Loka, Inc

Loka, Inc. is a Silicon Valley software consultancy founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office location in Los Altos. The company describes itself as small but mighty, fully remote and globally distributed, counting employees across many countries and time zones while maintaining its base in the Valley. Loka positions itself at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, data and design, serving clients in high-precision industries such as healthcare, life sciences, education and logistics.

Loka provides full-cycle software development and technology consulting services. Its specialties span iOS and Android development, web application development, custom software, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data engineering and data science, DevOps and cloud computing, UX/UI and product design, QA, prototyping and team augmentation. Teams work across major cloud platforms including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform, and the firm builds with technologies such as Flutter, Golang, Python, React, React Native and Swift. Loka partners with both early-stage startups and established enterprises, helping them identify which technology bets to make and, equally, which ones to avoid.

The company’s client work spans a wide range of outcomes. Loka states that its projects have cut billions in food waste, helped children around the world learn to read, transformed homes into greener operations and accelerated novel drug discovery in the fight against leukemia. Its portfolio includes work with sports-analytics company ShotTracker, cleantech innovator ElectricFish and healthcare software provider HealthEdge. Loka reports that since 2023 alone it has helped launch more than 500 AI projects, ranging from chatbots trained on proprietary data to AI scribes that draft clinical notes for doctors.

Loka’s standing in the AWS ecosystem is a central part of its identity. In 2024, AWS named Loka Innovation Partner of the Year, selected from among roughly 150,000 partners, the same year the firm achieved AWS Premier Tier status and joined AWS’s inaugural Generative AI Competency class. Loka was also an inaugural AWS Generative AI Partner. These recognitions underpin its alliances work and joint go-to-market activities with AWS across startup, small and midsize business and healthcare segments.

In terms of scale, Loka is privately held and, per its LinkedIn company profile, employs between 201 and 500 people. The company has built an award-winning design and marketing engine alongside its engineering practice, and it operates internal research and development through a program it calls LokaLabs.

Loka’s working culture is defined by a remote-first model and an unusual benefit: a 5/4 schedule with every other Friday off, amounting to 26 extra days off per year. The firm also offers co-working space options, an Explore program that lets employees spend three months working from another Loka hub, relocation support, paid sick days and local holidays, premium mental health subscriptions, fitness and wellness programs, business English classes and budgets for continuous learning. The company emphasizes sustainable pace over short-term burnout and describes its people as curious, autonomous, collaborative and adaptable, operating with a startup mindset.

Loka frames its mission around meaningful work, summarized in its belief that what you develop matters. It invites founders and leaders seeking growth to engage its teams, and invites talented engineers who want an unconventional but high-achieving workplace to join.