Business software and services sold to other companies. The single largest category of startup in Los Angeles today, spanning everything from sales tools to industry-specific operating systems.
SKIMS is a solutions oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear and shapewear.
Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh (founder of Relativity Media) and Bobby Sarnevesht took a controlling investment in Triller in 2019.

DigitalBridge is a leading global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in next-generation digital infrastructure and GenerativeAI
This is the legal entity behind Liquid Death, the canned-water brand founded by Mike Cessario in 2019; its backers have included Live Nation and celebrity investors such as Josh Brolin.

Big Shot Pictures is a next-generation studio building global franchises, founded by Brian Robbins.
Epsilyte manufactures expandable polystyrene EPS materials for insulation, protective packaging, cold chain, foodservice, and molded applications.
Steno is a legal tech company offering court reporting services and a software platform to manage depositions, transcripts, and high-stakes litigation, aiming to make the process more efficient.
Founded in 2023 by Shelby Wild, the clean personal-care brand has raised roughly $40M from investors including Ambarone Ventures and Scoop Ventures.

Better ingredients, bold flavors, and 7g of protein per serving. This is better snacking, brought to you by Khloé Kardashian.
Co-founded by CEO Nicole Clark in 2017; the legal analytics platform raised a $15 million Series B in 2023.

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Co-founded in 2019 by three former Casper executives (Terri Rockovich, Sameer Mehta, Michael Kim); its investors have included actor Will Smith.

Passes allows creators to monetize their content and build direct relationships with their audience through subscriptions, messaging, and exclusive content.
Unlock quantum power with BlueQubit's quantum computing software! Seamlessly access and utilize quantum computers for groundbreaking advancements.
Fictions is a game developer and publisher established in 2025. Current titles include LEGO Party and Beast of Reincarnation.

Gamefam creates immersive gaming experiences for brands on Roblox and Fortnite, engaging Gen Z & Alpha audiences through innovative campaigns and full-scale amplification programs.
EggCo, Inc. is the legal entity behind the fertility startup Cofertility, founded by CEO Lauren Makler along with Halle Tecco and Arielle Spiegel.

Welcome to The Foursquare Church. Discover how Foursquare supports local churches and raises up future leaders.
Operating as Harrison-Ross Mortuary in LA, this family-owned funeral home has served the community since 1948 and is now led by its third-generation leader, Chip Smith.
Physical AI infrastructure from code to real world. Abstract with Digital Twins, plug in AI, and ship to production.
Modyfi delivers integrative psychiatric care via telehealth — whole-person, insurance-based treatment connecting mind, body, and lifestyle.

Science-backed fertility, prenatal, postpartum, perimenopause, and women's health supplements. Trusted by 20,000+ practitioners and experts. Shop Needed.
Backed by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner, who sits on its board through his fund Preston-Werner Ventures.

Co-founded by Max Spielberg, son of director Steven Spielberg, along with former EA producer Tatyana Dyshlova; the game studio raised $3.5 million in seed funding.
Its 2026 $14M Series A (led by Blueprint Equity) included angel investors Paul Black (former Allscripts CEO) and Chris Sullens (CentralReach CEO).
Headgum is a comedy podcast network co-founded in 2015 by Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld (of CollegeHumor's Jake and Amir) along with Marty Michael; its shows include the official jackass podcast hosted by Johnny Knoxville.

Experience the purity of chef-grade Algae cooking oil. Amplifies flavors, more good fats than olive or avocado, highest smoke point and low linoleic acid.
Founded by YouTuber Emma Chamberlain; co-CEO Gustav Hossy co-owns Blazar Capital, the European fund that has led all four of the company's funding rounds, totaling about $19.6M.
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Publicly traded on Nasdaq (BRFH), the company was founded by Riccardo Delle Coste, who invented its patented blended-beverage technology in 2005.
Cheehoo, an AI 3D-animation startup, was founded by a group of Hollywood veterans including Rideback co-CEOs Michael LoFaso and Jonathan Eirich alongside producer Dan Lin (Netflix's former head of film), and raised $10M led by Greycroft with Point72 Asset Management participating.

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Founded by veteran game developer Taylor Kurosaki (formerly of Naughty Dog, Sony, and Activision), the studio received a $100M investment from Korean gaming company Smilegate.
Co-founded by former Microsoft researchers Sadegh Riazi and Ilya Razenshteyn, CipherMode Labs raised a $6.7M seed round led by Innovation Endeavors, the VC firm founded by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

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Mucho Mas Media is an independent studio that empowers and supports the stories of Latino communities and filmmakers through its global production, financing, and distribution capabilities.
Enterprise AI for finance that thinks and learns like people. VERSES Genius™ is used to manage risk when data is volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous.

