The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Walnut Creek, California. In doing our research, we considered several factors including but not limited to:

1. Revenue potential
2. Leadership team
3. Brand/product traction
4. Competitive landscape

Additionally, all companies must be independent (unacquired), privately owned, at most 10 years old, and have received at least one round of funding in order to qualify.

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1. Seal Software

Founded: 2010

“Seal Software is the leading provider of contract discovery and analytics. Seal enables companies around the world to manage their contract portfolio by understanding exactly where their contracts are and what is buried within them, maximizing revenue opportunities, mitigating risk, and reducing expenses.”

2. Vantiq

Founded: 2014

“VANTIQ is a software development and deployment platform that enables companies to digitize their business. VANTIQ enables the rapid building of real-time event-based applications by hiding complexity, enabling applications to be built that might otherwise be too costly or risky. As important, VANTIQ applications can be easily evolved as the business requirements and technologies inevitably changes.”

3. PLEXUSS, INC.

Founded: 2014

“For finding a pizza shop people use yelp.com
For finding a house, people use zillow.com
For finding a car, people use cars.com

What do people use for finding the right college?

Plexuss is the best student social network that empowers students to discover, connect with and determine the right college and enables colleges to find, engage and select the right students.”

4. audiobridge

Founded: 2016

“audiobridge is the next revolution in making music. Login, create a session, record a track, invite and message your collaborators and have a completed song in minutes – all from your mobile device!”

5. Nex Computer LLC

Founded: 2016

“We want to change the way people use the computer through an innovative hardware concept. With this concept, we are creating a new computer peripheral category: NexDock. In the future, we want to design docks with better integrated mini PCs. By separating processor & OS from the displays, we are hoping to start a paradigm shift in consumer electronics, which will enable less electronic waste for environment and a better computer to match your exact needs.”

6. Magpie Travel

Founded: 2019

“Travel Connect is now known as Magpie.

We created Magpie after many years of working in this industry and both sides of the table.

In our experience, nobody actually enjoys the administration part of selling tours and activities. How many resellers do you know who do NOT have a backlog of products to load into their systems? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create or update a product, and it was immediately available to everybody who sells your product. No email updates, no attaching Word documents or PDF’s.”

7. Livo Mobile

Founded: 2016

“Livo is a flexible mobile fully scalable cloud app platform which helps companies to roll out enterprise grade, rich mobile applications without complex iOS or Android code development.”

8. MediaJel

Founded: 2018

“In the simplest of terms, we connect brands with consumers and consumers to retailers. MediaJel is a software company with strong digital advertising roots that lets marketers build distinct and lasting relationships. Because we use the latest technology, we’re able to provide you unparalleled insight into your audiences, building more accurate customer profiles than ever thought possible. Our behavioral scientists leverage geospatial intelligence and other data sources to connect lifestyles, movement, and purchases to precisely understand your audience.”