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.
My Village Innovations (MVI Medical) is a women-led medical device company co-founded by Andrea "Annie" Munoz, PA-C, and Alfonso Munoz, focused on reimagining the vaginal speculum for gynecologic care.
Series C$200KGlimmer Wish is Clean & Fun Beauty. Glimmer Wish was created to make self care, hair care, and beauty products that you can trust to be safe, free of harsh chemicals, and as cute as can be.
Series C$167KCo-founder Dr. H. Kirk Hammond of UC San Diego previously co-founded Collateral Therapeutics; CEO and co-founder Jack W. Reich received an Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Series C$150KFounder Jing Jian studied math at MIT and holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Inherence grew out of a novel she spent years writing.
Founded by CEO Serena Allen, who built an outdoor air-purification device; Allen has since announced she is shutting the company down.
Series C$55KFounded by Jongdae Lee, a San Diego/Encinitas-based researcher and CSO with over 20 years of experience working on inflammatory disease drug development, including viral and bacterial infections and Crohn's disease.