Southern California's
Startup Directory
Series B$84.3MRebuilding healthcare with AI at the core
Pre-Seed$250KBetter, faster tech vendor research
Series D$833.1MWe provide efficient in-space mobility that moves payloads from low Earth orbit to any destination. Our vehicles deliver rapid, reliable access, reducing costs and timelines to make space operations feasible for commercial, government, and scientific missions.
Series C$80.1MOutpace AI-driven attacks. Unify Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management, and Email Security to stop digital threats before they scale, empower your teams to lead your defense, and scale your SOC with agentic AI.
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.
Crush Capital was co-founded by Darren Marble and Todd Goldberg in Beverly Hills and raised $3.25 million to launch "Going Public," a streaming series about the IPO investment process.
Seed$500KArena Renewables, co-founded in 2023 by CEO Matthew Kozey along with Geoff Johnson and Patrick Grumley, was acquired by Headwater Energy in 2026 along with its roughly 1 GW distributed solar and storage pipeline.
Seed$499KThis Los Angeles-based Novella AI was co-founded by CEO Michael Morello along with Gasper Chiaramonte and Averee Chang in July 2023, and raised capital through a Wefunder crowdfunding campaign (not to be confused with a separate, similarly-named AI insurance brokerage founded by ex-Lemonade employees).
Store Research Inc. (formerly Store Labs, now doing business as STORE Cloud) is a decentralized, user-owned cloud computing protocol headquartered in Covina, CA, that has raised $14.4M in funding, per PitchBook.
Seed$460KCurbside Electric was founded by Erik Anderson and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA; it builds curbside EV charging infrastructure for governments, universities, and utilities, including a pilot with Montgomery County, MD.