Sprawling Los Angeles is home to year-round southern California sunshine and miles of beaches, as well as Hollywood – still the center of the nation’s entertainment industry.
Sprouting fast in the city of sunshine are these 18 startup companies, all of which are making waves with the new ideas and services they’re bringing to the marketplace. You’ll want to get the info on these businesses before they get any bigger.
Industry: Point-of-Sale|Events|Payments
Appetize is the most powerful payment platform for live events and sports. Deployed in over 700 venues worldwide with clients like Madison Square Garden and Lincoln Financial Field to Bonnaroo and Governors Ball, Appetize has the most robust and reliable mobile Point of Sale solution on the markets.
“The potential for growth is my favorite part. There is always a possibility to take on new projects and grow your responsibilities if you want to work hard and are up for challenges. It is also a fun environment where I am happy to go to work every day and see my coworkers.”
Appetize employees rate their CEO among the top 5% for similar-sized companies.
Appetize is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: SaaS|Freight Service|Marketplace
NEXT Trucking is a technology platform connecting shippers with owner/operators and small fleets. It is building smart technology that matches truck drivers to their preferred loads, addressing the problem of carrier capacity. The company combines a freight marketplace with over 16,000 drivers, company-owned assets, and strategic partnerships to provide customers with an unrivaled suite of services from OTR to drayage and warehousing.
“We all work together for the common good of the company.”
-Employee review
100% of NEXT Trucking employees say they look forward to going to work every day.
NEXT Trucking is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Cloud Management|Software|Outsourcing
InvestCloud empowers investors and managers with a single version of the integrated truth through its unique digital platform. Today the InvestCloud platform supports over $1.7 trillion of assets across 670 institutional customers. The company creates custom solutions for better decision-making.
“We work hard and we love it! Working at InvestCloud feels like you are learning something everyday, and contributing to the overall vision and growth of the company. I can see the impact of my work on our platform, clients, or teammates.”
InvestCloud employees rated their overall company culture an A+.
InvestCloud is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Health Care|Meditation|Software
Headspace is an award-winning digital health platform, providing guided meditation sessions and mindfulness training. With hundreds of hours of content, it is acknowledged as one of the most comprehensive secular programs for meditation and mindfulness.
“The mission is a true north star.”
-Employee review
100% of Headspace employees say they look forward to interacting with their coworkers.
Headspace is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Cyber Security|SaaS|Web Apps
Signal Sciences is the fastest growing web application security company in the world. With its award-winning next-gen WAF and RASP solution, Signal Sciences protects over 10,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ patented architecture provides organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility.
“Incredibly intelligent people. In awe of all the hard work they have dedicated to this awesome product and company.”
100% of Signal Sciences employees say they are satisfied with their work-life balance.
Signal Sciences is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Mobile Apps|Ride Sharing|Child Care
HopSkipDrive is the leading ride service for busy families. It helps get kids where they need to go safely and dependably with highly vetted CareDrivers. CareDrivers must have at least 5 years of childcare experience and pass a 15-point certification test that includes extensive background checks, fingerprinting, TrustLine registry membership, monthly DMV checks, reference checks, and in-person meetings.
HopSkipDrive is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: E-Commerce|Coupons|Retail
Designed to help consumers save time and money, Honey’s 10 million users worldwide, shop over 30,000 retailers knowing that Honey is finding the best deals and coupons for their everyday needs. The free browser extension automatically finds and applies coupons at checkout, it also helps users save money on Amazon by showing price history, best price detection and a product called Droplist that watches select products and sends notifications when it drops below a selected price.
“Collaboration, attitude, energy and openness.”
-Employee review
Honey employees rate their CEO among the top 5% for similar-sized companies.
Honey is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: E-Commerce|Beauty|Retail
Thrive Market is an online shopping club on a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone. Thrive Market members can buy the best-selling healthy foods and natural, wholesome products in everyday sizes, always 25-50% retail prices, delivered right to their door. And for every paid membership, Thrive Market donates a free membership to a family in need.
