Startup listings are free but moderated. This is NOT a general business directory. To be listed, organizations need to be located in the Sacramento area. The business must also be a tech startup (meaning a high-growth, scalable tech company). Small business listings like restaurants, hair and nail salons, consultants, marketing agencies, ad agencies, retail stores, or businesses with traditional business models as well as freelance/solopreneur service providers will not included.

Adload Technologies
Category
Description
Adload is a unique new Programmatic Digital Out of Home advertising platform to reach audiences across all roadways. Adload’s connected programmatic cloud network paired with relative analytics gives brands full control over their message and advertising decisions.
Long Description

Adload is a unique new Programmatic Digital Out of Home advertising platform to reach audiences across all roadways. Adload’s connected programmatic cloud network paired with relative analytics gives brands full control over their message and advertising decisions. With our sleek patented design that blends in with the trailer, Adload digital displays are large enough to be seen across lanes, roadways, over traffic, and provides transportation companies an additional source of income without disrupting everyday delivery operations. The result of this evolution promises to become the ultimate form of Digital Out of Home advertising; engaging and non-intrusive, yet omnipresent and attention-commanding.

Founder(s)
Ranjit Phagura, Rick Uppal
Contact Person
Ran Phagura
Phone Number
9162502626
Needs
advisors, investors, sales specialists
Founded
2018
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Long Description

Advanced Farm Technologies has developed automated robotic strawberry harvesters.

Founded
2017
City
Davis, CA
Ariz Precision Medicine
Long Description

ARIZ is a company dedicated to solving a big problem, cancer. We start at the beginning, the cause of cancer and design drugs that can resolve a specific individual cancer as well as all cancers. ARIZ Precision Medicine uses this methodology to design a specific way to stop the cause of cancer, then target and protect the delivery system and finally, concentrate the drug inside the cancer cell leaving normal cells undamaged.

City
Davis, CA
Description
Astrid Pharma Corp specializes in development of next generation nanocarrier drug delivery systems.
Long Description

Our scientists have dedicated a lifetime of research to develop a stable nanocarrier platforms for delivery of therapeutic and diagnostics agens with high potency and high accuracy. Our research is focused on the development of mucoadhesive protein-capsid-based drug delivery systems by drink. Astrid Pharma Corp offers solutions backed by ground-breaking scientific discoveries to make the "needle-free" drug administration dream, a reality.

City
Davis, CA
Athena Intelligence
Description
Athena Intelligence is revolutionizing how the food system through its proprietary spatial platform and related advanced analytics and predictive insights.
Long Description

Athena provides a proprietary geo-spatial platform that enables advanced analytics and predictive insights from public and private data sets related to Earth's Essential Data: Land, Food, Water and Energy. We produce unique business intelligence that quantifies and democratizes dynamic resource, production and performance risks to the world’s food, energy, financial sectors.

Land, food, water, and energy are earths essential natural resources used to power the world and our lives. However, the data of these resources is disaggregated, inaccessible, hard to utilize and thus making it of little or no use. As essential as they are, these vast amounts of data had no way to be turned into useful information. Until now.

Athena removes the data burden from managing food, water, and energy resources. We process and normalize the vast amounts of public data and our business intelligence application then incorporate additional private data sources. In short, we provide the data you don't have, incorporate it with the data you do have and make it all make sense, saving you time, energy and resources.

Our proprietary dynamic ontological model of land, food, water, and energy resources maps the relationships between these four primary resources creates invaluable business intelligence. This information is paramount as land, food, water and energy are the basic building blocks of our lives and global economies. As these resources become more scarce, Athena's understanding of the nexus of resource use and demands increases in value exponentially.

Founder(s)
David Sypnieski
Stage
Seed
Contact Person
David Sypnieski
Phone Number
916.599.9598
Programs
ImpactVC Entrepreneur Showcase
Needs
coders, advisors, investors
Founded
2015
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Ayatas Technologies
Category
Description
Ayatas Technologies is an Enterprise Web & App Development Company delivering services of any complexity to clients worldwide.
Long Description

Ayatas Technologies is a Web App Development company with more than 15 years of experience in Web Design and Development delivering eCommerce and real estate solutions. With latest tools and technologies, augmented frameworks and proven methodologies, our experts create enterprise web apps, promoting business transformation. Our experienced developers are competent at producing web apps that define complicated business logic for the end-users, assuring high performance, scalability & seamless integration.

