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.
Seed$3.0MProfitr is a platform that allows you to invest in real estate properties
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Seed$2.9MPriwall helps you find and remove your personal data from data brokers. Protect your identity and reduce your digital footprint.
Seed$2.8MSelf Inspection uses AI trained on 20M+ images to automate vehicle damage detection, condition reports, and CR scoring — built for dealers, fleets, rentals, and lenders.
Seed$2.8MOption-based portfolio strategies for RIAs and institutional investors — risk-managed income, growth with loss limits, and VOLT™, our tax-smart option overlay for concentrated stock.
Seed$2.7MZymbit Resilient Edge Stack makes Linux devices more secure, reliable and recoverable. Trusted software and hardware that grows with your business.
Founded in 2023 by games-industry veterans J Aaron Farr, M Yichao, and T Carl Kwoh (with backgrounds at Riot Games and Wizards of the Coast), the studio raised a $3.15M seed round led by London Venture Partners.