The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Menlo Park, 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. Katerra

Founded: 2015

Also honored in: 2019 Best Tech Startups in California

“Smarter building. Better communities. For everyone.

Katerra exists to help transform construction through technology—every process and every product.

Technology-driven efficiencies and insights have driven extraordinary productivity gains in the global economy over the last several decades. We are doing the same for building design and construction, applying many of these established tools—and inventing others—to address entrenched challenges.”

2. Robinhood

Founded: 2013

“Robinhood is on a mission is to democratize the finance for all. We believe it should work for everyone and not just a few. We offer commission-free trading in one, user-friendly platform.

Trading in stocks, ETFs and options is offered through Robinhood Financial LLC, member SIPC. Cryptocurrency trading is offered through Robinhood Crypto, LLC.

Keep in mind other fees may still apply to your brokerage account. Please see Robinhood Financial’s Fee Schedule at rbnhd.co/fees to learn more.”

3. Globality

Founded: 2015

“Globality’s vision is to unlock world-class services.

Using innovative A.I. technology built upon a constantly-expanding knowledge foundation with millions of data points, Globality ensures a level playing field so companies get the best service providers at the right price for every project. Plus, this inclusive approach leads to a decrease in time spent searching in favor of time spent doing, giving your business an immediate return on investment.

Utilizing our Smart Sourcing technologies, clients with substantial service needs can capture billions of dollars in bottom-line impact. Dozens of Fortune 500 companies are already leveraging the Platform’s strategic sourcing A.I. partner, Glo, to improve the quality and decrease the cost of services, all while driving greater transparency, accountability and fairness.”

4. Leia Inc.

Founded: 2013

“Leia Inc. is the leading provider of Lightfield hardware and content services. Lightfield is a new visual medium that lets you experience imagery with complex light effects, such as textures and sparkles, as well as 3D depth and look-around. As a result, Leia’s technology transforms existing displays and converts content into an explosion of beauty and emotion. Our vision is to change the way we connect, create, educate and learn by transcending the device – making memories more present, connections more human and life richer.

Leia Inc. was founded by David Fattal, Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux and Zhen Peng and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.”

5. Kespry

Founded: 2013

“Kespry is transforming how organizations capture, analyze and share insights about their businesses, providing the information they need to accelerate operations. Kespry’s seamlessly-integrated platform, including drone data capture and industry-specific analytics, solves critical problems for the aggregates, construction, insurance, and mining sectors. Kespry serves customers across North America, Europe and Australia, including John Deere, Hancock Claims Consultants, Catastrophe Response Unit (CRU), Fluor, Lehigh Hanson/Heidelberg, and Colas USA. Kespry employees don’t just push boundaries, they break right through them. Transformative technology requires transformative people. We’re looking for smart, passionate, driven team members across engineering, sales, customer success, G&A, product, marketing, and quality assurance. Learn more at: http://www.kespry.com/careers/.”

6. One Concern

Founded: 2015

“One Concern is a Menlo Park based, Resilience as a Service solution that brings disaster science together with machine learning, for better decision-making. We quantify resilience from catastrophic perils, empowering leaders to measure, mitigate, and monetize risk so disasters aren’t so disastrous.”

7. STRIVR

Founded: 2015

“Strivr transforms the way companies train and develop their employees, using virtual reality (VR) to simulate real-world, on-the-job situations for enhanced learning. Leading Fortune 500 companies and sports teams use Strivr’s immersive training platform to create highly engaging experiences for fast, consistent and effective training. Incubated in conjunction with Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Strivr uses scientifically proven research in cognitive science and human behavior to increase employee engagement and retention. Strivr’s VR experiences deliver a compelling ROI: higher productivity, lower training costs and better job performance.”

8. Health2047

Founded: 2015

“Health2047 Inc. is a Silicon Valley business formation and commercialization enterprise.

We are developing and commercializing healthcare solutions that:

• Enable data liquidity protected by world-class security
• Realign healthcare systems around chronic care
• Produce radical productivity at all levels of care and support
• Facilitate value-based payments”

9. ALICE Technologies

Founded: 2013

“Introducing ALICE, the world’s first artificial intelligence platform that understands construction.

ALICE enhances your construction planning and scheduling abilities to help keep crews flowing on any size project – so you can build faster and cheaper. Working directly with your 3D BIM and using a simple rule-based system, ALICE explores millions of different schedule sequences and gives teams the power to answer “What If?” scenarios and completely reschedule in just minutes.

ALICE is quickly disrupting the $7 trillion construction industry by changing the way construction projects are planned, scheduled, and managed – saving our clients millions of dollars on the most exciting construction projects on the planet.”

10. BillionToOne

Founded: 2016

“BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics company with the mission to make molecular diagnostics more accurate, efficient, and accessible for all. Our patent-pending molecular counter platform is the only technology platform that can accurately count the DNA molecules to the single-count level.”