Radar · High Tech in CA
Best High Tech Companies in CA, United States
The 76 best High Tech companies in CA, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: boba.network.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
76companies tracked
$55.3Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
2have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · HIGH TECH × CA
Our analysis of 306 High Tech companies
$95.7b in tracked funding; 95% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
306companies analysed
95%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
75unicorns
2017median founding year
781kcombined LinkedIn audience
86%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in CA
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boba.network 🦄 Lower gas, faster, secured in Ethereum, supercharged with hybrid compute. | $45M | 50 mo ago | Series A | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 6 patents Adjustable infant/child carrier devices and related usage methods | — |
| 2 | Kii Kii is focused on addressing the high-performance demands of innovation in the connected world with an… | $10M | 125 mo ago | Series B | — | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | 17 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 3 | OTOY OTOY provides GPU-based software solutions that aid in the creation and delivery of cutting-edge digital… | — | 122 mo ago | Series E | — | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 145 patents Cloud-based real-time rendering and immersive VR/AR media streaming services | — |
| 4 | 360VUZ 360VUZ is the #1 Immersive Virtual Video mobile app, Featured as #1 App on Apple Apps They Love, and won the… | — | — | — | — | 2017 | ReactStripeGoogle Pay+15 | — | 3 partnerships |
| 5 | 3GO 3GO is a personalized security service that protects members from fraud, helping them maintain their online… | — | — | — | — | 2021 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Adept AI Labs Adept is an ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to… | — | — | — | — | — | — | 47 patents Autonomous robotics control systems and medical gastrointestinal electrical stimulation devices. | — |
| 7 | Agena Bioscience Agena Bioscience is dedicated to advancing the impact of genomics in healthcare and precision medicine. | — | — | — | — | — | — | 87 patents Multiplexed nucleic acid detection and quantification for rare allele and mitochondrial analysis | 1 launch |
| 8 | AITS Simplifying AI deployment in the EDGE with effective software toolset and integrated development platform… | — | — | — | — | 2018 | — | — | — |
Top 3 High Tech companies in CA
#1
Series A · Palo Alto, CA · 16 employees$45Mraised▾
Series A · Palo Alto, CA · 16 employees
Lower gas, faster, secured in Ethereum, supercharged with hybrid compute.
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Investors
CRYPTO, Huobi, Sanctor Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, M13 Company, Hack VC
#2
Series B · San Mateo, CA · founded 2010 · 49 employees$10.3Mraised▾
Series B · San Mateo, CA · founded 2010 · 49 employees
Kii is focused on addressing the high-performance demands of innovation in the connected world with an end-to-end cloud platform optimized for the IoT. Since 2007, our organizational DNA has been in serving the world’s largest carriers with connectivity, scale, stability and performance. By extending our platform and global business expertise to device manufactures and startups, we help today’s disruptive technologies become tomorrow’s household names. - See more at: http://en.kii.com/company/#sthash.bVCIBDik.dpuf
Investors
Cisco Investments, Fenox Venture Capital, Asset Management Ventures, Zygote Ventures, Eight Roads Ventures, Visionnaire Ventures
Tech stack
Adobe DtmAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAtlassian StatuspageBootstrap
#3
Series E · Los Angeles, CA · founded 2008 · 78 employees—raised▾
Series E · Los Angeles, CA · founded 2008 · 78 employees
OTOY provides GPU-based software solutions that aid in the creation and delivery of cutting-edge digital content. From capture to render to stream, we bring you an integrated pipeline for making and distributing 3D content.
Investors
HBO, Discovery Communications, Yuri Milner, Taylor Frigon, George Gilder, Autodesk
Tech stack
Atlassian StatuspageBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Turnstile
Funding & investor landscape
$55.3Mtotal disclosed funding
2companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,636,199 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of High Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH IN CA · Hardware
How research on Semiconductors in CA is moving
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors in CA — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 5,470 papers.
5470 papers · stance +0.56 · 43% breakthrough · 9% concern
top institutions
- Chinese Academy of Sciences402
- Nanyang Technological University172
- University of California, Santa Barbara162
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences138
- Carnegie Mellon University113
leading researchers
Ricardo Martins · Nuno Lourenço · Nuno Horta · Xin Li · John E. Bowers · M. Vellvehı́
prism intelligence · tone & topics
89% positive · 2% critical tone
ElectronicsManufacturingTelecommunicationsComputer ScienceMaterials ScienceArtificial Intelligence
▲
Breakthroughs2,070 · 38%
▲ 33%→43% share
▲1.3× share momentum1 median citations48% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (33%→43% of field), led by Photonics.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Photonics42→97
- Transistor45→96
- Voltage20→52
- Photonic integrated circuit44→75
- Detector28→55
Newly emergingClassifier (UML) 0→10 · Radiation 0→9 · Epitaxy 0→8
Landmark A stable solution-processed polymer semiconductor with record high-mobility for printed transistors · 882 cites
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Advancements2,300 · 42%
▼ 46%→38% share
▼0.8× share momentum1 median citations38% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (46%→38% of field), led by Artificial neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Artificial neural network3→25
- Detector20→42
- Power (physics)50→68
- Photonics48→64
- Circuit design10→23
Newly emergingBiasing 0→11 · Neuromorphic engineering 0→9 · Ultrashort pulse 0→6
Landmark A Survey of Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductor Devices · 2,463 cites
▼
Concerns408 · 7%
▼ 8%→7% share
▼0.9× share momentum2 median citations39% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (8%→7% of field), led by Hardware security module.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Hardware security module2→9
- Photonics8→14
- Electronics12→18
- Semiconductor device9→14
- Power (physics)7→11
Newly emergingThermal 0→5 · Semiconductor materials 0→4 · Trojan 0→4
Landmark β-Gallium oxide power electronics · 473 cites
Common questions
How many High Tech companies are there in CA, United States?
Radar tracks 76 indexable High Tech companies headquartered in CA, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by High Tech companies in CA, United States?
The High Tech companies in CA, United States on this list have raised a combined $55.3M in disclosed equity funding across 2 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded High Tech company in CA, United States?
boba.network is the highest-funded High Tech company in CA, United States, with $45M in disclosed equity funding.
How many High Tech companies in CA, United States are funded?
2 of the 76 High Tech companies in CA, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many High Tech unicorns are there in CA, United States?
1 High Tech company in CA, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in CA, United States High Tech companies?
The most active investors in CA, United States High Tech companies on this list include a range of venture and angel investors.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.