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What is Best Places to Work?
Best Places to Work rates companies algorithmically based on compensation and employer benefits data they provide to us.
100 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN LOS ANGELES 2021
VideoAmp
AdTech + Big Data
About us
We believe every human on the planet should have the option of free access to the world’s information and content. In many cases this belief is powered by a three way value exchange between a publisher producing free content, a consumer consuming it and an advertiser paying the publisher for the chance to connect with its audience. The underpinning
90
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Cornerstone OnDemand
Cloud + HR Tech
About us
Cornerstone was founded with a passion for empowering people through learning. Cornerstone is a global leader in talent management and talent experience software with a core belief that companies thrive when they help their employees to realize their potential.
Founded
Santa Monica
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.
200
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Mission
Cloud + Information Technology
About us
Mission is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting Partner and MSP. Clients depend on us to expertly and securely architect, migrate, manage, and optimize their cloud environments.
Our team of AWS certified Solutions Architects and DevOps Engineers are ready to help you harness the full power of the AWS cloud to transform your business.
50
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
Fandango
eCommerce + Mobile
About us
We are the ultimate digital network for all things movies. Fandango entertains and informs consumers with exclusive film clips, trailers, celebrity interviews, fan reviews and news, while offering the ability to quickly select a film and buy tickets in advance.
450
Local Employees
Founded
Beverly Hills
Location
GumGum
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
We are a global technology and media company specializing in contextual intelligence. For 10 years, GumGum has perfected its content analysis and capabilities, using the latest in deep learning technology.
140
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
MobilityWare
Gaming
About us
We are MobilityWare! Our mission is simple: we focus on creating fun and engaging experiences that unleash the gamer in everyone. We have an awesome culture of innovation, collaboration, and fun. Located in Irvine, California, we have won 'Orange County's Best Places to Work' by both the OC Business Journal & OC Register for three years in a row.
180
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
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.
80
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
Zwift
Fitness + Gaming
About us
Zwift is the app that enables millions of people to ride or run virtual worlds with a community that motivates at every mile. We are on a mission to make more people, more active, more often. Known for connecting cyclists and runners around the world while mixing the intensity of training with the immersive and engaging play of gaming.
220
Local Employees
Founded
Long Beach
Location
Tinder
Mobile + Social Media
About us
Tinder was introduced on a college campus in 2012 and is the world’s most popular app for meeting new people. Available in 190 countries and 40+ languages, it’s been downloaded more than 400 million times and led to 55 billion matches. Tinder has 6.6 million subscribers and is the highest grossing non-gaming app globally.
318
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
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
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 450 million advertising transactions annually, representing more than $600 million in spend on brand, comparison, and metasearch sites.
57
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
PatientPop
Healthtech + Software
About us
PatientPop is a rapidly-growing start-up in the heart of Silicon Beach. Our office knows how to play, and we’re also serious about pursuing excellence and owning the results of everything we do. We value innovation and collaboration, and believe in empowering our team to build and drive their own careers.
400
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
iHerb
eCommerce + Retail
About us
iHerb is a global health and wellness retail leader, focused on "offering our Customers earth's best selection of available natural products, at the best possible value, delivered with the most convenient experience."
1 000
Local Employees
Founded
Pasadena
Location
sweetgreen
Food + Information Technology
About us
Our mission is to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We know that sweetgreen is a critical link between growers and consumers, and we feel a responsibility to protect the future of real food.
350
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Verifi
Fintech + Insurance
About us
Verifi Inc., a Visa company, is an innovative leader in 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.
140
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Thrive Market
eCommerce
About us
Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality healthy and sustainable products at member-only prices. Every day, we leverage innovative technology to help our 900,000+ members find better products.
235
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
Snap Inc.
Mobile + Software
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
FloQast
Fintech + Software
About us
FloQast is a provider of accounting workflow automation created by accountants for accountants. Work smarter, not harder.
