From here, not just working here
Our partners built their careers in this city. We know its neighborhoods, its industries, and the difference between a plan that works on paper and one that works on Figueroa.
Who we are
Three LA groups who kept ending up in the same conversation.
LA Think Tank is a growing network of business owners, technologists, researchers, and civic leaders who already live and work here. We started it because the expertise this city needs is mostly already in this city — it just isn’t sitting at the same table.
Founding partners
LaunchBeachLabs
Go-to-market strategy, positioning & growth systems
CityMorph
Product engineering, R&D, UX/UI & custom software
ScienceDocs Inc.
Grant writing, commercialization & federal funding strategy
Where we are
Rooted across the South Bay and Long Beach.
LaunchBeachLabs
Downtown Long Beach
CityMorph
Downtown Long Beach
ScienceDocs Inc.
South Bay / Torrance
Our story
It didn’t start on a whiteboard.
It started with three organizations already doing this work separately — product engineering, funding and commercialization, go-to-market strategy — deciding they’d get further doing it together.
Between them: decades of building software, winning federal funding, launching companies, and untangling operations for organizations across Los Angeles. Different specialties, one shared bias toward getting things actually done.
Today LA Think Tank connects that local expertise with real business and civic needs — helping companies, founders, institutions, and community partners identify opportunities, solve problems, and find the people who can move an idea forward.
What we believe
Practical over theoretical
No frameworks for the sake of frameworks. We help you decide what to do next and how to pay for it.
One table, many disciplines
Engineers, grant writers, operators, and go-to-market people in the same conversation — so the answer isn't limited to one firm's specialty.
Built from within
LA's next chapter should be shaped by the people already in the room. That's the whole reason this exists.
What each partner brings
LaunchBeachLabs
Go-to-market strategy, positioning & growth systems
Visit siteCityMorph
Product engineering, R&D, UX/UI & custom software
Visit siteScienceDocs Inc.
Grant writing, commercialization & federal funding strategy
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How it goes
01
Listen
A real conversation about what you're trying to move.
02
Connect
We point you at the people in the network who can actually help.
03
Build
Strategy, funding pathways, and technology — produced, not just advised.
04
Stay
Launch is the middle of the story. We stick around for what comes next.