Founder(s)
Ramesh
Phone Number
(916) 836-8099
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento
Barobo
Name
Category
Description
We make computational thinking addictive, fostering the next generation of STEM professionals through robotics.
Long Description

Whether the subject is math, physics, or programming, our robots have given students hands-on coding experiences that get them hooked. We serve over 200 schools worldwide, forming a vibrant community that provides training, curriculum, and student competitions.
Our classroom solution has no software or apps to install, so setup and maintenance is quick for any PC, Chromebook, or tablet. From the easy-to-use Blockly to industry-standard Python and C++, our robots keep students engaged year-round.

Founded
2010
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Roseville, CA
BioConsortia
Description
BioConsortia is an agricultural biotechnology company that uses a proprietary method for the selection of beneficial microbial consortia for crop improvement.
Long Description

BioConsortia is developing highly effective microbial consortia for increasing agricultural yields.

We have developed a revolutionary Advanced Microbial Selection (AMS) process, which uses directed selection to discover beneficial teams of microbes. This novel, patented model works by controlling the seed genetics and the environment while changing the microbial community in order to shift trait performance in the crop toward improved targeted phenotypes.

Founder(s)
Marcus Meadows-Smith
Stage
Series B
Founded
2014
City
Davis, CA
BoxPower
Long Description

BoxPower is creating a future in which energy is sustainable, distributed, and portable, by manufacturing rapidly deployable solar generators in 20ft shipping containers. Our unique combination of renewable and conventional energy generation with battery backup provides a clean, reliable, and cost effective alternative to fossil fuel generation for off-grid and grid-tied energy consumers.

City
Grass Valley, CA
California Sunlight
Long Description

California Sunlight Corporation develops, designs, and commercializes high efficiency and cost-effective small scale solar energy systems. Using its patent pending technologies, California Sunlight offers a new breed of solar energy systems for your personal and business needs, including active daylighting, solar electricity generation, and solar cooking.

Founder(s)
Bing Gu
Programs
Velocity Venture Capital Entrepreneur Showcase
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Category
Description
Cemetery360, Inc. develops cemetery sales and marketing software for cemeteries.
Long Description

Cemetery360® Software offers cemeteries the ultimate sales and marketing solutions to innovate how you connect to your customers. Our innovated approach is aimed at providing an online consumer facing interface by leveraging our immersive technology to connect to today’s online consumers.

Founder(s)
Jimmy Pinocchio P.E.
Founded
2014
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
CPG Data, L.L.C.
Description
CPG Data develops and sells highly specialized software that helps beer, wine and spirits distributors track promotional displays of their products in stores.
Long Description

CPG Data™ empowers the alcohol industry with real-time, total-market visibility against execution metrics that drive growth:

• Displays
• On-premise
• Tap handles
• Points of distribution
• Sales merchandising
• Floor-to-store market share

Our patent-pending proprietary mobile app drives instant adoption through simple, easy to use surveys that don’t ask any questions. Even your least technologically savvy employee will agree, because we built CPG Data with his input!

Designed by a team with over 150 years of combined industry three-tier experience, CPG Data provides only the necessary reports and analytics for tracking the most popular execution metrics at retail. As Albert Einstein said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

We know Execution. We know Incentives. We know MBOs, PFP, DSOF, ACV, and TNT! CPG Data will reduce reduce the administrative burden on your sales team while empowering decision makers with real-time results to improve Execution and keep suppliers happy.

Founder(s)
Tracy Neal
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
El Dorado Hills, CA
Drink Magnak
Description
We are a Nephrologist-founded sports drinks company to rehydrate your body, replete your electrolytes, and regenerate your energy!
Long Description

The best electrolyte powder is MAGNAK - offering fast hydration, it's the best endurance drink for athletic activity

Founder(s)
Sourabh Kharait
Founded
2017
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
eHarvestHub
Long Description

eHavervvestHub helps small-to-mid size farmers and Owner/Operator (O/O) truckers connect directly to help them increase their profits.

Founder(s)
Alvaro Ramirez
Stage
MVP/Launched
Contact Person
Alvaro Ramirez
Founded
2012
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Discovery Bay, CA
In the News

The New World of Ag | Comstock's Magazine, February 10, 2015

Electro Scan Inc.
Long Description

Next Generation Pipe Assessment finding defects not found by CCTV, Acoustic, Electromagnetic, or Laser inspection.