140
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
TigerConnect
Cloud + Healthtech
About us
TigerConnect is healthcare’s largest provider of clinical communication solutions. We help physicians, nurses, & other staff accelerate productivity, reduce costs, improve patient outcomes, & ultimately save lives. Our product includes HIPAA-compliant, HITRUST-certified secure messaging + custom EHR implementation to map clinical workflows & more.
115
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Route
eCommerce + Mobile
About us
Route provides a premium post purchase experience for online ordering, and the only way to view all of your online orders, from any merchant, in one place. Route helps shoppers insure and visually track everything they order online in one centralized app and empower brands of all sizes to take control of their post-purchase customer experience.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
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.
48
Local Employees
Founded
Marina Del Rey
Location
CreatorIQ
Information Technology + Marketing Tech
About us
Our Enterprise Creator Cloud enables intelligent creator discovery, streamlines end-to-end workflow, ensures brand safety, and drives meaningful measurement. Powerful enough for the world’s biggest enterprises and nimble enough for its most innovative, our clients include Airbnb, CVS, Dell, Disney, Mattel, Salesforce, and more.
74
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Enervee
Greentech + Social Impact
About us
Enervee's mission is to help our planet by empowering shoppers to choose the most efficient products and to make every buying decision an energy-smart buying decision. We do this by bringing together the best in data science, behavioral science, digital product design, and marketing.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
GoGuardian
Edtech + Software
About us
GoGuardian is on a mission to transform education by helping to protect students in the digital space from harmful and distracting content and supporting their mental health. We partner with schools to identify learning patterns and maximize the academic potential of every student. With GoGuardian, educators can engage students with more effective
235
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
The Honest Company
Beauty + eCommerce
About us
Founded in 2012, The Honest Company is a mission-driven consumer products company dedicated to empowering people to live happy, healthy lives. Thoughtfully formulated, safe and effective baby, personal care and beauty products are available via honest.com, in North America at more than 26,000 retail locations, in Canada through Shoppers Drug Mart...
180
Local Employees
Founded
Playa Vista
Location
InvestCloud, Inc.
Fintech + Software
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
Zest AI
Big Data + Fintech
About us
Zest AI leverages the power of machine learning and big data to challenge the traditional method of credit underwriting. Lenders use Zest Automated Machine Learning (ZAML) to make better decisions on loan portfolios; which in response increases revenue, reduces risk, and automates highly regulated compliance measures within fin-tech.
67
Local Employees
Founded
Burbank
Location
GreenPark Sports
Gaming + Mobile
About us
GreenPark Sports creates digital experiences and games for the new generation of sports and esports fans. Our flagship product is a native, free-to-play mobile game played over the top of sporting events, where fans battle to become the undisputed “Best Fans” of their league and season.
38
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
DISQO
Big Data + Marketing Tech
About us
DISQO is an insights platform amplifying innovation by connecting what people say and do. We empower people with tools that drive advanced analytics and better business decisions.
We have created the largest 100% first-party, opt-in audience, and our proprietary solutions create a complete view of opinion, behavior, and ad effectiveness.
110
Local Employees
Founded
Glendale
Location
BlackLine
Fintech + Software
About us
Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. BlackLine helps them move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and creating visibility. Leading companies like SiriusXM and Domino’s trust BlackLine to deliver accurate results in a chaotic world.
530
Local Employees
Founded
Woodland Hills
Location
Rapid7
Security + Software
About us
Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) is helping organizations around the globe advance securely. Our technology, services, and community-focused research simplify complexity for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks.
100
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
BCG Digital Ventures
Angel or VC Firm + Co-Working Space or Incubator
About us
BCG Digital Ventures is the corporate innovation and digital business-building arm of Boston Consulting Group. Our mission is to invent, build, and scale industry-disrupting businesses with the world’s most influential companies.
Going beyond the scope of traditional consulting, we operate on the shoreline between pioneering and visionary tech,
245
Local Employees
Founded
Manhattan Beach
Location
Ticketmaster
eCommerce + Events
About us
Our world-class engineers connect fans to live events through Ticketmaster’s cutting-edge tech. We’re always innovating & building new products, from our mobile apps to next-gen venue management software, open API platform & ticketmaster.com, one of the top e-commerce sites with over 27MM unique monthly visitors.
