Consumer Tech
64 companies in this sector.
| # | Company | Description | Location | Status | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Moonshot AI | Beijing-based Chinese open-weight AI lab behind the Kimi LLM series. Kimi K2.6 is a 1T-parameter MoE with a 262K context window. ARR crossed $200M and the company raised roughly $3.9B over the prior six months across multiple strategic rounds. | Beijing, China | Private | $4.0B |
| 02 | Airbnb | Global online marketplace that connects travelers with unique accommodations, from apartments and homes to boutique hotels and experiences. Pioneered the sharing economy for short-term lodging, enabling millions of hosts worldwide to monetize their spaces while offering guests alternatives to traditional hotels. | San Francisco, US | Public | $3.3B |
| 03 | Snap | Camera and social media company behind Snapchat, the visual messaging app with disappearing messages, Stories, augmented reality Lenses, and Snap Map, reaching over 800 million monthly active users. | Santa Monica, US | Public | $2.6B |
| 04 | Meta | Social technology company (formerly Facebook) operating the world's largest social networking platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, serving billions of users worldwide, with growing investments in virtual and augmented reality through Reality Labs. | Menlo Park, US | Public | $2.4B |
| 05 | SoFi | Digital personal finance company offering student loan refinancing, mortgages, personal loans, investing, banking, and credit cards. Originally founded by Stanford MBA students to provide more affordable student loan refinancing, it has grown into a comprehensive online financial services platform. | San Francisco, United States | Public | $2.4B |
| 06 | Nubank | Brazilian digital banking platform and one of the world's largest neobanks, offering credit cards, personal loans, digital accounts, insurance, and investment products to over 100 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia through a fully digital, mobile-first experience | Sao Paulo, Brazil | Public | $2.3B |
| 07 | Chime | The largest US neobank offering fee-free banking services including early direct deposit, no-fee overdraft protection, and a secured credit-building card, serving over 22 million customers. | San Francisco, United States | Public | $2.2B |
| 08 | Spotify | Swedish audio streaming and media service founded in 2006, offering music, podcasts, and audiobooks to over 750 million monthly active users across 184 markets, making it the world's largest music streaming platform. | Stockholm, SE | Public | $2.1B |
| 09 | Perplexity AI | AI-powered answer engine that combines large language models with real-time web search to deliver direct, sourced answers to user queries, challenging traditional search engines | San Francisco, United States | Private | $1.7B |
| 10 | Visual discovery and bookmarking platform where users find and save ideas for recipes, home decor, fashion, travel, and more through image-based 'Pins' organized on boards, serving over 450 million monthly active users. | San Francisco, US | Public | $1.5B | |
| 11 | Slate Auto | Electric vehicle startup building radically simple, affordable, and customizable pickup trucks and SUVs manufactured in the United States, with a base price starting in the mid-$20,000s. Originally incubated as 'Re:Car' within Re:Build Manufacturing before spinning out as an independent company in 2023. Over 160,000 reservations. | Troy, United States | Private | $1.4B |
| 12 | Discord | Communication platform for communities and friends, offering voice, video, and text chat used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. | San Francisco, US | Private | $995M |
| 13 | Peloton Interactive | Connected fitness company that pioneered the at-home interactive cycling and workout experience. Combines proprietary hardware (bikes, treadmills) with subscription streaming content and a large community of members. | New York City, United States | Public | $994M |
| 14 | Whoop | Human performance wearable company that builds a membership-based health and fitness tracker measuring strain, recovery, and sleep. The screenless WHOOP strap provides continuous biometric monitoring, used by professional athletes and consumers globally. | Boston, United States | Private | $981M |
| 15 | Whatnot | Live-stream shopping marketplace where buyers and sellers connect in real-time video auctions. Originally focused on collectibles like Funko Pops and Pokemon cards, now expanded to dozens of categories including sports cards, sneakers, fashion, electronics, and art. | Los Angeles, US | Private | $974M |
| 16 | Quince | Manufacturer-to-consumer e-commerce platform that partners directly with factories to offer premium-quality essentials at radically lower prices by eliminating traditional retail markups. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $962M |
| 17 | Beats Electronics | Premium consumer audio brand that made headphones, earphones, speakers, and launched Beats Music streaming service. Co-founded by hip-hop producer Dr. Dre and music executive Jimmy Iovine, it became the dominant premium headphone brand before Apple's largest-ever acquisition. | Culver City, US | Acquired | $869M |
