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Best SaaS Companies in Los Angeles, United States

The 93 best SaaS companies in Los Angeles, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: acelerate.

93companies tracked
$20.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
3have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · SAAS × LOS ANGELES

Our analysis of 50 SaaS companies

$3.4b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2020.

50companies analysed
88%cloud-native stacks
2020funding peak (by rounds)
2unicorns
2011median founding year
85kcombined LinkedIn audience
71%of audience held by top 3
3companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best SaaS companies in Los Angeles

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1acelerate
Acelerate helps restaurants manage online storefronts while connecting restaurateurs with new, delivery-only…
10Product bottom 48%Funding bottom 46%Global bottom 39%Market bottom 30%
All 5 signals ▾
Productbottom 48%
Fundingbottom 46%
Globalbottom 39%
Marketbottom 30%
Customersbottom 1%
Product: 1 published app (668 installs) · Company stage: Series A
Funding: Raised $14.4M · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 10/100
$14M59 mo agoSeries A—2019———
2intellect
Intellect, is a leader in SaaS QMS software and no-code platform offering extreme configurability.
64Tech top 28%Growth top 30%Funding top 43%Product top 46%
All 7 signals ▾
Techtop 28%
Growthtop 30%
Fundingtop 43%
Producttop 46%
Marketbottom 44%
Globalbottom 39%
Customersbottom 35%
Tech: 41 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100
$6M30 mo agoSeries B—2000Craft CMSPHPYii+26—1 launch
3scopio
Scopio is an Online Community connecting photographers and visual artists.
$100K58 mo agoSeries A—2015Cart FunctionalityNode.jsGoogle Sign-in+19—1 partnership
4405 ads
405 Ads is a Full Service Web Agency. We are Certified Google Partners, we specialize in Google Adwords, SEO…
————2015WordPressMySQLPHP+26——
5ACCORD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC
The Accord Experience: An Integrated Approach
————————
6ace web optimization
Ace Web Optimization is a Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing Firm.
————————
7admax local
AdMax Local is an automated platform for creation & management of local search marketing campaigns.
——Private—2015UbuntuBootstrapApache HTTP Server+11——
8angarus
Cloud platform powered patient engagement & data science
——Private—2016———

Top 3 SaaS companies in Los Angeles

#1
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2000 · 97 employees
$6.1Mraised
▾

Developer of a business process management software designed to connect applications, people and processes. The company's software allows business leaders to automate and centralize management of quality control, regulatory compliance, operations and overall process improvement within departments, services, organizations and throughout enterprises, enabling businesses to improve quality safety and ensure compliance.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 28%
Growth
top 30%
Funding
top 43%
Product
top 46%
Market
bottom 44%
Global
bottom 39%
Tech: 41 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Cloudfront · Devops: Nginx
Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY
Funding: Raised $6.1M · 4 rounds over 19 yrs (0.2/yr) · Last round round (Dec 2023)
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers — 8.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Investors
Strattam Capital, GroundWork Equity, Lighter Capital, Upscale Ventures, UCLA Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesBlitzCloudflare
#2
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2019 · 34 employees
$14.4Mraised
▾

Operator of an online food platform intended for restaurants. The company's platform allows restaurants to manage their entire digital footprint from ordering food to management in one place, enabling businesses to manage and grow their restaurants online.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 10how this company ranks against its industry peers
Product
bottom 48%
Funding
bottom 46%
Global
bottom 39%
Market
bottom 30%
Customers
bottom 1%
Product: 1 published app (668 installs) · Company stage: Series A
Funding: Raised $14.4M · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr) · Last round round (Jul 2021)
Global: Investors from 1 country beyond United States
Investors
Sequoia Capital
#3
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2015 · 15 employees
$100Kraised
▾

Developer of an artificial intelligence-based user-generated content platform designed to find and license images and videos from social media. The company's platform streamlines the copyright process for user-generated images and videos on social media, enabling users to seamlessly search, license, publish and pull insights from user-generated images and videos.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 16k LinkedIn followers — 18.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Canva Enterprise) announced in 12 mo
Investors
Raiven Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Gaingels, Andrew Ogawa, Joanne Bradford, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAwinCart FunctionalityCloudflare

Funding & investor landscape

$20.6Mtotal disclosed funding
3companies funded
0disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Cross Ocean Ventures1 rounds
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,245,028 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of SaaS coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States

