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Startup report

Trending startups by UCLA-alum founders

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December 18, 2023

UCLA alumni stand out in the vibrant startup ecosystem, founding influential companies such as Box, Robinhood, and Blizzard Entertainment. UCLA's entrepreneurship culture thrives at the undergraduate and graduate levels with accelerators StartupUCLA and BruinTank, startup consulting club Bruin Ventures, and the world's first entrepreneurship fraternity, Sigma Eta Pi.

At Harmonic, we track these startups from stealth mode to exit. We focus on key indicators such as team expansion, funding milestones, digital footprint, and social media presence, updating our data weekly to capture growth trends.

Bevz

Bevz offers a SaaS platform for convenience stores, enabling them to streamline operations and increase online orders. The platform integrates inventory sync, store messaging, and wholesaler integration technologies, providing convenience stores with the tools they need to manage and grow their businesses effectively.

Location
Los Angeles, California
Sector
Consumer products and services
Playfull

Playfull offers an app that leverages games and gamification to drive sales at restaurants, while also providing real-time customer analytics to help identify top customers. The app utilizes JavaScript and data analytics to deliver personalized experiences and is integrated with major restaurant brands and online ordering platforms.

Location
Culver City, California
Sector
Consumer products and services
Venteur

Venteur offers ICHRA solutions to help employers provide the best possible health benefits for their employees, allowing for a new way to approach insurance benefits without the baggage. The main technologies/methods used include AI-powered marketplace for fast and easy plan enrollment, flexible and custom plans for employees, and expert broker services for the best outcomes.

Location
Berkeley, California
Sector
Business services, Life sciences & healthcare
SimpleCar

SimpleCar offers an affordable, all-inclusive monthly vehicle subscription with transparent terms and fixed pricing, including insurance, maintenance, and roadside assistance, without the need for credit checks or down payments. The service provides a customer-centric approach, allowing for easy cancellation and access to a gas program, referral program, and additional drivers, with a focus on fair pricing and flexible terms to simplify the driving experience.

Location
Los Angeles, California
Sector
Consumer products and services
We Are Giant

We Are Giant is a music community platform that connects artists and fans. It provides a safe and communal home for fans, free from ads and trolls, where artist-centric communities can thrive. For artists, it offers a central place for their most valuable fans, where they can announce, share, and excite. The platform utilizes technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to create personalized experiences for users, and blockchain technology to ensure the security and transparency of transactions.

Location
Los Angeles, California
Sector
Communications and information technology
Topanga.io

Topanga.io offers a technology-powered reusable packaging program that helps businesses and campuses reduce packaging waste by tracking and tracing reusable containers, increasing return rates, and monitoring environmental impact. Their platform utilizes an enterprise-grade API and code-free products to support any reusable packaging program, while also providing economic and environmental ROI analysis and on-demand tech support for post-launch management.

Location
Los Angeles, California
Sector
Consumer products and services
TAI

TAI is an app that empowers users to control their investments, offering insights, discovery tools, and actionable ETF and stock ideas to upgrade their portfolios. It curates the market into digestible themes and provides educational content on investing fundamentals, leveraging AI and automation technologies to deliver a personalized investing experience.

Location
San Francisco, California
Sector
Financial services
Keenly, Inc

Keenly is a software platform that simplifies sustainability reporting for companies by integrating and prioritizing topics from leading standards and frameworks into a personalized dashboard. The platform alleviates the burden of ESG reporting by automating data collection and analysis, allowing companies to focus on results. Keenly's technology stack includes natural language processing, machine learning, and data visualization to provide users with actionable insights into their sustainability performance.

Location
Los Angeles, California
Sector
Business services
BizNest

BizNest helps Product Managers gain customer insights faster by streamlining user interviews and note-taking. It offers a Zoom app that allows users to capture key moments in real-time, create actionable clips, and detect themes from research in one central location.

Location
London, England
Sector
Business services
Site Bionics

Site Bionics features a Retail Bionics Platform, which creates digital twins of retail stores to provide Inventory Intelligence, Shopper Intelligence, and Store Optimization. The platform leverages Dynamic Digital Twin technology and RFID reading to offer real-time insights into store performance, customer behavior, and operational efficiency, enabling businesses to optimize product availability, supply chain, store layout, and merchandising plans.

Location
San Diego, California
Sector
Consumer products and services
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