Best SaaS Companies in California, United States
The 782 best SaaS companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: fountain.
Our analysis of 50 SaaS companies
$3.4b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2020.
Ranked: Best SaaS companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fountain Fountain is a talent platform that develops to make workforce management and hiring easier. 72Tech top 11%Funding top 28%Growth top 30%Moat top 38% All 10 signals ▾Techtop 11% Fundingtop 28% Growthtop 30% Moattop 38% Producttop 41% Markettop 42% Globalbottom 42% Innovationbottom 29% Patentsbottom 29% Newsbottom 23% Tech: 98 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $185M · 5 rounds over 12 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $185M | 48 mo ago | Acquired | 347 | 2014 | 2 patents Ultra-small lipid nanoparticle production for pharmaceutical drug delivery | 1 partnership |
| 2 | aggregate knowledge Aggregate Knowledge is a media intelligence company that enables advertisers to reach the highest performing… 27Funding top 32%Moat top 45%Patents top 47%Innovation bottom 46% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 32% Moattop 45% Patentstop 47% Innovationbottom 46% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 27% Marketbottom 25% Funding: Raised $80.6M · 8 rounds over 21 yrs (0.4/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 1/10 · IP moat: 27 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $81M | 159 mo ago | Acquired | 26 | 2005 | 27 patents Online advertising analytics and metadata management for digital campaign measurement | — |
| 3 | almanac Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration. 29Funding top 33%Tech bottom 48%Global bottom 39%Market bottom 28% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 33% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 28% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $43.0M · 2 rounds over 6 yrs (0.3/yr) Tech: 27 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $43M | 58 mo ago | Series A | 46 | 2018 | — | — |
| 4 | craft.co Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create… 83Talent top 15%Moat top 22%Funding top 24%Growth top 26% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 15% Moattop 22% Fundingtop 24% Growthtop 26% Techtop 31% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 39% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $42M | 40 mo ago | Series B | 129 | 2011 | — | — |
| 5 | Laszlo Systems Web and mobile user experience solutions 19Talent top 28%Funding top 34%Global bottom 36%Tech bottom 24% All 5 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 34% Globalbottom 36% Techbottom 24% Marketbottom 15% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record Funding: Raised $40.2M · 11 rounds over 25 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 19/100 | $40M | 175 mo ago | Acquired | 14 | 2000 | — | — |
| 6 | playvox Playvox, the leading provider of workforce engagement management solutions for the digital-first and… 74Growth top 30%Funding top 32%Tech top 38%Market top 48% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 30% Fundingtop 32% Techtop 38% Markettop 48% Producttop 49% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 24% Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY Funding: Raised $34.2M · Last round round (Jan 2021) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $34M | 64 mo ago | Series B | 233 | 2012 | — | — |
| 7 | scalyr Scalyr offers a cloud-based data analytics platform that enables high-speed log management and server… 27Funding top 38%Tech top 40%Product top 46%Market bottom 36% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 38% Techtop 40% Producttop 46% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 30% Newsbottom 27% Growthbottom 25% Funding: Raised $34.1M · 3 rounds over 11 yrs (0.3/yr) Tech: 31 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Fastly rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $34M | 97 mo ago | Acquired | 50 | 2011 | — | — |
| 8 | acelerate Acelerate helps restaurants manage online storefronts while connecting restaurateurs with new, delivery-only… 10Product bottom 48%Funding bottom 46%Global bottom 39%Market bottom 30% All 5 signals ▾Productbottom 48% Fundingbottom 46% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 30% Customersbottom 1% Product: 1 published app (668 installs) · Company stage: Series A Funding: Raised $14.4M · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 10/100 | $14M | 59 mo ago | Series A | 34 | 2019 | — | — |
