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 E$265.1M
Series E$99.5MNo math. No dosing decisions. Just freedom to live.
Series E$50.0MEledon Pharmaceuticals was co-founded and is led by CEO David-Alexandre Gros, a physician and serial biotech entrepreneur, with investors including BVF Partners, RA Capital Management, and Blue Owl Capital.
Series E$12.7MFounder and CEO Gerald Proehl previously led Santarus Inc. through its $2.6 billion sale to Salix Pharmaceuticals.
Co-founded by CEO Jeanine Wright, Inception Point AI produces AI-generated podcast personalities at large scale, reportedly publishing thousands of episodes per week across a catalog of over 160,000 episodes.
Series E$1.9M
Series E$1.4MTrades publicly on the OTCQB market under the ticker AAPI, unrelated to Apple Inc. despite the similar name and ticker.
Series E$688KMiso’s AI-powered kitchen automation platform to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and scale restaurant operations seamlessly.