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700
Local Employees
Founded
Hollywood
Location
The Trade Desk
AdTech
About us
The Trade Desk is changing the way global brands and their agencies advertise to audiences around the world. Our mission is to transform media for the benefit of humankind. Our media-buying platform helps brands deliver a more insightful and relevant ad experience for consumers — and sets a new standard for reach, accuracy, and transparency.
332
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Procore Technologies
Cloud + Software
About us
Procore is a leading provider of construction management software. Our platform connects every project stakeholder to solutions we've built specifically for the construction industry—for the owner, the general contractor, and the specialty contractor.
750
Local Employees
Founded
Carpinteria
Location
Fuel Cycle
Big Data + Cloud
About us
Fuel Cycle is the leading cloud-based experience management platform for supercharging the relationship between humans and brands. We help the world’s most customer-centric brands such as Google, Hulu, Facebook, Church & Dwight, and Viacom engage directly with their consumers and capture actionable insights through our online communities, panels,
60
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Endpoint
Fintech + 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.
80
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
Sure
Insurance + Software
About us
Sure is an insurance technology company that powers digital programs for the world’s most recognized brands and carriers. Its enterprise SaaS Platform and APIs accelerate digital transformation and omnichannel distribution. Sure streamlines all aspects of digital insurance sales and service for each phase of the insurance life cycle.
39
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Promenade
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
Promenade is a platform that helps local businesses thrive in the world of e-commerce. We've built an entire eco-system that helps empower local business owners 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.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
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.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Inspire
Greentech + Internet of Things
About us
Inspire is a clean energy company that believes in creating simple, rewarding experiences for our customers. At Inspire, clean energy isn't just a utility — it's a movement. And we're working to bring to life the impact that our customers are making in the advancement of clean energy access for all. Thanks to our customers, we've prevented nearly
70
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
System1
AdTech + Big Data
About us
System1 is a technology company, first and foremost. We solve hard problems.
We’ve built a leading consumer internet and applications business, with 50+ digital properties, that reaches over 120 million consumers each month. Our brands include thriving online communities of all kinds - including search, maps & local, health and wellness, autos,
150
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
INTELITY
Cloud + Mobile
About us
INTELITY is the global provider of the most advanced hospitality technology platform for the hotel, casino, cruise, and luxury residential markets. INTELITY offers its customers comprehensive, fully integrated solutions to better connect and manage guest experience and staff operations, in a single platform.
22
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.
350
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
Activision
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Activision is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for various consoles, handheld platforms and PC, including blockbuster franchises like Call of Duty®, Skylanders®,Sekiro® and Spyro The Dragon®. We recognize that our success is built upon the shared dedication of great people whose sense of…
939
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
The Aerospace Corporation
Aerospace + Other
About us
Innovation in space occurs when people have the freedom to imagine and do. The Aerospace Corporation is a national nonprofit which operates a federally funded research and development center. With six decades as a leader in National Security Space, we take pride in our readiness to solve some of the most complex challenges in the space enterprise.
2 300
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
AuditBoard
Cloud + Fintech
About us
AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming how enterprises manage risk. We built our suite of audit, risk, and compliance solutions with user experience at the forefront, and maintain an unwavering focus on creating streamlined, easy-to-use products to address the critical business needs of our customers.
That customer-centric
240
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
InStride
Edtech
About us
As the premier global provider of Strategic Enterprise Education, InStride enables employers to provide career-boosting degrees and credentials to their employees, through leading global academic institutions.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Activision Blizzard
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Established in 1979 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) creates the most epic interactive gaming and entertainment experiences, immersing players in new, unimagined worlds. With close to 400 million monthly active users in over 190 countries, our products help build community and provide social
1 466
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Epirus
Aerospace + Computer Vision
About us
Epirus is a venture-backed startup specializing in agile development of advanced defense systems. Our team combines decades of aerospace & defense experience with Silicon Valley innovation in order to address 21st century threats, such as drones and other asymmetric technologies. We use cutting edge technology and build products that don't
47
Local Employees
Founded
Hawthorne
Location
Omaze
Digital Media + News + Entertainment
About us
Omaze is an online fundraising platform that harnesses the power of dreams for good. Omaze offers people the chance to win incredible experiences and life-changing opportunities while benefiting nonprofits. The company has raised over $130M since founding to support the work of over 350 causes around the world.
