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$16.5MNewport Beach-based beverage holding company built via a roll-up strategy by GroundForce Capital; it is the parent of recognizable brands REBBL, Chameleon Cold-Brew, and Humm Kombucha.
Series A$16.5MGamefam creates immersive gaming experiences for brands on Roblox and Fortnite, engaging Gen Z & Alpha audiences through innovative campaigns and full-scale amplification programs.
Series A$16.4MAccrual transforms accounting firms with AI. Automate tax returns, streamline client data collection, and scale your practice with intelligent workflows.
Series A$16.3MTempo Therapeutics is a biotechnology and tissue engineering company based out of San Diego, CA specializing in speeding up patient recovery.
Series A$16.2MTadHealth is the leading school-based EHR platform designed for K‑12 schools, empowering mental health professionals with intuitive tools to manage care, streamline operations, and improve student outcomes.
Series A$15.7MModel Medicines engineers first-in-class small molecules against biological choke points, using AI to advance pipeline-in-a-pill therapeutics across high-impact diseases.
Series A$15.6MPrice transparency and plan design tools for self-funded health plan comparisons and enhanced employee benefits strategies.
Series A$15.6Mhuupe brings you the world’s first smart basketball hoop, providing NBA level workouts, on-demand training, live coaching, data tracking and more.