OUTERSPACES INC. PHILADELPHIAS PREMIER DESIGNER AND BUILDER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS, SWIMMING POOLS, FOUNTAINS, AND OUTDOOR LIVING SPACES.

We build kitchen intelligence tools to cut food waste, eliminate single-use packaging and optimize resources across every stage of food production.

Discover Bundy Group’s expert investment banking and advisory services, helping business owners achieve growth, strategy, and successful transactions.
DedCool translates fragrance across mediums so that scent is practically applied in your life. We embed fragrance into the items we use most to boost their functionality. DedCool integrates into daily touch points extending our signature scents into mundane products from laundry detergent to car air fresheners
Curb management for cities, airports and fleets. Real-time data. Automated payments. Smart loading zones. Zero emissions delivery zones.

Detect, decipher, and defend against coordinated narratives with PeakMetrics narrative intelligence.
Distribution marketing for music, entertainment, gaming, and brands. The AI Engine for virality, generating millions of views monthly.
Mosh, the brain-health protein bar brand, was co-founded by Maria Shriver and her son Patrick Schwarzenegger, and raised a $13M Series A led by Main Street Advisors.

Arena Club, an online sports card marketplace, was co-founded by entrepreneur Brian Lee (co-founder of LegalZoom/ShoeDazzle/The Honest Company) and Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, and raised a $10M Series A.

ORANGE COMET is a next-generation gaming and entertainment company creating immersive games in partnership with the biggest properties in the world.
Play Versus Inc. is the legal entity behind PlayVS, the scholastic esports platform founded by Delane Parnell, who stepped down as CEO in 2023 and was succeeded by Jon Chapman.


Automate compliance in life science regulated markets.

Mozza Foods is developing real dairy casein grown in soybean plants. A drop-in ingredient for dairy manufacturers, produced through plant farming at scale.
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.

Hello Soju is the world’s premier sparkling soju and ultra-premium spirit. Hello Soju is made from rice-based soju and real fruit juice, with no artificial ingredients.

The world’s leading platform for packaging and financing independent films, with tools for filmmakers, talent, and investors to connect and succeed.

Slips is the next-generation peer-to-peer betting platform where players bet against each other — not the house. Offering Heads Up, Pools, Tourlays, and AI-Generated Predictions, Slips creates a social-first experience where users win, connect, and compete in real time.
Co-owned by Issa Rae & Hannah Diop, Sienna Naturals is a vegan hair care line that delivers results. The line is specifically formulated to hydrate textured hair, revive your curl pattern, and repair styling damage.

Gemist.io offers innovative jewelry design and visualization technology to boost sales, engagement, and customer loyalty for fine jewelry brands.
Pludo. For a balanced body and mind.
Devign, Inc. is the legal entity behind MightyMeld, a visual React development tool founded by Steven Schkolne; the company has raised roughly $4.1M.

Raised a $4M seed round led by Scout Ventures and Seraphim Space, with participation from super-angel Gokul Rajaram (former DoorDash/Square executive), to build AI models for satellite diagnostics and aerospace/defense applications.

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All In Food (formerly This Bar Saves Lives) was co-founded by actress Kristen Bell and raised a funding round led by Obvious Ventures.
Hatsu Labs, a game studio founded by Brandon Saw, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and South Park Commons.

Children’s healthcare products designed to make sick days more playful. Playhouse MD empowers kids to feel confident and connected — because a dose of play goes a long way.
Operating as Procode AI, the company was founded in 2024 by Jeff Cripe, Dr. Kameron Rezzadeh, and James Baez-Silva to build an AI-powered roll-up of revenue cycle management companies; backed by Story Ventures and Health Velocity Capital.
Founded in 2024 by Andy Bethurum and Mikhail Abramchyk, RiskFront raised a $3.3M pre-seed round led by Lytical Ventures and was later acquired by K2 Integrity.

DIG is a rapidly growing studio founded by industry veterans innovating to define the future of Gaming.
Sandbox Studios is a $30M seed-stage venture fund led by General Partner Jackie Fast that invests exclusively in consumer brands founded or backed by A-list celebrities.

Facile is a clinically-kind skincare brand and aesthetics boutique featuring Core Four products and targeted Super Skin serums. Dermatologist-formulated, easy to follow and designed with your best skin in mind. Good skin should be easy.