Thrive Market is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Pets|Crowdsourcing|App
Wag is a mobile application used to instantly find trusted and certified dog walkers. Customers receive a push notification when the walk starts, followed by real-time GPS tracking of the walk. Once the walk is complete, Wag users receive a report card with a photo, notes, the distance traveled, and a pee/poop report.
Wag is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Flowers|E-Commerce|Retail
BloomNation allows local artisan florist to list their own designs for sale in an online marketplace, so consumers can discover and send unique handcrafted arrangements that are hand delivered locally. BloomNation also provides enterprise services to local florists to manage their online and offline business, including a website builder, Point of Sale System (POS), email marketing, social media management and CRM services.
“Passionate people trying to solve interesting problems.”
-Employee review
BloomNation employees rate their CEO among the top 5% for similar-sized companies.
BloomNation is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Predictive Analytics|CRM|Marketing Automation
Retention Science, the global leader in Retention Marketing, is the best way to target, engage and retain your customers. Their data driven, SaaS-based Retention Marketing platform predicts customer behavior and delivers targeted multi-channel communications that increase revenue and encourage customer advocacy.
“The ReSci team is full of intelligent and hardworking people, and hiring is held to a high standard. Everyone produces great work.”
100% of Retention Science employees say they look forward to interacting with their coworkers.
Retention Service is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Accounting|Enterprise Software|B2B
FloQast builds cloud-based software that helps manage accounting departments by centralizing the workflow, assigning tasks, maintaining supporting documentation and automating reconciliations.
“The company pays for 100% of a great healthcare plan so I don’t have to worry about any out of pocket costs for health insurance.”
FloQast employees rated their overall company culture an A+.
FloQast is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Health Care|E-Commerce|Subscription Services
Ritual is a health technology company reinventing the vitamin. The company was born out of the belief that better health begins with better ingredients. It has poured thousands of hours of research to identify the essential nutrients that most women don’t get enough of and scoured the globe for simple, clean, traceable ingredients that actually work.
Ritual is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Building Maintenance|Cloud Security|Cyber Security
Openpath creates smart security solutions for the modern office. The company’s flagship product, Openpath Access, combines sleek hardware with an app, enabling employees to enter the office using their smartphones and making office management easier than ever. With encryption at every level and powerful, user-level permissions, Openpath Access is both more secure and more dynamic than traditional systems.
“This is a well-rounded, experienced, and down-to-earth management team leading an innovative team driven by passion to solve an everyday problem in the office environment.”
-Employee review
OpenPath is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Media and Entertainment|Video Streaming|Internet
Pluto TV is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 100+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series.
Industry: Shoes|E-Commerce|Marketplace
GOAT Group is the world’s largest marketplace for authentic sneakers. Its brands offer the greatest selection of sneakers available through company-operated retail stores, e-commerce sites and mobile apps under the GOAT and Flight Club brands.
“Humble. Friendly. Intelligent. Fair. They never pull the rank card.”
GOAT employees rated their leadership team an A-.
GOAT is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Lifestyle|Content|Travel
Goop is a lifestyle brand providing digital content and commerce. Launched in the fall of 2008 out of Gwyneth Paltrow’s kitchen as a homespun weekly newsletter, Gwyneth wanted a place to organize her unbiased travel recommendations, health-centric recipes, and shopping discoveries for friends, and she also wanted to get her own questions—about health, fitness, and the psyche—answered.
Goop is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Industry: Consumer Goods|Lifestyle|E-Commerce
The Honest Company creates eco-friendly, convenient, and affordable products for babies and homes. The growing product line is comprised of eco-friendly diapers and a natural line of bath, skincare, home cleaning, and organic nutritional supplement products all packed in convenient bundles that can be customized, personalized, and conveniently shipped whenever needed.