Top California Digital Media Startups (422)

Philo is a streaming television service that's reimagining the TV experience for the modern viewer. Founded by a group of technology and product enthusiasts, we set out to build the future of television by combining the best of modern technology with the most compelling medium ever invented—delivering the TV experience we've always wanted for ourselves. At our core, Philo provides an...

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.

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 operational expertise in technology, product development, brand building, and customer acquisition,...

Optimal is a performance marketing agency on a mission, to bring together the best data, technology, and people to achieve our clients’ marketing goals. Brand, campaign, or cause: we maximize performance at every moment. We are not only digital media strategists – we’re award-winning industry leaders, with deep knowledge spanning all things digital: from advertising and paid media to marketing and...

Golden Pet Brands is leading America’s pet health revolution by making longevity-focused nutrition simple for pet parents, and rewarding for pets, through product excellence, education, and storytelling.

Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform is built around their own cutting-edge proprietary video model, Character-3, which is the first multimodal model in production. Alongside Character-3, the platform also brings other leading foundation models into one ecosystem spanning generative images, video, and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral...

Academia.edu is the world’s leading platform for researchers and scholars to share their work, discover research and connect with fellow academics globally. Our bold vision: to democratize and accelerate the world's research, enhancing the speed of scientific discovery and technological progress for the benefit of everyone. We imagine a world where accessing academic papers is effortless, keeping track of cutting-edge...

VSCO is on a mission to champion photographers so they can make it. We place human creativity at the heart of new technology. Our editing and business tools honor and elevate the timelessness of the creative process while enabling our members to find community and success in exciting and innovative ways. VSCO maintains a rich and authentic creative environment that serves...

Proto is the leader for inclusive multilingual contact centre automation. Governments and businesses use Proto's AI Customer Experience (AICX) platform to ensure local language service, long-term operational efficiency, and citizen protection. Proto deployments are powered by its HermesAI™ engine for local and mixed languages.

We’re building AI agents that can reliably do everyday digital tasks for you on the web, towards an AI chief-of-staff for everyone. Be it simple tasks like ordering groceries or tracking campground reservations, to more complex scenarios like planning and co-ordinating a group trip. We’re reimagining how people interact with the web -- building the entire stack to be agent-first,...

We empower districts with accredited middle and high school original credit, credit recovery, and multilingual courses that meet the needs of today’s learners and educators. Our platform was built from the ground up based on extensive feedback from educators and team members who understand firsthand the challenges of teaching today's digital-native students. Teachers told us they needed better ways to...

Exploding Kittens is a leading game and entertainment company with a mission to inspire people to connect, laugh, and play fun games in the physical world. After initially seeking to raise $10K through Kickstarter, the Exploding Kittens campaign raised $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, Exploding Kittens is the #1 most-backed project in Kickstarter history and has...

Designed for unlimited discovery and unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids. Reaching more than 50 million children in homes and classrooms, Epic fuels curiosity and reading confidence in kids to explore their interests and learn in a fun, safe, kid-friendly environment. Our award-winning service is built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books, audiobooks...

KlientBoost is a digital performance marketing agency with the most published wins (case studies, reviews, video testimonials) of any agency on the planet. We know, that sounds crazy. But we did the research. Check our site. Through paid advertising, SEO, email marketing, and conversion rate optimization, we accelerate the growth of our 250+ clients in the SaaS, eCommerce, and lead generation space. Simply...

Kyra is a global creator economy company bridging the gap between brands and TikTok creators. We are a team of creators at our core, producing best-in-class social content geared for Gen-Z while accelerating a world for creators to do the same with ease. The company encompasses Kyra Originals, originally produced TikTok channels reaching more than 13M monthly viewers; Kyra Profile,...

Haus is a Los Angeles-based digital agency that pushes the boundaries of technology, strategy, and design to create lasting relationships between brands & customers.

Building one of the world's biggest YouTube channels

Lemonlight launched in 2014 with a mission to make marketing videos accessible to small/midsize businesses in a market that catered to large brands. Since then, we’ve become one the largest branded content providers in the world! We’ve worked with over 3,500 brands and are now serving a range of clientele from small businesses to the world’s biggest brands like Amazon,...

Founded by Kevin Hart, HARTBEAT is the global, multi-platform media company creating entertainment at the intersection of comedy and culture with a mission to keep the world laughing together. HARTBEAT delivers comedy through its three divisions: HARTBEAT Studios, which finances, develops, and produces innovative content; HARTBEAT Media, which connects with consumers around the world through events and the company’s expansive...

Genies is the world’s largest avatar technology company, bringing the power of NFTs and crypto to culture through its mission to own the “virtual being identity layer.” The company has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars as virtual beings in society through its consumer-first future vision coined “Decentralized Disney of the metaverse.” Genies provides consumers and celebrities with...