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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Los Angeles 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wonderstorm
Gaming + News + Entertainment
About us
Wonderstorm is a double threat media studio that creates timeless stories and engaging video games that anchor our entertainment franchises. Wonderstorm’s first franchise, the Emmy® Award-winning The Dragon Prince, is an original animated series on Netflix, and a world-class video game is under development by the same creative team.
30
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
Emotive.io
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
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
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.
28
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
Location
Edify
Software
About us
Edify Labs, Inc. is a global communications platform with the goal of strengthening connections with customers and across teams. Edify is co-founded by Cameron Weeks and Bracken Fields, who created their first VoIP company in 2007, and grew it into a global customer service platform. They have been working on contact center solutions ever since.
19
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Tradesy
eCommerce + Fashion
About us
Tradesy is a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling luxury fashion, enabling savvy customers to unlock the value in their closet to access affordable luxury. Our mission is to make fashion resale as simple, safe and stylish as retail- at scale. We have millions of passionate members, a product that people love, and a team culture that
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Ordermark
Food + Software
About us
Ordermark and Nextbite are leading a revolution to help restaurants in a time of great uncertainty by providing innovative tools and brands needed to survive and thrive.
80
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Boulevard
Beauty + Fintech
About us
Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, our scheduling, point of sale, and conversation platform was carefully designed to drive revenue, automate workflows, and convert customers from visitors into valuable, long-term clients. By facilitating a better, personalized experience across every transaction and interaction,
72
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
Flo Technologies
Hardware + Internet of Things
About us
Water damage is 5x more likely than theft and 6x more likely than fire. More than 17 gallons are lost everyday due to leaks in a typical home. Flo Technologies works to prevent water waste and water damage in homes and buildings across the country with our smart home water monitoring technology and leak protection system.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Mothership
Logistics + Software
About us
Mothership's groundbreaking technology is unlocking the world's potential by making freight delivery more efficient. Started in 2017, we're backed by some of venture capital's best investors and have already become the logistics backbone for many of today's most innovative companies.
43
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
XCLAIM
Fintech
About us
XCLAIM is revolutionizing a multi-billion bankruptcy industry with our fully digital marketplace to trade bankruptcy claims. Creditors affected by bankruptcy recover lost value by selling their claim to financial institutions. Our mission is to maximize value and empower stakeholders by enhancing the efficiency and transparency of illiquid markets.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
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
Pex
Big Data + Information Technology
About us
Pex delivers independent video and music analytics & rights management services to enable creators, rights holders and marketers to find, measure and leverage the value of content across the Web.
Built on top of Pex’s advanced technology, our newest product, Attribution Engine is licensing infrastructure for the Internet enabling fair
30
Local Employees
Founded
Papaya Pay
Fintech + Payments
About us
We know that paying bills isn’t fun. At Papaya, we work tirelessly to help make that experience better. With our app, simply take a photo of any bill, choose how to pay, and we’ll complete the rest. No more calls, mailing checks, or tedious web forms. Our automated payment technology is fast, secure, and free for users and merchants.
48
Local Employees
Founded
Sherman Oaks
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.
43
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
dotOrg Technology
Social Impact + Software
About us
dotOrg is on a mission to help address the world’s biggest problems by powering people and organizations to maximize their social impact. We are a startup creating a software platform to help organizations and people dramatically increase their impact on the world.
11
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Philosophie
Agency + Software
About us
At Philosophie, we love making things. We are a diverse team of designers, engineers, and product strategists. With different backgrounds and skillsets, we come together to make useful technology. Our clients (Fortune 500 to startups) come to us with early stage product ideas; and we prototype those ideas to life.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Convoso
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
Convoso is an industry-leading provider of multi-channel marketing automation software. Our goal behind starting Convoso was to create a solution that would revolutionize the way call centers and sales organizations communicate with their customers.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Woodland Hills
Location
Cie
Angel or VC Firm + Digital Media
About us
Cie is a Venture Studio. We are an innovation accelerator for large enterprises and a growth accelerator for emerging startups. Cie 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.
51
Local Employees
Irvine
Location
Mythical Games
Blockchain + Gaming
About us
Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love.
28
Local Employees
Founded
Sherman Oaks
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, Cinemark, Showcase Cinemas, etc) use Atom. The app's socially driven interface allows movie lovers to search for films instantly, invite friends, and buy concessions.
The Atom
46
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
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.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
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
Hello Bello
eCommerce + Retail
About us
Hello Bello is a hyper-growth, consumer goods & e-commerce company created by Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard. But, we are so much more than diapers and personal care for babies & family– we're on a mission. We believe in 'Premium for All' and are committed to creating the highest quality products at the most reasonable cost, because we believe every
60
Local Employees
Founded
Pacific Palisades
Location
HyreCar
Sharing Economy + Transportation
About us
Our mission is to create opportunity where it was previously unavailable and help people capitalize on the urban mobility revolution. HyreCar is a web-based open platform where ride-share drivers can rent a vehicle and start driving with a low entry cost and minimal commitment, a marketplace where car owners can make passive income on an idle asset
87
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Single Grain
AdTech + Agency
About us
Single Grain is a digital marketing agency founded in 2009 with a dedicated focus on driving persistent growth for remarkable companies. We work with Series A start-ups to tech giants and enterprises, such as Salesforce, Uber, and Amazon. Our expertise is in paid search, paid social, SEO, and content marketing.
15
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Lumi
eCommerce + Logistics
About us
At Lumi we build the software and supply chain that helps your favorite brands manufacture products more beautifully, sustainably and economically. Our mission is to help people understand how things are made, so better choices get made.
20
Local Employees
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.
32
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
What is Best Places to Work?
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