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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Los Angeles 2019
ZestFinance
Big Data + Fintech
About us
ZestFinance was founded by a team of some of the world’s best data scientists from Google who came together with a mission – use machine learning algorithms to revolutionize how credit decisions are made to provide fair and transparent credit to everyone.

100
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
CREXi
Real Estate
About us
Our mission is to enable every stakeholder in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry to maximize productivity and achieve unparalleled success. We do this by helping stakeholders quickly streamline, manage and grow their business using the industry's most advanced platform.

46
Local Employees
Founded
Marina del Rey
Location
Cie Digital Labs
Digital Media
About us
Cie Digital Labs (CDL) is an innovation accelerator for large enterprises and a growth accelerator for emerging startups. CDL creates leading digital solutions, serves as an innovation lab for a variety of prominent global brands, and acts as a platform to develop and turn ground-breaking ideas into new technology ventures.
60
Local Employees
Irvine
Location
JOANY
Consumer Web + Healthtech
About us
Our mission at JOANY is to make buying and using health insurance simple and transparent. We are a venture-backed startup obsessively focused on our customer. Using data, machine learning + humans, we are personalizing healthcare for the consumer. Using our web platform anyone can buy the best health insurance for their needs in minutes.

70
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Renew
Enterprise Web + Healthtech
About us
Retirement shouldn’t be a full-time job. That’s why Renew creates innovative content & tools that simplify the complex decisions retirees face. Our ultimate goal? To be the premier destination for the 10,000+ people who retire each day. With a first-of-its-kind Medicare shopping engine and a rapidly growing online community, we're well on our way.

24
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
AppOnboard
Mobile + Software
About us
AppOnboard is an app demo platform whose technology allows users to instantly experience an app or game without a download. AppOnboard's technology, tools, and insights empower developers by enabling the creation of the highest quality demos and unlocking insights that improve app experiences, discovery, and monetization.

62
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
NOM [This is NOM]
AdTech + Digital Media
About us
NOM [thisisNOM] is a video technology and data company that offers brand safety and contextual targeting solutions across social properties.
33
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
TicketGuardian
Events + Fintech
About us
TicketGuardian was created to disrupt the live events industry by abolishing the status-quo “no refunds.” TicketGuardian’s technology and consumer-facing insurance products are helping provide platforms and organizers with CONTROL in order to improve their brands, drive additional revenue, improve the checkout flow and enhance fan engagement.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Newport Beach
Location
Criteria Corp
HR Tech + Software
About us
Criteria Corp is a software company that helps companies hire more effectively and efficiently with pre-employment tests. Our mission is to make high-quality pre-employment testing solutions accessible to companies of all sizes.

66
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
UpKeep Maintenance Management
Enterprise Web + Software
About us
UpKeep Maintenance Management Software is a task management tool startup for facility maintenance teams. UpKeep is targeting the 9.9 million maintenance workers in the US alone to make their work more productive and change the way facility maintenance requests are made and received.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Jumpcut
Digital Media + Edtech
About us
We are a Y Combinator and venture-backed startup company that creates cinematic online courses about entrepreneurship.
We believe the future of education lies in creating world-class content. That’s where Jumpcut comes in. We aim to create binge-worthy, addictive educational courses.
15
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
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.

75
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
HYFN
AdTech + Agency
About us
HYFN is an award-winning group of strategists, human behavior analysts, creators, and amplifiers that thrive on engaging audiences in meaningful ways. We create partnerships to design and develop cross-platform solutions that meet the demands of an evolving digital culture and diversified media landscape.

90
Local Employees
Founded
Playa Vista
Location
CitizenNet
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
CitizenNet’s platform interprets billions of real-time data signals from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others to deliver more accurate ad targeting and better results. This methodology refines Facebook’s built-in solutions, creating improved micro-targeting across demographic, behavioral, and interest-based segments.

