Los Angeles has built one of the country’s most varied technology ecosystems, with companies working across industries ranging from advertising technology and software to aerospace, healthcare and artificial intelligence. Much of that activity is concentrated in the coastal communities commonly known as Silicon Beach, a stretch of the greater Los Angeles area that includes Santa Monica, Venice, Marina del Rey, Playa Vista, El Segundo and several neighboring communities.
Silicon Beach has evolved well beyond its early reputation as a startup enclave. Today, the area is home to established technology companies, growing startups and major offices for global businesses across sectors such as marketing tech, healthtech, aerospace, e-commerce and AI. The companies below offer a look at the range of technology businesses operating across Silicon Beach and the broader Los Angeles tech scene.
Silicon Beach Companies to Know
Google
Snap, Inc.
Hulu
The Aerospace Corporation
ChowNow
PatientPop
Postmates
System1
Wpromote
Top Silicon Beach Companies
Industry: Marketing Tech
Centerfield is a marketing tech firm that creates customer acquisition tools using data-driven strategies such as search engine marketing, ad tracking, social media marketing and leads exchange. It helps clients increase contacts, leads, clicks and conversions, leading to substantial growth in sales and customer activation. The company's comprehensive solutions ensure that businesses can effectively reach and engage their target audiences, maximizing their marketing efforts.
Industry: Adtech
System1 is all about improving the advertising experience for both consumers and marketers with its pay-per-click marketplace. System1 uses a mix of technology and science to better understand user search intent.
Industry: E-commerce + Marketing Tech
StackCommerce provides a native commerce platform for online publishers and brands. Partnering with over 750 organizations, the company enables people to discover products and brands through their favorite publications and media sources.
Industry: Social Media
Snap Inc., the company responsible for Snapchat, is straddling multiple California locations at the moment. The social media company once boasted a spread of offices throughout Venice but has since made moves to a space near the Santa Monica airport.
Industry: AI, Computer Vision, Real Estate
Metropolis is a transportation company that aims to modernize the parking experience. Instead of driving around aimlessly, spending precious time looking for a spot and then paying exorbitant prices, Metropolis users can easily book a parking spot and rely on the company’s knowledgeable valets to give them neighborhood recommendations for a fun day on the town.
Industry: Virtual Reality
Wevr is a pioneer in the virtual reality world creating VR playback software. They offer an open platform enabling all storytellers to create and present their work on any VR headset.
Industry: Adtech + Automotive
Edmunds publishes online content to simplify car buying and selling. Each year, its experts cover thousands of miles as they test drive new cars to provide consumers with insights about how they perform on the road. The company also offers an online appraisal tool that tells users about the value of their vehicle.
Industry: Adtech + Marketing Tech
GumGum utilizes computer vision and natural language processing in an effort to solve problems across the media industry. The company’s technology can be used to create contextual marketing messages, gauge the media value of sponsorship investments and verify the safety of pre-existing content.
Industry: Consumer Web + Healthtech
GoodRx has created a prescription price transparency platform to help people find convenient and affordable prescription drugs. Through their app, the company enables people to find drug prices on-the-go and discover coupons, which can be used at most U.S. pharmacies.
Industry: Healthtech
Headspace is a mobile meditation app, teaching mindful living and exercises for stressful situations. The app only needs a few minutes of daily use to ease stress and improve focus.
Industry: Gaming
Naughty Dog is one of the most well-known game development studios in the world. The company’s games, like Crash Bandicoot, Uncharted and The Last of Us, have been played by millions of gamers over the last 30 years.
Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce
Postmates transforms the way we get our products- from food to AirPods. The Postmates app is filled with hundreds of local food, convenience and even technology options that can be ordered and delivered to your front door in under an hour. Throwing a party and need red solo cups? Postmates has you covered. Craving the best burger in your city? Just pull up the app and you’ll probably find it. They even give you the option to order new tech, like AirPods, that will be delivered right to your door.
Industry: Software
TaskUs makes software that provides customer experience solutions, as well as back-office support. Major companies like Tinder, Eventbrite and Hootsuite are using TaskUs.
Industry: Media
Hulu’s streaming platform features a wide array of popular television shows just hours after they air live. The company occupies a 90,000-square-foot, fully customized space in the mid-city neighborhood of Santa Monica.
Industry: Food
ChowNow makes software for the restaurant industry. Providing products such as online ordering systems, management tools and customer insights, ChowNow helps businesses get to know their customers and stay on top of the trends.
Industry: Marketing Tech + Fintech
Core Digital Media utilizes a marketing platform that operates across various financial and education markets. The company's collection of brands includes LowerMyBills.com, which is designed to take the stress out of rate shopping for loans, as well as ClassesUSA.com, an online higher education portal used by more than 300 colleges and universities.
Industry: Logistics, Software
Flexport’s cloud software platform aims to be the all-in-one operating model that helps to power the logistics industry. The company’s software suite includes customizable logistics, freight, supply chain and financial tools, that power everything from ocean and air shipping to carbon offsetting.
Industry: E-commerce
The Honest Company provides a line of safe products, ranging from beauty items to cleaning supplies, for the family and for use in the home. The company is also known for giving back, donating products and volunteering on a regular basis.
