Top Tech Startups in Los Angeles, CA in 2026

Guava is a comprehensive voice agent API for deploying voice exactly where and how you need it, from contact centers to embedded systems. Featuring proprietary models, deterministic behavior, and low latency, Guava is the turnkey toolkit for building capable voice interfaces right now.

We’re building an app-based safety and verification platform (app) for modern dating. In a world where people can experience financial manipulation, fraud, harassment, stalking, abuse, and other unsafe situations through online dating, Verity Safe provides an added layer of safety and awareness.

Founded in 2016, MKIT operates branch offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, India, and several other regions. With an international team of over 500 professionals, we support global enterprises by delivering human resources solutions and interactive advertising services. GiantSage is MKIT’s global one-stop human resources service brand. Our services include overseas headhunting and Employer of Record (EOR) solutions. We specialize in global recruitment, payroll, and compliance management for remote teams. Our all-in-one platform enables companies to hire talent from anywhere in the world with ease.

Wist is an AI-powered wellbeing platform helping people proactively manage stress before it becomes burnout. By combining behavioral science, biometrics, and emotionally intelligent support, Wist delivers personalized daily interventions that help users build resilience, strengthen relationships, and feel better over time. Through less than 5-minute daily check-ins, users receive techniques grounded in Cognitive Therapy, Positive Psychology, and Immersion Theory, while an AI companion, learns and adapts to reduce stress effectively.

We are building conversational AI agents for businesses.

HackerRank provides a platform that helps companies to evaluate technical skills and create opportunities. The company helps in hiring skilled developers by allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to evaluate talent at every stage of the recruiting process.

Every enterprise wants to become AI-native, but very few know how to turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into production systems that create measurable business value. That's where Tribe AI comes in. We are an AI-native services company that helps Fortune 500 companies and ambitious startups design, build, and deploy production-grade AI systems. Our teams work directly with clients to solve high-impact problems using LLMs, agentic workflows, RAG, multimodal AI, evaluations, and modern AI infrastructure not just prototypes or demos. Unlike traditional consulting firms, our engineers, architects, product leaders, and AI specialists embed alongside client teams to understand their business, design practical solutions, and deliver systems that operate reliably in production. We're proud partners of OpenAI and Anthropic, giving us early access to frontier models and close collaboration with the teams building the future of AI. At Tribe, you'll work on challenging AI problems across industries including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, cybersecurity, life sciences, and enterprise software. Every engagement is different, which means continuous learning, meaningful ownership, and the opportunity to shape how the world's largest companies adopt AI. If you're excited about solving difficult technical problems, working directly with customers, and shipping AI systems that matter, you'll fit right in.

If you want to work with words, you use a word processor. If you want to work with numbers, you use a spreadsheet. If you want to work with slides, you use PowerPoint. But if a teacher wants to make a lesson, they use a mishmash of applications — one for slides, one for getting documents, one for grades, one for annotations, one for videos, one for assessments, one for video conferencing etc. SKIES is an all-in-one platform that is easy for teachers to use, so they can stop being a systems integrator, and just focus on teaching.