Top California Retail Startups (177)
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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...
Mixbook is an award-winning design platform that gives people unrivaled creative freedom to tell their stories through beautiful, personalized photo goods. Since our start, we’ve helped more than 6 million people create one-of-a-kind books, cards, prints, and calendars, earning over 35,000+ 5-star reviews and becoming the #1 rated photo book service in the US. Our platform blends trend-forward design with a...
Afresh has built the first Fresh Operating System—a solution created specifically for fresh inventory, forecasting, ordering, and grocery store operations. Our approach blends fresh-first AI and human insight to drive profits for grocers, provide fresher food for people, and improve sustainability in the fresh supply chain. Explore the impact fresh-first tech has on curbing climate change at afresh.com/impact.
We're a high-growth DTC brand defining the home wellness category. Our air purifiers are best-in-class and our countertop water purifier is so effective it literally turns wine into water.
Three Decades of Leadership In The Fashion Industry Founded in 1985 by Frank Zarabi, FAM Brands provides innovative fashion, design, brand development, and distribution solutions to a wide range of retail and wholesale clients and partners. Our unique performance materials and versatile apparel designs-along with our competitive pricing strategies-have enabled us to become leaders in apparel industry. Our ability to thrive,...
Huckberry is a lifestyle brand for active and adventurous guys. We're a team of 150+ based in Austin, TX with additional offices in San Francisco, CA and Columbus, OH. Over a million and a half young, active professionals trust us as their leading resource for emerging brands, gear, and lifestyle inspiration. We're independent (read our story here: Bit.ly/TheHuckberryStory), and have been...
Manhead is a worldwide, full service, merchandise and experiential company catering to the music and entertainment industries with offices in Nashville, New York, and Los Angeles. For over 15 years, Manhead has succeeded as one of the leading, independently owned music/entertainment merchandise companies, specializing in touring, e-commerce, creative, retail, licensing, collaborations, and pop-up shops.
Jenni Kayne is a known tastemaker and authority on style, spanning the worlds of fashion, interiors, and entertaining. Inspired by organic textures, thoughtful simplicity, and natural landscapes, Jenni Kayne has quickly become an all-encompassing lifestyle brand rooted in modern California minimalism. Based in Los Angeles, California, our timeless designs transcend both age and seasons with a signature sense of laid-back luxury....
The Bouqs Company is an online flower retailer founded by John Tabis and Juan Pablo Montúfar that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms to doorsteps nationwide. Tabis, a brand and strategy executive formerly with Disney, and Montúfar, a third-generation farmer, started The Bouqs Company in November 2012 to radically disrupt the $100B global floral industry through a...
Welcome to Fewer, Better. Fewer, better is the philosophy behind everything we do. We create timeless collections for the modern woman through meticulous design, carefully selected fabrics and simple functionality. Each piece is made with integrity and kindness from the highest-quality materials and created by skilled craftsmen throughout Europe, South America, China, and the United States. Cuyana is driving dynamic changes in the...
With showrooms in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta, Place is the brainchild of innovator and entrepreneur Leah Justman. Envisioning a showroom where emerging brands would be professionally nurtured and retailers would be professionally cared for; Place opened its doors in the heart of Los Angeles’ fashion district in 2005. Now home to brands including ASTR, Bec & Bridge,...
The nation's largest body sugaring & airbrush tanning destination. The secret to feeling flawless starts here.
Our lives are the sum of a million little moments, and we believe every single one has the potential to be extraordinary. Balancing product and purpose, we design clothes that spark joy and inspire togetherness. Made from proprietary Lunaluxe™️ and Soluxe™️ bamboo fabrics, our cloud-soft sleepwear and daywear are designed to laugh, play and snuggle in. With our headquarters in...
Automating Retail Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for the retail industry. Simbe’s first product, Tally, is the world’s first fully autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution; one that provides retailers unprecedented visibility and insight into the state of merchandise in their stores. Tally works in concert with retail associates by arming them with information to ensure the store’s products are always...
Founded upon years of Noble Prize-winning organic molecular chemistry research, the cutting-edge skincare technology at the core of our brand enables unprecedented precision and efficacy. We create with intention and deep respect for the natural world by adhering to the global principles of green chemistry. We take our commitment to nature and sustainability to all stages of products' development, from R&D...
MeUndies is a Los Angeles-based underwear & loungewear company best known for its softer than soft basics. Founded in 2011, MeUndies disrupted the $110B underwear industry when it launched the first online underwear subscription. Through the years the brand has inspired a passionate community of undie-obsessed individuals with its bold products.
VICI started in 2012, in the aftermath of the recession. As working women, we knew that we could boost other women’s confidence with fashion. Our mission has remained the same ever since! VICI removes the obstacles that make stylish clothing unreachable for so many women. Our pieces are affordable and easy to mix + match. They look equally good in...
Frank & Eileen was born in 2009 when former engineer Audrey McLoghlin sought to reinvent the button-up for women —a category previously focused solely on men. Inspired by Audrey’s Irish grandparents—our brand namesakes, Frank & Eileen—we have grown slowly and intentionally from our best-Italian-fabric-in-the-world-obsessed beginnings. Now a globally recognized fashion brand, Frank & Eileen is a certified woman-owned, women-led business...
