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.

FactorFive
Long Description

Innovative skincare utilizing cytokines and growth factors derived from human stem cells to deliver unparalleled anti-aging results.

Founder(s)
Jordan Plews
Stage
MVP/Launched
Contact Person
Jordan Plews
Founded
2014
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Fanalyze
Long Description

Fanalyze is a fantasy sports analysis platform that reduces the time needed to do player research and analysis so fans can spend more time playing. We use Search to get NFL and MLB player data quickly and compare players instantly.

Founder(s)
Juan Juan
Founded
2017
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
Feat
Name
Description
WALK. EARN. FEAT. Giving tangibility to your fitness data, rewarding your physical activity with real healthy food experiences.
Long Description

FEAT encourages children to start and maintain a healthy lifestyle by leveraging technology and their natural desire to play.

It involves developing and shaping a platform linking children to healthy behaviors through a reward system that promotes both activity and rest, while encouraging habit forming healthy play patterns like time in nature, time outside and creative serious play.

Founder(s)
Chiara Cecchini
Contact Person
Chiara Cecchini
Founded
2016
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
Fire Recovery USA
Category
Long Description

Fire departments, cities and counties are faced with insurmountable financial burdens. Fire Recovery USA was founded to provide for cost recovery to support the life-saving and critical community services provided by fire departments and rescue services. Our innovative programs can provide substantial support for your department.

Fire Recovery USA is the nation’s largest cost recovery company created to serve fire departments across the U.S. Since 2006, we have provided cost recovery services to departments in 33 states, and are the leading provider in incident cost recovery in the nation.

Our proprietary systems and software allow your department to efficiently and effortlessly bill for fire inspections, emergency incident response costs, false alarm programs, and paramedic response and subscription programs. Our Self-Inspect program allows your department inspection oversight even with a manpower shortage.

Founded
2012
City
Roseville, CA
Foodom
Name
Description
Foodom is an online marketplace connecting local vetted cooks with people that want everyday meals prepared in their own kitchen, creating healthy and tasty meals tailored to customers'​ dietary needs.
Long Description

Foodom is an online marketplace connecting local vetted cooks with people that want everyday meals prepared in their own kitchen, creating healthy and tasty meals tailored to customers' dietary needs. Our mission is to make everyday home cooking services available and affordable for everyone and make the world a better place one meal at a time!
And with that, create millions of new jobs for people that are passionate about cooking; promote sustainable cooking and reduce food waste; promote healthy nutrition options, improve people's well being, reduce stress and help people focus on what they really like to do and are great at; We aim to connect the community, cooking and sourcing ingredients, locally because it takes a village, and we want to reduce the carbon footprint.

Founder(s)
Reneta Jenik
Stage
pre-seed
Contact Person
Reneta Jenik
Phone Number
408-391-9537
Needs
Grants and coders
Founded
2019
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
Glide Cruisers, USA
Description
Designer and manufacturer of an innovate line electric-drive stand up cycles (eSUPs).
Long Description

Glide Cruisers designs and manufactures a unique line of clean technology transportation alternatives for short-range recreation, personal use and public safety applications. Our innovative electric-drive products are helping shape segments within the emerging $23 billion global LEV (light electric vehicle) industry. Bridging the gap between electric motorcycle and bicycle engineering - our designs yield exceptional performance, styling and fun!

Founder(s)
Christopher Wiggins
Stage
Series A
Contact Person
Christopher Wiggins
Phone Number
9162938161
Programs
Cleantech Showcase
Needs
Marketing Team, Sales Team, Investors, Advisors
Founded
2010
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Rancho Cordova
Gluware Inc.
Category
Long Description

Gluware pioneered the industry’s first network orchestration engine enabling software-defined networking (SDN) from the data center to campus LAN and WAN. Gluware automates network lifecycle management on existing networks, allowing companies to roll-out a robust suite of advanced network and security features while reducing manual deployment and support costs. Gluware currently powers mission-critical networks of blue-chip enterprises and managed service providers.

 

Founder(s)
Jeff Gray
Contact Person
Jeff Gray
Founded
2007
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
In the News

Software company Gluware expands with automated network upgrades | Sacramento Business Journal, April 2, 2019

Local software company's new product automates network upgrades | Sacramento Business Journal, March 22, 2018

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Name
Category
Description
GRIN is the influencer marketing platform for growth, built for e-commerce brands. Track sales from influencers, manage product shipments, communicate at scale, and recruit from the world's largest database of influencers (77 million).
Contact Person
Sarah McFadden
Phone Number
(866) 979-1792
City
Sacramento
Hank
Name
Long Description

Hank uses Artificial Intelligence to maximize comfort and energy efficiency in commercial buildings.

