Best Assistive Tech Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 37 best Assistive Tech companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Presence Learning.
Ranked: Best Assistive Tech companies in San Francisco
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Presence Learning 50Funding top 27%Tech top 36%Talent bottom 49%Market bottom 45% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 27% Techtop 36% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 45% Growthbottom 40% Globalbottom 32% Funding: Raised $414M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 15 yrs (0.3/yr) Tech: 41 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 50/100 | $414M | 58 mo ago | 173 | Kate Walker Chief Executive Officer | WordPressSentryZendesk+35 | — | — |
| 2 | SafelyYou Provider of AI-based solutions for senior care and fall management 64Product top 25%Funding top 26%Tech top 26%AI top 30% All 12 signals ▾Producttop 25% Fundingtop 26% Techtop 26% AItop 30% Moattop 35% Innovationtop 44% Growthtop 47% Patentstop 49% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 18% Product: 8 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series C Funding: Raised $59.5M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 9 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $60M | 19 mo ago | 85 85 → 191 (+125%) | George Netscher Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+34 | 4 patents Real-time monitoring and communication system for cognitively impaired care | — |
| 3 | Whisper Advanced speech recognition and transcription model powered by artificial intelligence | $53M | 71 mo ago | 54 | Andrew Song Co-Founder & COO | — | 17 patents Real-time audio enhancement and separation; context-aware continuous user authentication | — |
| 4 | Halo Online platform offering wearable brain cortex stimulator to improve exercise performance | $45M | 100 mo ago | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Lively Wearable device that allows the elderly to share activities and notifications with their relatives | $7M | 155 mo ago | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | ME911 Mobile based emergency preparedness and response solutions | $4M | — | 2 | Antoine P. Brooks Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | WeWALK Provider of smart cane solution for visually impaired individuals | $3M | 30 mo ago | 25 | Gokhan Mericliler Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorCart Functionality+44 | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 8 | Vivid Vision Digital vision solutions for AMD, glaucoma, amblyopia, and strabismus | $2M | 112 mo ago | 30 | Manish Gupta Co-Founder & CTO | PHPBootstrapGSAP+13 | — | — |
| 9 | Atom Limbs Cloud and AI-enabled robotic prosthetic arms for patients | $2M | 33 mo ago | 10 | Tyler Hayes Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 10 | Liftware Provider of stabilizing spoon handle for patients with tremors | $1M | 155 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Oma Care Provider of technical infrastructure to train and pay family caregivers | $500K | 27 mo ago | — | James Galbraith Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — |
| 12 | Speech Buddies Orally inserted device for Speech therapy through tactile feedback for children | $410K | 199 mo ago | 11 | Kimberly McCollister CEO | Cart FunctionalityBugHerdPHP+19 | 2 patents Intraoral tactile biofeedback devices for speech and language therapy | — |
| 13 | EMBER Medical Medical emergency response platform for sudden cardiac arrest patients | $250K | 59 mo ago | 24 | Mohamed Elshazly Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 14 | Joon Offers a habit tracking app for kids | $125K | 55 mo ago | 10 | Isaac Eaves Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+19 | — | — |
| 15 | Kango Online car-pooling platform for kids | $100K | 148 mo ago | 9 | — | Facebook LoginZURB FoundationAmazon Web Services+9 | — | — |
Top 12 Assistive Tech companies in San Francisco
#1
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2014 · 85 employees$59.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based solutions for senior care and fall management. It offers a device and platform designed to improve safety, wellness, and staffing within senior living communities. It delivers tools for fall detection, care activity measurement, and predictive analysis. The platform integrates with existing systems to provide insights and support care delivery.
- Jan 2025Series C$43M
- May 2023Venture Debt$30M
- Dec 2021Series B$40M
- Sep 2021Series A$19.5M
#2
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 173 employees$413.9Mraised▾
- Nov 2021Series E$349.6M
- May 2020Series D$27M
- Nov 2015Series C$25M
- Apr 2013Series B$8M
#3
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2017 · 25 employees$3.2Mraised▾
Provider of smart cane solution for visually impaired individuals. Its offering attaches to the traditional white cane, transforming it into a smart cane. This technology helps visually impaired people via three of its features such as obstacle detection, bluetooth pairing with a phone, and integration with voice assistants and google maps.
