AI Landscape of Los Angeles
243 AI companies in Los Angeles, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
Who leads AI in Los Angeles
Shows the top AI firms in Los Angeles by size, funding, hiring activity and media coverage, noting 243 companies tracked, 10 currently hiring and 42 with disclosed funding rounds.
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Kindo4last posted Mar 2026
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PopID2last posted May 2026
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Salt AI2last posted Jun 2026
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icardio.ai1last posted Feb 2026
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VideoVerse1last posted Aug 2025
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Senpi1last posted Oct 2025
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WerQ AI1last posted Aug 2025
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Quilter1last posted Nov 2025
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Verses$78.3MPost IPO · Mar 2026
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Regard$76.3MSeries B · Jul 2024
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rabbit$64.7MSeries B · Mar 2024
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Futureverse$54MSeries A · Jul 2023
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Pictor Labs$48.8MSeries B · Jan 2025
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Endgame$47.2MSeries B · Feb 2022
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Jurny34tracked employees
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Flossy30tracked employees
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Filmustage10tracked employees
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Vault10tracked employees
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AiMi24articles in the window
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Deagent AI3articles in the window
See all 243 AI companies in Los Angeles
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How the AI ecosystem in Los Angeles grew, 2016–2025
Displays the annual count of new AI companies, highlighting a peak of 38 founded in 2024 and 33 in 2025.
The AI market map of Los Angeles: what these companies actually do
Breaks down the product types these firms develop, with enterprise tech (174) and SaaS (112) leading, and shows that most revenue comes from subscriptions (225).
- Enterprise Tech174 companies · $553.4M raised · 7 hiring
- Enterprise Software124 companies · $420.9M raised · 6 hiring
- SaaS112 companies · $277.4M raised · 4 hiring
- Deep Tech101 companies · $345.1M raised · 6 hiring
- Consumer Digital62 companies · $289M raised · 3 hiring
- Native AI in Marketing18 companies · $52.3M raised
- Healthtech15 companies · $149.6M raised · 2 hiring
- Native AI in Healthcare15 companies · $149.6M raised · 2 hiring
- No Code AI Platforms14 companies · $4.1M raised · 1 hiring
- Native AI in Software Development12 companies · $16.5M raised · 1 hiring
- Spatial Computing11 companies · $82.9M raised
- AI-Native Computer Vision11 companies · $9.4M raised
Monetization
How AI companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Funding, M&A and the deals moving AI in Los Angeles
Lists 80 corporate events over the past two years, most of which are funding rounds (37) followed by key‑person announcements (18).
- FundingVERSES AI Inc. (CBOE: VERS) (OTCQB: VRSSF) (\"VERSES\" or the \"Company\"), a cognitive computing company pioneering next-generation agentic software systems, is pleased to announce that it has closed a non-brokered private placement offering (the \"Offering\") of secured convertible debenture units (the \"Units\") for gross proceeds of CAD$2.65M of which C$2.4M was in cash.2025-12-19
- FundingSalt AI, the leader in contextual AI for enterprise applications in life sciences and health tech, today announced a $10 million funding round, led by Morpheus Ventures, with participation from Struck Capital, Marbruck Investments and CoreWeave.2025-09-30
- M&AMinute Media, a leading global technology and sports content company, today announced its acquisition of VideoVerse.2025-09-10
- FundingPopID has received equity financing with investments from Verifone, Chipotle’s Cultivate Next venture fund, Commerce Ventures, PayPal and Visa Ventures.2025-06-05
- M&ADiligent, a leading provider of AI-driven GRC SaaS solutions, has announced the acquisition of Vault, a technology company offering AI-powered ethics and compliance tools.2025-05-23
- M&AFutureverse, an AI and metaverse tech firm, announced Wednesday it has acquired Candy Digital, a digital collectibles platform, even as interest in the sector has waned in recent years.2025-04-16
- FundingArtificial intelligence (AI)-powered property management platform Jurny has received what it calls a “substantial” investment, bringing the company’s funding to more than $16 million in total.2025-04-01
- FundingUthana, a Los Angeles, CA-based generative AI platform for 3D character animation, has closed a $4.3 million funding round.2025-03-11
- FundingPictorLabs, a software company transforming histopathology with AI-powered virtual staining, today announced an extension of its Series B funding round with a strategic investment from Labcorp, a global leader of innovative and comprehensive laboratory services.2025-01-16
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a AI company in Los Angeles was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
| Acquirer | Target | Deal value | Status | Date |
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| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-09-18 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-05-23 | ||
| undisclosed | Announced | 2025-04-16 | ||
| undisclosed | Completed | 2024-03-25 | ||
| $45M | Announced | 2023-12-18 | ||
| Optikka | undisclosed | Announced | 2023-12-18 |
Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work
Provides details on notable events such as leadership moves, IPO filings, product launches and contract wins.
Who is building AI in Los Angeles
Profiles 156 founders and CEOs across 92 firms, noting frequent alma maters like Stanford (6) and common prior employers such as Amazon (3).
