Top Tech Startups in Southern California in 2024

Aphid is a global automation network for people and businesses to utilize artificial intelligence bots.

Cuyana is a brand of women’s premium essentials that celebrates fewer, better things. Cuyana creates apparel and accessories, made from the best materials around the world and designed with a classic, feminine aesthetic. By directly sourcing materials from around the world, designing all products in-house, and cutting out the middle-men, Cuyana is able to streamline the e-commerce production chain and go direct-to-consumer to offer high-quality, timeless pieces at attainable prices. As part of their Lean Closet Movement, which educates and encourages women to buy and wear only what they love and give things they no longer wear to those in need, Cuyana works with nonprofit organizations to help donate these unwanted pieces and gives customers credit in exchange for their donations. To learn more, please visit cuyana.com.

Victorise creates hardware and software solutions to help athletes train and perform better. Our Race Companion (Data Analytics, Wearable and Augmented Reality) allows competitive athletes to create and share Race Plans. Our users can select the data that matters for them in order to create a custom Heads Up Display.

Avela is a platform for organizations and governments to run markets to equitably allocate resources and opportunities. The right person in the right position will change the world. Learning opportunities, field-based experiences, and consultant projects all have something in common. Currently, these opportunities are allocated through a combination of manual processes, spreadsheets, and trial-and-error - rife with implicit bias and questionable outcomes. Our mission is to more equitably and efficiently distribute opportunity. Learn more at avela.org

Tatari is the leading technology platform for utilizing data and analytics to measure and buy ads across linear and connected TV. We understand the complexities that come with getting starting in TV advertising and we give brand marketers the transparency and ability optimize just like they would with a digital campaign. Tatari utilizes a proprietary data science methodology to show the true incremental lift from an ad campaign which helps brands better attribute their sales and invest in high performing inventory sources. Hundreds of brands, old and new to TV advertising, use Tatari’s measurement and media buying technology. Our team includes founders or leaders from other fast-rising companies, like Shazam, TrueCar, Crunchyroll, Vizify, LiveRail, LKQD as well as from more established large companies like Google, Facebook, and Stripe. We are not comprised of agency folks—most of us are engineers and data scientists by training, and we’re building the best solution in the industry. We have been recognized with awards for "best places to work" by both AdAge and Inc Magazine for 2020.

Front end through back end technology platform that leverages big data and optimizes in real time to engage and convert customers at scale. The Dugout platform delivers over 2,000,000 sales per year to its roster of leading global brands.

Rhombus is a Silicon Valley startup and NASA Research Park partner. We are leaders in bringing big-data insights to Enterprise planning and decision-making at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Our advisory board includes two Nobel Laureates and a Draper Prize winner. We choose to solve pressing problems in National Security and Energy sectors using cutting edge cross-disciplinary approaches. Are you ready to help the US win the AI race?

Myriad360 delivers industry-leading technology solutions to transform and secure our clients’ IT strategy, infrastructure, and business. With top IT security manufacturers and in-house engineering, global logistics and project management expertise, Myriad360 handles it all—from security to mobility, networking to cloud, and hardware solutions to managed services.

Flatlay is the end to end social commerce automation platform for brands, creatives & customers. We provide publishing tools that help anyone start a digital storefront in seconds codelessly while empowering brands and retailers to activate community and content loyalty programs. The platform has automation processes around product annotation and content delivery through a publishing scheduler helping both ends monetize the relationship. By aligning incentives with customers, fans and followers - we help to instill a Content Loyalty Program for brands to become digitally native and own the DTC relationship. Flatlay provides a suite of publishing tools allowing users to codelessly create a digital storefront in seconds. Through content driven commerce, the social marketplace network further empowers the creator economy. Users build shop-able collections to generate revenue from affiliate sales with the ability to be sponsored directly by brands for customized content. This is all done through an automated SaaS platform where brands & retailers tap into the campaign work-flow system. Clients effectively match with the right creative brand advocates at scale using the power of machine learning in a self-serve custom relationship management portal. Our vision is to evolve the way commerce is conducted online by removing intermediaries cutting into margins while empowering brands and retailers the most streamlined way to go direct to consumer. By building a social commerce marketplace, we evolve the way that e-commerce is done by placing content at the forefront and eliminating many of the headaches associated with logistics.

Podcasts are exploding in popularity, and we are on a mission to make all of this audio both readable and searchable! We rely on proprietary transcription tech, the latest in machine learning, and scalable data pipelines (serverless, containers, etc) to convert and analyze thousands of hours of audio content released each day. We also display the data in a React 100% typescript serverless node app. We are a small, highly technical startup organizing and making more accessible all podcast content!