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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
$70K
ItList Creator Labs, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021

Creator Lab is a technology platform that connects creators to collaborative opportunities with other like-minded individuals and companies to produce content partnerships.

B2B
Seed$70K
TAINR Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2021

TAINR offers a refill kiosk system that allows shoppers to purchase products in plastic-free containers, with the kiosk automatically weighing and dispensing orders, and retailers tracking inventory data in real-time.

SeedConsumer
$69K
FIBEROPTIQ, LLC
Los Angeles, CA
B2B
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$68K
Axe Me Later LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

Axe Me Later LLC, operating as Tank Me Later, is a custom Aquarium & Pond Company specializing in the design, installation, and maintenance for all types of aquariums, ponds, and waterfalls in commercial and residential environments.

B2B
$58K
RJF Pro Ltd
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025
B2B
$50K
Hadden International Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023
Consumer
$50K
Mae Labs, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2026
B2B
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$50K
Avise Financial Cooperative, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023

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.

B2B
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$50K
G3 Studio, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

G3 Studios creates Michigan-made wood gifts, custom laser cut decor, and 3D printed items, blending woodworking craftsmanship with 3D printing technology.

B2B
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Seed$50K
Scavtopia LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

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.

SeedB2B
$50K
THUMZUP MEDIA Corp
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

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.

B2B
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$50K
Loob It Up Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025
B2B
$50K
Silk AI Labs, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
B2B
$40K
Overland Hospitality, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024

Overland Partners is a human-centered architecture and urban design firm in Texas that works on projects worldwide.

Consumer
$40K
Good Boy Wine LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

Good Boy Wine LLC sells natural wine and merchandise, including various 'Party Boy' wines and branded apparel.

B2B
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$30K
Beluga Corp
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2026

Beluga & Hecker Plushies - Available Now!

Consumer
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Pre-Seed$30K
Tasha Rose LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2020

Tasha Rose sells organic liquid herbal immune support for kids and adults.

Pre-SeedConsumer
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$29K
NAO Cooperative Capital, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

Cooperative Capital empowers neighbors to pool their money and collectively invest in their community to increase wealth and well-being by directing resources towards local opportunities.

B2B
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$25K
Re:imagine, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2019

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.

B2B
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$25K
Elf Labs, Inc
Los Angeles, CA

Elf Labs aims to disrupt the IP market by leveraging advanced AI, patented technology, and profitable character IP, having secured landmark rights to characters like Cinderella and Snow White.

B2B
$25K
Harlem Box Braids Development Ltd Liability Co
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025
B2B
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$25K
SeaVoir Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022

For three generations, our family has pioneered the protection and restoration of our ocean. That’s why we founded SeaVoir – to create high quality ocean-derived products that support human health and ocean restoration.

Consumer
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$20K
Dream Management, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023 · ~51-200 employees

At Dream Management, all of our transportation services are personalized, catering to the unique challenges of your business.

B2B
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$10K
Objectively Good LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022

Objectively Good Media helps purpose-driven brands communicate the value of their values through videos, websites, and webinars.

B2B
$10K
Clopper Law Firm, P.C.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
B2B
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$44
Clarity Management Aggregator, LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

Clarity AI is an AI-native platform for extra-financial intelligence that supports financial institutions, companies, governments, and consumers in making decisions.

Industrials
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$42
Opticore Inc
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023 · ~11-50 employees

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.

B2B
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$35
Surebion, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

Founded by Dr. Susanne B. Nicholas, a UCLA nephrology professor, to commercialize kidney-disease research from her own lab.

Healthcare
$4
Amp to 11 Holdings, LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2022
Industrials
Bootstrapped
NavOps
Los Angeles, CA · ~1-10 employees

NavOps connects the software your business already uses and uses AI to automate repetitive work across those systems.

BootstrappedArtificial Intelligence (AI)
INSIGHT HOLDCO LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
B2B
INFINITY PARENT, LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
B2B
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Making Space
Los Angeles, CA

Making Space connects Neurodivergent, Chronically Ill, and Disabled professionals with career opportunities, free education, and community, while also equipping employers to hire inclusively and build better workplaces.

Education
Genesis LA
Los Angeles, CA

Genesis LA is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and Community Development Entity (CDE) that delivers financial solutions to advance economic and social opportunities in underserved communities in Los Angeles.

