Vendar ranks 10 of 46 SEO agencies serving Los Angeles for SEO for startups: the ones with documented SEO for startups work on file, verified through September 2026. The top three by evidence-weighted score are GR0 (65/100), Bliss Drive (62) and HawkSEM (62). 3 of them have documented SEO for startups work for clients in Los Angeles itself. No paid placements; every position below cites its sources. 36 more Los Angeles SEO agencies have no SEO for startups claim on file yet and are listed unranked.
Ranked agencies have at least one claim from an outside source that names SEO work for an early-stage or venture-backed company and what it changed; official case studies and third-party reviews weigh most, profile tags least. Full rubric 2026.09 and the scoring model: How we rank.
Grouped by the clients named in documented SEO for startups work: client reviews and case studies, not the agencies' own positioning. The number is the place in the ranking below.
Grouped by the clients named in documented SEO for startups work: client reviews and case studies, not the agencies' own positioning. The number is the place in the ranking below.
“Independent” means a third-party source names SEO for startups work. Each profile holds the claims with their sources; the points per criterion behind every position are in the machine-readable feed.
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 50-199
HQ in Los Angeles · From $7,000/month 1 documented
Hailey Pink, director of growth at Alleyoop in Los Angeles: …"a small startup in the beauty and skincare space", says GR0 began with a site audit and competitive research, then keyword research, link building from… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2007
HQ in Los Angeles · From $2,000/month 1 documented
Charles Rand, COO of junedays in Meredith, New Hampshire: …"Bliss Drive has been excellent at ramping up our startup to a great level of SEO." The review gives no figures. (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2006
HQ in Los Angeles · From $4,500/month no outside source
HawkSEM's case study for Prismatic, an embedded integration platform for B2B software teams, describes it as a startup new to an existing industry that… (hawksem.com)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 51-200 · since 2009
HQ in Los Angeles · From $1,800/month 1 documented
Kelsey Malmberg, CMO of Collide in Los Angeles: …published June 2020), says the brand's ventures are a startup with no historical data to benchmark, and that Coalition Technologies, first hired for PPC… (verified client review)
Irvine, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2014
serves Los Angeles from Irvine · From $6,000/month 1 documented
Co-founder of a nutrition company in Columbus, Ohio: …"helped a startup build their national business" with SEO, pay-per-click and social media around a new website. The client reports more site visits and… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 2-9
HQ in Los Angeles · From $2,000/month 1 documented
A verified client review (phone interview) from the owner of "a startup company specializing in selling herbs and spices hard to find or not very common" (engagement from January 2018… (verified client review)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49
HQ in Los Angeles · From $3,000/month no outside source
Case-study hub lists examples including a pet food subscription startup growing from 3,000 to 126,000 monthly organic visitors, Villaway growth to 12,000… (avidonmarketinggroup.com)
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49 · since 2017
HQ in Los Angeles · Projects from $5,000 1 documented
Stephen Chang, CEO of Moissanite International: …"a small startup" (engagement from September 2025, $10,000–$49,999, published July 2026), says Brenton Way runs technical site audits and editorial… (verified client review)
Profile below decision-ready status
Los Angeles, CA, USA · team 10-49
HQ in Los Angeles · From $2,500/month no outside source
LAD Solutions' case study for Hakim Law Group, a Los Angeles business-law firm for startups (published on the agency's own case-study site), marks the… (seocasestudies.com)
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA, USA
HQ in Los Angeles · From $950/month no outside source
A client testimonial on Website Depot's own reviews page, signed Aaron L., says: "We're a growing startup from Los Angeles and getting the online exposure… (websitedepot.com)
On the Los Angeles SEO list, but nothing on file names SEO for startups work. One sourced claim moves an agency into the ranking.
No SEO for startups claim on file yet.
Only Vendar profile tags name SEO for startups; no outside source on file yet.
Evidence-weighted ranking 2026.09.1: each agency is scored on the SEO for startups query from claims with sources. Evidence for this query 30 · Fit to this query 25 · Capability depth 15 · Reliability 10 · Transparency 10 · Reputation 5 · Market credibility 5, minus penalties; confidence is shown separately. Paid visibility never changes the order of a listing. The points, the claims and the limits behind every position are on its card above; the criteria, penalties, eligibility and ordering rules are on How we rank.
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