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California Startup Ideas

4 years ago

A California-based startup that makes a low-cost, low-power, solar powered charger for phones and other devices. It’s a rival to the crowd-funded Fission, which offers a similar product.

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5 years ago

A community that helps students of the University of California and beyond get the finance and career capital they need to start their own business.

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5 years ago

A mobile app that helps users avoid sales taxes when shopping online. Currently serving businesses in California and Texas.

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5 years ago

A project at the University of California, Berkeley that uses machine learning to classify and identify patterns found in images.

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2 years ago

This startup is looking to bring back the spirit of the old Southern California surf bike shop, where people could get a custom bike.

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5 years ago

A California-based startup that aims to use data from its app to improve medical care.

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5 years ago

A startup in California that wants to help businesses set up and manage Internet-connected locks — a trend that’s seen by some as a “fourth industrial revolution”. The startup is in the process of raising $1.6 million to launch.

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5 years ago

A startup that helps small and medium-sized companies manage their accounts receivable. They’re currently serving customers in California, Florida, and Illinois.

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4 years ago

Convenience store chain in California.

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3 years ago

A product that helps users make their own sauces and marinades out of fresh ingredients. The company is based in California, but has users in the US, Canada, and Australia.

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2 years ago

A “sanctuary city” for marijuana users in California. The startup wants to set up places where people can smoke pot without fear of prosecution.

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4 years ago

A SaaS startup based in San Francisco, California. The company has been growing rapidly, claiming to have “signed up more than 20,000 people in just the past month”. Its app lets users schedule and pay for deliveries, including food and household items, with a delivery fee.

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3 years ago

A startup that collects anonymous data about all of the gas pumps in California, with the goal of helping drivers make the most efficient choice for their journey.

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3 years ago

A platform to help people buy, sell and manage their apartment homes. The startup is based in Seattle, California and is currently focused on the West Coast.

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4 years ago

The California-based company, which previously had raised $16 million, is selling custom-designed power banks, which are basically portable chargers for smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices. The company is selling them through its website but is also looking to partner with retailers to sell them in their brick-and-mortar stores.

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4 years ago

A startup that wants to take a person’s health, from a doctor’s perspective, and put it in a dashboard. It’s a “free radical”, a company in San Francisco, California, that wants to change the way the world thinks about health. It has a commercial in production with a director who’s won a couple of Oscars, and a book in development.

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4 years ago

A startup for workers to schedule and pay for their cleaning services. The startup says the service is currently only available in San Diego, California.

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4 years ago

A startup that helps companies provide food delivery to their employees. The startup is working with companies such as California Pizza Kitchen, Denny's, and Pei Wei to bring in revenue. The startup screens customers for a monthly membership fee of around $10 and works on a monthly basis. The startup says they have over 5,000 active customers, with over $2 million in monthly revenue.

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4 years ago

The startup is building an online platform that provides a “one-stop shop” for all California cannabis customers, so they can buy cannabis products with one simple click.

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4 years ago

On 2 June 2015, an app called "YouNow" was released by a team of developers from the University of Southern California. The app allows users to broadcast live videos to their friends, and allows viewers to tip the broadcasters. The video is only viewable for 24 hours, but viewers can re-watch them at any time.

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4 years ago

Has launched in the past year in the US, in areas in which cannabis has been legalized in the past year in states like Ohio, New Jersey, Texas, and California. The company’s founders say they can apply their technology to any state/state-regulated cannabis industry, and are already in business in the US.

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2 years ago

A partnership between the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the American Red Cross, Airwatch provides a digital bracelets that the Red Cross uses to provide faster, more accurate help in the event of a natural disaster.

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3 years ago

A California startup that’s building software for companies looking to sell their own data.

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4 years ago

An infrastructure company that provides services to cannabis companies in California.

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4 years ago

The Specialized Technology Fund (STF) is a $25 million venture fund hosted by the University of California, Berkeley, where it was founded in 2011. The fund is meant to facilitate the creation of new technologies that can improve the lives of people in developing countries. It is the first university-backed venture fund focused on developing technologies for developing countries. The fund is run by the university's Haas School of Business.

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3 years ago

A company that wants to help with the clean-up of plastic waste. The startup has amassed a team of scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is bringing the science to a product that can be used by anyone.

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3 years ago

The startup is building a platform to help customers find and book therapists online. The company already has 1,000 customers in California who use the platform.

