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50 BEST PAYING COMPANIES IN Los Angeles 2020

Spring Labs
Blockchain + Fintech
About us
Spring Labs is redefining how data is exchanged for the new age of data sharing, security, and consumer privacy through decentralization. We allow institutions to share information directly among themselves to verify identities and reduce fraud - all while protecting consumer data.

50
Local Employees
Founded
Marina Del Rey
Location

InvestCloud, Inc.
Fintech
About us
We're InvestCloud - California-based with a global presence, known for first-class, financial digital solutions, pre-integrated in the cloud. We create beautifully designed client experiences and intuitive operations solutions using our ever-expanding library of digital modular apps.
130
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location

WhoWhatWear
Beauty + Fashion
About us
Named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list in 2017 and as Digiday's most innovative publisher in 2018, Who What Wear is an international fashion company known for its content sites—whowhatwear.com and whowhatwear.co.uk—and its affordable, size-inclusive, and trend-forward line of clothing and accessories.

85
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location

Altruist
Fintech
About us
Altruist helps people do better with their money by empowering financial advisors to do their best work. We’re going to help tens of millions of people by helping thousands of financial professionals.
Our software makes advisors more efficient and gives them the freedom to charge less. This means clients pay less and make more.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
Prodege LLC
AdTech + Digital Media
About us
Prodege, LLC, an internet and media company that is dedicated to “creating rewarding moments” for its members by rewarding them with more than $700 million in cash and free gift cards since inception. Prodege is comprised of four consumer brands — Swagbucks, MyPoints, ShopAtHome, and InboxDollars— and a complimentary suite of business solutions.
140
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location

Dave Inc.
Fintech
About us
Dave is a banking app offering up to a $100 cash advance, side gigs and automated budgeting. Built for humans, not overdraft fees, Dave shares its revenue with charities to feed families and plant trees.
90
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Tradesy
eCommerce + Fashion
About us
Tradesy is a new kind of peer-to-peer marketplace that addresses the pain-points associated with selling on sites like eBay and Craigslist. Our mission is to make it dead simple and delightful for anyone to sell the unused or underused goods cluttering their closets. We have millions of passionate members, a product that people love, and an office

Founded
Santa Monica
Location

BlackLine
Fintech + Software
About us
BlackLine is a leading provider of cloud-based solutions that automate and control financial close processes. Our vision is to deliver deeper insight and strategic value, turning uncertainty and doubt into confidence and trust in the global economy. More than 2,700 customers in over 150 countries trust BlackLine to ensure balance sheet integrity.

530
Local Employees
Founded
Woodland Hills
Location

Wevr
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Wevr is the leading immersive software company providing virtual world creation and software. Included on Fast Company’s list of "Top 10 Most Innovative Companies", our products include an unannounced immersive experience based on a top global IP; a Jon Favreau co-creation, “Gnomes & Goblins"; and "theBlu" one of the most iconic VR experiences.

45
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location

NexTravel
Software + Travel
About us
NexTravel empowers businesses to have true ownership over the employee end-to-end booking experience. By providing simple and transparent solutions for our clients to set travel policies, track spend, and build in-depth reports, our clients can enjoy business travel without the complexities, hidden costs and time-consuming manual requirements.

22
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location

VideoAmp
AdTech + Big Data
About us
Our solutions enable marketers and media owners to optimize their entire portfolio of linear TV, OTT and digital video advertising by measuring how the ads performed against in-market sales prospects. We then recommend optimizations and automate their execution to maximize return on marketing investment.

100
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Clutter
Logistics + On-Demand
About us
Clutter is an on-demand technology company based in Los Angeles, disrupting the $40 billion / year self-storage industry. We've built an end-to-end logistics and supply chain platform that enables us to offer consumers a much more convenient solution at price parity with the incumbents!

100
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location

GoGuardian
Edtech + Software
About us
GoGuardian is transforming education. We dream of a world in which students can leverage the power of the internet and their own curiosity while staying focused and safe from harmful content on their school-issued devices. We're building applications to do just that. Our products allow school administrators to create freedom within boundaries by se

165
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location

GOAT Group
eCommerce
About us
GOAT is the global platform for style. Founded in 2015 to bring trust to the sneaker community, the technology platform has since expanded to offer apparel and accessories. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company is able to deliver authentic product to over 20M members across 164 countries.

250
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location

BloomNation
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
BloomNation is a platform that helps independent florist thrive in the world of e-commerce. We've built an entire eco-system that helps empower florists and levels the playing field against the large online brokers. Our mission is to empower these small businesses with the tool to gain and keep online customers.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Emotive.io
AdTech + eCommerce
About us
Emotive is a mobile messaging platform that scales emotionally intelligent relationships for eCommerce brands.
Using a combination of AI and human assistance, Emotive reaps industry leading engagement with 60%+ response rates for hundreds of leading online retailers.

