69 Best Manufacturing Startups in San Francisco to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Manufacturing Startups in San Francisco

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There are 82 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $166.4m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$230.0m

Money raised

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

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$50.0k

Money raised

Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

7

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$711.5m

Money raised

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

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$53.9m

Money raised

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

1

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$125.0m

Money raised

OPSWAT is a cybersecurity company founded in 2002. Based in San Francisco, CA, they focus on cyberthreat prevention including a focus on malware, sensitive information, and application vulnerabilities.

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Funding Rounds

$354.4m

Money raised

Starship Technologies is an Estonian company developing small self-driving robotic delivery vehicles. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with engineering operations in Tallinn, Estonia, and a satellite team in Helsinki, Finland. Starship also has offices in London, UK, Germany, Washington, DC and Mountain View, California.

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$2.0b

Money raised

Allbirds is a startup company manufacturing wool footwear.

2

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$300.0m

Money raised

Diamond Foundry is a San Francisco-based company focusing on lab-grown diamonds.

5

Funding Rounds

$232.0m

Money raised

An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.

7

Funding Rounds

$235.0m

Money raised

Incorta is a software company making analytics software platform founded in 2013 by Osama Elkady.

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7

Funding Rounds

$128.9m

Money raised

Dredrone is an airspace security platform that detects, classifies, and mitigates drone threats.

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$30.0m

Money raised

Company manufacturing 3d printed pharmaceuticals based in San Francisco, CA

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7

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$610.0m

Money raised

Newfront Insurance is a company that provides technologies that are designed to simplify brokerage processes

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4

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

Rescale is a company developing and providing software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.

7

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

Faraday Bicycles is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Adam Vollmer.

9

Funding Rounds

$194.7m

Money raised

Ayar Labs is technology company creating a solution to overcome the power and performance scaling challenges of semiconductors as well as the interconnect bandwidth bottleneck between those devices.

2

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$12.3m

Money raised

Origin is a San Francisco-based additive manufacturing company designed for mass production.

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7

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$2.2b

Money raised

Nuro is a company that develops self-driving vehicles designed for local goods transportation.

2

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$17.6m

Money raised

A company designing and manufacturing satellites, satellite parts, and materials for satellites.

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3

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$54.4m

Money raised

Vitrolabs is a San Francisco based company developing lab-grown leather and pelts for fashion and interiors, with aspirations to use their platform to grow human organs.

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4

Funding Rounds

$75.5m

Money raised

A manufacturing company making plant-based dairy products out of almond milk.

2

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

Printify is a marketplace connecting online merchants to major print on demand and dropshipping manufacturers worldwide.

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6

Funding Rounds

$789.0m

Money raised

Tradeshift is a company providing a B2B platform for electronic invoicing, workflow and supplier financing for enterprises.

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4

Funding Rounds

$9.5m

Money raised

UserVoice is a company founded in 2008 by Richard White, Scott Rutherford and Lance Ivy.

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4

Funding Rounds

$875.0m

Money raised

Sila Nanotechnologies is an Alameda, California-based company engineered materials company focused on improving energy storage.

6

Funding Rounds

$225.0m

Money raised

FreeWire Technologies is a San Leandro, California-based provider of battery systems for electric vehicle charging and mobile distributed power.

7

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

Inkling is a company that develops a mobile learning enablement platform for businesses.

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1

Funding Rounds

$179.0m

Money raised

A computer software company that creates products intended for the manufacturing industry. It is located in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2018.

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$30.0m

Money raised

A food and beverage company focused on making sustainable coconut based products.

2

Funding Rounds

$30.0m

Money raised

Nitro is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2005 by Max Cantor.

5

Funding Rounds

$48.7m

Money raised

FarmWise is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Thomas Palomares.

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5

Funding Rounds

$141.7m

Money raised

OneLogin is an identity & Access Management founded in 2009.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

R&D lab focused on energy, manufacturing, & innovation.

1

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

OneSkin is a longevity company developing products designed to extend skin and body health by targeting aging at its source.

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2

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Aizon, formerly Bigfinite, is an IoT and analytics company for pharma & biotech manufacturing processes company

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7

Funding Rounds

$107.9m

Money raised

AEye is a company founded in 2013 by Luis Dussan.

4

Funding Rounds

$182.8m

Money raised

Moximed is a medical equipment manufacturing company that specializes in developing innovative solutions for osteoarthritis

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3

Funding Rounds

$54.1m

Money raised

Protex AI is an AI-driven workplace safety technology provider founded in 2021 by Dan Hobbs.

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1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

PrinterPrezz is a medical technology company that focuses on merging 3D printing with nano technologies.

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2

Funding Rounds

$2.2m

Money raised

Lit Motors is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Daniel Kim.

4

Funding Rounds

$38.0m

Money raised

We help organizations process any type of document faster than ever with the most complete intelligent document processing platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Kinta AI is a cloud-based, analytics SaaS platform for manufacturers designed to optimize production processes.

3

Funding Rounds

$111.0m

Money raised

InfluxData is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Todd Persen.

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4

Funding Rounds

$183.0m

Money raised

Fictiv is a San Francisco-based company.

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A company manufacturing organic plant-based food and beverage products.

6

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

Seebo is a provider of artificial intelligence-based solutions for predictive analytics and digital twin simulations for manufacturing.

3

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$47.8m

Money raised

ArangoDB is a nosql database founded in 2015 by Claudius Weinberger.

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Fulfil.IO empowers online retailers with tools to unify and automate operations while focusing on providing the best customer experience.

2

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$44.0m

Money raised

NewtonX is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2016 by Germain Chastel, Sascha Eder and Anuja Ketan.

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4

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3DPrinterOS is a company founded in 2013 by Anton Vedeshin.

4

Funding Rounds

$74.6m

Money raised

Tempo Automation is a software-driven factory using data, analytics and automation for prototyping in hardware development environments to manufacture printed circuit board assemblies.

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2

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Insightly is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2009.

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5

Funding Rounds

$42.8m

Money raised

Nitricity is a revolutionary agtech company that produces nitrogen fertilizer using only air, water, and renewable electricity.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.7m

Money raised

Perennial is a company making plant-based dairy products founded in 2016.

3

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$80.5m

Money raised

Avinger is a Redwood City, California-based medical device company that designs, manufactures, and sells image-guided, catheter-based systems for the treatment of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).

1

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$2.5m

Money raised

unspun uses body scanning technology to manufacture bespoke jeans.

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1

Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

Cazza is a 3D printing technology company that aims to transform the world through technology and construction services.

2

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

Software platform that uses AI to improve manufacturing processes.

1

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Nanocore is a San Francisco-based company founded by Ted Sorom, Stephen Connor and James R. Groves.

2

Funding Rounds

$15.3m

Money raised

Platform enabling convenient and affordable flying comparable to driving.

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2

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$3.6m

Money raised

Flying camera captures photos and videos in real-time.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Join is a cloud-based platform that can predict trends based on data.

1

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

The/Studio is a company founded in 2014 by Joseph Heller.

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$6.0m

Money raised

Unfolded is a geospatial analytics platform for data unification, enrichment, and visualization.

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TeraPore Technologies is a Cornell University spinout that develops and manufactures high performance filters for protein separations.

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

Invisible AI is a visual intelligence platform that works with manufacturing/assembly operators to ensure processes are done correctly.

1

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Neuro42 is developing and commercializing advanced MRI and robotics technology for diagnosis and image-guided interventions.

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Funding Rounds

$7.5m

Money raised

Cora is a sanitary product company that produces organic products for women as well as accessories.

3

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

KiraKira is a San Francisco-based developer of a 3D modeling mobile application.

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