Founded
2011
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Emtrain
Name
Category
Description
The experts in training solutions through eLearning and SaaS LMS.
Long Description

Since its founding in 2000, Emtrain has been creating delightful online compliance training courses for thousands of today's top organizations. Our great interactive videos and training help our partners-in-training with their HR, Business Compliance, and People Skills needs.

Founder(s)
Janine Yancey
Founded
2000
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
In the News

Entrepreneur finds niche with online compliance training firm emtrain | Sacramento Business Journal, March 22, 2013

Engage3
Name
Category
Description
Engage3 is a competitive intelligence research and consumer science distribution company that specializes in creating products for retailers to understand their sales and pricing strategies. The company partners with retailers, information distributers and price optimization software developers.
Long Description

Engage3’s platform is targeted towards retailers who want to set up competitive market pricing and understand their competitors’ assortments. The company analyzes pricing trends within the grocery retail industry and develops insights to share and distribute with retailers. They focus on retailers' find rates, competitive assortment visibility, competitive private label visibility and store completion rates.

The company has two locations in Davis, CA, USA and Phoenix, AZ, USA and employs hundreds of auditors and data science developers across the nation.

The company was founded in 2008 by brothers Ken and Tim Ouimet, who worked for their parent's business, Comparative Prices International. Ken served on the Board of Directors of Revionics between 2007-2011 and as Chief Scientist & VP of Innovations at SAP AG between 2006-2007. He created his first company, Khimetrics, a price optimization company in 1996. Khimetrics was bought by SAP in 2006, and two years later, Engage3 was founded. The company's first product, MissionControl was developed and released in 2015.

Engage3's most widely distributed product, MissionControl, is a cloud-enabled dashboard that provides a platform for competitive price shop management. MissionControl has features for planning, scheduling, executing, reporting, and analyzing online and in-store competitive data collection. The dashboard focuses on the speed, accuracy and coverage of price collection. The program also includes a management dashboard for defining and assigning pricing missions to store associates or 3rd party vendors. The Missions mobile app is the smartphone-compatible version of MissionControl.

Founder(s)
Ken Ouimet, Tim Ouimet
Phone Number
5302315485
Needs
Account Manager, Junior Software Developer, Operations Coordinator, Data Scientist
Founded
2008
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Davis, CA
In the News

Davis software company raises $12 million in venture capital | Sacramento Business Journal, July 19, 2017

Evolve Biosystems, Inc.
Long Description

Evolve BioSystems will develop and bring to market the next generation of microbiome-based solutions to establish, restore, and maintain a healthy human gut microbiome across a range of unmet clinical needs.

Founder(s)
Bruce German, David Mills, Samara Freeman, Carlito Lebrilla, Daniela Barile
Stage
Series A
Founded
2012
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Davis, CA
In the News
Expanesthetics, Inc.
Description
Expanesthetics is developing new and better analgesics and general anesthetics.
Long Description

We are addressing the opioid crisis in America and the vast unmet medical needs in pain management by developing a new class of pain drugs that was discovered by accident during our search for new and better general anesthetics. We are also working to reduce anesthetic costs and bring general anesthesia to the third of the world that lacks access through the development of new and better agents.

Founder(s)
Dr. Robert Brosnan
Stage
Seed
Founded
2012
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Davis, CA
In the News

Davis-based Expanesthetics raises another $1.16 million in venture capital | Sacramento Business Journal, August 14, 2018

Davis-based Expanesthetics raises nearly $3 million | Sacramento Business Journal, September 25, 2017

eze System
Description
The easiest way to remotely measure, log and control over the Internet. Save energy, visualize and automate.
Long Description

We make remote monitoring and control via the Internet easier than ever. The ezeio system is designed to be easy to deploy and use for anything from a single temperature probe to large systems of meters, sensors, thermostats and control points. Monitor, log, alarm, control and automate – all in a single integrated system via any web browser.

Founder(s)
Anders Rehnvall & Niklas Zandelin
Stage
Revenue
Contact Person
Anders Rehnvall
Phone Number
888-393-9330
Programs
VVC accelerator, Capitalize 2016
Founded
2009
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Folsom, CA
In the News

Spotlight On ... Anders Rehnvall, CEO, Eze System Inc. | Sacramento Business Journal, July 31, 2013