Industry: Software
Currently in Venice, the world's leading search engine is moving into a huge Playa Vista space once occupied by Howard Hughes’ famous aircraft, the Spruce Goose. It comes as no surprise since Playa Vista once operated solely as Hughes’ private airport.
Industry: News + Entertainment
YouTube is also making use of leftover airport structures from the Hughes era, converting the spaces into offices and creative areas for their YouTube Space facility. Free to anyone with a channel boasting more than 10,000 subscribers, the building is over 40,000-square-feet of sets, screening rooms, editing booths, dressing rooms and more.
Industry: EdTech + Software
GoGuardian offers a suite of tools designed to help educators maximize the learning potential of their school’s technology program. The company’s tools allow educators to eliminate distractions and connect with students, identify students at risk of suicide and self-harm, keep users safe through a DNS filtering solution and provide parents direct access to their student’s device activity.
Industry: Adtech
Prodege LLC is the parent company of multiple rewards brands, including Swagbucks, MyPoints, Shop at Home and My Gift Card Plus. In addition to its brands, Prodege provides marketing solutions and insights on the enterprise side.
Industry: Fintech, Real Estate
Endpoint is a digital title and escrow company streamlining the homebuying process. The company’s dashboard provides a variety of transparent features, like real-time notifications, progress tracking and in-app messaging, that help to make the homebuying process as painless as possible.
Industry: Aerospace
The Aerospace Corporation is dedicated to researching, building and developing space-related technologies. The federally-funded nonprofit has 60+ years of experience in developing technologies for launch assurance, satellites and space exploration.
Industry: Automotive + Digital Media
MotorTrend Group is the world’s largest automotive media company. Boasting a monthly audience of 26 million across web, TV and print, the company operates an automotive digital platform that includes products, websites, apps and live events.
Industry: Logistics + On-Demand
NEXT Trucking has developed a logistics platform in an effort to help shippers and carriers save time and earn more money. The platform can be used to track drivers in real-time, manage loads, assign carriers and efficiently monitor progress.
Industry: Agency
Wpromote is a digital marketing agency that works with Fortune 500 companies to startups. Wpromote takes care of every digital aspect that goes into building a brand and some of their clients include Forever21, Shutterstock, Toyota and Marriott.
Industry: Adtech
Nativo is an advertising technology company using a unified platform for native content, helping companies like Amazon, UPS and IBM drive more significant engagement, track performance and automate operations.
Industry: Marketing Tech + Real Estate
Ylopo makes AI-powered technology to support strategic digital marketing efforts in the real estate industry. For example, the company offers a virtual assistant that can engage leads via phone call and transfer that call to a live person when a successful connection is made. Ylopo also has a library of training and education resources.
Industry: Business Intelligence
Celonis makes a platform that creates a digital twin of business processes so that it can gather intelligence organizations can act on to ensure efficient operations across departments like procurement and accounts payable. Companies from industries such as banking, healthcare, energy, retail and manufacturing look to Celonis for solutions that can help them save money and improve productivity.
Industry: Healthtech
TigerConnect makes software that can automate processes and streamline communication for people working in the healthcare industry. Nursing facilities, for example, can use TigerConnect’s technology to streamline the process of maintaining accurate clinical documentation and follow up with discharged patients.
Industry: Proptech
Crexi aims to transform commercial real estate through advanced technology and data analytics that maximize success for stakeholders. Their solutions, which range from property trading to AI-driven industry insights, have enabled millions of users to close $540 billion in deals and market over $5 trillion in property value. Headquartered in Playa Vista, the company also has offices in Irvine and Miami, Florida.
Industry: Aerospace
The Aerospace Corporation describes itself as an architect for space programs in the United States. It aims to advance capabilities that outpace threats to national security and support mission operations for commercial partners. The company’s Silicon Beach location is in the El Segundo area.
Industry: Marketing Tech
ClickMint’s platform includes predictive analytics, causal inference modeling and reinforcement learning, which collectively help e-commerce brands identify and prioritize high-impact CRO opportunities. It also uses AI diagnostics to analyze behavioral event streams, attribution data and UX telemetry to identify and address conversion blockers. The company’s Silicon Beach office is located in Malibu.
Industry: Healthtech
Axle Health offers scheduling and workforce management solutions for home healthcare organizations. Its platform includes AI-enabled scheduling capabilities to match clinicians with patients, as well as tools to optimize utilization and track clinician location. The company has an office in Santa Monica, between the Third Street Promenade and Palisades Park.
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Industry: AI, ecommerce
Product.ai offers verified purchase verdicts using its adversarial reasoning methodology to stress test product claims against physics, economics and engineering constraints. The company is headquartered in the Wilshire area of Los Angeles.
Industry: Software
Revel builds software for testing and controlling hardware systems used in aerospace, automotive, energy, and manufacturing. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Marina del Rey, the company serves dozens of hardware makers across Southern California through its RevelTest and RevelC2 platforms. It is expanding its LA footprint with a new office opening in October 2026 and hiring across engineering, design and marketing roles.
Industry: Adtech
Smartly is an AI-powered advertising platform that unifies creative production, media buying and performance intelligence in a single interface. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki, the company operates a Los Angeles office as part of its global footprint. It serves over 700 brands and advertisers with tools to build, optimize and scale campaigns across social media, connected TV and the open web. Smartly’s platform automates workflows to reduce production time and improve campaign performance across channels.