Founder(s)
Zach Denning
Contact Person
Zach Denning
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
McClellan Park, CA
HealthSherpa
Category
Description
HealthSherpa is a certified web broker, giving people, employers, and nonprofits a super simple platform for enrolling individuals and families in individual health plans. We give people access to tools to aid their plan selection and to make the best use of their insurance after they’ve enrolled.
Long Description

HealthSherpa's mission is to help Americans access individual coverage. We work primarily with non-benefits eligible employees, brokers as well as insurance carriers to deliver transparent and user-friendly experiences that help people feel comfortable and confident in the plan they choose for themselves and their family members. HealthSherpa is venture-backed by notable investors like Kapor Capital, Plug & Play Ventures, Andreeson-Horowitz and more. HealthSherpa has enrolled over 800,000 lives through their platform to date. We are a passionate team of start-up alums, healthcare fanatics and dedicated consumer advocates with offices in San Francisco and Sacramento.

Founder(s)
George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang, Cat Perez
Stage
Series A
Contact Person
Cat Perez
Phone Number
(855) 772-2663
Programs
Y-Combinator
Needs
Marketing, Engineering, Operations, Support
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
HeliosAltas
Description
Bringing access to cost competitive zero emission energy technologies to the people of the world.
Long Description

A renewable energy technology company applying forgotten engineering concepts with modern technology to improve energy production and distribution. The company focused on hydrokenetic, micro/pico grids and unique generators to provide low cost energy

Founder(s)
Michael Carroll
Founded
2013
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Roseville, CA
HomeZada
Description
Online & mobile solutions to manage the entire homeowner lifecycle including home improvement projects, home maintenance & home inventory. Get started today!
Long Description

HomeZada is a digital home management system to help homeowners manage all the details of their home for better financial management. Managing the contents of their home in a home inventory, tracking maintenance tasks and home remodel projects, managing financial details and eventually marketing their home with this data when they are ready to sell it.

Founder(s)
Elizabeth Dodson, John Bodrozic
Stage
Seed
Programs
Velocity Venture Capital alum, Capitalize 2016
Founded
2010
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
El Dorado Hills, CA
In the News

Moneta Ventures leads $2.1M financing round into HomeZada | Sacramento Business Journal, October 20, 2014

HuLoop Automation, Inc.
Category
Description
HuLoop is an organization that develops, markets, and implements AI-Powered Intelligent Automation. The company delivers its solution as a Software-as-a-Service subscription service.
Long Description

The HuLoop offering utilizes advanced, proprietary capabilities for an enterprise-wide, low-code software platform that enables digital transformation, business process and technology automation.

The platform delivers what clients are demanding: an easy to use, easy to implement solution, for increasing productivity, reducing expenses, and optimizing human capital.

HuLoop’s software is designed to help clients:

- Eliminate non-value adding tasks and activities from existing business & technology processes
- Automate mundane, repetitive tasks with software robots or “bots”
- Integrate critical document intelligence seamlessly into business workstreams
- Validate process compliance
- Measure business value and ROI
- Helping clients progress through their automation maturity journey

HuLoop’s software has five primary functional capabilities. When used together, we offer the unique advantages of a full hyperautomation suite:

1. Business Process Automation (BPA) -Orchestration, workflow, and automation of complex business processes across disparate systems and personnel.
2. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) - Building, deploying & managing software robots that emulate and replace mundane, repetitive human activities
3. Intelligent Test Automation - Creating, executing & analyzing software and device tests comparing actual vs. expected outcomes to improve quality.
4. Intelligent Data Automation - Collecting, validating, and publishing data from source to target automatically.
5. Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) - Enveloping key documents and files such as Word, Excel, PDF, CSV, Google Docs and other files into processes and tasks.

HuLoop’s platform offers clients these advantages:

1. It’s AI-powered with machine learning (ML), and language understanding (NLP).
2. It’s easy to use and deploy with no code process, task & test generation.
3. It offers a beautiful, app-like user experience for both businesspeople and technical users.
4. It scales across the enterprise, supporting all key stakeholders and department functions.
5. It offers enterprises integration versatility supporting existing software platforms, data sources, documents, collaboration, and quality/support tools
6. It is “Human-in-the-Loop” by design, empowering human judgment, decisioning, and governance in all the right places.