Founded
Los Angeles
Location

SoLo Funds
Fintech + Mobile
About us
SoLo is fintech startup that connects lenders and borrowers for access to loans under $1,000. We offer free financial literacy courses, on budgeting all the way to retirement. Our platform also allows borrowers to set their own terms. We've helped 60,000 people though hard times, connecting them to lenders to cover emergency expenses and more.
11
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

ChowNow
Food + Software
About us
ChowNow is the ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants grow and compete in a sustainable way. At ChowNow, we’re driven by one purpose: to help local restaurants thrive. By helping diners discover their delicious creations and helping restaurants connect with customers new and old.

160
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Endpoint
Real Estate
About us
Endpoint is a digital Title and Escrow company that streamlines the home closing process by making it simple, fast and transparent for everyone involved. Our platform involves all parties: agents, buyers, and sellers, and offers convenient signing, secure funds transfer, and in-home notarization to put your home buying process at ease.
40
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location

Grindr
Mobile + Social Media
About us
Grindr is among the top highest grossing apps in the iOS App Store and boasts some of the most engaged users across all social networking apps. We offer a constantly evolving, agile startup environment that enables and rewards innovation, teamwork, and diligence.

75
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location

MediaAlpha
AdTech
About us
We're the only real-time, programmatic technology platform built for vertical search and metasearch media. MediaAlpha’s platforms power over 50 million advertising transactions annually, representing more than $400 million in spend on brand, comparison, and metasearch sites.

39
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Verifi
Fintech + Payments
About us
Verifi is an innovative company, leading the FinTech industry with payment protection and management solutions for ecommerce merchants. Our SAAS based service is an end-to-end secure technology providing merchants immediate results. We continue to invest in our product suite to ensure we stay ahead of ever-changing payment methods.
138
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Snap Inc.
Mobile
About us
Snap Inc. is a camera company. At Snap, we believe that reinventing the camera represents our greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
1 800
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location

Tala
Fintech + Mobile
About us
Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is opening up financial access for underserved people around the world. Tala’s smartphone app instantly evaluates customers for credit using only the data on their devices and delivers customized loans in minutes.
120
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location

CAIS
Fintech
About us
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.

11
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Retention Science
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
ReSci's mission is to make artificial intelligence accessible and usable for brands. We are a marketing automation platform powered by AI, that predicts customer behavior and helps create one-to-one interactions with customers via email, mobile, and web.
65
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location

NEXT Trucking
Logistics + On-Demand
About us
NEXT provides world-class service to shippers and truckers alike. We’re solving a trillion dollar puzzle and offer painless freight. Forbes included us on its 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, and we’ve been recognized as one of Built in LA’s Best Small Companies to Work For and 50 Startups to Watch.
200
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location

Scopely
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Scopely is a global interactive entertainment company and leading mobile games publisher. Scopely's diverse game portfolio provides immersive experiences to both casual and core gamers around the globe. Scopely has operations in LA (HQ) and Barcelona with studios in eight countries across four continents.

200
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location

FightCamp
Fitness + Hardware
About us
FightCamp’s goal is to create the ultimate at-home workout experience for busy professionals committed to their fitness goals. In order to do so, FightCamp offers interactive boxing workouts. Workout output is tracked by motion trackers that calculate the speed and the amount of punches thrown during a workout. FightCamp is funded by Y Combinator.
22
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
Location

DAQRI
Mobile
About us
DAQRI is the world’s leading AR developer, providing custom software and creative solutions to clients across a broad spectrum of industries. From groundbreaking interactive consumer marketing campaigns to multi-year industrial manufacturing deployments, we help businesses leverage the latest innovations in computer-human interaction.

400
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

CrowdStrike
Artificial Intelligence + Security
About us
CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world’s leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Co-founders George Kurtz and Dmitri Alperovitch realized that a brand new approach was needed — one that combines the most advanced endp
250
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location

Zwift
Fitness + Gaming
About us
Zwift is the app that makes indoor training fun. Connecting cyclists and runners around the world, Zwift mixes the intensity of training with the immersive and engaging play of gaming. Ride or run virtual worlds with a community that motivates you at every mile. You'll get faster and stronger and have a blast doing it.
190
Local Employees
Founded
Long Beach
Location

Your Super
eCommerce + Food
About us
Your Super is a fun and fast-moving start-up that’s determined to make a difference. Our mission is to make healthy eating easier with organic, plant-based superfood mixes. Our supply chain is 100% transparent and sustainable. And for every mix sold, we donate a life-saving food bar (1:1) to those in need.
27
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location

Appetize
Hardware + Information Technology
About us
Appetize is a leader providing an Enterprise Cloud Point of Sale (POS) and management platform for food services and retail and trusted by the world’s most well known & highest volume businesses, including sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and attractions, restaurants, retailers, education campuses and business cafeterias.
150
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

.xyz
AdTech + Fintech
About us
XYZ is a technology company that provides domain names and related services to individuals and businesses worldwide. As a leader in the industry, XYZ has a wide span of products, from its flagship domain .xyz to category specific domains such as .Rent, .College, .Cars, .Car, .Auto, .Monster, .Baby, .Storage, .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre.

