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Arizona

Tucson

Data as of Oct 1, 2026
715
Companies
$10.0M
Venture funding in the last 12 months, 2 rounds
$94.7M
Venture funding, 2022–2026
32
Investor firms

Venture funding by year

* 2026 through Oct 2026. Rounds without a disclosed amount count as rounds, not dollars.
Show as a table
YearVenture fundingRounds
2019$14.1M12
2020$29.2M11
2021$19.9M11
2022$35.6M9
2023$3.7M7
2024$28.2M11
2025$17.2M6
2026*$10.0M2

Industries

  • Health126
  • Energy46
  • Education37
  • Semiconductors37
  • Fintech34
  • Food30
  • Enterprise software29
  • Real estate26
  • Kids22
  • Security17

And 19 more industries.

Companies in Tucson

361–384 of 715 companies

  • Leman Academy is a tuition-free public charter school serving children in grades K-8, with a focus on both academic and character education. The school operates in Arizona and Colorado, offering open admission policies without entrance exams. Additionally, Leman Academy provides a tuition-based preschool at select locations, catering to families seeking early childhood education. This approach aims to instill morals and build character, ensuring that scholars not only excel academically but also learn to care for and respect others. The academy's business model relies on public funding for its charter school operations, while generating additional revenue through its preschool programs. Leman Academy's market includes families seeking a comprehensive educational experience that prioritizes both intellectual and personal growth. The school is committed to creating a positive and productive environment, with engaged teachers and administrators dedicated to the well-being and success of their students.

    Breakout · 201–500 employees

  • Early stage

  • Early stage

  • Lextrum

    Semiconductors

    Lextrum specializes in advanced full-duplex communication technologies that significantly enhance network performance and spectrum efficiency. The company serves clients in the telecommunications industry, including first responder radios, fixed wireless access (FWA), small cell access radios, and 5G connected radios. Operating in the high-tech market, Lextrum embeds its full-duplex technologies into FPGA SOC IP reference designs and RFIC integrated transceivers. The business model revolves around partnerships and licensing agreements, enabling widespread application of its technology. Revenue is generated through the sale of intellectual property (IP) and technology licenses.

    Early stage · $230K raised

  • Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp., operating as Liberty Star Minerals, is a mineral exploration company based in Arizona. The company focuses on the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Arizona and the southwestern United States. Liberty Star controls properties in some of North America's richest mineralized regions, primarily targeting copper, gold, silver, molybdenum, and associated metals. The company's flagship project is the Hay Mountain Project, which is a significant exploration endeavor. Liberty Star's business model involves identifying and developing mineral-rich properties, with the aim of monetizing these assets through exploration and potential partnerships or sales. The company serves investors and stakeholders interested in the mining and resource development sector, operating within the competitive mineral exploration market. Revenue is generated through strategic partnerships, financing agreements, and potential future mineral production.

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • LifeSpan Digital Health is a digital health company, reportedly founded in 2022 and based in Tucson, Arizona, that focuses on addressing clinician burnout. It targets healthcare institutions, particularly those with medical residency programs, to enhance workforce efficiency and improve patient outcomes. The platform uses predictive AI, machine learning, and data from wearable technology to make its assessments. For individual users, such as medical residents, the emPower+ app provides confidential check-ins, private feedback, and anonymous peer support. The app can collect biometric data including heart rate, sleep data, respiratory rate, and skin temperature to assess an individual's well-being and potential burnout risk. For institutions, the emPower+ Dashboard provides aggregated and anonymized data, highlighting burnout signals, cohort trends, and potential cultural blind spots. This allows program leaders to implement proactive, evidence-based wellness interventions and address issues before they lead to resignations. LifeSpan Digital Health's business model is geared towards providing institutional intelligence to protect the well-being of physicians, nurses, and care teams. The company positions itself as a strategic partner for building data-driven healthcare systems, aiming to reduce burnout and streamline workflows.

