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The 13 Unicorns Founded in Redwood City [Updated 2023]

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There’s no doubt that the startup scene in Redwood City is unique.

The city has created dozens of successful startups, over the years. Some of them are already worth billions of dollars.

So whether you’re looking to start your own business, or just interested in learning about unicorns, here’s the complete list of 13 unicorn companies in Redwood City.

The 13 Unicorns in Redwood City

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1) Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods

Impossible Foods is a food technology company that makes delicious, nutritious plant-based alternatives of meat, dairy and fish.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $4.00B (May 2019)
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Monte Casino, Patrick Brown
  • Industries: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Nutrition, Organic Food
  • Number of employees: 500-1,000
  • Funding: $2,006.16M
  • Funding rounds: 24
  • Number of investors: 57

You can find their website here.

2) Course Hero

Course Hero

Course Hero is a digital classroom with learning resources that help students pass, excel in, and enjoy college.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $3.60B (February 2020)
  • Started in: 2006
  • Founders: Andrew T. Grauer, Gregor Carrigan, Jared Grauer
  • Industries: Crowdsourcing, E-Learning, EdTech, Education, Internet, Subscription Service
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $1,555.00M
  • Funding rounds: 9
  • Number of investors: 33

You can find their website here.

3) Carbon

Carbon

Carbon designs and delivers high tech polymer solutions for industries such as pharmaceuticals, energy cells, oil & gas, aerospace & defense, automotive, artificial intelligence, and more.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $2.40B (August 2015)
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone, Philip DeSimone
  • Industries: 3D Printing, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $1,352.60M
  • Funding rounds: 9
  • Number of investors: 29

You can find their website here.

4) Reltio

Reltio

Reltio provides a cloud-native, SaaS data platform that synthesizes multi-source, complex data into a single source of trusted information.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.70B (November 2021)
  • Started in: 2011
  • Founders: Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva, Manish Sood
  • Industries: Analytics, Data Integration, PaaS, SaaS
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $240.50M
  • Funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 7

You can find their website here.

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5) MOLOCO

MOLOCO

Moloco offers programmatic advertising solutions to help optimize the client's acquisition, retention, and monetization campaigns.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.50B (April 2021)
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: David Sehyuk Park, Ikkjin Ahn
  • Industries: Advertising, Cloud Infrastructure, Mobile, Mobile Apps
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $187.57M
  • Funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 6

You can find their website here.

6) NimbleRx

NimbleRx

Nimble offers a pharmacy experience centred on the needs of the patient in order to provide a more streamlined workflow.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.40B (June 2022)
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Talha Sattar
  • Industries: Health Care, Medical, Mobile, Pharmaceutical
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Funding: $74.87M
  • Funding rounds: 6
  • Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

7) HeartFlow

HeartFlow

HeartFlow is a new revolutionary diagnostic tool. It combines ultrasound imaging and artificial intelligence to non-invasively diagnose and detect myocardial fibrosis, a physical condition of the heart muscle that can lead to heart failure.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.30B (December 2017)
  • Started in: 2007
  • Founders: Charles A. Taylor, Christopher K. Zarins
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical, Software
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $281.00M
  • Funding rounds: 10
  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

8) Alation

Alation

Alation provides a machine learning data catalog to assist individuals in locating, comprehending, and trusting data throughout their businesses.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.20B (June 2021)
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Aaron Kalb, Feng Niu, Satyen Sangani, Venky Ganti
  • Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Machine Learning
  • Number of employees: 500-1,000
  • Funding: $192.00M
  • Funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

9) Material Security

Material Security

Material Security is an email security company that creates data-driven security software to protect users and data in organisations.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.10B (May 2022)
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Abhishek Agrawal, Chris Park, Ryan Noon
  • Industries: Cyber Security, Email, Management Information Systems, Network Security, Software
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Funding: $162.00M
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 14

You can find their website here.

10) Ivalua

Ivalua

Ivalua provides a suite of web-based spend management solutions that cover the full range of purchase-to-pay and financial close cycle activities.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.10B (May 2019)
  • Started in: 2000
  • Founders: David Khuat-Duy
  • Industries: Procurement, SaaS, Software
  • Number of employees: 50-100
  • Funding: $133.00M
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 3

You can find their website here.

11) People.ai

People.ai

People is an AI platform for enterprise sales, marketing, and customer success that uncovers revenue opportunities.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.10B (August 2021)
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Oleg Rogynskyy
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Research, Enterprise Software, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $201.62M
  • Funding rounds: 10
  • Number of investors: 38

You can find their website here.

12) Branch

Branch

Branch powers the world's best mobile experiences. They connect products, people and services through APIs, SDKs and custom integrations so you can do amazing things on mobile — faster, smarter, and better than ever before.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.05B (September 2018)
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Alex Austin, Dmitri Gaskin, Mada Seghete, Mike Molinet
  • Industries: App Marketing, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Apps, Software
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $542.00M
  • Funding rounds: 8
  • Number of investors: 18

You can find their website here.

13) Skydio

Skydio

Skydio develops fully autonomous and self-flying camera drone designed for all customers including consumers, companies and government.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (February 2021)
  • Started in: 2014
  • Founders: Abraham Bachrach, Adam Bry, Matt Donahoe
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Drone Management, Drones, Machine Learning, Robotics
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $344.00M
  • Funding rounds: 8
  • Number of investors: 16

You can find their website here.

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