B2B
NeuroSigma
Los Angeles, CA

NeuroSigma is a bioelectronic medical device company that uses non-invasive trigeminal-nerve stimulation to treat chronic neurological disorders, including an FDA-cleared device for pediatric ADHD.

Healthcare
Acrylic
Los Angeles, CA
B2B
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HONK
Los Angeles, CA

HONK provides an AI-powered platform for roadside assistance, specialized vehicle services, accident management, vehicle logistics, and catastrophe event management.

B2B
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Manifest Space
Los Angeles, CA

Manifest Space provides infrastructure for persistent spacecraft identity, position, and visibility throughout the mission lifecycle to enable coordinated operations across the orbital ecosystem.

Defense Technology
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Bienestar
Los Angeles, CA

Bienestar Human Services provides full-service medical care, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, sexual health, mental health, substance use counseling, and medication-assisted treatment, alongside community services like men's health, trans health, harm reduction, youth empowerment, emergency housing, and food bank services.

B2B
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St. John's Community Health
Los Angeles, CA

St. John’s Community Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality healthcare for all, offering medical, dental, pediatric, women's health, mental health, substance use, and homeless health services, as well as patient programs like case management and health education.

Healthcare
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InHouse
Los Angeles, CA

InHouse offers a platform to design rooms by trying on furniture in a digital twin of one's home and allows users to explore ideas, layouts, and purchase pieces.

Consumer
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Sylmar Group
Los Angeles, CA

Sylmar Group provides best-in-class people, technology, and service across industrial water treatment and well and pump maintenance to solve generational challenges of declining water availability and quality.

Industrials
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Midi Health
Los Angeles, CA

Midi Health is a virtual healthcare clinic for women that provides personalized care plans including treatments, products, and guidance designed around individual hormones and symptoms.

Healthcare
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Talino Venture Labs
Los Angeles, CA

Talino Fintech Foundry helps companies build and scale global financial products faster, more securely, and at lower cost by removing regulatory friction, enabling interoperability, and modernizing traditional finance with compliant stablecoin infrastructure on a unified platform.

B2B
Ember LifeSciences
Los Angeles, CA

Ember LifeSciences applies proprietary heating and cooling technology to the healthcare industry, offering self-refrigerated, cloud-based shipping boxes called Ember Cubes.

B2B
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YSE Beauty
Los Angeles, CA

YSE Beauty sells skincare products such as moisturizers, serums, cleansers, and eye creams.

Consumer
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Mesh Optical Technologies
Los Angeles, CA

Mesh Optical Technologies designs and manufactures advanced optical systems at scale.

Industrials
Meidastouch Network
Los Angeles, CA
Consumer
Arc Boats
Los Angeles, CA
Industrials
Stockdale Capital Partners
Los Angeles, CA

Stockdale Capital Partners is a vertically-integrated real estate private equity firm that invests across asset classes nationally.

Real Estate and Construction
Fixated
Los Angeles, CA
B2B
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Nectir
Los Angeles, CA

Nectir AI provides personalized, FERPA-safe AI Assistants that are built directly from course content and integrated into Learning Management Systems (LMS) for higher education.

Education
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Tomorrows Laundry, Co.
Los Angeles, CA

Tomorrows Laundry, Co. makes premium, logo-free essential clothing from considered fabrics.

Consumer
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Hardline
Los Angeles, CA

Hardline is an AI voice tool for construction that automatically summarizes phone calls and site walks to write daily logs, extract tasks, and flag urgent items.

B2B
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Spirited Adventure Corp
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2023

Spirited Adventure offers bushcraft experiences, survival skills training, air rifle marksmanship, and camping activities.

B2B
Evolved Group Inc.
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2019

The Evolved Group is an insights technology company that connects organizations with humans through meaningful engagement, offering services like HumanListening, Evolved Thinking, and Evolved Communities.

B2B
Fear 3 Film LLC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2024
B2B
PGP Investors, LLC
Los Angeles, CA
B2B
Sootchy, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA

Sootchy gives employers a simple, tax-advantaged way to help employees save for education, integrating directly with existing payroll systems to deliver education savings as a workplace benefit.

B2B
DCX CAPITAL USA INC
Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025
B2B