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3 years ago

A company that builds software for farmers to track data and sell to larger farmers via the internet. It’s the first company to use its software in the US to sell produce in California’s Central Valley.

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3 years ago

Founded in August 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Y Combinator-backed Skip provides a way for businesses to get in touch with customers and keep track of purchases.

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3 years ago

A startup that helps consumers save money on their car insurance by comparing insurance quotes online. It’s currently available only in California.

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3 years ago

A team of students from the University of California at Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz came up with a game that’s meant to help improve emotional intelligence and emotional resilience for kids. The game is designed to be engaging and fun, but still help kids develop their emotions and thinking skills.

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3 years ago

The company sells a device that can provide a constant supply of fresh water to remote areas and places where water is scarce. The startup is a spinoff from the University of California Berkeley.

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3 years ago

A platform for companies to manage all their IT in one place, and even get their data analyzed by a team of analysts, with an in-person service call. The company is based in California and has more than 25,000 customers.

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3 years ago

The San Jose, California-based startup offers an introduction to basic accounting, billing, and invoicing. The startup launched in San Francisco in December and was one of 10 finalists in the TechStars New York program.

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3 years ago

This startup is building an open source platform for young people to learn to code. The startup is based in Mountain View, California.

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3 years ago

A company that aims to eliminate the need to print invoices. The company’s platform handles e-invoicing, and sends out a PDF invoice to the customer automatically. They’re currently operating in California and New York.

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3 years ago

A startup focused on helping “boundaries of the farm” in California’s Central Valley, so that farmers can look for new ways to grow food. The company purchases and recycles organic waste, converts it into rich compost, and sells it back to farmers.

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2 years ago

A company that helps people build their dream homes in California. The startup wants to build a marketplace for people to find and buy land.

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2 years ago

A team of students from the University of California Berkeley is building a software company for home inspectors that helps them get certified and increase their clients.

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3 years ago

California-based startup that aims to make it easier for people to invest in real estate. The company lets users invest in real estate using Bitcoin, and lets them buy $1,000 worth of Bitcoin at a time, much like a dollar-cost-averaging investment.

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3 years ago

In the last two years, the cost of building a nuclear plant in the US has increased seven times, while the cost of building a solar plant has dropped. Upstart Energy is building a solar plant in the desert of California to compete with utility companies that have built nuclear plants. The startup aims to use an asset-light model and build a plant for around $1.5 billion.

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3 years ago

Y Combinator’s waiting list is a list of companies that are accepted into the program but haven’t yet received funding. The list is kept in a secret room underneath Y Combinator’s offices in Mountain View, California. The list is closed to the public and is generally used as a way for Y Combinator to vet companies that are accepted into its program.

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3 years ago

A startup that’s building a messaging system for the agricultural industry. It’s meant to help farmers communicate with each other and the larger agricultural industry, and the startup is currently testing its product in California.

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2 years ago

This startup helps people who don’t have health insurance buy health insurance. It’s currently available to people in California, and is working on expanding into other states in the coming months.

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3 years ago

A tool for recording your thoughts, quizzes and other information, which can be shared with friends and family. The startup has been around since 2013 and is used by at least 2,500 schools in California.

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2 years ago

A platform that helps brands run social media campaigns. The company is part of the Y Combinator startup incubator in Mountain View, California.

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2 years ago

The first annual Startup Battlefield event in the United States was held in June 2016 at the University of California, Berkeley. The event was sponsored by TechStars, Y Combinator and an undisclosed Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

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2 years ago

This startup wants to build a platform that helps restaurants on the West Coast better manage labor costs and efficiency. The platform is meant to help restaurants in California and other West Coast states calculate service, food and labor costs.

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2 years ago

Y Combinator was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with a satellite office in New York City.

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2 years ago

A startup based in California, looking to create a platform that allows people to “automate the management of their network of friends”.

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2 years ago

Wyldtech is a hardware engineering company with a focus on developing products for the home. The company is based in Oakland, California.

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2 years ago

Perpetual, a startup that works with the homeless in San Diego, California, to connect them with resources like furniture, clothing, medical care, and job-placement services. The startup is also working with local non-profits to connect the homeless with these available resources.

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2 years ago

"Idea" magazine is an executive magazine for the global tech, digital and startup entrepreneurship community. The magazine is based in San Francisco, California. The core mission and focus of the magazine is to support and promote entrepreneurship and the exceptional growth of entrepreneurs and startups.

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2 years ago

A company that helps restaurants and clubs track people’s orders in order to help them optimize their service. Currently focused on Southern California.

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