Best Vertical SaaS Companies in California, United States
The 307 best Vertical SaaS companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: fountain.
Ranked: Best Vertical SaaS companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | 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 | — | 2014 | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+29 | 1 partnership |
| 2 | 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 | — | 2011 | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+34 | — |
| 3 | 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 | — | 2012 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+30 | — |
| 4 | 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 | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | landed Landed improves the hiring process for hourly employers and job applicants. | $9M | 50 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesGSAP+26 | — |
| 6 | ikizmet iKizmet is an online platform that enables its users to obtain automated reports, analytics, and charts. | $2M | 117 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | sigmaquest SigmaQuest is an enterprise software company developing product performance intelligence solutions for… | $371K | 192 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2001 | — | — |
| 8 | terusama Terusama is a virtual logistics coordinator that offers self-service dock scheduling, digital driver… | $125K | 72 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | — | — |
| 9 | GetScale Remote quality control software for factories | $120K | 130 mo ago | Seed | Jonathan Friedman Co-founder & CEO | 2014 | Webflowcore-jsjQuery+15 | — |
Top 9 Vertical SaaS companies in California
#1
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.
#2
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.
#3
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2018 · 31 employees$8.6Mraised▾
Developer of an end-to-end recruiting platform designed to help restaurants and hospitality employers hire candidates. The company's conversational AI technology connects candidates to employers based on each employer's custom criteria and screens candidates based on data points, enabling employers to hire better candidates faster.
#4
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.
#5
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.
#6
Acquired · San Luis Obispo, California · founded 2014 · 11 employees$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of a business intelligence platform intended for the fitness and wellness industry. The company's platform offers a personalized dashboard that assembles and compiles a monthly view of the performance of the business, enabling clients to optimize their business processes.
#7
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 1 employees$125Kraised▾
Developer of a dock management platform designed to track and monitor freight congestion. The company's platform permits easy check-ins without waiting in a queue, planning on loading and unloading thereby reducing congestion, enabling freight industries to track, measure, and improve their services.
#8
Acqui-Hired · Sunnyvale, California · founded 2001 · 50 employees$370.6Kraised▾
Provider of SaaS (software as a service) supply chain intelligence services. The company combines automatic factory floor and return center data collection with powerful root-cause analysis to enable customers to lower production costs and reduce product returns.
#9
Seed · Redwood City, California · founded 2014$120Kraised▾
Remote quality control software for factories
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