Los Angeles
Metro area · United States · Pop. 18.6M · #10 city by EV
Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Los Angeles
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Los Angeles-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Los Angeles - 2026
Startup funnel
Los Angeles's power-law funnel
From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.
* 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.
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. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
Notable companies
Top private companies in Los Angeles
Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.
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 | City | Based here | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸UCLA | Los Angeles, CA | 22 | 4,179 |
| 2 | 🇺🇸USC | Los Angeles, CA | 22 | 3,304 |
| 3 | 🇺🇸Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 18 | 12.2K |
| 4 | 🇺🇸UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 12 | 8,176 |
| 5 | 🇺🇸University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 8 | 3,294 |
Location comparison
How Los Angeles stacks up
Compare Los Angeles with peers from the same country (United States) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.
Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.
Top cities in United States ranked by combined EV. Los Angeles's row is highlighted (#6).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay Area | $20.1T | 7.9× | 777 | $157B | 24.3K |
| 2 | Seattle | $3.1T | 10.6× | 68 | $6.6B | 2,935 |
| 3 | Austin | $2T | 14.0× | 56 | $8.1B | 2,481 |
| 4 | New York City | $1.7T | 5.3× | 296 | $31.2B | 16.4K |
| 5 | Boston | $1.2T | 4.7× | 185 | $13.6B | 6,194 |
| 6 | Los Angeles | $1.2T | 5.8× | 133 | $18.3B | 8,432 |
| 7 | Miami | $619B | 12.9× | 33 | $2.9B | 2,736 |
| 8 | San Diego | $399B | 6.2× | 52 | $3.3B | 2,230 |
| 9 | Washington DC | $317B | 4.2× | 45 | $3.5B | 2,318 |
| 10 | Chicago | $256B | 3.5× | 50 | $2.1B | 2,924 |
| 11 | Dallas | $195B | 3.9× | 31 | $1.5B | 1,866 |
| 12 | Philadelphia | $143B | 6.8× | 13 | $2.1B | 2,109 |
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.
Premium analytics
What we don't show on this page (yet)
Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Los Angeles dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.
Get the full Los Angeles ecosystem on Dealroom
Live company-by-company deal flow, full cap tables, founder pedigrees, hiring signals and revenue trajectories.