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 A$30.0MEvotrex is electrifying the RV by designing its products as mobile energy systems combining onboard power generation, energy storage, and intelligent energy management.
Operates as Seasats; CEO and co-founder Mike Flanigan launched the San Diego autonomous-vessel maker in 2020, and it closed a $20 million Series A backed by Philip Bilden.
Series A$28.9MDiscover vMap - The FDA-Cleared Non-Invasive AI-based Arrhythmia Analysis Solution by Vektor Medical. Improve Cardiac Ablation Efficiencies & Outcomes Today.
Series A$28.0MHeaviside Industries is building autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces, designed to operate in jammed and GPS-denied environments.
Series A$27.8MCalifornia-based IV therapy manufacturer serving hospitals, IDNs, and medical device OEMs across North America. ISO13485 certified with 50+years of expertise.
Series A$27.4MFeel free, feel good. feel free tonics and capsules feature noble kava root & other functional botanicals from around the world. Thoughtfully crafted to deliver a mood lift, a boost of energy, and a focus enhancement.
Series A$26.4MFounded by serial food entrepreneur Jamshid Ashourian, who previously founded ProVita and invented the 'Fruit For Life' shelf-stable fruit product.
Series A$25.5MEnhance, extend or replace your legacy GTM software with affordable enterprise-grade AI-native trade and tariff management software from KYG Trade.