126
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
TeleSign
Cloud + Machine Learning
About us
TeleSign is the leader in Mobile Identity solutions, helping customers secure more than 3.5 billion accounts worldwide and provides companies with a seamless registration process, while improving UX and managing support costs. TeleSign delivers account security and fraud prevention with two-factor authentication based on each user’s mobile identity
126
Local Employees
Founded
Marina del Rey
Location
Scopely
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises, including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding,
554
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Viant
AdTech + Big Data
About us
Viant's advertising platform enables marketers to plan, execute and measure their digital advertising campaigns. We leverage our first-party data to help our clients reach their targeted audiences across all marketing channels - mobile, desktop, TV, DOOH, audio and more.
175
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location
Cloudvirga
Fintech + Software
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.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location
Flexport
Logistics + Software
About us
It’s our mission to make global trade easier for everyone. We aim to do this by building a new Operating System for Global trade - a strategic operating model for global freight forwarding that combines technology and analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.
120
Local Employees
Founded
Playa Vista
Location
FIGS
eCommerce + Fashion
About us
We’re dedicated to improving the lives of healthcare professionals by creating innovative, comfortable and functional medical apparel. FIGS is transforming the healthcare experience by empowering and celebrating the healthcare community and creating medical apparel that ensures they look their best, feel their best and perform at their best.
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
GOAT Group
eCommerce
About us
GOAT Group represents the leading platforms for authentic sneakers. Operating GOAT and Flight Club, the greatest selection from the past, present and future are displayed on mobile apps, e-commerce sites and at retail stores. Converging the primary and resale markets, GOAT Group has changed the landscape of commerce.
250
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
CREXi
Real Estate
About us
Crexi is the commercial real estate industry’s fastest growing marketplace and data platform. We’re dedicated to making commercial real estate easy for the industry and its stakeholders. We enable commercial real estate professionals to streamline the process of managing and growing their businesses..
120
Local Employees
Founded
Marina del Rey
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
ZipRecruiter, Inc.
Software
About us
ZipRecruiter is a leading online employment marketplace. Powered by AI-driven smart matching technology, ZipRecruiter actively connects millions of businesses and job seekers through innovative mobile, web, and email services, as well as partnerships with the best job boards on the web. ZipRecruiter is the #1 rated job search app on iOS & Android.
500
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Criteria Corp
HR Tech + Software
About us
Criteria is an assessment company dedicated to helping organizations make better talent decisions using objective, multidimensional data. By combining leading-edge data science with rigorous validation backed by I/O psychologists, we provide the most precise assessments available.
75
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
Aspiration
Fintech + Social Impact
About us
Aspiration offers socially-conscious and sustainable banking, investment and retirement products that help people improve their own financial situations while making a positive impact on the world. Often referred to as "the financial firm with a conscience," we allow our customers to Pay What is Fair, and reward them for socially conscious spending
95
Local Employees
Founded
Marina Del Rey
Location
PickTrace
Food + HR Tech
About us
PickTrace offers workforce & harvest management solutions for enterprise farms. We're building the agricultural management system of the future, with unparalleled user empathy in an industry underserved by tech. Our SaaS product serves the world's largest berry, citrus, and apple growers and is used by tens of thousands of farmworkers each day.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Glendale
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.
144
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Anduril
Computer Vision + Hardware
About us
Anduril is working to solve some of the most important and complex national security challenges, enabling America and its allies to maintain global leadership now and into the future. We’re building the next generation of technology, like AI, autonomy and sensor fusion, that will aid and protect those who serve on the front lines.
