This article showcases our top picks for the best California based Smart Home companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Smart Home industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top California Smart Home Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Ring
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Ring is an outdoor home security that provides homeowners a line of preventative security doorbells and cameras.
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meShare is a cloud platform helping businesses integrate Video and IoT solutions into their processes, products, and services.
Veev
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Veev is a building technology company that reinvents the way homes are built and experienced.
Nest Labs
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Nest Labs is a home automation company manufacturing sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled, self-learning thermostats and smoke detectors.
ROOMBUS
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Building smarter cities – starting with fully autonomous and modular smart houses.
Level Home
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Level Home is a startup that specializes in home automation and smart home control.
BuildZoom
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Buildzoom is enabling people to live and work in beautiful spaces by transforming construction into a delightful experience.
Brilliant
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We make the Brilliant Control, a smart home control system that replaces an existing light switch.
SmartThings
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SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Puls
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Puls is a venture-funded startup that powers a network of service providers in delivering home services.
August Home
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August develops smarter home access products and services that allow physical environments to seamlessly respond to user behavior.
Nana Academy
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Vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, driven by an AI-marketplace.
Bumblebee Spaces
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Bumblebee Spaces creates a new way to live by thinking about space in cubic feet instead of square feet.
Trifo
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Trifo is an AI home robot company that helps people live better by doing work around the home.
Inspire
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Consumer technology platform that powers cleaner, more efficient, and more sustainable homes.
Dvele
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Dvele is a construction technology company that specializes in offering modern prefab homes and luxury modular houses.
AWAIR
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Awair’s mission is to empower people worldwide to breathe safely through cutting-edge indoor air quaity monitoring.
Flo Technologies
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Flo prevents water damage and unnecessary water waste in homes with its Flo by Moen smart home water monitoring and leak protection system.
HOMMA
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HOMMA is a start-up tech home builder that specializes in designing modern homes that improve the living experience.
GuRu
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Enables safe, effective and customizable transmission of power over-the-air using proprietary mmWave and Smart RF Lensing technology
Flume
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Flume eliminates water waste and protects homes by helping homeowners and communities with real-time water usage data.
Roost
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Roost is a Sunnyvale, CA-based developer of affordable smart home technology.
Plume Design
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Plume is a SaaS platform that provides the delivery of technological services for connected homes.
Sensibo
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Sensibo is building an indoor climate and air quality consumer brand.
SideChef
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SideChef is an online platform that provides step-by-step recipes for new and amateur cooks.
Houzz
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Houzz is an online platform for home remodeling, architecture, interior design, decorating, landscaping, and home improvement.
Greenwave Systems
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Greenwave Systems is a software and services company that leverages Internet of Things technologies to help clients deploy managed services.
Cherry Labs
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No-code computer vision for safety and operational protocol compliance.
Tumble
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Tumble offers a modern laundry experience to tenants.
hai
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hai is a smart in-home spa system transforms any shower into a self-care ritual experience.
Nixplay
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Nixplay is the no.1 selling Smart Photo Frame. Nixplay Signage is a complete Enterprise Digital Signage Solution.
abode
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Abode Systems is reinventing home security and automation by creating high quality products and innovative cloud based services.
Kraftful
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Kraftful is the only analytics solution focused on making connected hardware delightful to use.
WATTS BATTERY
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Simplifying renewable energy with portable lego-like power system with virtual battery platform
Smartlabs
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Smartlabs is the world’s leading authority on electronic home improvement and automation.
Teksun Inc
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Teksun Inc puts Embedded Hardware, AI, Cloud, and Digital Transformation services to work in achieving innovative product development needs.
Anova Culinary
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Anova is changing the way people cook, making it easy for everyone to create restaurant-like experiences, everyday.
Sutro
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Sutro is a drop in system that monitors the chemical quality of your pool or spa.
Openpath
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Openpath Security offers a mobile and cloud enabled access control system for businesses and landlords.
Zen Ecosystems
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Zen Ecosystems provides intelligent energy management solutions to businesses and consumers.
Kuna
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Kuna is a smart Wi-Fi camera and intercom built into an outdoor light. It detects people at your door and lets you see and talk to them.
NotifAi
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NotifAi provides enterprise asset protection by leveraging technology and data from sensor networks to reduce risk.
Ecosense
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Ecosense develops radon detectors for homes and businesses.
GreenMarbles
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GreenMarbles is an institutional integrator that specializs in home automation and energy management solutions.
Faceter
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Intelligent Software for Smarter Surveillance, based of facial recognition and video stream real time analysis, is distributed as SaaS
Violux
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The world’s first smart UV light cleaning technology. Proven to kill 99.9% of viruses, germs, and bacteria on personal items used daily.
June
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June is a smart oven for your home that makes cooking perfectly easy.
