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.
Seed$460KEdit Hero was founded by Dean Shalit and builds an AI-enhanced editing platform that validates footage based on visual details, per Crunchbase.
Remaker Labs, co-founded by Sky Gilbar and David Silverander in Santa Barbara, raised $1.2M from over 15,000 Kickstarter backers in 70 countries for its 'Hitch' cup-and-bottle product, according to Forbes.
Los Angeles company doing business as "Kirra" (kirralife.com), co-founded by Amanda Li-Paige.
Seed$395KLos Angeles creator-marketing platform (goranked.com) founded in 2017; investors include Hilltop Venture Partners and Connetic Ventures, and it has paid out over $1M to creators.
Seed$390KDiscover the world's most extraordinary collection of perspective-changing rooms, mind-bending installations, and optical illusions.
Seed$375KConnect your clients to trusted aging care experts quickly and seamlessly with bQuest. Become their go-to lifeline during family crises through our easy, vetted referral platform.