis, Dell Technologies, Carvana, Nissan, Adecco, and Tenet Healthcare—Sense supports every stage of the talent acquisition journey. Our platform brings together recruiting automation, talent CRM, campaigns, candidate matching and scoring, AI chatbots, text messaging, interview scheduling, and referrals in one seamless solution. Sense has been recognized as a Deloitte Fast 500 company, an Inc. 5000 honoree, a winner of the HR Tech Award for Best Comprehensive Talent Acquisition Solution, and one of Forbes’ America’s Best Startup Employers. Hiring moves fast. Sense helps you move faster—while keeping candidates engaged, informed, and valued.

DataGrail

San Francisco

DataGrail is the data privacy company for this era. We help brands minimize risk, stay a step ahead of consumer and employee expectations, and safeguard their reputation. Our complete, enterprise-grade data privacy platform is powered by patented Risk Intelligence technology that detects shadow IT and makes vulnerable data visible so brands can proactively manage risk. Leveraging responsible automation at scale and the largest integration network in data privacy, DataGrail automates privacy workflows across systems to perform risk assessments, accelerate data subject request (DSR) fulfillment, and optimize resources. Headquartered in San Francisco, the world’s most trusted brands partner with DataGrail on their data privacy journey, including Salesforce, FanDuel, Dexcom, Databricks, Instacart, amongst others. It has 4.8/5 stars on G2 and is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors, including Third Point Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Next47, Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Operator Collective, HubSpot, Okta Ventures, and American Express Ventures Visit www.datagrail.io to learn more.

Mattermost

Palo Alto

Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.

SaaS Labs

Palo Alto

Saas Labs develops software products that revolve around productivity and business process automation.

Zesty.ai

San Francisco

ZestyAI is the leading risk platform trusted by Property and Casualty insurers and regulators across the United States. Combining advanced AI models with robust data sources, ZestyAI delivers property-level risk insights for perils such as wildfires, severe convective storms, and non-weather-related hazards. These insights, validated by climate science and historical loss data, support smarter underwriting, more precise rating, and stronger reinsurance outcomes. The company also offers competitive and regulatory intelligence by extracting actionable insights from thousands of insurance filings, enabling carriers to accelerate compliance, monitor market shifts, and make faster, more informed decisions. ZestyAI fosters a healthier insurance market for all by helping carriers align premiums with true risk, increase accessibility and prioritize mitigation to make insurance more affordable.

Assembled

San Francisco

Industry leaders like Etsy, Robinhood, and Stripe trust Assembled to provide customer-facing AI agents and workforce planning at scale. We automatically resolve millions of interactions through chat, email, and phone while optimizing staffing for hundreds of thousands of support professionals. Our mission is to elevate customer support through AI-powered software that makes life easier for customers and employees.

Portside

San Francisco

Portside is a fast-growing software company providing an operating system for business aviation. With over 1,000 customers and over 10,000 aircraft on the platform, Portside is the go-to solution for operators of business, government, military, helicopter, charter, fractional and medevac fleets worldwide. We are offering a number of integrated solutions to address industry pain points and have been growing 3-4x annually over the past 3 years. We are a fully-distributed team of ~ 100 business aviation enthusiasts with a passion for building great products that support one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving industries.

Windfall

San Francisco

Windfall is a people intelligence and AI company delivering actionable insights for go-to-market teams, powered by machine learning to democratize access to people data and optimize GTM resource allocation. It serves over 1,500 data-driven

Nightfall AI

San Francisco

Nightfall AI the AI-native, all-in-one data loss prevention platform. Prevent data leaks and insider risks with DLP that’s seamless, accurate, and gives time back to your team. From startups to Fortune 100 companies, Nightfall helps security teams put data loss prevention on autopilot across SaaS, endpoint devices, and generative AI apps. Nightfall helps security teams: - Stop data exfiltration anywhere - Eliminate sensitive data exposure - Revoke inappropriate data sharing - Prevent data leakage to shadow AI - Coach end-users to improve risky insider behavior Schedule a demo with our team to see the platform in action (www.nightfall.ai/demo), or learn more at www.nightfall.ai.

DuploCloud

San Jose

DevOps-as-a-Service. No-code and low-code infrastructure automation for cloud security and compliance.