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Startups in Palo Alto

Companies headquartered in Palo Alto, and the founders who built them.

30 companies

Better PlaceDefunct 🦄 Unicorn

Energy & Climate · USA · 2007

Safe SuperintelligencePrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2024

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy

Inflection AIPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2022

Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, Karén Simonyan

AptosPrivate

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2021

Mo Shaikh, Avery Ching

GleanPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2019

Arvind Jain, Vishal Gupta, T.R. Vishwanath, Piyush Prahladka, Tony Gentilcore, Vishwanath T R

SambaNova SystemsPrivate

Semiconductors · USA · 2017

Rodrigo Liang, Kunle Olukotun, Christopher Ré

Chan Zuckerberg InitiativePrivate

Government & Nonprofit · USA · 2015

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan

EssentialDefunct

Hardware & Electronics · USA · 2015

Essential ProductsDefunct

Hardware & Electronics · USA · 2015

Andy Rubin, Personal

BitGoPrivate

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2013

Mike Belshe, Ben Davenport

Color LabsDefunct

Social · USA · 2010

DockerPrivate YC S10

Developer Tools · USA · 2010 · YC S10

Solomon Hykes, Sebastien Pahl, Kamel Founadi

FlipboardPrivate

Media & Entertainment · USA · 2010

Mike McCue, Evan Doll

WealthfrontPrivate

Fintech · USA · 2008

Andy Rachleff, Dan Carroll

NingAcquired

Media & Entertainment · USA · 2004

Marc Andreessen, Gina Bianchini

AndroidAcquired

Software & IT · USA · 2003

Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, Chris White

TheranosDefunct

Healthcare · USA · 2003

Elizabeth Holmes

X.comAcquired

Fintech · USA · 1999

Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, Ed Ho, Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, Noah Glass

ConfinityAcquired

Fintech · USA · 1998

Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery

VMwareAcquired

Enterprise Software · USA · 1998

Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang, Edouard Bugnion, Ilan Kessler, Scott Shenker, Nick McKeown, Martín Casado, Issy Ben-Shaul

Zip2Acquired

Software & IT · USA · 1996

Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk, Greg Kouri

Hewlett-PackardPublic

Hardware & Electronics · USA · 1939

PikaPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2023

Demi Guo, Chenlin Meng

Luma AIPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2021

Amit Jain, Alex Yu, Alberto Taiuti

Mysten LabsPrivate

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2021

Evan Cheng, Sam Blackshear, Adeniyi Abiodun, George Danezis, Kostas Chalkias, Kostas Kryptos Chalkias

SkyflowPrivate

Data & Analytics · USA · 2019

Anshu Sharma, Prakash Khot, Roshmik Saha

StepPrivate

Fintech · USA · 2018

CJ MacDonald, Alexey Kalinichenko

Landing AIPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2017

Ascend.ioPrivate

Data & Analytics · USA · 2015

EmuAcquired

USA · 2011

Gummi Hafsteinsson, Dave Feldman