Santa Monica
The breakdown
249 startups on file in Santa Monica, spanning B2B, Healthcare, Consumer, 231 of 249 have disclosed funding, $6.59B combined, 63 at Seed stage, founding dates span 1996-2026.
A bit of history
Donald Douglas founded the Douglas Company in Santa Monica on July 22, 1921, and the aircraft maker grew into one of the city's largest employers for decades before consolidating operations elsewhere. That aerospace-and-manufacturing base gave way to a different kind of builder starting in the 1980s and 90s, as digital media startups moved into converted warehouses and lofts along the coast. By the early 2010s the stretch from Santa Monica through Venice and Playa Vista had earned its own name: Silicon Beach.
Investors headquartered in Santa Monica
Seed$1.6MSoftware platform for managing TikTok Shop operations for brands, agencies, and creators.
California-licensed entertainment and media financing lender backed by MEP Capital.
AI platform that generates code-compliant architectural, structural, and MEP construction documents from sketches, CAD files, or plain-language descriptions.
AI platform unifying availability, pricing, and customer behavior data to help aftermarket auto-parts businesses optimize inventory and pricing.
Buys electric vehicles directly from consumers nationwide, handling paperwork, payment, and pickup.
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Early StageCosight builds always-connected telehealth devices — cellular- and satellite-ready — for video consultations and remote patient monitoring, with real-time translation and integration with FDA-approved medical devices, aimed at hospitals and healthcare providers.
Series A$23.4MMonnai is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2021.
Seed$7.0MBonsai Health is a Santa Monica; California-based healthcare technology company founded by Travis Schneider.
$20.0MlakeFS is an open-source data version control platform (by Treeverse; launched 2020) that transforms cloud object storage into Git-like repositories. It enables branching; atomic commits; merges; and
Series A$116.0MA last-mile delivery service that deploys human-operated sidewalk robots to transport goods from merchants to their customers
Seed$4.0MFinal Boss Sour is a Santa Monica food-and-beverage company founded in 2023 by James Hicks. The gaming-themed brand makes sour snacks from dried fruit; including cranberries; blueberries; strawberries
Series E$513.2MTala is a financial technology company; founded in 2011 and headquartered in Santa Monica; California; that provides credit to thin-file borrowers in emerging markets. Its mobile app underwrites and d
Seed$5.1MLiminal is a brand-new user-generated content game for narrative action role-playing games.
Seed$4.5MUnlocking infinite scale for creators through digital twins.
Seed$5.0MOdysee provides innovative solutions that enable airline operators to make smarter; more informed decisions.
Seed$3.0MNevoya is a totally electric truckload carrier dedicated to making zero-emission freight transport simple.
Series A$34.0MPearpop is a Las Angeles; California-based company that offers a creator collaboration platform.
Seed$4.0MNucleo is a private; audit-friendly multi-sig on Ethereum.
Seed$500Muus Collective is a digital studio and fashion playground for the creator; gamer and meta-visionary in all of us.
Bond Protocol is a decentralized platform intended to provide bonds as a service.
Seed$7.1MOutpost Technologies; trading as Outpost Space; builds fully reusable spacecraft for returning cargo from orbit and for through-space shipping. Founded in Santa Monica; California in October 2021 by J
Series A$2.2MBobacino is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded by Darian Ahler.
Series A$16.0MBuilding the future of membership and loyalty for brands
Seed$2.6MZeeve is an enterprise-grade no-code Blockchain Infrastructure Automation platform that enables deployment; monitoring; and management of Blockchain nodes and networks.
Seed$4.0MIndieFlow is a production music company.
Series C$24.3MSuper League runs advertising and content programmes inside game worlds such as Roblox and Minecraft; building branded experiences and selling media placements to reach players in those environments.
Series A$16.1MSensible Weather is a company founded in 2019 by Nick Cavanaugh.
$21.0MMeasured is a Santa Monica; California-based company.
Series A$40.4MEnervee scores consumer appliances and vehicles on energy efficiency and lifetime running cost; and runs marketplaces for utilities where those scores; rebates and financing appear together so custome
Series A$9.0MVyng replaced the ringtone with video: callers set a short clip that plays full-screen on the recipient's phone when they ring; turning the incoming-call screen into a personal; social surface. Digita
SkateX is a NFT Skateboarding project; powered by Solana.
$1.5MOh Waiter; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2019.
Terra’s first NFT game; Derby Stars; is coming to you in the near future! It uses its own racing engine along with cartoon rendering graphics; making it an exceptional game in terms of both fun and qu
$165.5MThatgamecompany is a video game development studio founded in 2006 by Jenova Chen.
$4.3MImmunoVec; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2019.
Series A$23.0MGetLabs is a healthcare company.
Seed$10.0MOur flexible SMS marketing and message commerce platform empowers brands to drive revenue and grow + engage community at scale.
Series B$170.0MAutograph is an NFT platform that brings together the iconic brands in sports and culture to create unique digital collections.
$1.0MOptimal Financial Systems; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2018.
$35.5MNextCar Holding Co is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2020.
Series B$21.0MTagger is an all-in-one influencer marketing platform and social listening tool.
Seed$8.6MToucan is a browser extension helping users learn a new language while browsing the web.
$1.7MEmerge Tools is a company founded in 2020 by Josh Cohenzadeh.
$21.2MDoltHub Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2018.
Seed$8.3MGrow Credit is a Santa Monica; California-based payment company.
Series B$64.8MOuter is a direct-to-consumer outdoor furniture brand selling all-weather sofas; dining sets and fire pits; known for its OuterShell built-in cover.
$44.0MCanvas built the first robotic drywall finishing system; a San Francisco construction-robotics company founded in 2017 whose 1200CX platform sprays and sands interior drywall to Level 4 and Level 5 fi
Seed$4.5MMayk; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2020.
$8.2MFoundation Labs; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2020.
$3.0MAmihan Entertainment; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company.
Series A$30.0MProvider of remote videography services intended to handle all videography needs with the click of a button. The company offers seamless integration with all live streaming providers; videographers re
Seed$3.0MFrame is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded by Kendall Bird.
$8.0MSimply Bail; LLC is a Santa Monica; California-based company.
$2.7MSoft Ledger; Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company.
Series A$10.5MRetina.AI is an AI-based early prediction of customer lifetime values founded in 2017 by Michael Greenberg; Emad Hasan and Brad Ito.
Series B$64.0MTapcart is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded by Eric Netsch.
SMARTEST EDU; INC. is a Santa Monica; California-based company.
Series A$40.9MRed Six is a Santa Monica; CA-based company which develops augmented reality-based combat training systems for U.S. Air Force pilots and key support staff
$500KTruLiv Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company founded in 2020.
325 Bowery Inc. is a Santa Monica; California-based company.