42
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location

Riot Games
eCommerce + Gaming
About us
Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, we released our debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. Since launch, League of Legends has grown around the world -- over 67 million play every month.

1 500
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Honey
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
Our mission is to make the world more fair. We believe everyone should have the information they need
to make the best decisions with their money. We build our members tools to get the best savings, perks, and all around value from ecommerce - instantly and for free - creating a better, smarter, more confident way to shop.
270
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Cloudvirga
Fintech + Mobile
About us
Cloudvirga strives to make the process of securing a mortgage easier for consumers while making the American Dream more achievable. CV's digital mortgage platform radically cuts mortgage loan costs, increases transparency and reduces the time to close a loan. We process over $200B in loans/year for some of the largest mortgage lenders in the US.

80
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location

NFL
News + Entertainment + Digital Media
About us
The National Football League is looking for passionate & experienced engineers to help build out our fan facing web, mobile and backend services. NFL Engineers build and maintain NFL.com, NFL Mobile, NFL Fantasy Football, + 32 NFL Club Sites as well as other products to scale for our user base of 200+ Million fans worldwide!
The apps we build

500
Local Employees

The Trade Desk
AdTech
About us
The Trade Desk powers the most sophisticated buyers in advertising technology. We were founded by the pioneers of real-time bidding, and we’ve become the fastest growing demand-side platform in the industry by offering agencies, aggregators and their advertisers best-in-class technology to manage display, social, video and TV advertising campaigns.
202
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Electronic Arts
Gaming
About us
Electronic Arts (EA) is a global interactive entertainment software company that delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones, and tablets. The company develops and publishes video games for various platforms, including PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3.

589
Local Employees
Founded

Inspire
Greentech + Internet of Things
About us
Our mission is to build the world’s most consumer-focused clean power platform and inspire a connected movement of people towards a brighter energy future.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location

Miro
Cloud + Productivity
About us
Miro is the most intuitive visual collaboration and whiteboarding platform for cross-functional teams. Over 3 million product managers, project managers, Agile coaches, developers, and other talented team members around the world use Miro to collaborate, brainstorm and visualize ideas, and share team work.

33
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

FabFitFun, Inc.
Beauty + eCommerce
About us
FabFitFun is a lifestyle membership that inspires women to lead happier, healthier lives through product and brand discovery. Our flagship product, the FabFitFun Box, delivers a curated collection of full-size products across beauty, fashion, wellness, fitness, home, and technology to more than one million members - each season.
450
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location

SimplePractice
Healthtech + Software
About us
We build software that matters.
Over 60,000 health and wellness professionals trust us to help them grow and run their practices. Our cloud-based, HIPAA compliant platform offers innovative features like paperless client intake, integrated billing, online booking, Telehealth, and so much more!
77
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location

Flowspace
eCommerce + Logistics
About us
Flowspace provides on-demand warehousing for businesses. Our modern software enables customers and warehouses to manage inventory between the manufacturer, carrier, warehouse, and consumer. We are transforming a $100-billion warehousing and logistics market.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location

Software
About us
Google's Los Angeles office is located in Venice and includes both engineering operations and North American advertising sales teams.In the Los Angeles office, engineers have the opportunity to take on challenging programming issues in a collaborative environment. Google engineers work on dozens of projects across ads, search, machine learning, com
1 000
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location

Relativity Space
3D Printing + Aerospace
About us
We are working on some of the most challenging problems facing humanity. We rebel against the limits of traditional hardware and software on a daily basis and seek to create long-lasting impact. We are reinventing how we access space to build the future of humanity. Our long-term goal is to 3D print and launch the first rocket made on Mars.
110
Local Employees
Founded
Inglewood
Location

Zest AI
Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Zest AI makes the power of machine learning safe to use in credit underwriting. Lenders using Zest Automated Machine Learning make better decisions and better loans -- increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance. Zest AI was founded in 2009 with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

105
Local Employees
Founded
Burbank
Location

Hart
Healthtech + Software
About us
Hart is a health technology company founded in 2012 in Orange County, California, to improve the ways in which people inside and outside of the industry access and engage with health data. An API platform that allows you to instantly collect information from separate sources and distribute it among multiple access points.
38
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
Location
What is Best Places to Work?
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