Top Tech Startups in Southern California in 2024

Our mission is to bring people closer together through world-class immersive experiences. Groups of up to six friends freely roam the VR space together, exploring virtual worlds and relying on each other to succeed in games specifically designed to be social experiences. When guests step into our virtual worlds, they experience the world’s most advanced virtual reality. Our proprietary, patented technology combines full-body motion capture and high-quality haptics to provide unprecedented realism and complete immersion that’s not possible with home VR or other location-based VR platforms. Players experience heart-pounding, exhilarating, and unforgettably immersive gameplay when they fend off zombie hordes, enter a world of swashbuckling adventure, soar into the clouds in a space elevator or compete against one another in a futuristic combat arena – the true future of immersive entertainment. Guests choose from any of our six exclusive experiences, created by our AAA in-house development studio. Each one is designed to make participants feel like they are in the middle of a favorite action movie, with the heightened emotions that come from not just watching a film, but from actually becoming the stars of the action. Sandbox VR is perfect for outings with family and friends, including birthday parties and group events. Come experience why Sandbox VR has been rated 4.8 out of 5 Stars by tens of thousands of guests worldwide. Sandbox VR is headquartered in San Francisco, California with an office in Hong Kong. Sandbox VR’s latest round has raised over $37 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Gobi Partners, and Craft. Individual investors include Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Kevin Durant and Will Smith.

Maximus is a consumer telemedicine startup that optimizes men's health & hormones. Our King Protocol uses doctor-prescribed at-home labs, meds, & coaching to double your testosterone within 30 days. Maximus has raised $15M from top Silicon Valley VCs such as Founders Fund & 8VC as well as leading angel investors from companies like Bulletproof, Tinder, Coinbase, Daily Stoic, & Shopify. Maximus is led by CEO Dr. Cam Sepah, Clinical Psychologist/Professor who popularized 'dopamine fasting' worldwide & was Founding Medical Director of Omada Health, a unicorn that pioneered the field of digital therapeutics and helped 500,000 people lose 5 million lbs. Maximus will be a similar $5B unicorn within 5 years given that telemedicine is the fastest-growing and most recession-proof area of the economy. We’re looking for mission-driven evangelists who want to help a million men maximize their masculinity and build a values-driven company culture.

Hello. we’re everlane. we launched in 2011 with a question: why would you pay $70 for a t-shirt—that only cost $7 to make? we want the right choice to be as easy as putting on a great t-shirt. that’s why we partner with ethical factories all around the world. source only the finest materials—from our premium grade-a cashmere to our vegetable-tanned italian leather. and share the stories behind every product we make with our customer—down to the cost of shipping and materials. it’s a new way of doing things. we call it radical transparency. learn more about it at everlane.com/about.

Intersection builds products such as Link (LinkNYC, LinkNWK, LinkPHL, InLinkUK) and transit products (IxNConnect, IxNTouch, IxNSight) in order to transform the urban experience.

BlueCargo is a fast-moving start-up based in Los Angeles with the mission of bringing efficiency to the global maritime supply chain. We are looking for people who share the same ambitious goals and want to make a difference by joining our small and talented team!

Cybereason delivers a proprietary technology platform that automatically uncovers malicious operations (Malops™) and reconstructs them as a clear image of a cyberattack in context. This enables enterprises to discover sophisticated targeted threats at a very early stage, disrupt them at the stem and significantly reduce the costs and damages caused by such attacks. Cybereason is headquartered in Cambridge, MA with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.

NAI Northern California is the full-service outpost of NAI Global, the world’s largest network of commercial real estate brokers. With three offices in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, we lead commercial real estate investments throughout the Bay Area, across Northern California, and around the country and the world thanks to the far-reaching NAI platform. Here locally, our team delivers CRE services with a heightened awareness of the technology that drives our region. Our advisors are the most tech-empowered of any under the NAI brand, maximizing the value we create for our clients, the industry, and our community. But we share more than just the tech of our neighbors. We share a mindset. Here it’s not enough to just be aware of what is. We’re also keenly focused on what could be. In Northern California, entrepreneurial thinking is habitual, and it’s a built-in mentality that we bring to every transaction. Since our founding in 2004, we’ve lived through booms and busts, recessions and crises, technological and social upheaval, and have continued to grow year after year. We credit our growth to our diverse client base and the practice of solving every real estate challenge they can present. The Bay Area attracts the entire world, and with this comes countless experiences, backstories, and points of view. Our clients give us the perspective to see a path through any challenge. Our three offices have us surrounding the Bay, and we are annually recognized as a Top-10 CRE Firm by the San Francisco Business Times and the East Bay Business Times. We employ more than 70 people organized into lean mutually-supportive divisions, offering the following services: Acquisitions, Dispositions, Leasing & Subleasing, Marketing Services, Market Research, Property Management, Landlord Representation, Tenant Representation, User Purchases, Build-to-Suit, Site Analysis/Due Diligence, Sale/Leaseback, Consulting & Planning, Receivership & REO, Disposition, and more.

We're the developers, engineers, and exploit writers behind some of the most popular offensive security tools out there – and the researchers behind some of the most creative discoveries. Offensive security is in our DNA. And it’s more than a job for us; it’s a commitment to the common good. We've worked with the world’s leading businesses across every industry, and we’ve helped the latest high-tech start-ups reach their full security potential. Now we’re ready for the next challenge. Yours. LEADERS OF THE SKULK, Every member of Bishop Fox’s diverse leadership team is an accomplished industry professional with 15+ years of experience.

Elevate AI analyzes & interprets facial expressions, tone of voice, body language and conversations in real-time and provides actionable insights. Our innovative product include Sincerity AI. Elevate AI is ethical: unbiased & private. get-elevate.com Please watch our new video: youtube.com/watch?v=7F2GTGX7JAM

Scrollmark is a DM Marketing platform that grows user acquisition on social media by at least 50%. We do this by using the most underutilized channel in marketing today - social DMs. Our integrated tools help you build automated chat funnels on social media to collect leads, grow followers, and drive downloads. We enable brands to boost engagement by rewarding followers with points redeemable for exclusive rewards, automate responses to comments, collect leads, build DM mailing lists, and sell subscriptions/products directly via social messengers. These automations work on paid, influencer, and organic media and are supported on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Brands using Scrollmark achieve a 90% open rate on their DM’s, CTR’s of 25%+, and an average conversion rate of 15%. Our mission is to make every social media interaction count towards enhancing customer experiences and driving business growth. Want to be a part of the Scrollmark Crew? We’re hiring at: jobs.ashbyhq.com/Scrollmark