42
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
WITHIN
Virtual Reality
About us
WITHIN is the premier destination for innovative, entertaining, and informative story-based virtual and augmented reality. We bring together the best immersive experiences from the world's finest VR creators—from gripping tales set in worlds of pure imagination to documentaries taking you further inside the news than ever before.
Founded
Culver City
Location
Enervee
Big Data + eCommerce
About us
Enervee has created a big data and marketing platform that is transforming the way we shop for appliances and electronics. In the US alone, consumers purchase 200 million home electronics and appliance products every year. By shifting those purchases to more energy efficient models, we can save $100 billion in lifetime energy costs which is equival
40
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
SecurityFirst Corp.
Security + Software
About us
SecurityFirst’s sole focus is to provide innovative software solutions that protect one of the world’s most valuable assets – digital data. Based in Southern California’s “silicon beach”, our disruptive cybersecurity algorithms provide global organizations the tools to ensure the integrity of their critical data in the event of a cyberattack.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Rancho Santa Margarita
Location
The Expert Institute
Legal Tech + Professional Services
About us
The Expert Institute is a high growth tech start-up that has been disrupting the legal space since 2010. We are the fastest growing technology platform for connecting law firms with experts for complex litigation matters. In recognition of the significant value we provide to our clients - we were ranked as the #1 Expert Witness Provider in 17-18'.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Century City
Location
Ritual
eCommerce + Healthtech
About us
Since launching in October 2016, Ritual has grown to be a cultural revolution in the health industry. We are dedicated to creating a brand that speaks to a healthy, clean, and no B.S. lifestyle. We’re not about pseudoscience, half-truths or health fads. We are simple, effective and backed by real science. Welcome to your new daily Ritual.
44
Local Employees
Founded
Los angeles
Location
Hush, Inc
eCommerce + Social Media
About us
Based in sunny Downtown Los Angeles, Hush is the top social commerce app in the United States. Leveraging a progressive stance on technology and an obsession with making shopping fun again, customers get access to emerging, established, and exclusive beauty products on a mobile first platform.
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Versus Systems
AdTech + Gaming
About us
Versus makes games more fun. Our white-label platform gives players the opportunity to play for the things they love, inside of the games they love. Interactive entertainment becomes even more engaging, more fun, and more personal.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Beyond Limits
Artificial Intelligence + Software
About us
A full-stack artificial intelligence engineering company creating advanced software solutions that go beyond conventional AI. Beyond Limits solves tough, complex, mission-critical business problems for industries that matter.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Glendale
Location
Giant Media
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Giant Media provides advertisers the confidence to plan and buy contextually relevant video campaigns while identifying the environments most suitable for brand advertising across multiple platforms. The company is led by VuePlanner, a transparent, insight-driven planning tool for buying advertising on YouTube.

5
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
82 Labs (Morning Recovery)
Healthtech + Productivity
About us
82 Labs, Inc. is a new kind of consumer goods startup. We develop breakthrough solutions to empower you to be at your best, so you can do more of what you love. We launched our first product, Morning Recovery, as a peach flavored beverage that helps you balance productivity and social life in 2017. Now we're on to even bigger things!
16
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Watch Gang
eCommerce + Fashion
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.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
Location
Well Health, Inc.
Healthtech
About us
We're WELL and we’re reinventing communication for the $3 trillion healthcare industry. Using WELL, patients engage with their healthcare teams on their schedule and based on their preferences.
Our mission is to make going to the doctor as easy as meeting up with a close friend.
39
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Barbara
Location
RingDNA
Sales + Software
About us
RingDNA builds an end-to-end suite of AI and machine learning fueled products that combine enterprise-grade telephony with conversation intelligence. Hundreds of teams, including sales, support, and customer success, use ringDNA to dramatically increase productivity, engage in smarter conversations, and coach reps to success faster than ever before
27
Local Employees
Founded
Sherman Oaks
Location
Earny
eCommerce + Fintech
About us
With one click Earny gets you money! Earny is a personal assistant that automatically gets you money back on almost every purchase. Earny uses low-latency price tracking to identify the lowest possible prices, and obtains refunds using credit card price protection.
23
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
PatSnap
Legal Tech + Software
About us
PatSnap answers the hardest questions encountered throughout the innovation life cycle—from creating new inventions to commercializing them. Our deep learning algorithms find patterns across these billions of data points, so you get game-changing insights in the blink of an eye.
22
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
TV Time
Digital Media
About us
TV Time is the world’s largest TV tracking app providing insights for today’s television landscape. Every day, more than a million people use TV Time to keep track of the shows they’re watching, discover what to watch next and engage in a global community of more than 12 million registered users.
36
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
NEXT Trucking
Logistics + On-Demand
About us
Next Trucking is an online trucking marketplace. Through its intelligent matching capabilities, Next Trucking maximizes productivity while remaining trucker-centric. Allowing carriers to post availabilities, preferred routes and rates, Next Trucking connects truckers with shippers searching for efficiency and competitive pricing
75
Local Employees
Founded
Lynwood
Location
Tubescience
AdTech + Digital Media
About us
TubeScience is a data-driven, vertically-integrated advertising startup that produces videos optimized to change people's behavior at massive scale. We've grown organically to over 80 employees in the 1.5 years since our founding, and work closely with many of the most well-known, high-growth startups on a pure paid-for-performance basis.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Lucky Day
Mobile + Software
About us
Lucky Day is a mobile app that allows everyone to play scratchers and lotto tickets to win cash & prizes without ever spending a dime.
Our mission is to change the way people test their luck. We want to give everyone a little piece of luck to carry in their pocket.
#creatingWINNERSeveryday #weloveWINNERS