CEO Futureverse, NetX Fund, ex-Co-Founder Centrality.AI, Sylo, DN3010.
California NanoSystems Institute. Stanford University 2005, Bilkent University BS 2000
Ex-SpaceX, BioMEMS Research Laboratory. University of California, Berkeley BA
First Close Partners, ex-Subspace, Bird, UpChannel, Clover Health, Riot Games, VentureCrush, Zeevex. Saint Leo University 1995
Flossy, ex-Silversheet, ex-Healthcare Services, London school of economic and political science
Ex-Co-Founder MySpace, Co-Founder Jam City · University of Washington BS 2000
Forbes Los Angeles Business Council, Communicating With Us, Co-Founder Zainge, NUR Internet Marketing. UCLA 2012
Co-Founder & CEO Vody, ex-Founder & CEO StyleHaul. Trinity College-Hartford BA, Suffolk University - Sawyer Business School MBA
Ex- Co-Founder Visionful. University of Tehran BS 2009 & MS 2011, University of California San Diego PhD 2017
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Look up the people behind AI companies in Los Angeles
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Who funds AI in Los Angeles
Summarizes 100 funding rounds since 2016 from 250 investors, with a typical round size of $4.3 million.
| Investor · most active investors since 2016 | Rounds | Led | Latest |
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| Synergis | 3 | 2 | Sep 2023 |
| Techstars | 3 | 2 | Jul 2024 |
| 500 Global | 3 | 1 | May 2023 |
| Hustle Fund | 3 | 1 | Mar 2025 |
| Y Combinator | 3 | 1 | Apr 2026 |
| SOSV | 2 | 2 | Oct 2021 |
| 100Unicorns | 2 | 2 | Oct 2021 |
| Khosla Ventures | 2 | 2 | Dec 2023 |
| Geek Ventures | 2 | 2 | Aug 2024 |
| Morpheus Ventures | 2 | 2 | Sep 2025 |
The typical round is $4.3M — half were bigger, half smaller.
The biggest AI funding rounds in Los Angeles
Highlights the largest disclosed round—Regard’s $61 million Series B—and lists ten other sizable recent rounds.
| Company | Round | Size | When | Backers |
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| Series B | $61M | Jul 2024 | Oak HC/FT, Cedars Sinai Health Ventures, TenOneTen +2 more | |
| Series A | $54M | Jul 2023 | 10T, Ripple | |
| Series B | $46.8M | Apr 2022 | A91 Partners, Alpha Wave Global, Binny Bansal +3 more | |
| Series B | $45M | Dec 2023 | Bluestone Equity Partners | |
| Series B | $30M | Feb 2022 | Lachy Groom, Menlo Ventures, Upfront Ventures +2 more | |
| Series B | $30M | Aug 2024 | Insight Partners, M Ventures | |
| Series B | $28.7M | Mar 2024 | — | |
| Series A | $25M | Apr 2026 | Footwork, Acrew Capital, Better Tomorrow Ventures | |
| Series B | $25M | Oct 2025 | Index Ventures | |
| Series A | $20.6M | Jul 2024 | Drive Capital, RRE Ventures, Marlinspike +4 more |
34 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.
Series A$25MApr 2026
Seed$500kApr 2026
Series A$475kApr 2026
What the news says about AI in Los Angeles
Counts 26,662 news articles in the last year, most often covering product launches, technology adoption and strategic partnerships.
What the coverage is about
The subjects that dominate AI news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.
- Cryptocurrency impact on forex markets54,305▲+87%
- New product launches and innovations45,975▲+33%
- Technology adoption and digital transformation41,410▲+28%
- Strategic partnerships and collaborations37,461▲+45%
- College athletics news33,026▼-59%
- Artificial intelligence advancements32,181▲+40%
- Executive leadership changes and appointments27,800▲+36%
- Sports history and legacy stories24,526▲+1065%
- International political relations22,380▲+53%
- Security and defense policies21,442▲+44%
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4 AI companies here were named in the news over this period.
Watch AI coverage in United States as it happens
Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.
Momentum
The words getting louder — and quieter
Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.
The pressures the press keeps returning to
Three recurring angles in United States AI coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
AI jobs in Los Angeles: who is hiring and what they ask for
Reports 222 job postings from 22 employers in the past year, with top required skills including Python, C++, TypeScript, AWS and Terraform.
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What AI employers in Los Angeles put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
- python12▲
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- typescript9▲
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- terraform8▲
- kubernetes8▲
- react7▲
- docker6▲
- reinforcement learning5▲
- pytorch4▲
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36 AI-relevant internships in India were advertised over the same 12 months.
What the research says
The AI research read is national: 5,214 United States-affiliated papers, clustered into themes such as Fundamental AI Theory Gaps, Cloud Scalability Challenges, Evaluation and Overfitting Risks, Cloud Vulnerability Exposure. It is measured at country level, so it is the same signal for every city in United States — the full read, with the theme clusters, growth and blind spots, lives on the national page.
Go deeper on AI research and innovation
Research themes, patent activity and the companies commercialising them, in one place.
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