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Lightsense Technology

    Health, Semiconductors

    Early stage · 11–50 employees

  • Lithetech

    Semiconductors

    Early stage · 1 employees

  • Early stage

  • Early stage

  • Early stage

  • Early stage · 1 employees

  • Login, LLC

    Hosting

    Breakout · 201–500 employees

  • LR InnovOptics

    Semiconductors

    LR InnovOptics Inc. is a physical sciences company specializing in a high-throughput 3D printing system for manufacturing ultracompact, high-contrast precision glass micro-optics. The firm was established in 2023 and is a spinout from the University of Arizona. The inventors associated with the company are Rongguang Liang, Zhihan Hong, and Piaoran Ye from the College of Optical Sciences. The Principal Investigators listed on a National Science Foundation (NSF) award are Daodang Wang and Ruilin You. The company's core technology addresses the limitations of traditional methods for producing glass optics, which are often complex, costly, and lack scalability. LR InnovOptics has developed a novel 3D printing platform that utilizes a multi-head configuration and custom-designed microscope objectives with an expanded field of view (FOV) to ensure greater accuracy and a significant increase in 3D printing throughput. This process integrates advances in materials science, ultrafast laser processing, and precision motion control to enable a scalable and alignment-free manufacturing process. The platform is capable of producing monolithic micro-optical systems with integrated functions in a single step, improving production efficiency and speed. The firm's business model centers on commercializing this disruptive manufacturing approach. By making the production of micro-optics faster and more affordable, LR InnovOptics aims to enable the widespread adoption of high-performance micro-optics in next-generation photonics, medical imaging, cameras, lasers, and other advanced optical systems. The company has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the NSF for its project on the high-throughput manufacturing of these glass micro-optics.

    Early stage

  • LSAS Tec is a specialized provider of software and engineering services focused on mission simulation and operational analysis across the land, sea, air, and space domains. The company was established in April 2009 in Japan as a spin-off from a technology trading company's space division, founded by three experienced engineers and business professionals. Its origin lies in serving as the Japanese partner for Ansys Government Initiatives (AGI), where for over 15 years its team distributed and provided technical support for AGI's Digital Mission Engineering tools, including the Systems Tool Kit (STK) and Orbit Determination Tool Kit (ODTK). Evolving from a reseller and support provider, LSAS Tec now develops its own proprietary commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software and solutions. These offerings extend the capabilities of core Ansys tools, focusing on workflow automation and satellite operations solutions tailored to client needs. The business model encompasses the sale of partner products, licensing of its own software, and providing expert engineering services, training, and technical support. Its clientele ranges from commercial space startups and private venture companies to large systems integrators and government agencies, including JAXA and the Japanese Ministry of Defense. The company's product portfolio is built around the Ansys Digital Mission Engineering suite, which enables physics-based modeling and simulation for complex systems. LSAS Tec enhances this foundation with its own developments that integrate advanced algorithms and data analytics to streamline mission-critical operations such as flight dynamics and space domain awareness. While maintaining a strong focus on the growing space sector, the company supports all operational domains, true to its name's acronym (Land, Sea, Air, and Space). Headquartered in Japan, LSAS Tec has expanded its operations globally, with an office in the USA to serve clients worldwide.

    Early stage · 11–50 employees

  • LSVT Global, Inc. provides evidence-based physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy programs for individuals with neurological conditions, primarily Parkinson's disease. The company's core offerings are the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) LOUD and LSVT BIG programs. LSVT LOUD is a speech therapy protocol designed to improve vocal loudness, articulation, and overall communication. LSVT BIG applies similar principles to physical and occupational therapy, focusing on training larger amplitude movements to improve mobility, balance, and activities of daily living. This led to the creation of the LSVT LOUD protocol. LSVT Global's business model is centered on training and certifying clinicians—speech, physical, and occupational therapists—to deliver the LSVT LOUD and LSVT BIG treatments. The company offers online, virtual live, and in-person certification courses. Once certified, clinicians are listed in a public directory. The treatments follow a standardized, intensive protocol, typically involving 16 one-hour sessions over four weeks. The company also develops and sells related products, such as the FDA-cleared LSVT LOUD Companion software to assist with therapy, and offers a subscription-based virtual exercise platform called LSVT for LIFE for program graduates to maintain their progress.

    Early stage · 11–50 employees

  • Early stage · 2–10 employees · $1.9M raised

  • Lum

    Health

    Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • The company's name, Latin for "moon explorer," reflects its long-term vision of applying its technology to explore resources beyond Earth, such as on the Moon and asteroids. Lunasonde is developing a satellite constellation equipped with proprietary low-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SubSAR) technology to create three-dimensional maps of the subsurface, reaching depths of up to two kilometers. This technology is designed to detect underground resources like water aquifers and mineral deposits remotely. The company's technical approach involves miniaturizing low-frequency radar, which traditionally requires very large antennas, to fit on small satellites. After a period of intensive research and development, the company has undertaken several test flights on SpaceX rideshare missions and plans to launch its first full-tech 6U satellite, named San Xavier. The firm primarily targets the mining and water resource management sectors. For mineral exploration, Lunasonde operates on a royalty-based business model, partnering with mining companies to identify new deposits and taking a share of the long-term value of the discovered resources, a common arrangement in the mining industry. In the water sector, the company aims to offer data services on a subscription basis, providing four-dimensional data that tracks changes in water resources over time. This service has applications for monitoring water scarcity, discovering untapped fossil aquifers, and potentially contributing to humanitarian efforts. Lunasonde also identifies the defense sector as a potential market for applications like detecting underground facilities. The company has received non-dilutive funding from the National Science Foundation and has established partnerships with entities like AWS for data processing and Exolaunch for satellite deployment.

