Southern California's
Tech
Startup Directory
Showcasing Southern California's innovation, one startup at a time. Every funded and bootstrapped company, from seed round to first dollar of revenue, tracked as it happens.
Includes SEC Form D filings from the last 3 years, plus all-time totals for companies sourced from YC and news coverage.
Artificial Intelligence
The region's largest single cluster by company count — AI and machine learning threaded through nearly every other industry here, from defense to biotech to entertainment.
Aerospace & Defense
Home to SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and a new wave of hypersonics and space-infrastructure startups.
Entertainment & Gaming Tech
Hollywood's production infrastructure, live events, and a growing games and creator-tools scene.
Semiconductor Hardware
Qualcomm and Broadcom anchor a chip-design cluster spanning the region.
Medical Technology
A deep biotech research base and a growing bench of medical device and diagnostics startups.
B2B
Business software and services sold to other companies. The largest single category of startup across Southern California, spanning sales tools, vertical operating systems, and everything in between.
Industrials
Manufacturing, hardware, and physical-world operations. Overlaps heavily with the region's decades-old aerospace and defense manufacturing base, now extending into robotics and automated production.
Consumer
Products and apps built directly for individual consumers, drawing on Southern California's media and entertainment base.
Healthcare
Health tech, medical devices, and healthcare services, backed by a decades-old biotech research base and a deep bench of clinical and diagnostics startups.
Fintech
Financial technology: payments, banking, investing, and financial infrastructure.
Education
Education technology and learning platforms built across Southern California.
Real Estate & Construction
Property technology, construction tech, and real estate services.
Series A$13.1MBacked by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, who sits on its board through his fund Preston-Werner Ventures.
Series A$12.5MIts 2026 $14M Series A (led by Blueprint Equity) included angel investors Paul Black (former Allscripts CEO) and Chris Sullens (CentralReach CEO).
Series A$12.5MHeadgum is a comedy podcast network co-founded in 2015 by Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld (of CollegeHumor's Jake and Amir) along with Marty Michael; its shows include the official jackass podcast hosted by Johnny Knoxville.
Series A$12.4MReliable, on-demand power through flexible service agreements. We accelerate access to scalable energy solutions with 30 MWh under management.
Series A$12.3MPicogrid delivers integrated systems for modern missions, connecting sensors, platforms, and operators across land, sea, air, and space.
Series A$12.3MImportant information about the future of HMBradley
PT Motion Works, led by CEO Bryan Pate, is the parent company of the ElliptiGO elliptical bike, GIBBON slacklines, and Indo Board, and it landed on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies.