14 Venice Beach Companies to Know

Explore Venice tech companies working across social media, e-commerce, advertising, logistics, real estate, industrial software and more.

Written by Alyssa Schroer
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Summary: Venice has become a thriving tech hub spanning social media, e-commerce and logistics. Notable companies include Snap, maker of Snapchat; Cargomatic, a freight logistics marketplace; and Crexi, a commercial real estate platform with AI-powered tools for brokers and investors.

Venice has become one of Los Angeles’ best-known technology hubs, with companies working across social media, advertising, e-commerce, logistics, real estate and industrial software. The neighborhood is home to both established tech businesses and newer startups building products for consumers and enterprises. These Venice tech companies illustrate the range of industries shaping the area’s startup and technology scene.

Top Companies in Venice, CA

  • System1

  • Wevr

  • Snap

  • StackCommerce

  • Cargomatic

  • Enervee

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Top Companies in Venice to Know

Crexi operates a nationwide online marketplace for commercial real estate, connecting brokers, owners, investors and tenants around properties available for sale, lease or auction. The platform pairs its listings with Crexi Intelligence, giving users access to property records, sales comps and market data for research. The platform also includes Crexi AI, a set of tools embedded across the platform that draw on transaction and listing data to speed tasks such as document review and listing creation.

 

System1 operates an independent marketplace for pay-per-click advertising, connecting users with ads across search, social, native, email and lead-generation channels. Its platform applies pre-targeting algorithms and machine learning models to analyze consumer attributes and match them to relevant ad placements, aiming to make the resulting experience feel more useful to the people seeing it rather than simply maximizing clicks.

 

Pledge, formerly known as Pledgeling, operates a donation platform that lets brands, nonprofits and individuals build charitable giving into everyday products, events and online experiences. It integrates fundraising tools directly into platforms such as Zoom and Shopify, letting hosts turn meetings, livestreams and e-commerce purchases into fundraisers that benefit a global network of nonprofits spanning dozens of countries. Companies including Discovery and Snap have used Pledge to connect their audiences with causes they support. Based in Venice, the company focuses on making charitable giving a straightforward part of digital transactions and virtual gatherings.

 

Creators Media operates a fan-centric media platform where users create and share content tied to the entertainment and pop culture fandoms they follow. The company houses brands including Movie Pilot, Now Loading and Champions, which together draw a community of more than 32 million fans. Through its creators.co platform, contributors publish articles and posts on movies, gaming and mixed martial arts, with the strongest content curated and distributed to the broader fan network.

 

The Bouqs Company is a flower retailer that sells fresh, cut-to-order bouquets and plants directly from its website, cutting out traditional wholesale middlemen. Customers can order one-time arrangements for occasions like birthdays and anniversaries or sign up for a recurring flower subscription with weekly, biweekly, monthly or bimonthly delivery options. The Bouqs Co. sources its blooms from farms in Ecuador, Colombia and California that are certified by third-party sustainability programs, shipping flowers straight from the field to the customer’s door. Its online platform also supports advance scheduling, letting shoppers book deliveries up to two months ahead for upcoming holidays or events.

 

Markett operates an advertising platform that connects brands with everyday influencers to acquire new customers. The automated system manages a network of individual marketers who promote products on their own social media pages using personalized promo codes. Markett’s approach lets brands target specific audiences and run authentic, word-of-mouth campaigns alongside or instead of traditional advertising, while giving marketers a way to earn income by sharing products they already use.

 

Snap makes applications to instantly share moments with friends and family. Its best known product, Snapchat, is used by more than 150 million people on a daily basis. Snapchat has evolved from a simple app with disappearing photos into an entire multimedia channel complete with multiple forms of content and advertising.

 

Sensay is an AI chatbot platform that lets businesses build, train and deploy AI Chatbots. Through Sensay Studio dashboard users define a chatbot’s personality, train it on documents, audio, video and websites, and track its performance with live analytics. The Sensay AI Engine, accessible via API, gives developers a layer for building custom AI applications and deploying chatbots across channels including websites, Telegram, Discord and Slack, supporting use cases from enterprise knowledge management to customer support.

 

Zefr builds AI-powered brand safety and suitability technology that helps advertisers control where their ads appear across video and social platforms. Its Cognition AI engine analyzes video, audio and text to classify content against industry suitability standards, giving brands transparency into ad adjacency rather than relying on simple keyword filters. Zefr’s measurement and verification tools extend across YouTube, TikTok, Meta and Snapchat, covering formats from in-feed video to Reels and search placements. Brands like Netflix, Target, Chase, Universal, Sony and Honda rely on Zefr to keep their campaigns aligned with brand values while reaching audiences at scale.

 

Cargomatic is a logistics company connecting shippers with carriers through its web and mobile marketplace. Its marketplace offers less-than-truckload, full truckload and drayage services with real-time tracking. The company’s network now spans more than 40 cities across the United States, including the nation’s top 20 ports, giving shippers near-nationwide coverage for local and regional freight.

 

StackCommerce operates a content-driven commerce platform connecting brands with publishers to integrate shoppable content into premium editorial environments. The platform lets publishers build white-label stores, embed commerce links and surface in-feed product recommendations, helping readers discover and purchase products without leaving the sites they already use. StackCommerce manages product sourcing, fulfillment, customer service and payment through a revenue-sharing model, giving brands new ways to reach engaged audiences while providing media companies an additional revenue stream beyond advertising.

 

Wevr is a virtual reality studio considered a pioneer in the field, building on its work since the early days of consumer VR headsets like Oculus Rift. The studio produces Transport, a platform that connects VR creators and audiences across a range of devices, and develops location-based immersive experiences that merge interactive storytelling with spatial technology. Wevr’s portfolio spans original titles like TheBlu alongside collaborations with partners such as VIVE Arts, through which it has built immersive journeys inside historically significant sites, reflecting its continued focus on shared, embodied storytelling beyond the traditional screen.

 

Enervee builds and operates white-label online marketplaces that let utility customers shop for energy-efficient appliances with rebates, demand response enrollment and financing applied at checkout. Its Enervee Score rates models from zero to 100 for energy efficiency across more than 40 product categories, from refrigerators and water heaters to HVAC and EV chargers, so shoppers can compare options before buying. The marketplaces run under each utility’s own brand and are fulfilled through retail and distribution partners, serving utility and state energy programs across North America.

 

Revel builds software that tests and controls hardware systems for companies in aerospace, energy, automotive and manufacturing. Its platform pairs a command-and-control interface with RevelCode, a programming language built for hardware control, and a runtime environment that lets engineers design, test and deploy critical systems without stitching together separate tools. Its RevelTest product connects instruments, controllers and data-acquisition hardware from multiple vendors into a single system, letting test engineers build, run and monitor hardware tests from a browser-based dashboard.

 

Rose Velazquez and Margo Steines contributed reporting to this story. This article was originally published in 2017.

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