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Los Angeles

Metro area · United States · Pop. 18.6M · #10 city by EV

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6,078 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
1,649 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
581 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 35%
4,550Startups
1,663 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
1,451 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 27%
1,436 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 29%
1,175Breakouts
749 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 31%
426 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 29%
353Scaleups
224 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 3.7%
129 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.1%
158Valuation Outcomes
146 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 2.4%
11 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)
reach Decacorn 0.18%
1 Gigacorns($1T+ valuation)
reach Gigacorn 0.016%
Pre-Seed
1,663
Seed
1,451
Series A
1,436
Series B
749
Series C
426
Unicorn
146
Decacorn
11

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Los Angeles

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into Los Angeles-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Los Angeles - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Los Angeles-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Los Angeles

VC investment into Los Angeles-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

Academia

Los Angeles's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Los Angeles.

University ranking By notable alumni-founded companies based in Los Angeles
# University City Based here Companies
1 🇺🇸UCLA Los Angeles, CA 22 4,599
2 🇺🇸USC Los Angeles, CA 22 3,752
3 🇺🇸Stanford University Stanford, CA 18 13K
4 🇺🇸UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 12 8,909
5 🇺🇸University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 8 3,653
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Location comparison

How Los Angeles stacks up

Compare Los Angeles with peers from the same country (United States) — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

Seattle
$2.9T
Austin
$2T
New York City
$1.6T
Boston
$1.2T
Los Angeles
$1.2T
Miami
$673B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Sector concentration

Where Los Angeles punches above its weight

Sectors in which Los Angeles's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means Los Angeles is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.

🚀 Space
6.86×
8 unicorns · 25.0% of global sector
✈️ Aviation
4.58×
2 unicorns · 16.7% of global sector
🎮 Consumer Services
1.50×
12 unicorns · 5.5% of global sector

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