SoCal.Startups

SoCal.Startups is headquartered in Garden Grove, CA.

SoCal.Startups is a directory built for Southern California founders to find accelerators, investors, and events in one place, see what else is building in their city, and show off what they're building themselves.

Southern California's startup scene is scattered — accelerators, investors, events, and other founders working in the same city or industry are spread across dozens of separate sites with no single, structured place to find them.

SoCal.Startups gives bootstrapped founders a real platform: launch here, prove your traction, show your actual numbers, and find the other people building around you. There's enough room for everyone to win. You just have to put in the work and go after what's actually yours.

Unlike a submission-only list, most of the venture-backed companies here are sourced from real signals like SEC Form D filings and the Y Combinator dataset rather than self-reported claims, while bootstrapped founders can still list themselves without needing outside validation first.

Built and run solo, fully bootstrapped — no outside funding.