Software & SaaS startups in Southern California
Software companies across the region, from Irvine's enterprise SaaS bench to Santa Monica's consumer apps: the broadest category here after AI, and the one people search for by city.
Companies

Software platform for managing TikTok Shop operations for brands, agencies, and creators.

Platform matching families with pediatric occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech specialists, with AI billing automation. Serves LA, Orange County, and San Diego.
Pharma and medical-device compliance software plus licensing consulting.

Music-industry platform combining capital, distribution and rights-management technology, and A&R services for artists and labels in 100+ countries.


AI-native digital forensics and incident-response platform automating breach recovery for MSSPs, MSPs, and enterprises.

All-in-one restaurant platform offering a branded app, commission-free online ordering, loyalty, and marketing tools.

AR platform overlaying interactive content on ebooks.

Sports loyalty platform connecting fans, athletes, and brand reps through NIL valuation tools and a fan-scoring system.

Software platform managing enterprise IT device lifecycles — deployment, repair, retrieval, and retirement — for ITAD companies and MSPs.

A wealth-coaching fintech platform giving members curated access to financial decision tools and vetted advisor networks.

AI platform that generates code-compliant architectural, structural, and MEP construction documents from sketches, CAD files, or plain-language descriptions.

AI-powered operations app for real estate agents, covering comps, note-taking, and pipeline tracking.

Platform for discovering and booking free studio movie screenings, with tools to host or crowdfund your own.

AI platform unifying availability, pricing, and customer behavior data to help aftermarket auto-parts businesses optimize inventory and pricing.
Content production and talent representation company creating entertainment across platforms.

AI-powered digital curriculum platform helping K-12 schools fill teacher vacancies and improve graduation rates.

Develops swarming technology for aircraft and air power applications.
Fintech app offering fee-free cash advances, early-pay checking, and savings tools through bank partnerships.
MobileX is an Irvine; California mobile virtual network operator that sells customisable wireless plans on a 5G network. Rather than offering fixed tiers; it uses software that predicts how much data
FriskAI is a runtime observability and security platform for AI agents in production. It records structured traces of an agent's tool calls; arguments; outputs and timing; builds behavioural baselines
Faye sells app-based whole-trip travel insurance; covering trip; health and belongings; with in-app claim filing and reimbursements paid to the traveller's phone wallet.
Obsidian Security protects the SaaS applications a company runs on; from Newport Beach; founded in 2017. It sells posture management and governance for third-party apps - Microsoft 365; Google Workspa
Savi Security makes a consumer scam-protection app for iOS and Android that screens voicemail; monitors calls in real time and flags text spam; alongside a free scam-checking tool called Scamwise. It
Steno is a legal tech company offering court reporting services and a software platform to manage depositions, transcripts, and high-stakes litigation, aiming to make the process more efficient.
Manifold Security provides runtime security for AI agents running on endpoints; monitoring what autonomous agents call and access rather than treating them as ordinary software.
Nominal is an AI-native B2B finance platform founded in 2022; offering a “shadow ledger” that automates accounting workflows; like consolidation; lease accounting; and close processes; to help mid-mar
Revel builds software for hardware companies; aimed at the firmware and device-software layer of connected products.
OroCommerce develops a B2B commerce platform that brings e-commerce; customer relationship management; marketplace; content; invoicing and payment workflows into one system. The Los Angeles company wa
Furl runs a continuous remediation platform that investigates software issues; drafts and scopes fixes; and deploys them; aimed at clearing engineering backlogs rather than reporting on them.
Saviynt provides intelligent identity and access governance solutions to let enterprises secure applications in a single platform for cloud.
Quilt is a Los Angeles-based company.
Artera is a Santa Barbara agentic-healthcare company; founded in 2015; that provides AI-powered patient communications and care-navigation software for healthcare providers.
Find Your Grind is a Los Angeles education technology company founded in 2018 by Nick Gross; Natasha Gross and Luke Trembath. Its career-readiness platform helps students explore identity; career path
Muse sells management software to museums and cultural institutions; covering ticketing; membership; fundraising; retail; venue rentals and programme scheduling in one system.
Seismic is a computer software company co-founded in 2011 by Douglas Winter; Ed Calnan; Fred Xie; Marc Romano; and Nasser Barghouti.
GammaTime is a short drama streaming app; distributing serialised vertical-video series through its mobile apps on a subscription basis.
Dialogue AI runs a customer research platform where AI moderates interviews and surveys at scale; conducting the conversations itself and then synthesising the qualitative material into structured fin
Planyear builds AI software for employee benefits consultants; automating the analysis and comparison of benefit plan documents and quotes.
IO Health sells a workflow intelligence platform for home health and hospice providers.
Salt AI sells Salt OS; an AI workflow orchestration platform for regulated industries; life sciences; financial services; energy and government; that runs inside a customer's own infrastructure and is
Everyset makes background actor management software for film and television production; covering digital vouchers; start work and time tracking; and background payroll.
Founded in 2016 by RJ Jain; Price.com is a money-saving shopping platform that combines product comparison; cashback; coupons; price history and alerts across its website; mobile applications; browser
PINC Technologies develops nonlinear photonics on a thin-film lithium niobate platform; targeting sensing; quantum and AI infrastructure applications.
SureCo is a Santa Ana health-benefits technology company founded in 2016 by Matthew Kim and Matt Christopherson. Its ICHRA platform helps employers fund individual health plans and supports enrollment
Valence is a leadership and team-performance platform that uses AI coaching and continuous peer review to help enterprises improve how teams work together.
Carro is the largest collaborative commerce platform and cross-store sales channel connecting Shopify to all of eCommerce.
Arnatar Therapeutics develops RNA medicines from a platform it calls DARGER; which pairs highly active siRNA for silencing a gene with ACT-UP1; an antisense technology that does the opposite and incre
lakeFS 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
Boulevard is a business management platform developed to help streamline the operations of appointment-based businesses.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Diego; Clearspeed provides voice-based risk assessment software that returns real-time risk indicators for insurance; government; defense; and financial-servic
Vertical SaaS company based in Los Angeles.
Anduril builds AI platforms to protect troops; fight wildfires; perform search & rescue missions; and provide border surveillance. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Irvine; California.
dataPlor helps global companies succeed in emerging markets by providing hand-collected and verified business data.
Monarch Money is a subscription-based platform that provides a personal finance program to track expenses.
CX2 Focused on achieving spectrum control for electromagnetic warfare for the U.S. and its allies.
The leading immersive social app; that allows users to stream & experience a new level of immersive realism in XR and the Metaverse.
Advanced AI video surveillance platform for municipalities and enterprises. AWS GovCloud certified; FedRAMP ready; and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Secure; scalable; and intelligent monitoring solutions.
Rainmaker Technology develops drone-based cloud seeding to increase rainfall and snowpack. It combines radar; unmanned aircraft and a weather awareness platform to serve farms; watersheds and ecosyste
Dosen is an AI-powered employee alignment platform founded in 2020 by Ronan Wall; Cian McCarthy and Victor Burke.
AI-driven tools provider for jewelers; designers; brands and retailers.