Co-founded by physicist John Martinis, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, alongside Robert McDermott and former Google Quantum AI product lead Alan Ho; backers include UC Investments.
MDFZ, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Legion M Entertainment, the self-described "world's first fan-owned entertainment company," per Legion M's SEC offering filings.
Founded in 2023 by games-industry veterans J Aaron Farr, M Yichao, and T Carl Kwoh (with backgrounds at Riot Games and Wizards of the Coast), the studio raised a $3.15M seed round led by London Venture Partners.
Compliance is expensive, distracting, and low value-add. Let agents handle it.

GEENEE AR provides WebAI solutions for interactive virtual try-on, AR mirrors, and immersive XR experiences that transform retail, fashion, and entertainment.

The Future of Music Should Feel Human
Deploy CX agents faster and safer with a stack built for public websites, service journeys, backend systems, and the realities that stall major AI launches.

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Specialty mushrooms grown on our family-operated farm in the Arts District, Los Angeles. Wholesale for chefs and restaurants, plus dual extract tinctures.
Lucendi was co-founded by Aydogan Ozcan, a UCLA professor known for his work in computational imaging and AI-enabled diagnostics.
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Own a share in a top racehorse for just $50. Watch live races, earn when your horse wins, and join the celebration in the winner’s circle—all with no ongoing costs.
OptzzChain, doing business as Warehouse Exchange, is a Los Angeles company co-founded by Dan Pimentel and Jonathan Rosenthal that raised capital through a StartEngine equity crowdfunding campaign.

Real Sounds, Synced in Seconds. 200,000+ human-recorded SFX matched to picture. Try Lana free.

Spice World offers a full line of products from fresh garlic, minced garlic, and squeeze garlic as well as fresh ginger and shallots.

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Next TFX was founded by Eric M.V. Hoek, PhD, a UCLA Samueli School of Engineering professor who invented its ultra-high-pressure filtration technology, alongside co-founder and U.S. Army veteran Pat O'Brien.

We build high-completion learning programs using educational creators. Financial literacy, career skills, and benefits education that employees actually finish.

Audio Up was founded by music producer Jared Gutstadt, and its investors have included The Weeknd, Wassim 'Sal' Slaiby, and Larry Rudolph.

Retro jersey and football lifestyle garments made for Saturdays

Artist-first rights, distribution, records, news, and contact in one public home.
Makes Baila tequila-based spirits; founded by Jason Castellucci, who is also a co-founder of Cierto Tequila.

KAI Media is the Next Generation Fan-Centric Entertainment Company for All K-pop Fans Worldwide.

Shop Masienda for heirloom masa harina, organic corn tortillas, and Mexican cookware like tortilla presses, comales & authentic molcajetes. Chef-trusted, rooted in tradition, made for home cooks. Free shipping on orders $125+.
We are on a mission to change the path to power and influence in a tech-enabled world by launching a generation of diverse tech talent into the tech ecosystem.
Founded by Johnny (John) Stewart, who bills the company as a "Direct Listing Accelerator" helping minority-owned small businesses that venture capital overlooks reach public stock markets.
Jennifer McKay Design Inc. was the original entity behind what is now DefineMe, the natural fragrance brand founded by Jennifer McKay Newton in Santa Monica.

Empowering women’s sports through inclusive, community-driven institutions built for this moment in history.

SpotlightNews is the news app built for Gen Z. Access 400+ trusted publishers—paywall-free, ad-light, and gamified to spark lifelong news habits.

Shop organic & gluten-free pasta made in Italy with clean, simple ingredients. Bronze-die & slow-dried for authentic texture. Curated by Giada De Laurentiis.
Abbott creates innovative medical devices and healthcare solutions for cardiovascular health, diabetes management, diagnostic testing, nutrition, chronic pain and more.

Experience high-energy HIIT workouts & group fitness classes in California & Texas. Training Mate blends fun, intensity & results for every fitness level.
Encant AI was founded by Scott Dacko (a writer/director/producer before starting the company) and is bootstrapped rather than venture-funded, reportedly reaching around $220K in ARR.
Zoodiker, a pre-production script analysis company for filmmakers, was co-founded by Leilah Franklin and Bob Tzudiker in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles.

The Patch Brand offers vitamin patches designed for easy, effective wellness support, including options for sleep, focus, energy & immunity.
Your communications infrastructure should perform on demand, not just on install day. We design, integrate, and operate systems your team can own and run without calling us back.
Hello. We're Sandwich. We make commercials. The kind people like. We're a Los Angeles video production company making launch and explainer films for technology companies since 2009.

