Top Tech Startups in Southern California in 2024

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We make it easier than ever for fitness professionals to start, run and scale their own businesses. Our platform allows fitness entrepreneurs to host classes and events, monetize on-demand content, and build community-driven courses, from their own website. Sutra takes out the heavy lifting so leaders can focus on what they do best: teaching and connecting with their community. The future of wellness has more voices in the space who bring inclusion, diversity and creativity to movement, so working out is a better experience than ever before.

Space Runners has 3 main products: 1. Our open fashion metaverse (see demo at spacerunners.com/spaceverse), where users can show off their digital fashion wardrobes and brands can build gamified retail experiences for their fans. We are building the next generation platform for fashion retail and events that will also engage users with a wear-to-earn mechanic that rewards the most fashionable with token awards. 2. Digital fashion collections, launched in collaboration with the most beloved fashion brands. Our team of fashion and 3D designers build beautiful fashion items that rival real life clothing, but with a fun reality-defying quality only digital items can have, that you can wear across different metaverse platforms. 3. Experiences to enhance the fun of socializing in the metaverse, including a Web 3 dating application called Fame

Realm is building the modern financial advisor for your house. Primary residences account for 62% of the average American’s total assets, but there’s no accessible platform homeowners can turn to for unbiased, actionable advice — until now. From the day you buy your home to the day you sell it, you’re making a series of expensive and confusing decisions. To navigate these decisions, homeowners try to cobble together information from biased experts, googling, and friends. Realm's free insights and tools help homeowners across the US make informed decisions. Our nationwide product is powered by technology, with a human touch. Our insights help homeowners navigate complex & expensive home decisions, ranging from how much to spend on a kitchen renovation to when to refinance.

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

InHome is a marketplace offering Heating & Cooling (HVAC) services direct-to-consumer online. Buying HVAC services the traditional way requires hours of a homeowner's time and costs $10,000+ per installation. An online marketplace can save 10+ hours and $2,000+ by no longer needing to research, make calls, schedule appointments, compare quotes, or negotiate pricing. InHome is a direct-to-consumer home services startup incubating within HomeWorks Energy, a 460-employee home energy efficiency company in Boston, MA. Since 2019, the impact of our services saved over 1,000,000 metric tons of CO2 and took over 200,000 cars off the road for one year. The HVAC market is nearly $100 billion and includes 100,000 HVAC companies employing 500,000 professionals.

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CAIS is the leading open-architecture financial product platform offering the independent wealth management channel access to a menu of alternative investment funds and capital markets offerings. We are a FinTech, B2B organization that is leveling the playing field by providing research, diligence, access, and execution of complex financial products.

ChowNow stands out among the typical platform in the world of online food ordering. We help local restaurants thrive by offering the sharpest digital tools and services to grow in the modern world. Everything we design puts local restaurants and their diners first. Our products include: websites, custom-made apps, access to the most popular online ordering hubs, marketing tools, and valuable customer data. Most importantly, our business revolves around principles of fairness and sustainability—when we say commission-free, we mean it. Diversity, teamwork, and mutual respect are among our core company values. We provide support and create opportunities for everyone on the ChowNow team. To this date, we’ve build over 20,000 apps for our restaurant partners—a first for our line of business.