Los Angeles

Los Angeles isn’t just home to glitz and glamor. Creativity drives the Los Angeles area’s innovation and growth, earning it accolades as one of the largest startup ecosystems in the United States.

Gunderson Dettmer is at the forefront of this rapid growth. Our Los Angeles office, conveniently located off the 405 in the Playa Vista neighborhood, opened in 2012. In the decade since, we’ve grown to dozens of lawyers representing hundreds of companies and funds impacting a variety of industries, including SaaS, fintech, retail and e-commerce, CPG, new media, web3, life sciences, food tech, healthtech and everything in between.

Our decades focused on these dynamic industries have taught us how to see around corners — and because we’ve seen issues play out before, we can provide our clients with the practical advice and technical skill they need to scale up.

Our company clients range from unfunded startups to public companies. Venture-backed clients represented by our Los Angeles team have an aggregate valuation of over $11 billion and rely on us for the full range of corporate and transactional services. We also represent dozens of venture capital funds in connection with fund formation and fundraising, portfolio investments, operations and tax. Our Los Angeles licensing, strategic partnering and commercial transactions team provides companies with critical transactional advice related to protecting and monetizing their intellectual property assets, negotiating commercial transactions and other operational matters.

Our team has preeminent experience in what are the most important strategic needs of high-growth companies, venture capital and growth equity funds.