City by the Bay and tech hub of the Western universe, the San Francisco Bay Area is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of northern California. Companies aim to attract and keep the kind of top talent that drives the future here.
These 12 companies in the San Francisco Bay Area all recently closed substantial Series A funding rounds, so the time is absolutely right to learn about these up-and-coming businesses!
Industry: Design|Hosting|Internet
Series A Funding Amount: $72M
Webflow is the first design and hosting platform built from the ground up for the mobile age. It allows the user to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually, while writing clean, semantic code. It is the only hosted service that allows designers to create websites that work on every device, and push it live production without a developer.
“They possess true empathy for their users and employees.”
-Employee review
Webflow is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Cloud Computing|Content Management|Internet
Series A Funding Amount: $31.5M
Contentstack develops a cloud based content management system intended to power omnichannel content, digital experiences and personalized customer journeys. The company’s system uses marketing and analytics tools to manage, deploy and publish contents across channels, enabling customers to reach their audience anywhere.
Contentstack is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Vacation Rentals|Big Data|Machine Learning
Series A Funding Amount: $42.5M
Beyond Pricing is an automated data-driven pricing solution for your Airbnb and vacation rental. Their software integrates with leading listing sites like Airbnb and VRBO, as well as the largest property management systems like HomeAway Software and Streamline, allowing property owners and managers to harness their big data machine learning algorithms to automatically adjust and update their prices everywhere they list.
Beyond Pricing is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Robotics|Food Delivery|Transportation
Series A Funding Amount: $40M
Starship Technologies is the developer of self-driving robotic delivery vehicles designed to help in product delivery. The company’s self-driving robotic delivery vehicles are equipped with a sensor suite that includes cameras, enabling consumers to send and receive products anytime and anywhere.
Starship Technologies is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Software|Health Care|Machine Learning
Series A Funding Amount: $10M
InsightRX is a software platform that incorporates the principles of quantitative pharmacology and machine learning to provide an individualized understanding of a patient’s response to treatment. It delivers its technology in the form of easy-to-use clinical decision support tools at the point-of-care to help guide treatment decision-making. The platform guides treatment decisions at both the individual level and the population level.
InsightRX is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Software|Privacy Management|Workflow
Series A Funding Amount: $5M
DataGrail is a purpose-built privacy management platform that ensures sustained compliance with the GDPR, CCPA, and more. DataGrail directly integrates with more than 100 business systems, such as Salesforce, Adobe, and Oracle, enabling companies to discover and map personal data in seconds not weeks or even months. DataGrail’s direct integrations allow companies to operationalize the privacy request workflow in minutes and unify email preferences across all customer facing applications.
DataGrail is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: E-Learning|EdTech|Online Courses
Series A Funding Amount: $9.5M
SpringBoard provides online, part-time bootcamps that get customers job-ready in 6-9 months. The company argues that the new economy needs a new approach to education, and that education is no longer a one-time investment at the beginning of one’s career, it’s a lifelong pursuit.
“They are very open and honest. They are very competitive as well.”
-Employee review
100% of SpringBoard employees describe their workplace as positive.
SpringBoard is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: E-Learning|Gaming|Education
Series A Funding Amount: $6M
CodeCombat operates an online multiplayer live strategy game that provides coding process learning services through web based gamification methods. The ultimate goal of CodeCombat is to bring more users into the field of computer programming by making the logic and syntax more accessible and enjoyable to learn.
CodeCombat is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Database|Open Source|Real Time
Series A Funding: $11.5M
DGraph is an open source, horizontally scalable and distributed graph database, providing ACID transactions, consistent replication, and linearizable reads. It’s built from ground up to perform for a rich set of queries. Being a native graph database, it tightly controls how the data is arranged on disk to optimize for query performance and throughput, reducing disk seeks and network calls in a real-world cluster.
DGraph is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Health Care|Health Science|App
Series A Funding: $6.5M
Leveraging evidence-based health science, PeerWell’s PreHab and ReHab app delivers customized daily lessons to those with scheduled surgery. Its program puts patients in control of their surgery outcome and jumpstarts the return to a greater normal.
PeerWell is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: DNA Sequencing|Biotech|Agriculture
Series A Funding: $4M
Biome Makers is a biotech company born in Silicon Valley and specializing in the identification and understanding of the microbiome. They use DNA Sequencing technologies and proprietary Intelligent Computing systems to ease detailed information and recommendations that allow customers to improve their agricultural production and the quality of their products.
Biome Makers is Hiring! Check out jobs here.
Industry: Child Care|Education|Apps
Series A Funding Amount: $9M
Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers. Parents use Winnie to discover high-quality local daycares and preschools and learn all about their programs including detailed descriptions, photos, tuition information, licensing status, availability data, and more. Child care providers use Winnie to fill their open spaces, build their wait lists, and get support and resources to run their business efficiently.