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$6.4MMitico is a carbon-capture company built on technology developed at Caltech, founded in 2022 by Clément Cid, Alan Gu, and Leopold Dobelle; it raised a $4.3M seed round in 2025 led by Exergon.
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Seed$6.3MAquaPoro manufactures water from air for homes and industrial sites with ALMA technology, even in low-humidity conditions.
Seed$6.2MThis is not an operating startup but an investment SPV (special purpose vehicle) run by LifeLine Financial Group, a Beverly Hills multi-family office, used to execute targeted investments.
Seed$6.2MWe are wholesalers in Japan who import / export Japanese-made products such as everyday items, cosmetics, snacks and food at wholesale prices.We also offer proxy marketing for Japanese companies as well as wholesalers.
Play Versus Inc. is the legal entity behind PlayVS, the scholastic esports platform founded by Delane Parnell, who stepped down as CEO in 2023 and was succeeded by Jon Chapman.
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