Covina
The breakdown
34 startups on file in Covina, spanning B2B, Fintech, Food & Beverage, 33 of 34 have disclosed funding, $646.9M combined, 9 at Series A stage, founding dates span 2013-2025.
A bit of history
Real estate investor Joseph Swift Phillips began farming a 2,000-acre tract in 1882, and surveyor Fred Eaton coined the name "Covina" from "cove" and "vine" in 1885 to describe the land. The town incorporated on August 14, 1901, and for the first half of the 20th century its economy ran on citrus, with Covina claiming in 1907 to be the third-largest orange-shipping point in the world. A postwar blight wiped out the groves, and the land was subdivided into the residential neighborhoods that make up the city today.
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Monarch Money is a subscription-based platform that provides a personal finance program to track expenses.
Riser Fitness operates Club Pilates and is dedicated to promoting health and wellness through the practice of Pilates.

MatX Inc. develops high-throughput chips designed for large language models (LLMs), focusing on achieving the best possible physical performance for frontier labs.

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Counterpart is the first Agentic Insurance™ system specializing in management and professional liability insurance.

Transcend is the only real-time data governance and decision layer that answers “Can I use this data?” to unblock AI, agentic, and first-party data initiatives.
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Unprecedented onchain exposure to the world's leading institutional grade private credit managers, including Ares, Apollo, and more.

Recurve helps utilities, implementers, and partners transform customer data into reliable, cost-effective demand-side programs built to perform.
Comparative, Inc. is the legal entity behind DataGPT, a conversational AI data-analytics product founded in 2021 by Arina Curtis and Darren Pegg.
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Tinwell Labs is the legal entity behind Era, an AI-powered wealth management platform co-founded by Alex Norcliffe and Lindsay Brady that has raised roughly $9.4M in funding.

Ezra Climate was founded by Dan Rosen and Dori Rutkevitz, who previously helped scale Mosaic, a solar fintech platform that financed over $15B in projects; Ezra raised an $8M seed round for AI infrastructure serving private capital markets.

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Parrot imagines, designs and builds more innovative drones every day to offer you the best flying experience.
Kleverness Hospitality offers intelligent automation technology that combines style, comfort, and energy efficiency for hotels, buildings, and offices.

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Once offers an early reading program and curriculum for 3 to 7-year-olds that can be used at school or at home.
Store Research Inc. (formerly Store Labs, now doing business as STORE Cloud) is a decentralized, user-owned cloud computing protocol headquartered in Covina, CA, that has raised $14.4M in funding, per PitchBook.

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Guesty is the AI-powered vacation rental software for short-term rental operators, from solo hosts to large portfolios.

SoarTech develops intelligent software that reasons like humans to automate complex tasks, simplify human-machine interactions, and model human behaviors, focusing on human-centered and cognitive AI solutions for DoD research and development.
CityStructure, based in Walnut, CA, was founded by Felicia Nitu and built a real estate 'Development Score' tool for evaluating property development potential; the company has since rebranded as InstaDev.
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