Consumer startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Soma Health

San Francisco

Soma is a neurotechnology company developing the world's first software brain-computer interface, making brain health measurable and actionable without proprietary hardware. Based in San Francisco, it is a pre-launch consumer software compa

Inworld AI

Mountain View

Inworld provides realtime AI models for consumer-scale apps with orchestration and experiments, powering multimodal applications for clients like NVIDIA and Microsoft Xbox. It has a 90-person team and has raised over $125M from notable inve

Poly

San Francisco

Poly provides a personal cloud storage platform for files and media, positioning itself as the most advanced in its category and aiming to replace Finder/File Explorer on the desktop, using proprietary AI to reimagine the stack.

Whatnot

San Francisco

Whatnot is a community marketplace and livestream shopping platform that started with Funko Pops and Pokémon cards and has grown into the leading marketplace for collector communities, expanding into sports cards, NFTs, and vintage fashion.

Brilliant

San Francisco

Brilliant helps people learn quantitative and technical skills (math, data, CS/AI) to become better problem solvers, serving hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers with ambitions to reach millions, backed by top-tier investors and pursui

Lugg

San Francisco

Lugg connects customers with movers and trucks to move items, enabling same-day furniture delivery through partnerships with Costco, IKEA, Restoration Hardware, and Pottery Barn. Based in San Francisco and backed by Sequoia Capital, Y Combi

Pickle

San Francisco

Pickle is a New York startup building an AI avatar that speaks in your voice to connect on your behalf, aiming to scale human ties in the age of AI, backed by Y Combinator, NFX, Krew Capital, and BASS Ventures.

Community Phone Company

San Francisco

The company offers a cloud-based phone system for small businesses without call centers, aiming to prevent missed orders and enable modern telephony without IT staff; it was part of Y Combinator W19.

Meridian

San Francisco

The company catalyzes the next generation of consumer experiences by redefining how people interact with products and services, driving innovation in everyday engagement and shaping how brands are experienced in modern markets.

LootRush

San Francisco

LootRush is a YC-backed startup that aims to democratize crypto gaming by removing technical barriers to entry and broadening access, founded in Y-Combinator's Summer 2021 cohort.

Wanderlog

San Francisco

Wanderlog is a bootstrapped startup building tools to simplify leisure travel. Its core travel-planning app, launched in 2019, is the top-ranked trip planner on iOS and Android, serving millions of travelers monthly.

Milo

San Francisco

Milo (W20) markets itself as The Family AI, a copilot helping parents manage the invisible load of raising a family. It is led by Avni Patel Thompson, founder/CEO of Modern Village, which uses collaborative technology to ease parenting.

Joy

San Francisco

Joy is a platform that helps people organize, share, and remember life events, with a viral network that has signed 4% of American weddings and yields about seven new weddings per wedding. It serves millions globally, is YC-backed, and prod

Phind

San Francisco

Phind reinvents AI search with rich, interactive answers. Based in San Francisco with a small team, led by co-founder and CEO Michael Royzen, a UT Austin Turing Scholar ’22 with prior NLP and ML roles at Lyft, Cloudflare and Microsoft.

Candle

San Francisco

Candle operates a consumer app that improves communication for Gen Z couples and aims to expand to friends and family; with 250k+ users and targeting 1M by end-2025, it uses a React Native/SwiftUI frontend and Convex backend with AI agents.

RealRoots

San Francisco

RealRoots is an early-stage, women-focused friendship startup that helps women form meaningful, long-lasting friendships in their city, addressing the decline of IRL connection; seed-funded and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Go

CreativeMode

San Francisco

CreativeMode enables players to create no-code Minecraft mods, expanding into a new category of gaming tools; in its first three months it built the most powerful no-code Minecraft modding platform and accounted for a double-digit share of

Text.ai

San Francisco

Text.ai is a consumer-first, AI-native company building first AI-native group chat platform where every conversation is intelligent, collaborative, and effortless. Backed by Y-Combinator, it aims to make multiple humans happy through true g