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.
A SHOC Energy was founded in 2019 by Lance Collins, who previously founded the beverage brands Fuze, NOS Energy, and Core.
Series B$24.0MKinderFarms was co-founded in 2018 by actress Jessica Biel, along with Jeremy Adams and Greg Willsey.
Series B$22.0MMedical billing and revenue cycle management where AI agents carry every claim and expert billers fight the hard dollars. Free scan of your last 90 days.
Series B$21.0MCEO Nikhil Naikal is a two-time founder in the automotive industry — he previously founded Mapper, which was acquired by Velodyne Lidar; Kinetic has raised $31M from Menlo Ventures, Lux Capital and Construct Capital.
Series B$21.0MRaised a $45M Series B from RA Capital, Longitude Capital, Visionary Ventures and Bluestem Capital to develop a drug for pediatric myopia progression.
Series B$20.6MPictor Labs is The Virtual Staining Company enabling digital pathology adoption through computational virtual staining technology that preserves tissue for comprehensive downstream analysis.
Series B$20.3MSYLKE® Skin Closure is a sterile, single-use, silk fibroin mesh strip with a pressure-sensitive adhesive intended for topical skin closure and wound support. The device is used to hold together well-approximated skin edges of a wound, and to cover and protect the wound. Learn more at sylke.com.