Palm Springs
The breakdown
3 startups on file in Palm Springs, spanning Consumer, Fintech, B2B, 2 of 3 have disclosed funding, $1.3M combined, founding dates span 2024-2026.
- Good Eat'n, Inc. — Consumer, $1.3M raised, founded 2024.
- Global Interchange, Inc. — Fintech, $20K raised.
- Like Lightning OKC LLC — B2B, founded 2026.
A bit of history
Judge John Guthrie McCallum established the Palm Valley Colony on the site in 1884, and the opening of the Desert Inn in 1909 turned the area into a retreat for visitors seeking relief from respiratory ailments in the dry desert climate. Palm Springs incorporated as a city on April 20, 1938, after voters approved the measure that April by a margin of 442 to 211. Starting in the 1930s, film stars such as Charles Farrell and Ralph Bellamy, who opened The Racquet Club in 1934, helped draw Hollywood's elite to build vacation homes, and architects including Richard Neutra used the city's wealthy clientele to pioneer midcentury modern design, exemplified by the 1946 Kaufmann Desert House.
$1.3MGood Eat'n offers tasty snacks like 'Ragerz - Chile Lime' and 'Ragerz - Sweet Chili Crisp' which are deliciously vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, and contain no artificial colors, flavors, or preservatives.
$20KGlobal Interchange SL is a company that connects global manufacturing hubs to their customers and provides international industrial solutions, specifically in energy management and life safety systems, along with technology solutions for various industries including fire fighting, fire alarm, drainage pumps, pressure groups, household, automation, and automotive.
Lightning Communications offers nationwide cloud-based VoIP and unified communications solutions for businesses, with U.S. support and near-zero downtime