- Feb 2024Seed—
- Nov 2022Seed$2.4M
- Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$2M
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$2.1M
#4
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 10 employees$2.1Mraised▾
Developer of mind-controlled bionic arms designed to help under-elbow amputees regain mobility. The company's bionic arms involve implanting electrodes that pick up on the brain's signals and help people to move, feel, and use the new limb in an intuitive, natural way, enabling researchers, amputees, and hobbyists to customize bionic hands for various purposes.
#5
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$500Kraised▾
Provider of technical infrastructure to train and pay family caregivers. It empower, support and compensate those caring for families.
- 2024Seed$500K
#6
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2017 · 54 employees$53Mraised▾
Advanced speech recognition and transcription model powered by artificial intelligence. It provides AI-based hearing aids for hearing impairment individuals. The company is developing a hearing aid that uses deep learning to amplify only the voices and sounds of interest. Its device offers better noise reduction when compared with leading competitors with a lower price point.
- Oct 2020Series B$35M
- Seed—
#7
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 28 employees$45.2Mraised▾
Halo Neuroscience is developing a non-invasive neuro-stimulation wearable device for improving cognitive performance in the healthy and impaired with a range of potential effects from accelerating learning to improving body movement control. The device applies a small electric current to the area of the brain that controls movement.
- Apr 2018Series B$1M
- Mar 2018Series B$1M
- Feb 2018Series B—
- Jan 2018Series B$13M
#8
Acqui-Hired · San Francisco, California · founded 2012 · 15 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Lively provides an activity-sharing experience with its product using passive activity sensors that are applied to everyday objects in an older adult’s home. LivelyGram gives family members a way to share the events of their life with elder loved ones through pictures and short messages. Lively’s passive activity sensors log day-to-day patterns like kitchen activity, time spent getting out and medication timings. Its connected device uses a built-in cellular connection to then gather activity signals from each of the sensors to compare daily events with a normal routine and healthy preferences. Lively allows secure and private sharing of activity patterns via an at-a-glance login that can be accessed through a computer, tablet or smartphone.
- Sep 2013Series A$4.8M
- Aug 2012Seed$2.5M
#9
Early Stage · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 2 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Mobile based emergency preparedness and response solutions. It delivers a personal crisis assistant and services to its members during an earthquake, hurricane, fire, flood terrorist attack or personal emergency. It employs technology like sms and e-mail alerting, stores vital information securely like insurance information and medications.
#10
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2013 · 30 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Digital vision solutions for AMD, glaucoma, amblyopia, and strabismus. They offer advanced vision training systems and precise visual field testing. Their flagship product is a mobile, automated perimetry solution used in clinical trials and patient care. They provide targeted microperimetry endpoints for research in geographic atrophy, AMD, and glaucoma therapeutics. They offer digital therapeutic exercises for clinics. Their solutions are used by patients and ophthalmic pharma companies. They focus on pioneering digital solutions for vision care, offering a platform for vision training and visual field measurement. They provide resources for patients and eye care professionals, including a provider directory and educational materials. They are committed to quality and scientific testing. They offer software and digital endpoints for vision-related conditions.
- May 2017Seed$2.2M
- Jan 2014Seed$25K
#11
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2018 · 24 employees$250Kraised▾
Medical emergency response platform for sudden cardiac arrest patients. The company is majority focuses on providing EMS care to sudden cardiac arrest patients. Also, planning to cover medical emergencies such as anaphylactic shock, opioid overdose, stroke, and more. It has various features including one-step touch, smart wearable activation audio, and video calls.
- Oct 2021Seed—
- Sep 2018Seed$250K
#12
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2011$1Mraised▾
Provider of stabilizing spoon handle for patients with tremors. The company develops assistive devices for patients with hand tremors or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence. The products include liftware steady a liftware level computerized devices to handle food.
- Sep 2013Seed$1M
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