Garden Grove
The breakdown
5 startups on file in Garden Grove, spanning B2B, Electric vehicle, Fintech, 4 of 5 have disclosed funding, $639.8M combined, founding dates span 2020-2021.
- SoCal.Startups — B2B.
- Harbinger — Electric vehicle, Series C, $342.4M raised, founded 2021.
- Harbinger Motors Inc. — B2B, $249.4M raised, founded 2021.
- US Metro Bancorp, Inc. — Fintech, $47.8M raised.
- Octiva Healthcare Inc. — Healthcare, $212K raised, founded 2020.
A bit of history
Alonzo Cook founded Garden Grove in 1874 on land that had been part of Rancho Los Nietos, a Spanish land grant, and it grew slowly as a farming community until a rail link arrived in the early 1900s drew more settlers to grow citrus and walnuts. The city incorporated in 1956 with a population of around 44,000, and the postwar boom turned the farm town into a suburb. Its best-known landmark, the glass-paneled Crystal Cathedral, was built in 1980 for television evangelist Robert H. Schuller and has served as the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange since 2019.
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Series C$342.4MHarbinger Motors builds medium-duty commercial electric vehicles; selling stripped chassis and work trucks based on its own in-house battery pack and drive system.