San Francisco Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in San Francisco.

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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Ninja Blocks - hardware consumer electronics internet of things hardware + software

Ninja Blocks

Home control reimagined.
Ninja Blocks - Making Things Magic. At Ninja Blocks, we are creating the future of human device interaction. With an established platform, thriving community and thousands of shipped devices, we understand what needs to happen to make ubiquitous computing a reality. ...

Wable - mobile social media hardware software

Wable

The smart table meets the social mobile application
Wable is a company that provides the restaurant customer, the hotel guest and the club client the future of reserving, ordering, paying and entertaining. Make a real time reservation and choose where you want to stay from the app, order directly from the table ...

Petcube - hardware consumer electronics pets internet of things

Petcube

Dropcam+Instagram. For pets.
Petcube keeps people connected with their pets with its interactive Petcube Camera and a mobile community of pet lovers. The Petcube Camera is the first product that allows pet owners to watch, talk and play with their pet from their smartphone, no matter where ...

Moxxly - hardware health care internet of things Consumer

Moxxly

smart products for modern women
Moxxly designs smart products for modern moms. Moxxly’s first product is a smart, stylish, and high performing breast pump system that enables today’s mobile mom to pump wherever she is, with her shirt on, while receiving real-time data about her supply. Moxxly ...

Edyn - hardware agriculture internet of things home & garden

Edyn

Welcome to the Connected Garden
The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor ...

Velo Labs - hardware software internet of things

Velo Labs

Smart Transportation
Velo Labs is building the next generation bike share network: distributed, connected, and on-demand. https://www.skylock.cc

ivee - hardware consumer electronics retail technology speech recognition

ivee

Bringing voice to the connected home. 500 Startups Batch #12.
ivee is the voice assistant for the home. We are creating J.A.R.V.I.S. (from the movie, Iron Man) Our second-generation product is moving away from our first solution (the alarm clock) and into a new "multi-room" low-cost voice system that will let anyone, anywhere ...

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Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Leap Motion - hardware video games human computer interaction content

Leap Motion

Next Gen Motion Control
Leap Motion is transforming how we interact with technology using the original interface: the human hand. Over the last two years, we’ve shipped almost half a million motion-tracking controllers to developers and consumers around the world, opening up new possibilities ...

OpenROV - hardware robotics drones

OpenROV

Underwater Drones
Underwater Drones and Exploration Technology

Skycatch - hardware security aerospace drones

Skycatch

Drone Platform for Commercial Logistics
Skycatch is a platform for capturing data at scale using small autonomous aerial robots. Our product is built for the enterprise with safety, strength and reliability in mind. It can cover large geographic areas, it can be equipped with a wide range of different ...

Blossom Coffee - hardware food and beverages product design coffee

Blossom Coffee

Precision coffee brewing.
Our machine brews better coffee faster using precise temperature control. We sell to cafes, offices, and highly engaged enthusiasts. Coffee is a $100B/year global market; precision brew technology will change forever the way people find it, taste it, and share ...

emberlight - mobile hardware consumer electronics internet of things

emberlight

Turn any light into a smart light.
Emberlight is building a full IoT technology stack that provides the best smart lighting user experience on the market. We are validating this with our initial consumer product, the emberlight socket, which turns any light into a smart light. For long term growth ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

PCH Access - hardware consumer electronics supply chain management startups

PCH Access

Provides hardware startups capabilities normally exclusive to Fortune 500 companies
PCH Access gives hardware startups access to capabilities normally exclusive to Fortune 500 companies. With decades of experience in bringing products to market PCH can reduce the barriers to market entry so that passionate teams can thrive. Select teams avail ...

Occipital - mobile hardware software computer vision

Occipital

Bringing spatial computing to everyday life
We’re bringing spatial computing to everyday life. The next revolution in technology is going to be about breaking through our screens and interacting with the physical world. At Occipital, we’re building not only the core computer vision engine to power this ...

OpenPCR - biotechnology hardware health care electronics

OpenPCR

DNA on your desktop
A PCR machine is essentially a xerox machine for DNA. PCR machines are expensive ($3,000+), but necessary for doing most DNA work. This puts DNA discovery out of reach of many. We're changing that! We engineered OpenPCR over the past year and started shipping ...

SnowShoe Stamp - mobile hardware mobile games developer tools

SnowShoe Stamp

Engage your customers with a touch of plastic.
SnowShoe Stamps are small pieces of plastic with secret digital identities. Our stamps allow mobile game developers to sell toys that link to in-game content (Skylanders for mobile). At the same time, our stamps have been used as a physical factor of authentication ...

Lully - hardware parenting kids internet of things

Lully

We Fix Sleep
Lully is developing smart technology to improve sleep for all ages. Our technology enables us to monitor sleep, and precisely and safely adjust sleep stages in order to avoid the troublesome parts of sleep. Our first product, the Sleep Guardian, helps children ...

Compology - hardware internet of things waste management

Compology

Smart Trash
We're reinventing the $68B waste industry with a system that tracks what’s in a dumpster to know when to pick it up and how much it’s worth. These actionable insights increase hauler’s margins and fundamentally change the way we think about waste

Vibease - mobile hardware consumer electronics

Vibease

World's first Wearable Smart Vibrator
LATEST UPDATE: Vibease is nominated for CRUNCHIES AWARDS. Please vote for us http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/announcing-the-2013-crunchies-finalists-vote-now/ Vibease is world's first wearable smart vibrator controlled by Android & iPhone. The immersive experience ...

