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50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN Los Angeles 2020
MediaAlpha
AdTech
About us
We're the only real-time, programmatic technology platform built for vertical search and metasearch media. MediaAlpha’s platforms power over 50 million advertising transactions annually, representing more than $400 million in spend on brand, comparison, and metasearch sites.
39
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Spring Labs
Blockchain + Fintech
About us
Spring Labs is redefining how data is exchanged for the new age of data sharing, security, and consumer privacy through decentralization. We allow institutions to share information directly among themselves to verify identities and reduce fraud - all while protecting consumer data.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Marina Del Rey
Location
Retention Science
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
ReSci's mission is to make artificial intelligence accessible and usable for brands. We are a marketing automation platform powered by AI, that predicts customer behavior and helps create one-to-one interactions with customers via email, mobile, and web.
65
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Criteria Corp
HR Tech + Software
About us
Criteria Corp is a software company that helps companies hire more effectively and efficiently with pre-employment tests. Our mission is to make high-quality pre-employment testing solutions accessible to companies of all sizes.
81
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
CAIS
Fintech
About us
CAIS is the leading open-architecture financial product platform offering the independent wealth management channel access to a menu of alternative investment funds and capital markets offerings. We are a FinTech B2B organization that is leveling the playing field by providing research, diligence, access and execution of complex financial products.
11
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Endpoint
Real Estate
About us
Endpoint is a digital Title and Escrow company that streamlines the home closing process by making it simple, fast and transparent for everyone involved. Our platform involves all parties: agents, buyers, and sellers, and offers convenient signing, secure funds transfer, and in-home notarization to put your home buying process at ease.
40
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
BloomNation
Consumer Web + eCommerce
About us
BloomNation is a platform that helps independent florist thrive in the world of e-commerce. We've built an entire eco-system that helps empower florists and levels the playing field against the large online brokers. Our mission is to empower these small businesses with the tool to gain and keep online customers.
50
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Flowspace
eCommerce + Logistics
About us
Flowspace provides on-demand warehousing for businesses. Our modern software enables customers and warehouses to manage inventory between the manufacturer, carrier, warehouse, and consumer. We are transforming a $100-billion warehousing and logistics market.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Gimbal
AdTech + Marketing Tech
About us
Gimbal is a marketing and advertising automation platform that translates location data from the real world into targeting, measurement, and insight products for our customers. Using its own hardware and software, Gimbal enables brands, media agencies, and marketers to improve their campaigns with personalized messaging and measurable results.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Stem Disintermedia
Fintech + Music
About us
Stem’s artist-first platform is pioneering an entirely new model of distribution and monetization that puts the creator in the driver’s seat, giving them and their team the data, support, and access they need to maintain their independence.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Dave Inc.
Fintech
About us
Dave is a banking app offering up to a $100 cash advance, side gigs and automated budgeting. Built for humans, not overdraft fees, Dave shares its revenue with charities to feed families and plant trees.
90
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
SURE
Insurance + Software
About us
SURE provides the tools that power global insurance companies and consumer brands to distribute and service any insurance policy digitally. This cohesive ecosystem of managed technology, insurance products, APIs, and Insurance-as-a-Service helps insurance companies and brands manage digital sales, launch new markets, and modernize their systems.
21
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
FightCamp
Fitness + Hardware
About us
FightCamp’s goal is to create the ultimate at-home workout experience for busy professionals committed to their fitness goals. In order to do so, FightCamp offers interactive boxing workouts. Workout output is tracked by motion trackers that calculate the speed and the amount of punches thrown during a workout. FightCamp is funded by Y Combinator.
22
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
Location
InStride
Edtech
About us
As the premier global provider of Strategic Enterprise Education, InStride enables employers to provide career-boosting degrees to their employees, through leading global academic institutions.
62
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Your Super
eCommerce + Food
About us
Your Super is a fun and fast-moving start-up that’s determined to make a difference. Our mission is to make healthy eating easier with organic, plant-based superfood mixes. Our supply chain is 100% transparent and sustainable. And for every mix sold, we donate a life-saving food bar (1:1) to those in need.
27
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
Who Gives a Crap
eCommerce + Social Impact
About us
Who Gives A Crap makes toilet paper that’s good for the planet, good for people and good for your bum. All of our products are made sustainably without trees and we donate 50% of profits to help build toilets in developing countries. To date, we've donated over $1,800,000 and we're just getting started!
15
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
CreatorIQ
Information Technology + Marketing Tech
About us
Our Enterprise Creator Cloud enables intelligent creator discovery, streamlines end-to-end workflow, ensures brand safety, and drives meaningful measurement. Powerful enough for the world’s biggest enterprises and nimble enough for its most innovative, our clients include Airbnb, CVS, Dell, Disney, Mattel, Salesforce, and more.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
SoLo Funds
Fintech + Mobile
About us
SoLo is fintech startup that connects lenders and borrowers for access to loans under $1,000. We offer free financial literacy courses, on budgeting all the way to retirement. Our platform also allows borrowers to set their own terms. We've helped 60,000 people though hard times, connecting them to lenders to cover emergency expenses and more.