| 18 | Plata | Plata is a technology-led digital bank headquartered in Mexico City, offering credit cards, buy now pay later, and banking services to underbanked consumers in Latin America. Founded by former Tinkoff Bank executives, Plata received its full banking license from Mexico's CNBV in December 2024 and operates as Banco Plata with over 3.5 million active customers and $600M+ in annualized revenue. | Mexico City, Mexico | Private | $815M |
| 19 | Hark | San Jose AI lab building advanced personalized intelligence: multimodal AI systems plus native hardware devices designed as a universal interface between humans and machines (speech, vision, memory). Brett Adcock's second active AI bet alongside Figure AI. 70 employees and a Nvidia B200 GPU data center. | San Jose, United States | Private | $800M |
| 20 | Suno | AI-powered music creation platform that enables anyone to generate original songs with vocals, lyrics, and instrumentation from simple text prompts. Nearly 100 million people have created music on the platform since launch. | Cambridge, United States | Private | $775M |
| 21 | Sweetgreen | Mission-driven restaurant chain serving healthy salads, warm bowls, and plates made with fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Combines a farm-to-table approach with technology-enabled ordering and a focus on sustainability and community impact. | Los Angeles, United States | Public | $635M |
| 22 | Warby Parker | Direct-to-consumer eyewear company that disrupted the optical industry by selling prescription glasses online at a fraction of traditional retail prices. Pioneered the home try-on model and expanded into retail stores. | New York City, United States | Public | $537M |
| 23 | Cloaked | Consumer privacy platform offering disposable identities, VPN, data removal, and AI-powered spam screening. Protects over 10 million identities for 350,000 paying users, now expanding into enterprise privacy solutions. | New York, United States | Private | $404M |
| 24 | Foursquare | Foursquare is a location technology platform that provides geospatial data and intelligence to help businesses make smarter decisions and create engaging customer experiences. Originally launched as a check-in app at SXSW in 2009, the company evolved into the industry-leading platform for spatial analytics, powering location services for apps like Uber, Spotify, Apple Maps, and Airbnb. | New York, United States | Private | $379M |
| 25 | Sunday | Humanoid household robotics company building Memo, a personal robot that handles chores like laundry, dishes, and tidying up using AI trained on millions of real household routines | Mountain View, United States | Private | $200M |
| 26 | Cape | Privacy-first mobile carrier that built its own mobile core and SIMs from scratch. Offers features like daily identifier rotation and secondary numbers to prevent tracking, serving government agencies, enterprises, journalists, and privacy-conscious consumers. | Arlington, United States | Private | $191M |
| 27 | Duolingo | Language learning platform used by over 100 million monthly active users. Gamified approach to education with courses in 40+ languages. Founded by the creator of reCAPTCHA, Duolingo went public in 2021 and has expanded into math, music, and ABC literacy. | Pittsburgh, US | Public | $183M |
| 28 | North | Canadian wearable technology company, originally founded as Thalmic Labs. First gained attention with the Myo gesture control armband, which used electromyography sensors to translate arm muscle activity into computer input (named one of Time Magazine's top inventions). Rebranded to North in 2018 and pivoted to Focals, everyday smart glasses with holographic display and Alexa integration. YC W13. Acquired by Google/Alphabet in June 2020 for a reported $180M. | Kitchener, Canada | Acquired | $176M |
| 29 | Roku | Leading streaming platform that manufactures digital media players and smart TVs, and operates The Roku Channel. Connects users to streaming content from hundreds of providers, serving as the top streaming device platform in the United States by market share. | San Jose, United States | Public | $168M |
| 30 | Nourish | New York AI-powered metabolic health and virtual nutrition clinic. Dietitian-led care now pivoting to integrated physician care, lab testing, and GLP-1 prescriptions through payer partnerships. Reached $1.75B valuation on $100M Series C in May 2026. | New York, United States | Private | $153M |
| 31 | Pika | AI-powered platform that enables anyone to generate and edit videos from text prompts, images, and other inputs, making professional-quality video creation accessible to all. | Palo Alto, United States | Private | $135M |
| 32 | Beyond Meat | Plant-based meat company that produces burger patties, sausages, ground meat, and other products designed to replicate the taste and texture of animal-based meat using plant proteins, primarily pea protein. Pioneered proprietary extrusion technology to create realistic meat alternatives. | El Segundo, United States | Public | $124M |