Founded
Los Angeles
Location
HopSkipDrive
Kids + Family + Mobile
About us
HopSkipDrive is a mission-driven company that makes life easier for busy families by getting kids where they need to go safely and dependably. We were founded by 3 working moms with 8 kids between them who developed HopSkipDrive as a solution to their own problems. We are VC backed with more than $20 million in funding.
55
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Moveworks.ai
Artificial Intelligence + Software
About us
Moveworks.ai is an enterprise SaaS company founded by machine learning and artificial intelligence experts from Google, Facebook and Stanford University. Backed by top-tier VCs, our AI and machine learning platform resolves enterprise IT issues autonomously, eliminating the need for IT teams to work on common tasks.

Founded
Culver City
Location
Swell Investing
Fintech
About us
Swell is an impact investing platform that helps you invest in high-growth companies solving global challenges.
39
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Heartbeat
AdTech + Social Media
About us
Heartbeat connects brands directly with the millennial and GenZ audience they are trying to reach, and consumers with the brands they genuinely love. Our network of over 200,000 real women creates scalable, ROI-focused user-generated marketing campaigns on social media, proving that word-of-mouth is the best marketing channel out there.

20
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
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
Atom Tickets
AdTech + eCommerce
About us
Atom Tickets changes the way people go to the movies with its revolutionary social movie ticketing app and website. Over 20,000 screens across the U.S. (AMC Theatres, Regal Cinemas, Showcase Cinemas, etc) use Atom. The app's socially driven interface allows movie lovers to search for films instantly, invite friends, and buy concessions.
85
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Causal IQ
Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Causal IQ is a leading programmatic solutions provider built on the expertise of the best digital marketers in the industry. Causal IQ creates and executes strategies that align with specific verticals, target audiences, and campaign goals to exceed its clients’ branding and performance goals, while providing unparalleled customer service.
50+
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
RealtyMogul.com
Fintech + Real Estate
About us
Realty Mogul is a digital real estate crowdfunding marketplace for investors to pool money online and buy shares of pre-vetted investment properties. Realty Mogul is crowdfunding for commercial real estate.

52
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
UpSellit
AdTech + eCommerce
About us
UpSellit builds online marketing experiences for thousands of businesses. Our clients are some of the biggest consumer electronics, apparel, and hospitality advertisers in the world. UpSellit is privately funded, profitable, and growing. We're looking for smart, driven people to grow with us. Email your resume and intro to [email protected].
37
Local Employees
Founded
Agoura Hills
Location
Gem
Blockchain + Software
About us
Gem is a cryptocurrency and blockchain startup based in Venice Beach. Our mission is to empower individuals to take full control of their wealth, to benefit from the value of their own data, and to experience the collective power of the decentralized movement spreading globally today.
Founded
Venice
Location
<weavy/>
Enterprise Web + Information Technology
About us
<weavy/> is a white-label full-stack development framework adding feature complete team communication and collaboration capabilities to every app. We work with some of the largest companies in the world, to the coolest startups on the planet.

7
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
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
Loomly
Social Media + Software
About us
Loomly is a SAAS startup that helps more than 2,000 teams around the world create better social media content for their audience, thanks to intuitive interface and an innovative features including post ideas, live post optimization tips, post previews, approval workflows, automated scheduling & analytics.

8
Local Employees
Founded
Sherman Oaks
Location
MediaAlpha
AdTech
About us
MediaAlpha provides the technology infrastructure for the industry's first and only ecosystem of advertising exchanges for native search and metasearch media.

23
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Dave.com
Fintech
About us
At Dave, our mission is to build products banks won’t to improve people’s relationship with money. Our first product helps people budget and avoid overdraft fees and has amassed over 1mm users.
28
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
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