Los Angeles hottest startups that you want to watch

In today’s ever changing word new companies can “pop up” and change the way we do simple tasks in business extremely fast. The key to constantly be on the lookout for the latest and greatest startups. In this article I’m going to talk about some of Los Angeles hottest startups that you may want to watch.

Launching first in Los Angeles, Workpop hopes to target the 76 million hourly workers in the U.S., most of whom don’t have detailed resumes or work histories online. For them, the platform is designed to simplify the process of creating an application by importing education and work info from Facebook and LinkedIn, setting up a profile and recording a video introduction to help employers screen them. They can even provide hourly availability if they have child care needs or work another job.

On the hiring side, Workpop provides tools to enable businesses to easily create job listings by filling out requirements, job descriptions, and information about the workplace. Since many of these jobs have a high turnover rate, businesses can reuse listings after they’re taken down if a similar job becomes vacant again.

The platform is designed to improve the process for both sides. Businesses can see how many applicants they’ve received for each jo  b, as well as where those applicants are in the process of hiring. The platform is also designed to help with onboarding if a hire is made, and if not, recruiters can give honest feedback to applicants.

HONK is an on-demand mobile app for tow, tire change, jump start, fuel and lock out services from more than 20,000 tow trucks nationwide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. HONK’s faster ETAs and “Guaranteed Never to Exceed” prices, which start at just $49 without membership fees or limitations, offer motorists an alternative to outdated membership-based motor clubs. The HONK app is free to use and available on iOS, Android, or the web. HONK was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

HONK connects drivers in need with the right level of roadside assistance at the best price, which helps keep service costs down. The app helps drivers get fast, reliable service for automotive issues like 365 emergency response, car accident response, dead batteries, flat tires, flatbed tow, and vehicle lock-outs.

When you drive, you know that things can go wrong at any time. It’s smart to have a plan in place for accessing help with major and minor auto problems. Up till now the existing model for getting help does not work very well for drivers some drivers. The current system is arguably slow, has not adapted to new technology, and makes drivers wait a long time for needed assistance. With HONK’s pay-on-demand model, you only pay for the services you use when you use them. This app has the potential to put their competition in a challenging spot.

Investing is complicated. Acorns is not. The app from California-based father-son team Walter and Jeff Cruttenden aims to take the anxiety, deliberation, and intimidation out of investing by boiling it down to a matter of cents. The company, which just released its app on Android in addition to the existing iPhone version (available in the US only), was founded in 2012 and has raised $9 million in three rounds of funding.

Here’s how Acorns works: You connect as many debit or credit cards as you’d like along with a checking account, and the app rounds every purchase made on those cards up to the next dollar, investing the difference in low-cost exchange traded funds. For example, if you spend $10.49 on lunch, that remaining 51 cents is invested. It doesn’t sound like much, but Acorns says that its current users invest $30 to $180 a month in “round ups” alone. Acorns Users can invest their round-ups manually or automatically.

You can also choose to invest larger sums of money directly from your checking account, or set up automatic deposits on a regular basis. No matter how much a user invests, they can use the app to estimate how much their money will grow in future years. This app looks to appeal to the millennial generation, an age group that is mostly untouched in the investing area which could should to be very profitable.