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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Los Angeles
FightCamp
Fitness + Hardware
About us
FightCamp is a connected at-home boxing gym. With FightCamp you get access to world-class boxing and kickboxing trainers, studio-quality equipment, and performance-tracking technology — all from the comfort of your home. We have an ever-growing library of boxing & kickboxing workouts designed to keep you engaged, focused, and in the zone. The key
54
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
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
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.
70
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
Enervee
eCommerce + Energy
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.
37
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
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 tools to gain and keep online customers.
75
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Outer
eCommerce
About us
We are a passionate group committed to doing right by our teammates, our community, and Mother Earth.
We have been named one of Inc.’s “2021 Best Workplaces” and Top 3 on LA Business Journal's "Best Places to Work in LA" list. Sound like something you want to be a part of? We’re hiring!
35
Local Employees
Santa Monica
Location
DRINKS
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
DRINKS is the operating system for online alcohol, reinventing wine buying for the 21st century. Through the pioneering DRINKS Wine as a Service (WaaS) platform, the company brings adult beverages safely and conveniently to customers across the United States in 1-2 days.
65
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
LiveControl
Computer Vision + Digital Media
About us
LiveControl is your video production crew... except completely remote. We're solving the video production headache (a huge problem for creators and organizations) by making it simple and on-demand.
Our clients install our 4k multi-camera setup into their venue, and our team of remote videographers, pan, tilt, zoom, and mix the cameras to
28
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Blue Pisces Consulting Inc
Cloud + Consulting
About us
Our company was founded in 2017 with a mission to help our clients who were struggling to find the right DevOps Project Management talent for their organizations. Our core team grew up in Infrastructure and lived the Shared Services life, which makes us uniquely positioned to identify the right candidates. We also spent years managing
14
Local Employees
Founded
Simi Valley
Location
Jaanuu
eCommerce + Fashion
About us
Jaanuu was founded to reimagine the multi-billion dollar medical apparel market via the industry's first contemporary, antimicrobial-finished products. Since its launch, Jaanuu has sold product around the globe and has quickly become the fastest growing company in its category.
Founded
El Segundo
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. Our social recruiting solutions have helped thousands of companies, including many of the Fortune 500.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Burbank
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
MagicLinks
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
MagicLinks is a B Corp Certified startup that powers social commerce through an exclusive marketplace for video influencers and the world’s leading brands. Our technology enables creators to share the products they love with their fans and serves leading brands seeking scalable, data-backed influencer campaign solutions, with dependable ROI and 100
28
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
Edify
Artificial Intelligence + Cloud
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.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Maple Media
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Maple Media is a media and technology company in Century City, CA. We acquire best-in-class mobile apps and games, on the App Store and Google Play, and deploy our product and subscription expertise to make them even better - while learning a lot and having fun along the way. Please review our LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter for job opportunities.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Century City
Location
Virtualitics
Analytics + Artificial Intelligence
About us
Virtualitics is an augmented analytics company that helps you expand access to complex data to make your work more visual, collaborative, and actionable. Our powerful suite of augmented analytical tools allow you to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and multidimensional visualizations to elevate your unstructured data analysis in a
35
Local Employees
Founded
Pasadena
Location
WhoCo
HR Tech + Software
About us
Today’s hiring methods are expired. It’s time to move beyond text-heavy resumes, stale job descriptions, and painful interview practices. WhoCo is a hiring platform for modern teams. We use science and data to help companies and candidates find their match.
22
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
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.
28
Local Employees
Founded
Glendale
Location
Infillion
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Infillion brings location and attention-based marketing together to fulfill the promise of connected consumer experiences. Leveraging integrated technology, Infillion enables better targeting via unique data sets, engaging creative, and actionable measurement solutions for advertisers looking to bridge the physical and digital worlds. Among the fastest-growing companies in ad technology, Infillion is advancing the integration of advertising, marketing, and CX through value exchange applications that captivate customers, optimize their attention, and honor their time and privacy.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Stem Disintermedia
Fintech + Music
About us
Headquartered in Los Angeles & New York, Stem exists to help artists navigate the business behind their music. We do this by reducing complexity, creating clarity, and providing more opportunities to exercise full control.
23
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Talespin
Edtech + Software
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.
54
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Instil
Business Intelligence + Enterprise Web
About us
Instil is a new nonprofit platform built to unlock the potential of nonprofits to change the world. Through an intuitive, data-enabled platform, Instil is cultivating deeper, more meaningful community relationships to advance nonprofits’ positive impact on society.
23
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
ettitude
eCommerce
About us
ettitude is a direct-to-consumer sustainable lifestyle brand offering modern bedding, bath and sleepwear products made from the world’s first CleanBamboo™ fabric. On a quest to make the world a more comfortable place, our innovative fabrics are silky-soft, breathable and water-saving.