Portals Labs, co-founded by Adam Gomez and Jacqueline Chang, raised a $5 million seed round led by Greylock Partners, with participation from Alameda Research, Foundation Capital, Multicoin Capital, and Sino Global.
Los Angeles film/TV development company founded in 2022 by Ina-Alice Kopp and William Andrew Mundell; it is developing Mae Ngai's nonfiction book "The Lucky Ones" for film and TV.
Los Angeles company doing business as "Kirra" (kirralife.com), co-founded by Amanda Li-Paige.


ThermoShade was founded by CEO Emily Dinino, who developed the company's urban-heat-shading concept as her master's thesis/capstone project at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
Founded by Jennifer Azar Burnham-Grubbs, who drew on 20+ years in risk management to build ionava as a combined health-and-wealth platform that rewards healthy behavior financially.
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Lyve Studios, founded in 2025 and headquartered in Los Angeles by founder Laurent Gattereau, is an official TikTok Shop Partner offering live-commerce production.
Deepcast, an AI-powered podcast platform led by CEO/co-founder Lucas Dickey and based in Los Angeles, has received investment from Automattic (WordPress's parent company) and Idealab.
Atticus helps clients obtain Commercial Equipment Leasing and Financing and provides objective advice on all aspects of equipment or vehicle leasing.

Stratia is an obsessively researched skincare brand that uses only the most effective and essential ingredients. We make skincare that works.

Industrial CO2 Removal & Critical Metal Recovery: By harnessing Earth
Founded by Steve Bedrossian, a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur, per SEC Form D filings and his LinkedIn profile.

Founded by Savannah James (LeBron James's wife) with business partner April McDaniel; the women's membership community launched in June 2024 with about 100 members paying $250/month, per Fortune and Harper's Bazaar.
Founder Jing Jian studied math at MIT and holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Inherence grew out of a novel she spent years writing.

Founder and CEO Todd Seligman previously worked as a professional BMX athlete and later as an executive producer at Mandalay Entertainment before starting this film and TV production company.
AARMY was founded in 2018 by celebrity trainer Akin Akman along with actress Angela Manuel-Davis and advertising executive Trey Laird.
Founded by talent manager Greg Sims; per Deadline, Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis teamed with Sims and Arya to develop a feature biopic of his life.
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BLACK SILVER - business consultants provide management consulting to get a wide range of management services & help to make your brand identities.

Train new ophthalmic technicians without disrupting your current team. Alchemy Vision
ItList was founded in 2021 in Los Angeles by Kateryna Bilyk and Paul Korver.


Avise is a collective that helps good-hearted financial advisors start and operate their own independent firms. Our platform makes it easy for quality advisors to offer good advice to more people by making it simple to launch and run an RIA.

A mobile scavenger-hunt game that turns any place into an adventure. Explore with dynamic clues, challenges, and surprises. The world is a game. Coming soon.
Thumzup Media is Nasdaq-listed; Chairman and CEO Robert Steele rang the Nasdaq opening bell in November 2024, and in 2025 the company repositioned itself around crypto industry strategy with a $6.5 million strategic raise.
Good Boy Wine is an LA-based natural wine company founded by Eric Bach, who also co-founded the Good Boy & Friends natural wine festival in Los Angeles.

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Events, resources, and a supportive community to help us face the hard parts of life. Together, let's channel our challenges into meaningful action and creativity.
Founded in 2006 by Billy Phillips (as Toon Studio), the Los Angeles IP/entertainment company is now led by CEO David Phillips and has raised money through Regulation Crowdfunding, including investment from MaryRuth's Organics.

At Dream Management, all of our transportation services are personalized, catering to the unique challenges of your business.
Objectively Good Media and Management (OGM), a Los Angeles talent and media management firm, was founded in 2022 by Nicholas "Nikko" Lara, Mohamed Kheir, Uwakokunre "Kokie" Imasogie, and Matthew R. Cooper, and launched publicly at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Opticore builds photonic AI inference chips and is co-founded by CEO Zaijun Chen and CTO Ryan Hamerly, a former MIT research scientist; backers include Sagax Capital, Neotribe Ventures, and Origin Ventures.
Founded in 2010 by Garreth Chandler and Shane Hall as a market research/insights agency; Chandler was later appointed to the Research Society of Australia's Professional Standards Committee.
Founded by David Adefeso, who is also founder and CEO of The Pacific Group, a Dallas-based financial advisory firm.

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