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AIRCRAFT, ENTERTAINMENT, AND EVERYTHING AFTER

Los Angeles

605
companies
$20.79B
total raised
B2B, Consumer, Industrials
top industries
Photo: Basil D Soufi · CC BY-SA 3.0

The breakdown

605 startups on file in Los Angeles, spanning B2B, Consumer, Industrials, 435 of 605 have disclosed funding, $20.79B combined, 96 at Series A stage, founding dates span 1974-2026.

A bit of history

Aviation took root here in 1910, when Wilbur Wright's biplane demo at Dominguez Hills sparked a rush of aircraft builders to the region's clear, flyable skies. Donald Douglas set up shop in 1920, renting space in an old movie studio in Santa Monica, before Douglas Aircraft grew into one of the city's largest employers. A few miles away, North American Aviation's Inglewood plant turned out thousands of P-51 Mustangs during World War II. Los Angeles has been building aircraft and entertainment side by side for over a century.

Investors headquartered in Los Angeles

Crosscut VenturesSeed, Series A
Upfront VenturesPre-Seed, Seed, Growth
TenOneTen VenturesPre-Seed, Seed
GreycroftSeed, Series A, Growth
BAM VenturesSeed, Series A
A26 VenturesPre-seed, first round
First Resonance, Inc. hero photo
Series A$10.8M
First Resonance, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Transform your productivity, efficiency & scalability through the MES manufacturing software from First Resonance!

Series AB2B
$10.5M
Cheehoo Labs Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

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.

B2B
Starlings Studios, LLC hero photo
Seed$10.0M
Starlings Studios, LLC
Los Angeles, CA

Explore Starlings

SeedB2B
That's No Moon Entertainment Inc. hero photo
$9.7M
That's No Moon Entertainment Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

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.

B2B
Seed$9.6M
CipherMode Labs, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

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.

SeedB2B
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Series A$9.5M
Perelel Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

Made using only clinically-backed ingredients in their most bioavailable formats. | Fertility, Prenatal, Postnatal, Perimenopause & Beyond

Series AB2B
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Series B$9.4M
Mucho Mas Media, LLC
Los Angeles, CA

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.

Series BB2B
$9.4M
Real Established Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023
B2B
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Seed$9.4M
The Realest
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023

The Realest is an online marketplace for authenticated entertainment memorabilia, using a proprietary witness-based authentication system.

SeedB2B
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Seed$9.4M
Verses AI Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

Enterprise AI for finance that thinks and learns like people. VERSES Genius™ is used to manage risk when data is volatile, uncertain, complex & ambiguous.

SeedB2B
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Series A$9.1M
Incite Inc
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023 · ~11-50 employees

Incite is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs, provides grants to non-profit organizations, and funds initiatives aimed at changing politics.

Series AB2B
Series B$9.0M
Crown Affair, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Luxury haircare and tools that turn everyday routines into meaningful rituals, helping support healthier hair with ease and intention.

Series BConsumer
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Series A$8.0M
Outer Spaces, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

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

Series AB2B
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Series A$7.7M
Topanga.io Corp.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021 · ~11-50 employees

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

Series AB2B
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$7.5M
BUNDY INVESTMENTS INC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

Discover Bundy Group’s expert investment banking and advisory services, helping business owners achieve growth, strategy, and successful transactions.

B2B
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Series A$7.5M
DedCool, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022

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

Series AConsumer
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$7.4M
PACE NEWS, INC.
Los Angeles, CA · ~11-50 employees

Pace News provides breaking news, local news for areas like Inglewood and California, business, health, education, politics, community, law enforcement, lifestyles, and arts & entertainment.

B2B
Seed$7.3M
Automotus
Los Angeles, CA

Curb management for cities, airports and fleets. Real-time data. Automated payments. Smart loading zones. Zero emissions delivery zones.

SeedB2B
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Series A$7.2M
PeakMetrics, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Detect, decipher, and defend against coordinated narratives with PeakMetrics narrative intelligence.

Series AB2B
$7.0M
Fineline Capital, LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2026
B2B
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Seed$7.0M
Clout Kitchen Holdings Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2026

Distribution marketing for music, entertainment, gaming, and brands. The AI Engine for virality, generating millions of views monthly.

SeedB2B
Series A$6.5M
Mosh, PBC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

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.

Series AB2B
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Series A$6.5M
Arenaclub.com, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021 · ~51-200 employees

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.

Series AB2B
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Series B$6.5M
Orange Comet Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022

ORANGE COMET is a next-generation gaming and entertainment company creating immersive games in partnership with the biggest properties in the world.

Series BB2B
Series A$6.2M
Play Versus Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

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.

Series AB2B
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Series B$5.5M
Forge Technology, Inc
Los Angeles, CA · ~11-50 employees

Forge Technology, Inc. supplies metal forming simulation software, provides consulting, training, and technical support, and supplies forging equipment to industrial and academic customers in the United States.

Series BB2B
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Seed$5.4M
Sierra Labs Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Automate compliance in life science regulated markets.

