All Rankings

Recently Funded California Startups 2026

California startups whose latest recorded funding round was announced in the last 90 days, across the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $63.9B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by most recent funding · Latest company record update Sep 29, 2026

Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by most recent announced round. Companies whose latest round is one of: Grant, Private Equity, Debt Financing are excluded. Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. Open a company profile for its funding summary and available detail. How this data is built.

1
Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI makes AI application development fast and practical by unlocking the power of machine ...

Redwood City, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Series ETotal funding$595.6MSep 2026
2
Arcee AI

Develops open-weight, domain-adapted language models and tools for enterprises, offering secure, ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$29.5MSep 2026
3
Impulse Space

Space transportation company developing orbital transfer vehicles and last-mile delivery spacecra...

Redondo Beach, United States201–500Aerospace, Defense Tech
Extension RoundTotal funding$1.3BSep 2026
4
ViaBot

Viabot delivers autonomous sweeping robots that self-launch, sweep, recharge, empty, and report b...

Santa Clara, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, PropTech
Series ATotal funding$39.8MSep 2026
5
Axo Longevity

Digital Health

Menlo Park, United StatesBiotech, Digital Health
SeedTotal funding$5.0MSep 2026
6
BackOps AI

BackOps AI: Boosting Your Productivity Without Changing Your Tech Stack Our AI assistant automate...

San Francisco, United States11–50Retail, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$82.3MSep 2026
7
Evvy

At-home vaginal microbiome testing and care platform offering metagenomic sequencing, clinician-r...

San Francisco, United States11–50Life Sciences, Biotech
Series BTotal funding$59.0MSep 2026
8
Factory

Factory delivers an agent-native autonomy stack for enterprise engineering teams, using AI agents...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$420.0MSep 2026
9
Robocurve

We build open-source tools and independent benchmarks to evaluate how capable AI models and embod...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$10.0MSep 2026
10
Thatch

Modern health benefits platform helping employers offer Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement ...

San Francisco, United States11–50HR Tech, Insurance
Venture RoundTotal funding$191.6MSep 2026
11
Archy

Archy develops an integrated dental practice management platform that connects practice operation...

San Jose, United States11–50Healthcare, Medtech
Series CTotal funding$95.0MSep 2026
12
GenHealth.ai

GenHealth provides a generative AI foundation model trained on medical events from over 40M patie...

San Francisco, United States11–50Healthcare
Series ATotal funding$29.5MSep 2026
13
Ayar Labs

Ayar Labs develops co-packaged optical I/O solutions that accelerate data movement for hyperscale...

San Jose, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$1.2BSep 2026
14
Mach Industries

Mach Industries develops and manufactures unmanned aerospace and defense systems and decentralize...

Huntington Beach, United States51–200Defense Tech
Series CTotal funding$1.2BSep 2026
15
Maven Robotics

Maven Robotics builds autonomous industrial robots combining strength, adaptive dexterity, mobili...

San Francisco, United States11–50Mobility, Artificial Intelligence
Series ATotal funding$100.0MSep 2026
16
BuildCheck

AI-powered design review platform that detects errors, omissions, and coordination conflicts in c...

Palo Alto, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Construction Tech
Series ATotal funding$17.9MSep 2026
17
Celero Communications

Celero Communications develops coherent DSP solutions that enable high-bandwidth, low-power optic...

Irvine, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$375.0MSep 2026
18
Encoded Therapeutics

Gene therapy company developing precision gene therapies for debilitating neurological disorders,...

South San Francisco, United States51–200Biotech, Therapeutics
Series FTotal funding$514.0MSep 2026
19
Harvey

Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services, streamlining contract analysis,...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Legal Tech
Venture RoundTotal funding$2.2BSep 2026
20
TwoStep Therapeutics

TwoStep Therapeutics is developing a pipeline built around a versatile peptide that selectively b...

San Carlos, United States1–10Biotech, Drug Discovery
Series ATotal funding$90.1MSep 2026
21
Bluecore Energy

Democratizing clean energy by scaling nuclear reactor technology onto floating power plants that ...

Long Beach, United StatesClimate Tech
SeedTotal funding$60.0MSep 2026
22
Cognition

AI software engineering company building Devin, an autonomous AI coding agent capable of planning...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$4.1BSep 2026
23
Moonwalk Biosciences

Develops precision epigenetic medicines targeting adipose biology and cardiometabolic disease usi...

South San Francisco, United States11–50Biotech, Drug Discovery
Series BTotal funding$155.5MSep 2026
24
Sapien

AI platform that provides autonomous financial and operational analysis for finance, operations, ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$8.7MSep 2026
25
Cradlewise

Cradlewise is the only baby product in the market that uses deep tech and AI to learn the baby's ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Hardware, Healthcare
Series ATotal funding$12.0MSep 2026