11
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Altruist
Fintech
About us
Altruist helps people do better with their money by empowering financial advisors to do their best work. We’re going to help tens of millions of people by helping thousands of financial professionals.
Our software makes advisors more efficient and gives them the freedom to charge less. This means clients pay less and make more.
20
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
.xyz
AdTech + Fintech
About us
XYZ is a technology company that provides domain names and related services to individuals and businesses worldwide. As a leader in the industry, XYZ has a wide span of products, from its flagship domain .xyz to category specific domains such as .Rent, .College, .Cars, .Car, .Auto, .Monster, .Baby, .Storage, .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre.
42
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Flo Technologies
Hardware + Internet of Things
About us
Water damage is 5x more likely than theft and 6x more likely than fire. More than 17 gallons are lost everyday due to leaks in a typical home. Flo Technologies works to prevent water waste and water damage in homes and buildings across the country with our smart home water monitoring technology and leak protection system.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
NexTravel
Software + Travel
About us
NexTravel empowers businesses to have true ownership over the employee end-to-end booking experience. By providing simple and transparent solutions for our clients to set travel policies, track spend, and build in-depth reports, our clients can enjoy business travel without the complexities, hidden costs and time-consuming manual requirements.
22
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Pex
Big Data + Information Technology
About us
Pex delivers independent video and music analytics & rights management services to enable creators, rights holders and marketers to find, measure and leverage the value of content across the Web.
We're hiring! https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs
25
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Edify Labs, Inc.
Software
About us
Edify Labs, Inc. is a global communications platform with the goal of strengthening connections with customers and across teams. Edify is co-founded by Cameron Weeks and Bracken Fields, who created their first VoIP company in 2007, and grew it into a global customer service platform. They have been working on contact center solutions ever since.
6
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
CREXi
Real Estate
About us
CREXi is a commercial real estate community, marketplace, and technology company that simplifies transactions and accelerates business for brokers, buyers, agents and tenants from listing to closing. For more information visit CREXi.com.
60
Local Employees
Founded
Marina del Rey
Location
Grindr
Mobile + Social Media
About us
Grindr is among the top highest grossing apps in the iOS App Store and boasts some of the most engaged users across all social networking apps. We offer a constantly evolving, agile startup environment that enables and rewards innovation, teamwork, and diligence.
75
Local Employees
Founded
West Hollywood
Location
INTELITY
Cloud + Mobile
About us
INTELITY is the global provider of the most advanced hospitality technology platform for the hotel, casino, cruise, and luxury residential markets. INTELITY offers its customers comprehensive, fully integrated solutions to better connect and manage guest experience and staff operations, in a single platform.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Hart
Healthtech + Software
About us
Hart is a health technology company founded in 2012 in Orange County, California, to improve the ways in which people inside and outside of the industry access and engage with health data. An API platform that allows you to instantly collect information from separate sources and distribute it among multiple access points.
38
Local Employees
Founded
Costa Mesa
Location
RepairSmith
Automotive
About us
Backed by Daimler AG, RepairSmith provides the most convenient option for car repair and maintenance. For the first time, car owners can choose to get their repair delivered to their driveway or drop it off at our shop. We deliver an upfront price, online booking, after-hours support, and a full warranty.
65
Local Employees
Founded
El Segundo
Location
SimplePractice
Healthtech + Software
About us
We build software that matters.
Over 60,000 health and wellness professionals trust us to help them grow and run their practices. Our cloud-based, HIPAA compliant platform offers innovative features like paperless client intake, integrated billing, online booking, Telehealth, and so much more!
77
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Convoso
Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
Convoso is an industry-leading provider of multi-channel marketing automation software. Our goal behind starting Convoso was to create a solution that would revolutionize the way call centers and sales organizations communicate with their customers.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Woodland Hills
Location
Fuel Cycle
Cloud + Software
About us
Fuel Cycle is the leading all-in-one market research cloud platform. We help the world’s most customer-centric brands such as Google, Hulu, Facebook, Church & Dwight, and Viacom engage directly with their consumers and capture actionable insights through our online communities, panels, product exchanges, and more.
55
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Emotive.io
AdTech + eCommerce
About us
Emotive is a mobile messaging platform that scales emotionally intelligent relationships for eCommerce brands.
Using a combination of AI and human assistance, Emotive reaps industry leading engagement with 60%+ response rates for hundreds of leading online retailers.
