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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.

26
Lasso Security

Lasso Security provides a cybersecurity platform for generative AI that helps enterprises control...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Venture RoundTotal funding$36.0MSep 2026
27
Lyte

Lyte unifies sensing hardware, custom silicon, and perception software into a single platform tha...

Mountain View, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Series CTotal funding$272.0MSep 2026
28
Wafer

Wafer runs AI agents that continuously profile and optimize GPU inference infrastructure, deliver...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$40.0MSep 2026
29
Owner

Provides AI-driven websites, ordering, apps, and marketing tools that help independent restaurant...

Palo Alto, United States201–500E-Commerce, Marketing Tech
Growth EquityTotal funding$418.7MAug 2026
30
Metriport

Metriport is a technology company that unifies fragmented healthcare data into a single clean for...

San Francisco, United States1–10Developer Tools, Digital Health
Venture RoundTotal funding$28.4MAug 2026
31
Corvus Robotics

Corvus Robotics builds autonomous drones that scan barcodes, count cases, and audit warehouse inv...

Mountain View, United States11–50Drones, Industrials
Venture RoundTotal funding$43.0MAug 2026
32
DeepCogito

Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI startup building open-source large language models toward gener...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$84.5MAug 2026
33
Mundo AI

Mundo develops data, evaluations, and applied research for frontier labs and AI companies advanci...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
Series ATotal funding$20.0MAug 2026
34
Onos Health

Onos’ AI platform provides the infrastructure for health plans to improve clinical quality while ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Series ATotal funding$23.3MAug 2026
35
Voya Energy

Metal fuels company pioneering a new class of carbon-free, energy-dense fuels made from recycled ...

Berkeley, United States1–10Clean Energy, Climate Tech
Series ATotal funding$35.0MAug 2026
36
Gatik.AI

Gatik is the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, enabling safe, consistent, high-frequenc...

Palo Alto, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence
Series DTotal funding$399.5MAug 2026
37
Standard Metrics

Standard Metrics centralizes performance and investment data, documents, and notes for venture ca...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Series BTotal funding$59.5MAug 2026
38
Quintessent Communications

Develops optical interconnect technology integrating quantum-dot comb lasers and silicon photonic...

Santa Barbara, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series ATotal funding$51.5MAug 2026
39
Muon Space

Designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations delivering Earth-observa...

Mountain View, United States51–200Data & Analytics, Hardware
Series CTotal funding$491.9MAug 2026
40
Serif Health

Serif Health provides healthcare pricing data, analytics, and APIs for providers, payers, employe...

Los Angeles, United States1–10Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Growth EquityTotal funding$2.5MAug 2026
41
Twin1

Twin1 gives every professional an AI digital twin. Your knowledge stays yours: governed permissio...

San Mateo, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$20.0MAug 2026
42
Castelion

Castelion develops affordable hypersonic strike systems for the U.S. military through rapid itera...

El Segundo, United States51–200Aerospace, Defense Tech
Series CTotal funding$1.9BAug 2026
43
Kita

AI-native credit assessment platform that turns messy borrower applications into decision-ready f...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$4.5MAug 2026
44
Renata Medical

At Renata, we are focused on serving unmet congenital needs by delivering safe and adaptable ther...

Newport Beach, United StatesHealthcare
Series DTotal funding$42.3MAug 2026
45
Rundoo

Rundoo has developed a platform that allows to order materials, schedule pickup and delivery, and...

San Francisco, United States11–50Real Estate, Retail
Series BTotal funding$30.0MAug 2026
46
Thunder Compute

Virtualization software to make GPUs 5x cheaper

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Series ATotal funding$18.0MAug 2026
47
Ampaire

Ampaire is making flying accessible to more people by building electric aircraft that are greener...

Los Angeles, United States11–50Climate Tech
Series BTotal funding$25.5MAug 2026
48
Etched

AI chip startup designing custom ASICs purpose-built for transformer-based artificial intelligenc...

Cupertino, United States51–200Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$1.6BAug 2026
49
Hypercubic

Hypercubic provides domain-specific AI that accelerates mainframe modernization for enterprises a...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$5.3MAug 2026
50
Palona

Palona builds AI agents that capture restaurant demand, take orders, coordinate catering, and tur...

Palo Alto, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$30.0MAug 2026