Best Mobile Utility Tools Companies in California, United States
The 130 best Mobile Utility Tools companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Bitwarden.
Ranked: Best Mobile Utility Tools companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitwarden Provider of a cloud-enabled password manager tool 76Growth top 20%Customers top 21%Tech top 25%Moat top 31% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Customerstop 21% Techtop 25% Moattop 31% Fundingtop 32% Producttop 35% Markettop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 37% Growth: Headcount 63 → 95 (+51%) across vintages · App-install growth +133% YoY Customers: Play-Store rating 4.74★ across 156,966 ratings (2 apps) · Review volume +6% in 6 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $100M | 45 mo ago | 95 | Kyle Spearrin Founder | Hund.ioRubyRuby on Rails+19 | Top 100k | — | 1 launch |
| 2 | Puffin Browser Developer of browser applications designed to accelerate webpage loading speeds | $24M | 134 mo ago | 28 | Shioupyn Shen Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Pogoplug Cloud backup and restore platform for mobile devices | $20M | 143 mo ago | 60 | Daniel Putterman Co-Founder & CEO & Chairman | Google CloudGoogle Font APIGoogle Workspace+3 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 4 | Sunshine App-based platform offering phone contact management solutions | $20M | 77 mo ago | 22 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 5 | Humin Contextual search based contacts App | $15M | 156 mo ago | 36 | — | — | — | 4 patents Mobile contact sharing and management platforms for device-to-device synchronization | — |
| 6 | Vyng Offers blockchain-based caller ID app | $12M | 50 mo ago | 14 | — | VimeoYouTubeBootstrap+9 | Top 5M | 51 patents Contextual media delivery and presentation in mobile messaging and lockscreen interfaces | — |
| 7 | Dolphin Browser for Android and iOS devices | $10M | 143 mo ago | 42 | — | Facebook LoginGoogle Sign-inUbuntu+14 | Top 5M | 3 patents Machine‑learning image analysis for detecting weather‑related damage in visual data | — |
| 8 | Brave Developer of a browser and search engine focused on privacy | $7M | 118 mo ago | 68 | Brendan Eich Co-Founder & CEO | HugoApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+18 | Top 1k | — | — |
| 9 | Mr. Number AI-powered caller ID and spam blocking for better phone experience | $5M | 178 mo ago | 7 | — | — | — | 7 patents Immersive mixed-reality display platforms with user‑generated content sharing and event interaction | — |
| 10 | KeepSafe Provider of a privacy software for consumers | $4M | 146 mo ago | 16 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+20 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 11 | Trimian Provider of a smart contacts and phonebook manager app | $3M | 103 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Berggi Provider of multi-category mobile utility applications | $3M | 242 mo ago | — | — | — | — | 2 patents Mobile phone-based data search and retrieval functionality | — |
| 13 | Snowball Notifications management app for Android | $2M | 140 mo ago | 6 | Anish Acharya Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Mozilla Developer of internet browsers, virtual private networks, and AI safety tools | $2M | 257 mo ago | 455 | Jacob Ervin Sr. Engineering Manager | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | Top 10k | 7 patents Advanced video compression algorithms and quantization techniques for efficient encoding. | — |
| 15 | The Sunshine Crowdsourced weather forecasting app | $2M | 135 mo ago | 6 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Morphin Photo editor app | $1M | 87 mo ago | 2 | Loic Ledoux Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Contacts Pls Phonebook management & dialer app. | $1M | 164 mo ago | 47 | Lior Romano Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Odysee App for private photo/video backup and sharing | $912K | 154 mo ago | 27 | Julian Chandra Chief Executive Officer | SentryVideoJSMUI+11 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 19 | Alive Guide to the best real money online pokies in Australia | $590K | 129 mo ago | — | Johnny Oh Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | 3 patents Real-time adaptive display angle adjustment for visual devices | — |
| 20 | LaunchOrbit Provides a phone address book organizer | $500K | 197 mo ago | — | Rish Mehta Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Intros Social contact management app | $309K | 126 mo ago | — | Jonathan Strietzel Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | Mobile-XL Mobile internet browser | $280K | 224 mo ago | 5 | Marek Fuchs Co-Founder | — | — | 75 patents Real-time network congestion analytics and emergency call management for LTE/IMS | — |
| 23 | Sonar Offers an app providing emoji-icon widgets | $150K | 72 mo ago | 115 | Randolph Lee Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Zowdow Content suggestion tool for keyboards | $150K | 133 mo ago | 4 | Bill Gross Co-Founder | — | — | 3 patents Search engine ranking, relevance scoring, and targeted advertising algorithms | — |
| 25 | Echo Provider of push notifications sorting app | $125K | 156 mo ago | — | Xuwen Cao Co-Founder | — | — | 86 patents Handheld vegetation trimming and cutting tools with adjustable grips and adapters | — |
| 26 | UseHopScotch Blog focusing on magic keyboard related topics | $120K | 183 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | FaceOn Mobile Caller ID and data distribution app platform. | $102K | 170 mo ago | — | Jason Ashton CEO | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Mobile Utility Tools companies in California
#1
Series C · Santa Barbara, California · founded 2015 · 95 employees$100Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-enabled password manager tool. The tool helps to manage passwords across different websites. The passwords are encrypted and stored in the cloud. Data can be shared with any device. The data is sealed with AES-256 bit encryption. It is open-source software and is available for iOS and Android phones. It uses a freemium model for pricing.