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Single Grain
AdTech + Agency
About us
Single Grain is a digital marketing agency founded in 2009 with a dedicated focus on driving persistent growth for remarkable companies. We work with Series A start-ups to tech giants and enterprises, such as Intuit, Uber, and Amazon. Our expertise is in paid search, paid social, SEO, and content marketing.
15
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Versus Systems
AdTech + Gaming
About us
Versus makes games more fun. Our white-label platform gives players the opportunity to play for the things they love, inside of the games they love. Interactive entertainment becomes even more engaging, more fun, and more personal.
32
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Protecht
Events + Fintech
About us
Protecht is an award-winning technology company that provides business partners with a unique set of tools and solutions. Already integrated in most places where people do business, as insurance brokers, we connect our policies and products to fit each marketplace’s needs connecting the platform to the merchant and consumer (or fan!).
29
Local Employees
Founded
Newport Beach
Location
Renew Health
Healthtech + Insurance
About us
The current prescription drug system is complex, inefficient, and built around misaligned incentives. We want to reimagine medication management from the ground up, with a focus on health outcomes over profits. We believe every prescription should be affordable, accessible, and adjusted to achieve maximal clinical benefit.
36
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Well Health, Inc.
Healthtech
About us
WELL’s communication platform connects patients to healthcare organizations through their preferred medium, be it text, email, phone or live chat.
Our mission is to make going to the doctor as easy as meeting up with a friend.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Barbara
Location
Cie
Digital Media
About us
Cie is an innovation accelerator for large enterprises and a growth accelerator for emerging startups. Cie creates leading digital solutions, serves as an innovation lab for a variety of prominent global brands, and acts as a platform to develop and turn ground-breaking ideas into new technology ventures.
60
Local Employees
Irvine
Location
Luxury Presence
Enterprise Web + Marketing Tech
About us
Luxury Presence is a website and marketing software provider for luxury real estate agents and companies. The company launched in 2016 and its client list includes some of the world’s most successful realtors and companies who purchase template-based luxury websites, content marketing tools, SEO, lead generation, and online advertising.
38
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Quantgene
Healthtech
About us
Unlocking the Deep Human Genome. We’re saving lives through early detection, better prevention and more effective cures for all disease, starting with cancer.
15
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Specright
Big Data + Information Technology
About us
Specright is a cloud-based platform that enables customers to digitize everything from raw materials, formulas, packaging, and finished good specifications.
40
Local Employees
Founded
Irvine
Location
Wevr
Digital Media + Gaming
About us
Wevr is the leading immersive software company providing virtual world creation and software. Included on Fast Company’s list of "Top 10 Most Innovative Companies", our products include an unannounced immersive experience based on a top global IP; a Jon Favreau co-creation, “Gnomes & Goblins"; and "theBlu" one of the most iconic VR experiences.
45
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
nok
Logistics + Marketing Tech
About us
Nok enables brands to offer FREE trials of their products on-demand at scale for the first time. Consumers enjoy no money up front as well as sameday delivery and return pickup. Nok accomplishes this through our proprietary circular supply chain which is tailor-made for trials and returns.
4
Local Employees
Founded
Venice
Location
Tapcart
eCommerce + Marketing Tech
About us
Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables ecommerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brand. We focus on providing great experiences for our customers and for mobile shoppers worldwide.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
NOM [This is NOM]
AdTech + Digital Media
About us
NOM [thisisNOM] is a video technology and data company that offers brand safety and contextual targeting solutions across social properties.
33
Local Employees
Founded
Los Angeles
Location
Advertise Purple
Agency + eCommerce
About us
As the nation’s #1 affiliate management agency, Advertise Purple works closely with the largest affiliates from the leading affiliate networks. Since our launch in 2009, we have offered offer a full suite of affiliate management tools for online brands and e-commerce companies.
66
Local Employees
Founded
Santa Monica
Location
Papaya Pay
Fintech + Payments
About us
We know that paying bills isn’t fun. At Papaya, we work tirelessly to help make that experience better. With our app, simply take a photo of any bill, choose how to pay, and we’ll complete the rest. No more calls, mailing checks, or tedious web forms. Our automated payment technology is fast, secure, and free for users and merchants.
38
Local Employees
Founded
Sherman Oaks
Location
Omaze
Digital Media + News + Entertainment
About us
Omaze is an online fundraising platform that harnesses the power of dreams for good. Omaze offers people the chance to win incredible experiences and life-changing opportunities while benefiting nonprofits. The company has raised over $150M since founding to support the work of over 300 causes around the world.
94
Local Employees
Founded
Culver City
Location
Velaro Incorporated
Software + Cloud
About us
Velaro is an award-winning live chat SaaS vendor and was one of the first technology companies to enter the live chat space more than a decade ago. Today, Velaro is the choice for some of the world’s largest online retailers, healthcare, financial and educational organizations in need of a secure, reliable, performance oriented live chat solution.
6
Local Employees
Founded
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