founders in california
california founders build software and AI around the bay area, aerospace and space hardware in southern california, and food from the central valley, with the ports of los angeles and long beach on the coast. the deep technical work belongs with reagent research and reagent defense, and the ports with reagent logistics.
talk to reagentcalifornia at a glance
- new business applications
- 624,825
- filed in the twelve months to september 2026, up 16.6% on the twelve months before.
- likely employers
- 218,424
- applications the Census Bureau flags as likely to hire, over the same twelve months.
- economy
- $4.30 trillion
- gross domestic product in 2025, up 6.0% on the year before in current dollars.
- population
- 39.4 million
- residents in 2025, about $109,196 of output per person.
- manufacturing jobs
- 1.2 million
- people employed in manufacturing, september 2026.
our companies
- reagent research open science and new architectures.
- reagent defense technology that protects.
- reagent logistics moving what we make.
- reagent matter materials and physical products.
- reagent capital funding the earliest stage.
- reagent creative the community and the craft.
also serving
all areas servedsources
- business applications, U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics
- high-propensity business applications, U.S. Census Bureau
- gross domestic product, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- resident population, U.S. Census Bureau
- manufacturing employees, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
figures retrieved 2026-11-07.