    Early stage · 11–50 employees · $8.6M raised

  • Lunewave

    Transportation

    Lunewave operates at the forefront of sensor technology, specializing in the development and production of advanced radar and antenna systems for a diverse set of industries including automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, and robotics. The founding team combines deep technical expertise with extensive business experience. Min Liang, VP of Technology, contributes over a decade of experience in radar engineering and 3D printing.The company's core business revolves around its proprietary Luneburg lens antenna technology. This technology, adapted from a concept developed in the 1940s, utilizes a spherical lens that is 3D printed, a manufacturing method ideal for its complex structure of over 6,500 uniquely designed chambers in a device smaller than a golf ball. This design enables the creation of radar sensors that offer a panoramic, 360-degree field of view with high resolution, a significant shift from the 'tunnel vision' of traditional planar phased array antennas. The primary product is an automotive radar sensor system operating in the 76-81 GHz band. It boasts a detection range of over 300 meters and can maintain performance at large scan angles, even in adverse weather conditions. This allows a few of Lunewave's sensors to replace the 16 to 20 traditional radar sensors often required for autonomous vehicles, thereby reducing complexity and cost.Lunewave's business model appears to be centered on supplying these high-performance sensors and custom-made antennas to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 suppliers in its target markets. For the automotive sector, the technology is positioned as the 'eyes' for vehicles, supporting applications from advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) to fully autonomous driving (L5). Beyond automotive, the antennas are suitable for 5G telecommunications and satellite communications. The company has secured significant financial backing to fuel its development and commercialization efforts. It has raised a total of $10.8 million through multiple funding rounds, including a $7 million Series A in November 2020 led by FM Capital. Other notable investors include BMW i Ventures, Baidu Ventures, and Proeza Ventures, reflecting strong industry confidence in its technology. Lunewave has also received grants from the National Science Foundation's SBIR program and is involved in development projects with the U.S. Army.

    Breakout · 11–50 employees · $15.1M raised

  • Early stage · 2–10 employees

  • Early stage

  • Early stage · 1 employees

  • MagMod

    Media

    MagMod operates in the photography accessories market, specializing in magnetic modifiers for flash photography. The company serves professional photographers and photography enthusiasts who seek to enhance their creative capabilities. MagMod's core product line includes items like the MagGrip, MagSphere, MagBox, MagGrid, and MagBeam, all designed to be universally compatible with various flash units. The business model is primarily direct-to-consumer, leveraging its website for sales and offering free shipping on U.S. orders over $50. Revenue is generated through the sale of these innovative photography tools, which are marketed as easy-to-use and highly effective in improving photographic outcomes. The company also engages with its customer base through a dedicated online community, fostering a space for users to share experiences and tips.

    Early stage · 11–50 employees

Recent venture rounds

CompanyRoundAmountDateInvestors
World View EnterprisesLate VC$10.0MMar 2026Ondas Holdings
KeysEarly VCUndisclosedMar 2026Not disclosed
Revolute RoboticsSeed$1.9MOct 2025ANIMO Ventures, Ascend VC
Delta Development TeamSeries AUndisclosedAug 2025Pasadena Angels, Desert Angels, Central Texas Angel Network +3 more
TYBSeries A$11.0MJun 2025Coinbase Ventures, Unusual Ventures, Castle Island Ventures +2 more
T&R Recovery GroupGrowth Equity VCUndisclosedJun 2025Cyprium Investment Partners, Genesis Park
Branch TherapeuticsSeed$4.0MMay 2025GKCC
SorbiforceSeed$270KApr 2025StartEngine
Precision EpigenomicsSeries A$1.5MSep 2024Shaffer Capital
World View EnterprisesLate VC$25.0MMay 2024Breakthrough Victoria
Investors based here
Accelerators and programs

Source: Dealroom, data as of Oct 1, 2026. Venture funding sums venture-type rounds with a disclosed amount; rounds raised by companies already public or bought out are left out. The last 12 months run from Nov 2025 to Oct 2026.

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