290
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location
Gimbal
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Gimbal is a marketing and advertising automation platform that translates location data from the real world into targeting, measurement, and insight products for our customers. Using its own hardware and software, Gimbal enables brands, media agencies, and marketers to improve their campaigns with personalized messaging and measurable results.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
GoodRx
Consumer Web + Healthtech
About us
GoodRx is America’s #1 prescription price transparency platform. More than 8 million people use GoodRx’s website and popular mobile apps each month.
Our goal is to provide Americans with convenient and affordable prescription drugs. We offer solutions to provide affordable prescriptions to all Americans.
280
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Fair
Automotive + Fintech
About us
Fair is an automotive FinTech company that's revolutionizing car buying by offering unprecedented freedom, flexibility and an end-to-end mobile experience. We believe fairness matters. That's why we've created a game-changing new app that lets you shop, get approved and pay for a car all on your phone with just a driver's license and bank account
161
Local Employees
Founded
NEOGOV
Cloud + Software
About us
NEOGOV is the market and technology leader in on-demand human resources software for the public sector. Our HR software automates the entire hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluation process. Serving over 1,500 organizations, the company’s system supports organizations through the entire employee lifecycle.
130
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
Who Gives a Crap
eCommerce + Social Impact
About us
Hi, we’re Who Gives a Crap! We make eco-friendly toilet paper (as well as tissues and paper towels) and donate 50% of our profits to help build toilets for the 2.3 billion people in need.
We absolutely love doing good, but we’re also exceptionally good at it. To date, we’ve donated over AUD$8.3 million (roughly USD$5.9 million) to fund
22
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Talespin
Virtual Reality
About us
Talespin is disrupting the future of work through radical change in enterprise tools. By leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR) Talespin is changing the way we engage, educate, and empower the next generation of the workforce.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
ServiceTitan
Cloud + Software
About us
ServiceTitan is the world’s leading and fastest-growing software technology platform for the trades, a trillion-dollar global industry. We help small business entrepreneurs run and grow their businesses and aim to democratize the power of technology. The trades industry approaches $800B in North America alone and was significantly underserved by
750
Local Employees
Founded
Glendale
Location
Centerfield
Big Data + Consumer Web
About us
Centerfield develops intelligent Big Data driven marketing and sales technology utilizing real time biddable media (RTB), automated call routing and customized scripting. Our proprietary platform, Dugout, combined with our 1500 person sales and retention center delivers new customers at scale to many of the leading brands worldwide.
153
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Spokeo
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
Spokeo is a people intelligence service that helps you search, connect, and know who you are dealing with. You can use it to find old friends, identify unknown callers, or research your date. Professionals use it to find new customers or to prevent fraud. Knowledge is a quick search away.
175
Local Employees
Founded
Pasadena
Location
CAIS
Fintech
About us
CAIS is the leading alternative investment platform for financial advisors who seek improved access to and education about alternative investment funds and products. CAIS streamlines the end-to-end transaction process through digital subscriptions and provides an industry-leading learning system that helps advisors improve client outcomes
15
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Beyond Limits
Artificial Intelligence + Software
About us
We apply a unique hybrid approach to AI, combining numeric AI techniques like machine learning with higher-order symbolic AI and expert human knowledge to deliver intuitive cognitive reasoning and information. Our cognitive computing technology mimics human thought processes and provides explainable reasoning to aid human-like decision-making
115
Local Employees
Founded
Glendale
Location
Who What Wear
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
Better.com
Consumer Web + Fintech
About us
Better is fixing the broken homeownership system by combining our proprietary technology with a seamless customer service experience while removing the middleman and saving customers thousands in unnecessary charges and fees.
700
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location
Cameo
Consumer Web + Digital Media
About us
Cameo is the first service enabling consumers to book personalized video messages from their favorite pop culture icons. In just over three years, the company has built a portfolio of tens of thousands of VIPs, and fulfilled over 1 million requests ranging from birthday and good luck messages to prom invitations, marriage proposals, baby gender
156
Local Employees
Founded
Edmunds
AdTech + Automotive
About us
At Edmunds, we’re driven to make car buying easier. Ever since we began publishing printed car guides in the 60's, the company has been in the business of trust, innovating ways to empower and support car shoppers. When Edmunds launched the car industry’s first website in 1995, we established a leadership position online and have never looked back.