A proud member of 1% For The Planet, we donate 1% of all
13
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Retina AI
Analytics + Big Data
About us
At Retina, our team (former Facebook, PayPal, and Stanford alums) has built a product that can predict individual customer lifetime value at the earliest point of customer contact and changed how brands view their relationships with their customer. We use data science to predict future buying behavior of consumers and recommend actions that
14
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Leftbrain
Fintech
About us
Leftbrain is the only business management company that develops technology to empower entertainers and their teams to make informed decisions. Our Entertainer Mobile App™ unifies and simplifies artist finances so they can focus on their art while building generational wealth. We recently launched a royalty recovery program that has generated six
10
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
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
Coco
Logistics + Machine Learning
About us
At Coco, we’re dedicated to perfecting the last-mile delivery experience. We strongly believe the delivery service industry in its current state is massively under-serving merchants, and we are committed to creating a frictionless, reliable, consistent, and sustainable delivery experience for merchants and their customers in cities everywhere.
70
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Kernel
Artificial Intelligence + Biotech
About us
Kernel creates the interfaces and insights necessary to unlock the greatest scientific unknown: the inner workings of the human brain and mind.
Kernel is a full-stack neurotech company founded in 2016 with the mandate to do something that will change the world. Kernel is leveraging the best non-invasive brain scanning techniques to create next
93
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
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.
50
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
Sidebench
Agency + Social Impact
About us
Sidebench is a modern technology consultancy and development studio, based in Los Angeles. Our team of strategists, technical architects, product managers, and user experience specialists partner with innovative companies to build long-term technology strategies and create powerful applications for business and consumer use.
25
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
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
Surefront
Enterprise Web + Productivity
About us
Surefront is a B2B software company that provides a collaboration platform for the retail industry. We spent 4 years in development and launched this year at the largest trade show in the retail industry (National Retail Federation - Retail's Big Show). Since then, we have doubled in size and are planning to expand 3x this year. Our customers are
25
Local Employees
Founded
Pasadena
Location
Bliss Point Media
AdTech + Agency
About us
Bliss Point Media is an advertising agency that combines world-class media capabilities with cutting-edge statistics and computer science. Our approach provides our clients with unique and powerful tools to maximize the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and our media experience provides strategic depth and flawless execution.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
HomeLister
Fintech + Real Estate
About us
Home Sale Platform that Outperforms Agents at a Fraction of the Cost
We allow owners to list their home for sale on the MLS and every other website, get all the support of an agent, and manage the sale themselves through their dashboard. Our homes sell faster and for more money than with a local agent. We are changing how homes are sold.
12
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
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
Cie
Angel or VC Firm + Digital Media
About us
Cie is a venture studio that serves as an innovation lab and accelerator for bold entrepreneurs who want to transform disruptive ideas into thriving ventures.
Cie blends Silicon Valley DNA with the business maturity of serial entrepreneurs, seasoned venture capitalists, and Fortune 500 executives. Combined with the team’s strategic and
51
Local Employees
Remote
Location
Emerge
Gaming + Hardware
About us
We believe in a future where distance and time don’t stand in the way of feeling present.
Emerge is a cross-reality presence company, building a platform that aims to enable more meaningful, engaging, and diverse interactions in XR that bring us closer to the people we care about. Emerge is creating a future where distance and time don’t stand
15
Local Employees
Founded
Marina Del Rey
Location
XCLAIM
Fintech + Legal Tech
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.
12
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
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.
37
Local Employees
Founded
Sherman Oaks
Location
Thankful
Artificial Intelligence + Software
About us
Thankful is a cutting-edge AI company transforming customer support for leading brands. We offer a suite of AI-powered products, including an AI Customer Support Agent that works just like a human agent in text-based channels (email, SMS, chat) to resolve customer support requests. Thankful is so adept at solving problems such as returns, exchanges
22
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
Tapcart
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
Tapcart is the premier mobile app provider for thousands of the world’s fastest-growing Shopify brands, such as Fashion Nova, Urban Planet and Chubbies. With Tapcart, you can design and launch a world-class mobile app that increases conversion and engagement with no coding required.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
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
Sunstone Management
Angel or VC Firm + Co-Working Space or Incubator
About us
Sunstone Management is a private capital management and investment firm offering comprehensive wealth management solutions to its worldwide clients, focusing on investments in U.S. based small businesses and lower middle markets. Investment offerings range from short term senior debt products to equity, growth capital, and VC investment strategies.
17
Local Employees
Founded
Long Beach
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
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
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.
Founded
Versus Systems
AdTech + Gaming
About us
A Nasdaq-listed company, Versus makes content more fun - not once, but over and over again. We value diversity & inclusion, empathy for our colleagues and our partners, and curiosity to explore and learn new things. Our product suite gives consumers the opportunity to win the things they love, inside of the entertainment they enjoy.
With Versus
32
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Wave Sports + Entertainment
Digital Media + News + Entertainment
About us
Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company built for the next generation of digital super fans. Through a portfolio of over 30 media brands, original content, talent, and a suite of products and services, WSE reaches more than 500M Gen Z and Millennial sports fans on a monthly basis. Our core content is consistently ranked as the most highly engaged across Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube where over 100 million followers engage with our brands.
100
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Quantgene
Artificial Intelligence + Biotech
About us
Quantgene is transforming the future of medicine by unlocking the Deep Human Genome. We’re saving lives through early detection, better prevention and more effective cures for all disease, starting with cancer.
41
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
What is Best Places to Work?
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