Top California Design Startups (158)

Million Dollar Baby Co. started in 1990 and is proudly family-owned and operated in Los Angeles. Since then, MDB has grown to 7 distinct brands of children’s furnishings ranging in style, aesthetic, and price, while carrying some of the industry’s most eco-conscious and award-winning designs. We can be found in retailers like Target and Amazon, and specialty retailers like Pottery...

As the trusted choice for digital agencies, SaaS platforms, and web professionals, Duda powers over 1 million websites worldwide. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enable users to efficiently create pixel-perfect, feature-rich websites at scale.

Yardzen, the online landscape design and build company, is on a mission to help people live a better life outside. Yardzen’s expert team connects homeowners with talented landscape designers and contractors for the easiest, most delightful outdoor renovation experience available. Leveraging plant science, data, and modeling software, Yardzen’s remote design team creates custom, executable landscape designs that reflect a homeowner’s...

We’re Hook—an award-winning creative content agency. We make ads, campaigns, and experiences that drive growth for innovative brands like Google, YouTube, Amazon, and Mailchimp. Our strength lies in our collaborative spirit, with our team of creatives, designers, animators, developers, and producers bringing a variety of experiences from different industries. We leverage our diverse perspectives to get more from the creative process...

As one of the fastest growing startups in Los Angeles, we're revolutionizing the way in which companies approach successful video advertising. Our team of award-winning Producers, Editors, Directors, Engineers, and Performance Marketing Managers are building a global studio where we can conceptualize, shoot, and produce hundreds of videos per day. Unlike traditional advertising agencies that pitch creative concepts for companies,...

Tentworks Interactive is a video game company operating in multiple countries, holding an Indian license and headquartered in Bangalore. We aim to create interactive tycoon games to a vast audience with purpose to bring about a sense of challenge and accomplishment. Our projects are driven by a passionate and creative team. Contact us for development, work-for-hire, or publishing inquiries. We are...

We help brands navigate the complex challenges of this ever-changing world. Using design and strategy we create emotionally compelling, authentic brands and the experiences that bring them to life.

We are a full-service creative and experiential agency that lives for sport, music, and culture. From the biggest moments to the smallest details, we pride ourselves on being in the know and building relationships that matter for brands that matter.

Miris is a cutting-edge technology company building the future of 3D content delivery at global scale. Our mission is to empower creators and developers to deliver high-fidelity, photorealistic 3D experiences to billions of users instantly, seamlessly, and across all major platforms and devices. Backed by patented innovations, Miris leverages state-of-the-art advancements in neural rendering, including radiance fields, gaussian splatting, and...

Blacksmith Agency is a full-service agency, focuses on offering its services within web designing, wireframing and content creation.

Co-founded by CEOs Patrick Godfrey and Scott Dadich, Godfrey Dadich Partners (GDP) brings together designers, journalists, strategists, engineers, and more to help brands communicate. We create narratives and documentary films, logos and identity systems, corporate strategies and campaigns. Plus a whole lot more.

Innovative. User Focused. We specialize in human-centric customer experiences across digital product innovation, transformative business processes and inventive marketing. With clients in categories like Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Consumer Products and Technology, across both enterprise and consumer, Momentum looks at the totality of a client’s enterprise and develops solutions that can have impact on how their clients do business. From AI to...

Left Field Labs is the creative technology partner that builds what’s next. We transform breakthrough technology into extraordinary products, platforms, and experiences for the world's most ambitious brands. Since 2008, we've delivered end-to-end transformation—seamlessly integrating strategy, innovation, and execution for industry leaders including Google, Amazon, and Meta.

Peak Design is a San Francisco-based design company that specializes in bags and camera gear. We were born on Kickstarter in 2011. We like to have fun. We exist to provide happy, meaningful lives for the people who work here. The values that drive our happiness define our mission: 1. Make the best things 2. Succeed at the expense of nobody 3. Treat our...

Applus+ IDIADA is a global partner to the automotive industry, supporting its clients in their product development activities by providing design, engineering, testing and homologation services. We have a large team of more than 2500 professionals drawn from over 28 countries, as well as an international network of subsidiaries and branch offices in 25 countries which ensures that our clients...

Violet St stands out by partnering with creatives from design, music, culture, and sports to offer them their own independently designed and owned footwear lines at scale.

MojoTech is a 100% US-based software development company that integrates strategy, engineering, and design to create results-driven digital products and experiences. We've written the playbook for how to discover, define, design, and build tomorrow's innovations, empowering companies to unlock future market potential, maximize returns on innovation, and drive transformational change.

Savas Labs is a highly-skilled team of designers, developers, and consultants who build elegant web products. We care about code quality, designing for the user, and above all partnering with our clients to solve interesting business problems through best in class technology solutions.

NCSOFT is a premier digital entertainment company with global presence and 4,000+ employees. Established in Southern California, NC AMERICA, an affiliate of NCSOFT, is best known for critically acclaimed franchises including Lineage 2, Lineage 2M, Aion and Blade & Soul. Our core goal is making people in this world happier by delivering games that entertain a globally connected audience has...

We build simple, powerful tools that help people work better, smarter. We’re building the next generation of tools designed not just to capture notes, but to fundamentally improve how people learn, think, and collaborate. Our app brings the natural expressiveness of paper into the digital age, empowering millions of students, educators, and professionals worldwide to organize their ideas, deepen their...