500
Local Employees
Santa Monica
Location
DRINKS
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
DRINKS is disrupting the way wine is sold by leveraging its industry-leading digital reach and marketplace efficiencies to bring consumers the highest quality wine at the lowest prices, direct to their door.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
CareerArc
HR Tech + Software
About us
CareerArc is an HR tech startup that uses social media to help companies find and recruit the best talent more quickly. We also provide resume review and coaching services to help employees who are let go find better jobs. Our social recruiting and outplacement solutions have helped thousands of companies, including many of the Fortune 500.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Burbank
Location
Virgin Hyperloop
Hardware + Software
About us
Virgin Hyperloop is reinventing transportation to eliminate barriers of time and distance by using hyperloop transport to move cargo and passengers immediately, safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Our technology will transport passengers on-demand and direct from origin to destination.
210
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
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.
55
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
SpaceX
Aerospace + Hardware
About us
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
4 000
Local Employees
Founded
Hawthorne
Location
3PL Central
eCommerce + Logistics
About us
3PL Central is the fastest growing SaaS solution in the third-party logistics market. Keeping up with the massive increase in online retail activity from companies like Amazon, Shopify, and Target and the growth in supply chain logistics can be challenging for warehouses. Born within an active 3PL warehouse, 3PL Central built the first cloud-based.
65
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
Stem Disintermedia
Fintech + Music
About us
Our tools empower indie musicians and their teams to distribute music, collect royalties from streaming platforms, pay their collaborators, and take out advances on their future earnings.
27
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Miro
Cloud + Productivity
About us
Miro is an online whiteboard platform where distributed teams get work done. 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.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Headspace
Healthtech
About us
Founded in 2010 by Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson, Headspace was created with one mission in mind: to improve the health and happiness of the world. With nearly 20 million users in more than 190 countries, the Headspace app offers hundreds of guided meditations designed to help with everything from stress and anxiety to relationships and sleep.
255
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
HONK Technologies
Automotive + Insurance
About us
At HONK our vision of roadside assistance for the 21st century is not just a fix for a broken-down car, it’s a complete technology solution that provides the fastest and most reliable way to restore mobility for those who have lost it; turning car breakdowns into nothing more than a small bump in the road.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
EZ Texting
Information Technology + Marketing Tech
About us
EZ Texting is the #1 mobile marketing platform for business. With over 160,000 customers and 40% of all mobile users in the U.S. consistently receiving communication from our solutions, EZ Texting is revolutionizing how businesses personally connect with consumers.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
MuteSix
Agency + eCommerce
About us
Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, we have a performance-obsessed team of 300+ employees. Recent accolades include MuteSix being named #15 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies, #29 on Glassdoor’s list for Best Place To Work, one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces, and earning an Addy Award for breakthrough creative.
240
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Jam City
Gaming
About us
Jam City is an award-winning mobile entertainment studio providing unique and deeply engaging games that appeal to a broad, global audience. We live at the intersection of technology, entertainment, and creativity.
The company also is the go-to studio for Hollywood, having developed immersive, narrative-rich mobile games around iconic
200
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Core Digital Media
AdTech + Digital Media
About us
Core Digital Media was founded to empower people to improve their financial lives. Our websites MyWalletJoy.com, PolicyPilot.com and LowerMyBills.com provide consumers valuable information and company connections as you navigate life's biggest financial decisions.
170
Local Employees
Founded
Playa Vista
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.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
RepairSmith
Automotive
About us
Founded in 2018, RepairSmith is based in Los Angeles, Calif. RepairSmith provides the first full service at-home delivery solution for car repair and maintenance. The company is backed by Daimler AG. RepairSmith currently serves Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, San Jose, Sacramento and Las Vegas, with additional
110
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
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
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