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$10.0M
Seed$10.0MCo-founded by Prakash Chandran, Xano raised a $5M round led by MHS Capital and Engineering Capital to build its no-code backend development platform.
Founded by Grammy-winning music producer BloodPop (known for work with Lady Gaga and Madonna), the game studio raised $6.5M in seed funding with a team including former Halo, Cyberpunk 2077, and Red Dead Redemption developers.
Seed$9.8MFounded by Dr. S. Eric Ryan, a former Volcano Corporation VP, Provisio Medical develops intravascular ultrasound smart-catheter technology and has raised tens of millions in venture funding, including backing tied to MedTech Innovator.
Co-founded by former Microsoft researchers Sadegh Riazi and Ilya Razenshteyn, CipherMode Labs raised a $6.7M seed round led by Innovation Endeavors, the VC firm founded by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Seed$9.4MDelphi builds AAA games based on the most desirable IP franchises in the world
Seed$9.4MEnterprise AI for finance that thinks and learns like people. VERSES Genius™ is used to manage risk when data is volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous.