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 C$40.9MSuper League unites insights, creative, and distribution into one Play Intelligence Engine; built on a decade of gamer culture expertise to supercharge engagement everywhere your audience plays.
Series B$40.6MABL Space Systems is a company based in El Segundo, California, focused on launch vehicle and launch systems technology development.
Series A$40.0MGlobal Spirits - one of the world leaders in alcohol production
Series B$40.0MTranscend is the only real-time data governance and decision layer that answers “Can I use this data?” to unblock AI, agentic, and first-party data initiatives.
Electric Solidus, Inc. is the legal name behind Swan Bitcoin, founded by well-known Bitcoin investor Cory Klippsten along with Brady Swenson and Yan Pritzker, headquartered in the LA area (Calabasas).
Series A$37.7MFounded by Casey Handmer, a Caltech-trained physicist and former NASA JPL scientist, Terraform closed a $38M seed round at a $150M valuation to build synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air.
Series A$37.7MCeresti reduces hospitalizations and medical costs for people living with dementia by activating family caregivers to detect changes in the patient's condition.