- Sep 2022Series C$100M
- 2019Series A—
#2
Acquired · Santa Monica, California · founded 2014 · 14 employees$12Mraised▾
Offers blockchain-based caller ID app. The app notifies the caller ID to the customers. It also provides rewards in the form of bitcoins. It has features like visual caller ID, business caller ID, and spam blocking. The app is available on the Android platform.
- Apr 2022Series A$5M
- Dec 2018Series A$4M
- Feb 2018Angel—
- Oct 2017Seed$3M
#3
Series B · Palo Alto, California · founded 2018 · 22 employees$20Mraised▾
App-based platform offering phone contact management solutions. The platform enables users to manage the phone book in an optimal way. It offers contact management with features like scheduling, event organization, ease to share contact with others, intelligent algorithm enabled contact management and synchronization, and more. The mobile application is available for the iOS platform.
- Jan 2020Series B$20M
#4
Early Stage · Cupertino, California · founded 2011 · 28 employees$24.4Mraised▾
Developer of browser applications designed to accelerate webpage loading speeds. The applications shift the workload to cloud servers. This allows resource-demanding webpages to run faster on devices. The applications are available for Windows and mobile devices.
#5
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2007 · 60 employees$20.2Mraised▾
Provider of online storage services designed to access files on their computer from anywhere and free of charge. The company's services offer data backup hardware, remote device access software, cloud file syncing and sharing services to drive awareness and reach consumers in an efficient manner, enabling users to connect their external hard drive to the internet to share and access media and files from anywhere.
#6
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 68 employees$7Mraised▾
Developer of a browser and search engine focused on privacy. The browser blocks third-party ads and trackers, offering faster webpage loading and data savings. It provides built-in security features enabled by default, including protection against fingerprinting. The search engine delivers results from its own index without profiling users.
- Aug 2016Seed$4.5M
- Nov 2015Seed$2.5M
#7
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 1999 · 42 employees$10Mraised▾
Dolphin is a browser for Android and iOS devices. The app has features such as customizable gestures (for example, draw a “G” to go to google.com), add-ons, and voice search. It provides fast loading speed, Adblocker tab, incognito browsing, sidebars, flash player, and many more. The app is available on the Android & iOS platforms.
- Jul 2014Convertible Debt$30M
- Oct 2013Unattributed—
- Sep 2012Unattributed—
- Jul 2011Unattributed$10M
#8
Acqui-Hired · San Francisco, California · founded 2012 · 36 employees$15Mraised▾
Humin contextualizes the contacts based on the relationships through social media profiles, calendar appointments and emails and other parameters. Humin lets users search their contacts based on things they remember. e.g. where a person works or a location they met previously. Humin has another app by the name of Knock Knock which helps the users to connect , chat and interchange information with the people around. Humin was acquired by Tinder (Match.com's subsidiary) in March-2016 for an undisclosed amount.
- Jun 2013Seed—
#9
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2012 · 16 employees$4.2Mraised▾
KeepSafe is a private picture locker that keeps all personal documents, photos and videos hidden and protected behind multiple layers of security. Photos can be shared with chosen users through the safe send option where a photo automatically disappears after 20 sec. Other features include fake pins, secret doors and break in alerts. Claims to have over 25,000,000 users worldwide.
- Mar 2014Series A$3.5M
- Feb 2012Seed$700K
#10
Deadpooled · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 5 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of a smart contacts and phonebook manager app
- Oct 2017Seed$3M
#11
Deadpooled · San Francisco, California · founded 2012 · 6 employees$1.9Mraised▾
The Sunshine is a crowdsourced weather information provider. Traditional weather services utilize satellites, expensive weather stations and meteorological radars. It developed weather application through which it quizzes user from time to time. It uses that information to learn their preferences and sending them the most personalized forecasts. The company aims to create the weather layer on the maps by deploying a high-resolution ground observation network.
- Mar 2015Seed$1.7M
- Sep 2014Seed$1.7M
- Feb 2013Seed$240K
#12
Late Stage · Los Angeles, California · founded 2018 · 2 employees$1Mraised▾
Morphin is a photo editor and GIF creator app. It enables users to create GIFs and add text to it. The mobile app is available for download from the Play Store and App Store.
- Mar 2019PE$1M
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