SeedB2B
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Series A$5.2M
Mozza Foods, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

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

Series AB2B
$5.1M
Inception Point AI Inc
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

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.

B2B
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Series B$5.0M
Hello Soju Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022

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.

Series BConsumer
$4.9M
California Compounding Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2026

California Compounding is a trusted compounding partner for telehealth and clinics, offering office stock programs, prescriber portals, and scalable fulfillment.

Healthcare
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Series B$4.9M
Slated, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

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

Series BB2B
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Seed$4.9M
Feel Goods Inc
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022

Feel Goods offers natural, zero sugar drinks for wellbeing that combine pills and powders into complete mixes for nutrients.

SeedConsumer
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Series A$4.8M
Slips Technologies, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

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.

Series AB2B
Seed$4.8M
Alta Music Group, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
SeedB2B
Series A$4.8M
Sienna Naturals Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

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.

Series AConsumer
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Seed$4.7M
Gemist, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2018

Gemist.io offers innovative jewelry design and visualization technology to boost sales, engagement, and customer loyalty for fine jewelry brands.

SeedB2B
Seed$4.6M
Pludo Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

Pludo. For a balanced body and mind.

SeedB2B
Series B$4.3M
HomeState Hospitalities, LLC
Los Angeles, CA

HomeState is a Texas kitchen in Southern California serving breakfast tacos, queso, brisket, house-made flour tortillas and genuine hospitality.

Series BConsumer
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Series A$4.2M
Synaptec Health Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

AI-driven medical coding from Synaptec Health - a more accurate, secure, and comprehensive solution for all your medical coding needs.

Series AHealthcare
Seed$4.1M
Devign, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022 · ~11-50 employees

Devign, Inc. is the legal entity behind MightyMeld, a visual React development tool founded by Steven Schkolne; the company has raised roughly $4.1M.

SeedB2B
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Seed$4.1M
PiLogic Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

PiLogic is a dual-use company that revolutionizes aerospace by delivering precise, efficient, and mathematically grounded AI solutions for critical dual-use aerospace applications like tracking, diagnosis, and sensor fusion.

SeedB2B
Proteus Space, Inc. hero photo
Seed$4.1M
Proteus Space, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021

Rapid Satellite Payload-Tailored Design

SeedB2B
$4.0M
Red Mountain PET SP SPV I LLV
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
Fintech
Seed$4.0M
All in Food PBC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

All In Food makes organic snack bars with high-quality ingredients, and every bar sold helps fund local heroes fighting hunger and supporting nutritious food access initiatives in communities.

SeedB2B
$4.0M
Hatsu Labs, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

Hatsu Labs is an international game studio creating new player experiences.

B2B
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$4.0M
Playhouse Method Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

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.

B2B
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Series A$3.8M
LumiTerra, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021

Lumiterra is a brand-new, multiplayer, open-world survival crafting game where you can battle, farm with your friends or mysterious collected creatures in a vast world!

Series AIndustrials
Seed$3.8M
SF Insuretech Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2019

Founded by Robert Smithson, who serves as President & CEO; provides AI-based data and monitoring solutions for auto insurance companies.

SeedFintech
Series A$3.7M
NewPayHealth, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023
Series AB2B
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Series A$3.6M
ProCode Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024 · ~51-200 employees

ProCode Inc. provides an AI-Powered Medical Billing & Coding Copilot.

Series AB2B
Seed$3.6M
Jackpot 16 Card Game, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023

Jackpot 16 is a Blackjack-Poker hybrid card game, sold via its own site, Google Play, and eBay.

SeedB2B
Series A$3.3M
MCH Ventures, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Does business as Mahmee, a maternal health startup co-founded by Melissa Hanna that raised $3M in seed funding from Mark Cuban and Serena Williams.

Series AHealthcare
Series A$3.3M
TeaTeaTea, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
Series AConsumer
Pre-Seed$3.3M
RiskFront, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

RiskFront provides an AI-enabled risk operating system called AIROS for financial crime risk and compliance operational tasks and workflows, consisting of three Agentic AI Systems: Due Diligence Research (DDR), Transaction Analysis (TXA), and Document Analysis (DXA).

Pre-SeedB2B
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$3.3M
ATTN Media Holdings, LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2026

ATTN: is a media company that builds a business around attention by engaging massive audiences through original social content, original programming, creative shop services, and branded partnerships.

B2B
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Series A$3.3M
Digital Insight Games, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021

DIG is a rapidly growing studio founded by industry veterans innovating to define the future of Gaming.

Series AB2B
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$3.0M
Banyan Newco LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

Banyan provides a receipt data platform that unlocks and activates item-level receipt data to power commercial and consumer applications.

B2B
$3.0M
Sandbox Studios, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

Sandbox Studios invests in celebrity brands.

B2B
Seed$3.0M
May Lindstrom Skin, LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

The ultimate small-batch luxury organic skincare experience. Feed your skin with all natural, nutrient-filled ingredients. Every unique bottle has a birthday. You are worthy of extraordinary care.

SeedIndustrials