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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.

51
Velaura AI

High-performance energy-efficient infrastructure for blockchain and AI

San Jose, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Crypto & Web3
Series ATotal funding$110.0MAug 2026
52
Gamgee

Gamgee builds personalized mRNA cancer vaccines from each dog's tumor to help its immune system f...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
SeedTotal funding$4.0MAug 2026
53
Groq

Groq delivers fast, low cost AI inference using custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) chips and G...

Mountain View, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series ATotal funding$4.2BAug 2026
54
Higgsfield

Generative AI platform for creators and social media teams to create and edit images, videos, and...

San Francisco, United States51–200Generative AI, Media
Series BTotal funding$718.0MAug 2026
55
Xpander.ai

xpander.ai provides an enterprise platform that lets organizations deploy AI agents with permissi...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$7.5MAug 2026
56
Vals AI

Independent LLM evaluation platform benchmarking AI models on real-world enterprise tasks in fina...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$45.0MAug 2026
57
Blacksmith

Serverless cloud infra for CI

San Francisco, United States1–10Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$70.7MAug 2026
58
CodeRabbit

AI-driven code review platform that provides context-aware, line-by-line reviews and 1-click fixe...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series CTotal funding$143.0MAug 2026
59
Skan AI

Skan AI observes enterprise workflows and builds a context graph that helps AI agents automate co...

San Francisco, United States51–200Energy, Artificial Intelligence
Series CTotal funding$117.0MAug 2026
60
Neros

Neros develops and manufactures advanced unmanned drone systems for battlefield defense with a U....

El Segundo, United States51–200Defense Tech
Series CTotal funding$372.0MAug 2026
61
Discovered Materials

AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$9.0MAug 2026
62
Point2

Point2 Technology develops ultra-low power, ultra-low latency interconnect SoCs that empower next...

San Jose, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Extension RoundTotal funding$212.0MAug 2026
63
Hadrian

Hadrian builds AI-powered autonomous factories that manufacture precision components and complete...

Torrance, United States201–500Defense Tech, Manufacturing
Series DTotal funding$1.8BAug 2026
64
Lumilens

Next-Gen Optical Transceiver Solution for photonics supply

San Jose, United States51–200Hardware, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$700.0MAug 2026
65
Aurelius Systems

Defense technology company building autonomous laser systems that detect, track, and neutralize d...

San Francisco, United States11–50Defense Tech
Series ATotal funding$50.0MAug 2026
66
Avatar Robotics

A startup building the unlimited workforce for industrial labor

San Francisco, United States1–10Robotics
SeedTotal funding$6.5MAug 2026
67
SkinBit

The company building a revolutionary full-body scanner for skin cancer screening

Los Angeles, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Pre-seedTotal funding$8.2MAug 2026
68
Windborne

Operates a global constellation of long-duration weather balloons and AI forecasts to deliver atm...

Redwood City, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Climate Tech
Series BTotal funding$60.6MAug 2026
69
Buzz Solutions

AI-powered visual intelligence platform helping utilities identify infrastructure risks and impro...

Palo Alto, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$29.5MAug 2026
70
HappyRobot

HappyRobot provides AI agents and operational software for enterprises, helping complex real-econ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Logistics, AI Assistant
Series CTotal funding$194.0MAug 2026
71
Obsidian Security

Obsidian Security helps enterprises secure third-party applications and AI agents with visibility...

Newport Beach, United States51–200Cybersecurity, SaaS
Series DTotal funding$323.5MAug 2026
72
Oxide

On-premises cloud computer company that delivers rack-scale hardware and software infrastructure ...

Emeryville, United States51–200Developer Tools
Series DTotal funding$983.0MAug 2026
73
Volta Infra

Neocloud AI infrastructure provider offering GPU cloud capacity to mid-market AI startups.

Palo Alto, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Cloud
Venture RoundTotal funding$300.0MAug 2026
74
Antora Energy

Thermal energy storage company building factory-made battery systems that deliver zero-emissions ...

San Jose, United States51–200Climate Tech, Energy Storage
Series CTotal funding$550.0MAug 2026
75
Design Arena

World's largest crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$7.9MAug 2026