Angelcam
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Angelcam is an online platform that offers cloud-based surveillance cameras.
Blueberry
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Blueberry is a network of neighbors getting home repairs and services done together.
Amaryllo Inc.
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Amaryllo is a Platform as a Service company providing business analytics and unlimited cloud storage services on a pay-as-you-go business.
iGlass Technology
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iGlass Technology has created “digital blinds” – durable film with digitally tunable light transmittance – retrofit Smart Windows.
Brisk It Grills
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Brisk It Grills manufactures a smart tech machine to provide freshly cooked BBQ at home.
DouZen
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DouZen specializes in the creation of highly dynamic, innovative user interaction or interface for any screen size and platform.
Motum
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Advanced, IoT-connected products & services that enhance independence, security, confidence & quality of life for seniors.
AirSpeQ
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Improving the world for animals, plants and people by commercializing sensors for fine and ultra fine airborne particulate matter detection.
Arcuity
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Arcuity is a provider of CV / ML engine for the home security / residential industry.
Garbi
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A smart trash can that can recognize anything you throw away.
Haiven Home
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The most beautiful, simple and intelligent smart home cameras ever designed.
Rico
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Rico turns your used smartphone into a smarthome security device.
Invocable
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Invocable helps designers create and test high-fidelity voice prototypes in minutes. No code needed.
Belkin International
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Belkin International develops computer and consumer electronics that specializes in providing connectivity solutions.
Wink
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Wink is a community-based social search engine that enables users to find people and their profiles.
MedM
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Full stack Software Solutions for Remote Patient Monitoring service providers and Connected Medical Devices vendors.
Gartenzwerg Technologies
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Smart Gardens with proprietary IoT technology and a gamified app enabling anyone to grow food from home effortlessly at the push of a button
Intellecy Inc
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Intellecy: smart water system empowers homeowners and building managers to control their water in realtime and protect against leak damage
Intellerce
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Intellerce develops a video streaming platform that will significantly reduce the cost of streaming video-on-demand content.
U-tec
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U-tec invents and manufactures ULTRALOQ Whole-Home smart lock system that delivers an exceptional access experience.
Orro
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Orro is the world’s first truly responsive lighting system.
WooHoo Music
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WooHoo is a digital agency for music, audio, and consumer electronics.
Smarthome
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Smarthome provides products in lighting control, house automation, security and surveillance, home entertainment, gadgets and pet care.
CYTIOT, INC.
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A Smart Foundation for Smart Initiatives- It’s not about Big Data, It’s about the Right Data.
Greenbox Technologies
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Greenbox Technologies develops an automated home irrigation system to control, monitor, automate, and optimize watering programs.
Universal Electronics
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Global leader in wireless universal control solutions for home entertainment and smart home devices.
Landsea Homes
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Landsea Homes is a home building company that offers real estate, residential, new home sales, land acquisition &smart home design services.
Arize
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Arize is a smart apartment solutions company offering the convenience of smart automation to property managers and residents.
ArcTouch
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We design lovable apps and develop technology for the connected world.
Home Assistant
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Home Assistant is a free and open-source software for home automation that helps centralize all of the sensors, gizmos and gadgets.
Pelco
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Pelco schneider electric committed to the development and manufacture of open IP video security systems.
AerNos, Inc.
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Develops application specific nano gas sensors based on its breakthrough and proprietary AerN2S Technology to detect harmful gases.
Comoli Inc.
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Comoli Inc. provides technical and installation solutions to make residences smart in their everyday functioning.
Insteon
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Insteon is a computers and electronics manufacturing company.
Nooie
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Nooie manufactures and supplies smart home products.
Switchmate
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Switchmate build products with the aim to eliminate the pain of installation from home automation.
FieldCentrix
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FieldCentrix provides mobile field service automation solutions for service lifecycle management.
TBDx Design / Xbloom Coffee
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Smart tech, food & beverage, coffee, consumer, retail
GreatTEK
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GreatTek Inc. offers an innovative, superior, reliable, and intuitive SaaS platform to connect Smart/iOT devices for proptech automation.
Metro Eighteen
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Metro Eighteen is an electronic solution company that deals with home automation services, lighting control, audio and video systems.
Simply Solar
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Industry-leading solar installer leveraging proprietary technology to deliver efficient and exceptional customer outcomes.
UTZO
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UTZO is the only application that connects homeowners with local vetted on-demand professionals for their projects within their proximity
MyMiniLife
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MyMiniLife allows individuals to create virtual homes on the web, and lets them import photos of real-life objects into these homes.
Data Door
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Data Door provides technology and the built environment for real estate services.
ForTech Solutions
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ForTech Solutions is a technology-based company that offers home automation, lighting control systems, digital signage, and consulting.
Coddle
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Coddle is a new, direct to consumer, smart furniture brand designing furniture and systems that are responsive to both body and space.
