Excelfore Corporation is a Fremont, California software company that builds the connectivity layer for software-defined vehicles. Its flagship eSync platform delivers secure over-the-air (OTA) updates and bi-directional data pipelines between the cloud and every electronic control unit inside a vehicle, while its in-vehicle networking stacks (Automotive Ethernet, TSN/AVB) and eDatX data-aggregation and edge-AI products round out an end-to-end cloud-to-edge toolkit. Founded by the brothers behind MARGI Systems, Excelfore helped create the industry-wide eSync Alliance and today has technology deployed across more than 17 million vehicles worldwide.
Ionblox is a Fremont, California battery company building high-energy, high-power lithium-ion cells around a proprietary pre-lithiated silicon (SiOx) anode. Spun out of the earlier Zenlabs Energy effort and rebranded in 2022, the company targets two demanding markets - electric vehicles and electric aviation (eVTOL) - with cells that it says exceed 330 Wh/kg and can charge to roughly 60% in five minutes while holding up past 1,000 cycles. Backed by eVTOL maker Lilium, Applied Ventures, Temasek and Catalus Capital, Ionblox has raised about $32M in Series B funding and holds more than 40 patents.
Anyware Robotics is a Fremont, California startup building deployable physical AI for industrial work. Its first product, Pixmo, is a mobile robot that drives into a shipping container or trailer and unloads boxes - up to about 1,000 cases per hour - using a force-sensing collaborative arm and an AI stack the company calls AnywareOS. Founded in 2023 by former UC Berkeley researchers and FANUC engineers, the company aims to take over the back-breaking jobs that warehouses can no longer reliably staff.
Alert Enterprise is a Fremont, California-based software company that converges cyber security, physical security and identity management on a single SaaS platform. Its Guardian suite — now extended with AI agents on ServiceNow — automates who gets through which door, server, and substation across airports, utilities, banks, hospitals and Fortune 500 workplaces.
OrthoFX is a Fremont, California clear-aligner company building the next generation of orthodontic care - shorter-wear NiTime aligners made of a proprietary HyperElastic polymer, paired with FXOnTrack, an AI platform that lets doctors monitor patients remotely. Founded by Invisalign veterans, it is a hybrid B2B/D2C model designed to make straight teeth predictable, affordable, and a lot less tedious.
Weee! is North America's largest online ethnic grocer, delivering Asian and Hispanic groceries direct to homes across the United States. Founded in 2015 by Larry Liu as a WeChat group-buying experiment, it has grown into a vertically integrated platform with a $4.1B valuation and more than $1B in annualized revenue.
Pebble Mobility is a Fremont, California startup building the Pebble Flow, an all-electric, self-propelling travel trailer designed to make RVing as easy as using an iPhone. Founded by ex-Apple, Tesla, Zoox, Rivian and SpaceX engineers, the company is rethinking the 50-year-old RV playbook around electrification, automation, and off-grid living.