Founder(s)
Todd Michaud
Stage
Seed
Contact Person
Todd Michaud
Phone Number
5308203390
Needs
advisors, investors, top talent
Founded
2022
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Auburn
In the News

https://huloop.ai/press-releases/agreeya-spins-off-beatblip-launches-huloop/

Humaxa
Name
Description
Humaxa is developing a Workplace Community Builder that helps organizations maximize retention and engagement. It makes measurable impact easy.
Long Description

We’ve created a Workplace Community Builder that arranges events, helps build a workplace community, gathers data, and learns to improve the process over time. It acts like an extra set of hands on your HR team whose job is focused on building a work community where people feel like they are a part of something greater than themselves. Humaxa works 24x7, never gets tired, loves connecting and engaging people, and never stops thinking about how to make measurable HR impact easy for you.

Founder(s)
Carolyn Peer, Guillermo Borges
Founded
2017
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
Humaxa
Name
Category
Description
We provide employee survey technology that talks, listens, and takes action.
Long Description

Last year in the US alone, organizations spent upwards of $10 billion dollars on employee turnover. We’ve reinvented the employee satisfaction survey to combat this problem. Our surveys talk, listen, and take action based on feedback. The technology is based on what Humaxa’s CEO witnessed during her 17 years in the human capital management industry. Data is tracked and the system offers to kick off activities that have the highest probability of improving engagement. It's as easy as clicking “start.”

Founder(s)
Carolyn Peer, Guillermo Borges, Garry Saperstein
Stage
Pre-Seed
Contact Person
Carolyn Peer
Phone Number
530-676-5416
Programs
Founder Institute Sacramento, Winter 2017
Needs
Investors/Advisors
Founded
2017
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Cameron Park
In the News

Humaxa's CEO speaking at the 2017 Training Industry Conference and Expo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8UyltYAFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC5U8tU2teM

Kazan Networks
Description
Kazan Networks is enabling a transformation in datacenter connectivity.
Long Description

Kazan Networks was founded by an experienced team of high-tech veterans who trace their roots back to the Systems business at HP in the early 90s. After being part of the team to create the industry’s most widely-deployed embedded Fibre Channel controller (Tachyon and its follow-ons), the team continued to innovate in the areas of iSCSI controllers, FC-to-SATA bridges, SAS controllers, and high-performance networking solutions. The leadership team has been awarded over 60 patents in the areas of storage and networking.

Founder(s)
Joe Steinmetz, Mike Thompson, Murthy Kompella
Stage
Series A
Founded
2014
City
Auburn, CA
Kili Medical Drain Carrier
Category
Long Description

KILICarrier - a uniquely designed mesh apron for safe and convenient management of medical drains.

Founder(s)
Cinde Dolphin
Contact Person
Cinde Dolphin
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Sacramento, CA
LearnSkin
Description
Enabling regenerative medicine with off-the-shelf tissue scaffolds.
Long Description

LearnSkin was developed by dermatologists and integrative medicine practitioners who wanted to support other professionals in dermatology, the number one driver of doctor's visits. Our goal is to share the latest in scientific research and treatment options in dermatology for both Western and Eastern medicine to meet the growing demand for responsible, high quality, evidence-based education that bridges conventional and alternative medical approaches. LearnSkin is supported by the world's largest integrative dermatology team.

 

Founder(s)
Maelene L. Wong, PhD, Leigh G. Griffiths, VetMB
Contact Person
Maelene Wong
Programs
UC Davis Big Bang!, Capitalize 2016
Founded
2012
Female Founder/Co-founder
Yes
City
Davis, CA
Legacy Football
Category
Description
Legacy Football is a fantasy football platform that offers new dynamic features intended to increase user engagement and reward leagues that have played together for long periods of time.
Long Description

Legacy Football introduces a concept called Legacy Scoring, a historical tracking method that allows each team to build their own fantasy football legacies. While the platform is available for all standard league types, we are committed to growing the dynasty and keeper league formats with deep historical tracking, new features and formats, and a fully customizable commissioner option.

Founder(s)
Alex Harakas
Stage
pre-seed
Contact Person
Alex Harakas
Phone Number
9168725242
Needs
We are currently looking for co-founders, investors, advisors, in-house developers
Founded
2023
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Roseville
Luxer One
Category
Long Description

Welcome to the future of package delivery. Luxer One solves 100% of apartments' package problems with
superior technology in parcel lockers & rooms.

Founder(s)
Arik Levy
Founded
2014
Female Founder/Co-founder
No
City
Sacramento, CA
In the News

Amazon might have its eye on this Sacramento company's business model | Sacramento Business Journal, October 2, 2017