Best Architects Companies in California, United States
The 374 best Architects companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ADEPT.
Ranked: Best Architects companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ADEPT Offers architectural designing and development services | $34M | 74 mo ago | Funding Raised | Patrick Chraghchian CEO & President | 2017 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+14 | 47 patents Patents concentrated in transport & manufacturing processes | — |
| 2 | Proto Homes Provider of property architectural and engineering services | $7M | 76 mo ago | Deadpooled | Frank Vafaee Founder | 2009 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Panelite Provider of architecture & interior design services | $763K | 53 mo ago | Early Stage | — | 1998 | — | — | — |
| 4 | TEECOM Provider of engineering consulting services | $708K | 201 mo ago | Early Stage | — | 1997 | WebflowApple iCloud MailAmazon Web Services+16 | 3 patents Indoor beacon-based positioning and location database construction for IoT navigation | 1 job opening |
| 5 | AERO COLLECTIVE Offers architectural designing services | — | 66 mo ago | Seed | Andrew Crane Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — | 3 expansions |
| 6 | 450 architects 450 architects is a design studio that designs schools, homes, and healthy living environments. | — | — | — | — | 1996 | — | — | — |
| 7 | 5+design 5+design is a creative architecture and planning design studio. | — | — | — | — | 2005 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+13 | 113 patents Deployable antenna and membrane technologies for space‑based communication systems | — |
| 8 | aai AAI is an architecture & planning company that offers designing and architecture services. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1979 | — | 302 patents UAV propulsion fuel-air separation and VTOL wing‑plate airframe technologies | — |
Top 5 Architects companies in California
#1
Early Stage · Los Angeles, California · founded 1998$763.4Kraised▾
Provider of architecture & interior design services
#2
Funding Raised · Pasadena, California · founded 2017$34.5Mraised▾
Offers architectural designing and development services
- Apr 2020Conventional Debt$34.5M
#3
Deadpooled · Los Angeles, California · founded 2009 · 21 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Developer of a home building system intended to design, build, control the supply chain and manage post-occupancy. The company offers homeowners, builders, developers, and building professionals a robust digital suite of groundbreaking services and tools designed to simplify the home building process, enabling builders to capitalize on economies of scale while still maintaining maximum flexibility in design and construction and avoiding the limitations common to other preferable and modular home alternatives.
- Feb 2020Series A$7.3M
#4
Early Stage · Oakland, California · founded 1997$708Kraised▾
Provider of engineering consulting services
#5
Seed · Inglewood, California · founded 2015—raised▾
AERO COLLECTIVE is a multi-faceted design practice that gathers unique creative talents to realize your vision. Our project types are purposefully diverse in order to maintain creative curiosity regarding each individual project; as a result our experience covers: Affordable Housing, Art Galleries, Art Museums, Master Planning, Multi-Family Housing, Office, Restaurants, Retail, Single Family Residential and Theaters.
- Dec 2020Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Architects coverage by sub-theme.
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