| 9 | visage Visage is a developer of a content creation platform for creators to create effective and on-brand graphics… 19Funding top 44%Global bottom 39%Tech bottom 34%Market bottom 30% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 44% Globalbottom 39% Techbottom 34% Marketbottom 30% Newsbottom 22% Funding: Raised $12.3M · 3 rounds over 14 yrs (0.2/yr) Global: Investors from 2 countries beyond United States rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 19/100 | $12M | 132 mo ago | Series A | 35 | 2013 | — | — |
| 10 | intellect Intellect, is a leader in SaaS QMS software and no-code platform offering extreme configurability. 64Tech top 28%Growth top 30%Funding top 43%Product top 46% All 7 signals ▾Techtop 28% Growthtop 30% Fundingtop 43% Producttop 46% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 39% Customersbottom 35% Tech: 41 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $6M | 29 mo ago | Series B | 97 | 2000 | — | 1 launch |
| 11 | perkville Perkville is a leading retention and referral solution for the health, fitness, salon, spa, and retail… 27Tech top 32%Funding bottom 49%Moat bottom 42%Global bottom 39% All 8 signals ▾Techtop 32% Fundingbottom 49% Moatbottom 42% Globalbottom 39% Innovationbottom 35% Growthbottom 35% Marketbottom 34% Patentsbottom 29% Tech: 35 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare Funding: Raised $4.5M · 3 rounds over 13 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $4M | 121 mo ago | Series A | 32 | 2010 | 5 patents Software platforms for creating and managing digital promotions and loyalty campaigns | — |
| 12 | taygo TAYGO is a developer of a digital branding and marketing platform designed to expand business outreach. 27AI top 15%Global top 25%Funding top 48%Moat bottom 48% All 8 signals ▾AItop 15% Globaltop 25% Fundingtop 48% Moatbottom 48% Techbottom 39% Patentsbottom 29% Marketbottom 28% Innovationbottom 26% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Global: Serving 60+ countries worldwide · Investors from 1 country beyond United States rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $4M | 46 mo ago | Series A | 15 | 2016 | 2 patents AI-driven conversational recommendation and engagement models for content personalization | — |
| 13 | Vysr Developer of browser plug-in for web browsers | $2M | 217 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2006 | — | — |
| 14 | ikizmet iKizmet is an online platform that enables its users to obtain automated reports, analytics, and charts. | $2M | 117 mo ago | Acquired | 11 | 2014 | — | — |
| 15 | Pierry Digital marketing agency | $1M | 119 mo ago | Acquired | 52 | 2008 | — | — |
| 16 | Westlight AI Limited information available 6Funding bottom 48%Talent bottom 45%Global bottom 29%Market bottom 10% All 4 signals ▾Fundingbottom 48% Talentbottom 45% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 10% Funding: Raised $1.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 6 yrs (0.3/yr) Talent: 1 named leader on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 6/100 | $1M | 66 mo ago | Funding Raised | 3 | 2019 | — | — |
| 17 | sigmaquest SigmaQuest is an enterprise software company developing product performance intelligence solutions for… | $371K | 192 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 50 | 2001 | — | — |
| 18 | Papercups Provider of free open source software | $150K | 69 mo ago | Seed | 3 | 2020 | — | — |
| 19 | terusama Terusama is a virtual logistics coordinator that offers self-service dock scheduling, digital driver… | $125K | 72 mo ago | Seed | 1 | 2020 | — | — |
| 20 | floydhub FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the… | $120K | 104 mo ago | Deadpooled | 4 | 2016 | — | — |
| 21 | GetScale Remote quality control software for factories | $120K | 129 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 22 | scopio Scopio is an Online Community connecting photographers and visual artists. | $100K | 58 mo ago | Series A | 15 | 2015 | — | 1 partnership |
Top 12 SaaS companies in California
#1
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2000 · 97 employees$6.1Mraised▾
Developer of a business process management software designed to connect applications, people and processes. The company's software allows business leaders to automate and centralize management of quality control, regulatory compliance, operations and overall process improvement within departments, services, organizations and throughout enterprises, enabling businesses to improve quality safety and ensure compliance.
#2
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2011 · 129 employees$42Mraised▾
Developer of a proprietary data platform designed to understand, monitor, and optimize the company's supply chain and enterprise ecosystem. The company's cloud-based portal can integrate into existing enterprise workflows and deploys packed with data from thousands of financial and alternative sources, and surfacing signals on any company worldwide, enabling clients to compare human capital and operating metrics across many companies.