How research on Cloud Computing is moving in the United States

A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 8,654 United States-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 26% → 57% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
  • Film Independent588
  • Microsoft147
  • Goddard Space Flight Center135
  • University of Washington130
  • NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research117
leading researchers
Chirag Shah · Kui Ren · Mark D. Zelinka · Cong Wang · Wenjing Lou · Graham Feingold · Robert Wood · Yue Ma
▲ Breakthroughs3,574 · 41%
▲ 36%→42% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations85% since 2021mostly methods-led
Orchestration research emerged as a brand-new sub-topic with 152 papers, signaling rapid containerization and microservices deployment activity.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Scalability51→526
  • Software deployment12→253
  • Key (lock)16→192
  • Operating system45→218
  • Workflow3→176
Newly emergingOrchestration 0→152 · Microservices 0→80 · Corporate governance 0→61
Landmark MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms · 37,942 cites
◆ Advancements2,482 · 29%
▲ 28%→29% share
▲1.0× share momentum0 median citations83% since 2021mostly methods-led
Scalability advancement papers surged 14→264, reflecting intensifying focus on cloud infrastructure performance optimization.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Scalability14→264
  • Key (lock)9→192
  • Operating system18→190
  • Software deployment9→176
  • Analytics8→149
Newly emergingCorporate governance 0→54 · Digital transformation 0→48 · Transformative learning 0→45
Landmark Fog computing and its role in the internet of things · 5,906 cites
▼ Concerns1,368 · 16%
▼ 21%→15% share
▼0.7× share momentum0 median citations79% since 2021mostly position pieces
Concern-segment field-share shrank 21%→15% despite Key (lock) papers rising 9→128, suggesting security lock-in risks are concentrating.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Key (lock)9→128
  • Scalability10→101
  • Software deployment2→76
  • Operating system13→83
  • Big data17→80
Newly emergingAutomation 0→55 · Corporate governance 0→54 · Resilience (materials science) 0→39
Landmark Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges · 7,597 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States

Where cloud computing is researched across United States

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Boston246 · +0.56
Hot · DICOMAdvancing · Federated learningOpportunity · Key (lock)Concern · Interoperability
New York216 · +0.41
Hot · MidbrainAdvancing · Component (thermodynamics)Opportunity · Software deploymentConcern · Ice cloud
Seattle175 · +0.30
Hot · CurriculumAdvancing · Supply chainOpportunity · Generative grammarConcern · Radiation
SF Bay Area172 · +0.49
Hot · Object (grammar)Advancing · GeometryOpportunity · InferenceConcern · Interoperability
Los Angeles140 · +0.43
Hot · NetCDFAdvancing · Reliability (semiconductor)Opportunity · Key (lock)Concern · Atmospheric sciences
Pittsburgh122 · +0.45
Hot · Dynamic priority schedulingAdvancing · Efficient energy useOpportunity · Reinforcement learningConcern · Radiative forcing
San Diego91 · +0.48
Hot · The arcticAdvancing · ArcticOpportunity · ConvectionConcern · Service provider
Atlanta80 · +0.55
Hot · VirtualizationAdvancing · Stateful firewallOpportunity · Point cloudConcern · Core (optical fiber)
Chicago77 · +0.51
Hot · Information systemAdvancing · Matching (statistics)Opportunity · Scale (ratio)Concern · Internet privacy
Philadelphia73 · +0.66
Hot · GraphAdvancing · Data sharingOpportunity · Inference
PATENT SIGNAL · United States

Who's filing cloud computing patents in the United States

United States cloud computing patent filing is cooling — 6,575 filings from 3,147 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Microsoft, Intel; annual filings 708→574.

6,575 filings3,147 assigneespeak 708/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • IBM1261
  • Microsoft891
  • Intel641
  • Vmware477
  • Oracle381
  • Cisco237
  • RED HAT185
  • Nutanix173

Common questions

How many SaaS companies are there in Los Angeles, United States?
Radar tracks 93 indexable SaaS companies headquartered in Los Angeles, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by SaaS companies in Los Angeles, United States?
The SaaS companies in Los Angeles, United States on this list have raised a combined $20.6M in disclosed equity funding across 3 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded SaaS company in Los Angeles, United States?
acelerate is the highest-funded SaaS company in Los Angeles, United States, with $14.4M in disclosed equity funding.
How many SaaS companies in Los Angeles, United States are funded?
3 of the 93 SaaS companies in Los Angeles, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many SaaS unicorns are there in Los Angeles, United States?
None of the SaaS companies in Los Angeles, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Los Angeles, United States SaaS companies?
The most active investors in Los Angeles, United States SaaS companies on this list include Cross Ocean Ventures.
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