| 33 | Bluesky | Decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, offering an open alternative to centralized platforms. Has grown to over 43 million users with more than 1,000 third-party apps built on its protocol and 400,000 monthly developer tool downloads. | Seattle, United States | Private | $123M |
| 34 | 100 Thieves | 100 Thieves is a premium gaming and lifestyle brand that combines competitive esports, entertainment content creation, and apparel to build a leading cultural brand at the intersection of gaming and streetwear. | Los Angeles, United States | Private | $120M |
| 35 | Snabbit | Bengaluru-based on-demand instant home services platform connecting urban Indian households with trained professionals for cleaning, dishwashing, laundry, and kitchen prep. Operates a 100% women-led fleet and competes in the emerging quick-commerce-for-services category. | Bengaluru, India | Private | $105M |
| 36 | Town | San Francisco-based personalized AI assistant that learns user voice, preferences, and workflows across email, calendar, docs, Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, iOS, and desktop. Founded late 2024 by ex-Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Gréze and ex-Google director of applied AI Tony Vincent. | San Francisco, USA | Private | $73M |
| 37 | Fitbit | Consumer electronics and fitness company that designed wearable activity trackers, smartwatches, and related software for tracking health metrics including steps, calories, sleep, and heart rate. | San Francisco, US | Acquired | $67M |
| 38 | Posh | Event technology platform enabling organizers to sell tickets and manage events directly. Described as the Shopify for events, tackling event discovery and ticketing with a creator-first approach. | New York, United States | Private | $59M |
| 39 | Astrocade | AI gaming platform that lets users build games through natural-language prompts. Roughly 5 million monthly active users and 140 million monthly game plays across 75,000+ games created by users in 80 countries. Founded by Ali and Amir Sadeghian out of Google Research. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $56M |
| 40 | Evotrex | Los Angeles-based maker of the PG5, a hybrid off-grid EV travel trailer (~$160K). Battery-electric trailer with on-board gas extended-range generator (EREV). 90% of orderbook is 'Premium trim'. Production target ~1,000 units/year. Founded 2024 by ex-Anker leaders. | Los Angeles, USA | Private | $46M |
| 41 | eyeo | Eindhoven-based deep-tech image-sensor company (imec spinout). Develops Nanophotonic Color Splitting (NCOS) sensors that split light rather than filter it, capturing all incoming light and eliminating the ~70% loss imposed by decades-old Bayer filter design. Targets smartphones, VR/XR, automotive, and industrial. | Eindhoven, Netherlands | Private | $43M |
| 42 | Pogo | New York-based AI consumer research platform powered by 3M purchase-verified US buyers. Sees 1-in-150 US shopping trips covering $470B+ in transactions. Launched the 'world's first AI researcher' with purchase-verified buyer panel on June 9, 2026. Founded 2020. | New York, USA | Private | $32M |
| 43 | Sekai | Bay Area-based consumer AI app turning text prompts into playable mini-apps, utilities, and games plus a remix feed. Over 15M mini-apps created, 200K per day, over one hour daily session time. Founded 2024 by 4th-time founder Lucky Zhang. | San Francisco, USA | Private | $26M |
| 44 | Golden Child | Miami-based fresh dog food brand backed by science-driven nutrition. Recipes are developed with a board-certified veterinary nutritionist, an animal nutrition PhD, and a classically trained chef. Incubated by Atomic and launched out of stealth in April 2026 with the Hims & Hers playbook applied to premium pet nutrition. | Miami, United States | Private | $25M |
| 45 | Signos | Palo Alto-based maker of the first FDA-cleared over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor (CGM) system for weight management. Powered by Dexcom's Stelo biosensor. Founded 2019. | Palo Alto, USA | Private | $20M |
| 46 | Board | New York-based 'together tech' company building the first face-to-face game console (thousands sold). Expanding into an AI-powered creator platform called Board Studio. Founded 2024 by Brynn Putnam, previously founder of Mirror (acquired by Lululemon for ~$500M). | New York, USA | Private | $20M |
| 47 | Rem3dy Health | Birmingham, UK-based maker of 3D-printed personalized nutrient gummies (Nourished brand) and personalized medicine (Scripted brand). Quiz-driven, in-house 3D-printed gummy supplements via subscription. Founded 2019. | Birmingham, United Kingdom | Private | $18M |
| 48 | Allset | Allset was a food pre-ordering and pickup platform connecting local restaurants with diners, allowing customers to book tables, pre-order meals, and pre-pay to eliminate wait times. Founded in Ukraine and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company raised over $17M before being acquired by SoundHound AI in 2024 to become part of its voice commerce ecosystem. | Los Angeles, United States | Acquired | $17M |