Smart Coffee Technology - hardware food and beverages product design coffee

Smart Coffee Technology

Reinventing Single Serve Coffee
Single serve coffee is the fastest growing portion of the coffee industry reaching $3.8 billion in sales in 2014. The coffee currently available in single serve form must be ground prior to packaging, often making it stale at the time of consumption. Most craft ...

F50 - mobile hardware big data mobile games

F50

F50 is a private founder and investor network
F50 is a private founder and investor network based in SF.

Orion - mobile hardware messaging

Orion

Beautiful wearable communication for groups of any size, over any network
Onyx is the first wearable of its kind, putting the power of group communication at your fingertips in a small, stylish device. Collaborate beautifully anywhere you have a data connection - across the street or around the world. For discrete conversations, Onyx ...

Helios - hardware bicycles gps

Helios

Transform any bike into a smart bike.
Helios is reinventing the biking experience. Helios Bars are the world's first integrated headlight and blinker system for bicycles. With only 4 screws, you can turn any ordinary bike into a smart bike. Our iOS app unlocks a variety of features that have never ...

SKULLY - hardware automotive augmented reality Wearables

SKULLY

Intelligent Vehicle Systems
Skully has developed an award-winning augmented reality hardware and software platform for motorcycle helmets that enhances situational awareness for riders. The Skully AR-1 shows a wide angle rearview camera and GPS navigation with voice control on a transparent ...

Planet Labs - hardware big data aerospace predictive analytics

Planet Labs

Using space to help life on Earth
Planet Labs’ API and satellite imagery platform provide access to data with global coverage, high relevance (through a fresh and consistent, deep archive), autonomous operations, and ease of use. This upends the traditional satellite and aerial imagery market, ...

Mellow - hardware e-commerce food and beverages consumer electronics

Mellow

The robotic sous-chef for home cooks
Mellow is a smart cooking tool that stays behind and gets dinner started while you're away at work. It combines sous-vide cooking with software and refrigerator-like cooling, so that you can drop ingredients in, give it an order through your smartphone, and come ...

Cinder - hardware food and beverages consumer electronics Food tech

Cinder

Foreman grill meets Nest (YC W'15)
The Cinder Sensing Cooker is a smart, countertop kitchen appliance that uses patent-pending sensing technology for precision temperature-control cooking that enables home cooks to prepare foods to exact temperatures and then sear in the same unit - unattended - ...

Particle (formerly Spark) - hardware consumer electronics developer tools internet of things

Particle (formerly Spark)

A hardware/software platform for the Internet of Things.
Particle OS is an open source operating system for the Internet of Things that runs in the cloud. We provide easy to use hardware development tools for connected products, a complete tech stack for a connected product that extends from the device itself to the ...

Proxy42 - hardware mobile games augmented reality sensors

Proxy42

Games. As real as life.
We want to let people live incredible game experiences in the real world! The first game we release is Father.io: a Massive Multiplayer First Person Shooter you play in the real world using the first wearable device especially created for gaming. It allows at ...

Beep - hardware music operating systems internet of things

Beep

Wi-Fi Computing Platform for Audio
Beep has built an operating system and a tiny Wi-Fi computer. Beep sells both to speaker manufacturers to make their speakers smart. Like Sonos, speakers running BeepOS connect to play perfectly-synchronized music in every room of the home. But Beep’s flexible ...

Fitbit - hardware fitness personal health health and wellness

Fitbit

Be healthier and more active with Fitbit. Track daily activity, calories burned, sleep & weight. Upload wirelessly & see progress on mobile and online dashboard. Log food & more.

Loopd - mobile hardware analytics wireless

Loopd

Engagement analytics for the real world.
Loopd is the emerging leader in relational analytics that measure proximity-based human interactions and engagement for corporate events. Marketers can leverage real-time metrics to drive their product, partner, and customer strategies. Loopd is the industry’s ...

Spire Global - hardware big data aerospace predictive analytics

Spire Global

Our satellites listen to the ¾ of Earth neglected by traditional remote sensing.
Spire is a satellite-powered data company that tackles the world’s most unpredictable business challenges with truly global data solutions. By providing unique data from any point on Earth, every hour, Spire offers a competitive advantage for organizations that ...

Sproutling - hardware families parenting kids

Sproutling

Grow Happy Families
Sproutling is a family-technology company that creates thoughtfully-designed products to help make parents more effective. Our first product, The Sproutling Baby Monitor, is really the first-of-its-kind baby monitor that not only monitors a baby and their environment, ...

Momentum Machines - hardware food and beverages robotics restaurants

Momentum Machines

The Next Generation of Fast Food.
Momentum is revolutionizing the way food is prepared with technology that allows for gourmet quality food to be sold at fast food prices. We have created a robot that makes customized hamburgers from raw ingredients to packaging, with zero human intervention. ...

Navdy - mobile hardware automotive consumer electronics

Navdy

Head-Up Display (HUD) for any car...think Google Glass for your windshield
Pre-Order your Navdy now at a $200 discount at: https://www.navdy.com Fumbling around with your phone while driving is at best a bad experience. Navdy is a Head-Up Display (HUD) for your car that let's you use all the apps you love while keeping your eyes ...

august - hardware security consumer electronics finance

august

Smartphone controlled door locks
Smartphone controlled door locks by experienced founders. Dev-name was Kease. Key features: - Self installation in 10 minutes; - The smallest electronic door lock on the market (8.5cm x 5cm); and - Many other, to be announced, features.

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