#3
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2014 · 347 employees$185Mraised▾
Developer of hiring automation software designed to simplify the process of workforce management and hiring. The company's software offers an all-in-one workforce management and hiring system that does background checks and document signing scheduling of independent candidates, enabling companies to quickly screen and hire an independent workforce for their organizations.
#4
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2018 · 46 employees$43Mraised▾
Developer of collaborative documentation tool designed to build knowledge infrastructure for the digital economy. The company's tool offers a knowledge base that combines wisdom from tech leaders with the team's own practices and also leverages compositional tools, enabling clients to be efficient in their projects and formats that make the information actionable, searchable, and fresh.
#5
Series A · San Carlos, California · founded 2016 · 15 employees$4.1Mraised▾
Developer of a digital branding and marketing platform designed to expand business outreach. The company's platform offers a digital workspace, digital branding, a mortgage-specific website, search engine optimization, and social media automation, enabling clients to set up their digital shop and access all necessary integration for maximum productivity.
#6
Series B · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2012 · 233 employees$34.2Mraised▾
Developer of a workforce engagement platform designed to help organizations unlock the full potential in every employee and interaction. The company's workforce engagement platform helps to intelligently forecast, schedule and monitor the workforce in real-time, enabling companies to improve their service and customer experience.
#7
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2019 · 34 employees$14.4Mraised▾
Operator of an online food platform intended for restaurants. The company's platform allows restaurants to manage their entire digital footprint from ordering food to management in one place, enabling businesses to manage and grow their restaurants online.
#8
Acquired · San Mateo, California · founded 2005 · 26 employees$80.6Mraised▾
Provider of real-time personalization and audience-centric display optimization services. The company provides a platform that provides marketers and agencies with tools for executing personalized advertising campaigns, offering its clients with marketing services.
#9
Acquired · San Mateo, California · founded 2011 · 50 employees$34.1Mraised▾
Developer of cloud-based log management and server monitoring platform designed to search terabytes of logs in seconds. The company's platform offers server monitoring, log management, visualization and analysis tools that aggregate all the server logs and metrics into a centralized system in real-time, thus enabling development operation teams to find and resolve more incidents in less time, all from one screen troubleshooting.
#10
Acquired · San Mateo, California · founded 2000 · 14 employees$40.2Mraised▾
Provider of Rich Unified Internet Applications consumers and businesses. Their web-based platform merges email, voice and messaging with social networking and other applications to deliver an integrated communications and real-time collaboration experience for consumers.
#11
Funding Raised · Palo Alto, California · founded 2019 · 3 employees$1Mraised▾
Devloper of data provenance systems designed to democratize cyber resilience for the distributed professional workforce. The company's systems re-conceptualize data access and control through novel applications of AI and other technologies, enabling clients to get data in applications that are sensitive, monitored, and controlled across a diverse set of hardware and software platforms.
- Dec 2020Conventional Debt$250K
- Feb 2020Grant (prize money)$750K
#12
Series A · Irvine, California · founded 2013 · 35 employees$12.3Mraised▾
Operator of a content creation platform intended to create effective and on-brand graphics to engage audiences of any size. The company's platform assists marketers to create branded visual content optimized for the distribution of channels that are important to their business, enabling businesses to maintain brand consistency and work efficiently.
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of SaaS coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cloud Computing in California is moving
A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing in California — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 468 papers.
UC Berkeley, USC, and Caltech lead California's cloud computing research—dominated by resource management and IoT/edge computing themes—with a cautiously optimistic stance (0.49) and surging recent output.
- University of California, Berkeley74
- University of Southern California65
- California Institute of Technology46
- University of California, Irvine42
- University of California, Los Angeles32
- Scalability8→22
- Operating system2→12
- Point cloud1→9
- Robustness (evolution)1→9
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution1→9
- Workflow1→9
- Scheduling (production processes)3→8
- Key (lock)1→6
- Climate model1→5
- Big data1→4
- Task (project management)1→4
- Service (business)1→4
- Aerosol4→6
- Big data2→4
- Operating system1→3
Common questions
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