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$2.4MExperience performance AthLuxury activewear for men and women. Safe from toxins. OEKO-TEX® certified, ultra-soft Italian fabric, safe for your skin—and the planet. Safe from BPA, PFAS and chemicals linked to Microplastics. Leggings, tops, and essentials built for movement, skin safety, and conscious performance.
Seed$2.3MMoonware builds the AI systems that run ground operations. HALO, its Ground Traffic Control™ solution, gives airlines, handlers, and airports control over turnarounds, gate-in to gate-out.
Founded in 2014 by Patrick Henry, Farooq Anjum, and Jeff Campbell, the agtech soil-sensor company was acquired by Goanna Ag in August 2025.
Seed$2.2MDeploy CX agents faster and safer with a stack built for public websites, service journeys, backend systems, and the realities that stall major AI launches.
Seed$2.2MEmpowering Indie Artists to Connect, Grow, and Earn - OpenWav
Hualapai Ventures, a Beverly Hills-based entity, has been reported as the front company behind TKO Group's (UFC/WWE parent) new boxing league venture.