Industrials startups in Southern California
Manufacturing, hardware, and physical-world operations. Overlaps heavily with the region's decades-old aerospace and defense manufacturing base, now extending into robotics and automated production.
Valar Atomics, Radiant Industries, and Newlight Technologies are the best-funded companies in this category, and two of the three are headquartered in El Segundo — no coincidence. This category leans hardest on Southern California's decades-old aerospace and defense manufacturing base, the same South Bay corridor that built the Space Shuttle and the Predator drone, now home to a new generation of hard-tech and hardware startups.
Companies
Founded by CEO Serena Allen, who built an outdoor air-purification device; Allen has since announced she is shutting the company down.
$100KThe Farm Project was founded by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik with the mission to reconnect people with food.
ONIT Sciences, based in Irvine, brought on Eric Mathur, a globally recognized plant geneticist and molecular biologist, as its Chief Science Officer.
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$55KLiquor store in Lenexa, Kansas
Atomic Fondue is an upcoming indie film from director Dan Mirvish, co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival.
$20KBrands is focused on building our own portfolio—brands that align consumer desire with long-term health and wellness trends.
ONIT Holdings is an Irvine, CA agtech company developing organic, non-GMO alternatives to synthetic pesticides, and it has raised capital through the equity crowdfunding platform Manhattan Street Capital.
$44Clarity AI is an AI-native platform for extra-financial intelligence that supports financial institutions, companies, governments, and consumers in making decisions.
Exterior wildfire sprinkler and site-planning systems designed to reduce home ember-ignition risk.
Seasats offers ocean autonomy solutions designed to deploy in minutes, detect from miles, and react at once, providing high-resolution data for maritime domain awareness, intelligence and surveillance missions, and subsea mapping.
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.
Mesh Optical Technologies designs and manufactures advanced optical systems at scale.
Saphlux provides total micro-LED solutions to enable next-generation displays, including AR Micro-LED Displays and Quantum Dot COB Displays.
Luminit develops holographic optics and light shaping diffusers, which are patented diffusers that precisely control the shape of transmitted light beams for various industries including automotive, defense, and industrial lighting.
Citadel EHS is an environmental, health, safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) consulting firm that helps organizations manage EHS&S challenges across industries and creates safer, more sustainable spaces.
We're building robot birds for surveillance.
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Machine intelligence for American Welding
Therecraft provides uncrewed flight services.
Orbital logistics: Unleashing space industry, from Earth to asteroids
Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for major airlines
Building low-cost cruise missiles
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Inspection software for renewable energy & sustainable infrastructure
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Workforce Management for Large Farms
Building humanity’s multiplanetary future.
Heart makes electric airplanes with an all-electric range of 250 miles
Robots for longer-lasting, better-tasting fish at scale.
We develop ML that optimizes how batteries in the grid store energy
Stratospheric birds for defense
Flying motorcycles
Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments
Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth
The Modular Interceptor Platform
Turning space into a transportation layer for Earth
Moving Things Around in Space, Imaging Space Objects When We're Not
We Mine Asteroids
Underwater robotic vehicles that collect battery metals responsibly
Airplanes anyone can fly
High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense
Building and Protecting an Exciting Future
Robots to Automate Fulfillment
Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security
Deployment-ready robotic labor for the supply chain industry
Industrial Controllers built for AI
We make Silicon on the Moon.
Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI
We make the world's most efficient aircraft