| 49 | CasaPerks Technologies | Austin-based AI-powered rewards platform operator behind CasaPerks (loyalty for student housing and multifamily renters) and WorksPerks (employee recognition). Built on Anthropic Claude. 10x revenue growth in 2025. Founded around 2023. | Austin, USA | Private | $16M |
| 50 | District | AI-powered commerce platform enabling independent sellers and creators to launch and grow community-driven marketplaces with integrated live video, chat, and payments. 1,000+ businesses onboarded over three years. Case studies include NikNax ($5M GMV in 2025) and Stacked Golf ($150K/week). | Los Angeles, United States | Private | $15M |
| 51 | GlobalComix | Digital comics publishing and monetization platform for creators and independent publishers. Provides tools for distribution, audience building, and revenue generation in the digital comics market. | New York, United States | Private | $13M |
| 52 | Meadow Memorials | Digital-first funeral home platform that lets families manage logistics, documentation, and memorial services entirely online. Provides price transparency and reduces the administrative burden of traditional funeral planning. The largest independent funeral home in California, expanding to Texas and Washington. | New York, United States | Private | $11M |
| 53 | Packz | New York-based gamified collectibles platform. Users open digital packs of sports and Pokemon cards across $25 to $2,500 tiers, then either ship the physical graded card home or sell it back at 90% of market value. Launched September 2025. | New York, United States | Private | $11M |
| 54 | Bumble | Women-first dating and social networking app that empowers women to make the first move. Expanded into friendship (Bumble BFF) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz), becoming a leading platform in the online dating space. | Austin, United States | Public | $10M |
| 55 | Hint | New York AI home management platform (Martha Stewart x AI engineer x home services operator). Pulls property, weather, soil, insurance, and bill data to flag homeowner issues before they break. Incubated at Montauk Capital; launches summer 2026 on iOS and desktop. | New York, United States | Private | $10M |
| 56 | Shapes | San Francisco social chat app integrating AI characters into shared human group conversations. Has 400K+ monthly active users with thousands spending 2-4 hours per day in-app, addressing the AI psychosis problem by keeping AI grounded in real friend networks. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $8M |
| 57 | abcoffee | Mumbai-based tech-enabled grab-and-go specialty coffee chain operating 90+ outlets across Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, and Bengaluru. App-driven subscription and pre-order model. Founded 2022 by ex-Schlumberger and IIT Dhanbad alum Abhijeet Anand. | Mumbai, India | Private | $7M |
| 58 | SpeedLabs | New York-based 'Momentum Markets' platform. AI engine that mints and prices entirely new in-play sports markets in real time as momentum swings happen, rather than repricing pre-set sportsbook lines. Launching summer 2026. Founded 2025. | New York, USA | Private | $7M |
| 59 | Yes Madam | Gurugram-based at-home beauty and wellness platform serving 55+ Indian cities with roughly 300,000 monthly bookings and 12,000+ women service professionals. Profitable with 100% YoY growth three years running. ₹195 cr FY26 revenue. First institutional round in May 2026. | Gurugram, India | Private | $6M |
| 60 | Vêtir | New York AI-powered luxury wardrobe operating system combining digital closet, personalized styling, and integrated commerce for high-net-worth consumers. Average order value $2,500+. Clientele includes Tom Brady. 200% MoM organic user growth with 9x YoY revenue. | New York, United States | Private | $6M |
| 61 | Weights | San Francisco consumer AI voice and audio platform best known for Replay, which let users create and share synthetic voice models. Roughly 5 million creators at peak, built with just two core engineers. Acquired by OpenAI in January 2026; deal surfaced publicly in May. Replay shut down April 1, 2026. | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $4M |
| 62 | Fields Good | Functional-cookie consumer brand making cookies with health benefits. Co-founded by Ashley Fields (daughter of Mrs. Fields founder Debbi Fields) and Kim Anderson. | New York, USA | Private | $2M |
| 63 | Apple | Consumer electronics and software company known for the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch. Operates the App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, and Apple TV+ services. | Cupertino, US | Public | - |
| 64 | Midjourney | Independent AI research lab that develops generative AI tools for creating images from text prompts, operating as one of the most profitable bootstrapped AI companies with over $500M in annual revenue and zero external funding. | San Francisco, United States | Private | - |