Laguna Beach
The breakdown
4 startups on file in Laguna Beach, spanning B2B, Healthcare, 4 of 4 have disclosed funding, $193.0M combined, 2 at Seed stage.
- Celero Communications, Inc. — B2B, Series B, $138.4M raised, founded 2024.
- Immunis, Inc. — Healthcare, Series A, $48.2M raised.
- Statics Inc. — B2B, Seed, $6.2M raised, 11-50 employees, founded 2024.
- GT Optics, Inc. — B2B, Seed, $300K raised, founded 2024.
A bit of history
A post office opened under the name "Lagona" in 1887, later corrected to Laguna Beach in 1904, and the city incorporated on June 29, 1927 as residents sought to protect its small-town character from absorption by neighboring cities. Plein-air painters including William Wendt, Frank Cuprien, and Edgar Payne began settling along the isolated coastline in the early 1900s, drawn by its scenery and light, and local artists organized the Laguna Beach Art Association in 1918. The community's art-colony identity became a lasting local institution: precursors to the Festival of Arts began in 1921, and the event took its present form, alongside the Pageant of the Masters, by 1936.
Series B$138.4MCelero was founded by former Marvell senior executives Nariman Yousefi and Oscar Agazzi and raised $140 million for AI datacenter connectivity chips, including a reported $100 million investment from Google parent Alphabet.
Series A$48.2MDiscover how Immunis, a private biotechnology company is developing new secretome products for the treatment of age-related immune dysfunction
Seed$6.2MElectroStatics, Inc. designs and manufactures products to control static electricity and reduce contamination for industries working with non-conductive materials.
GT Optics provides custom optical design, engineering, and manufacturing for biomedical and photonics applications.