2002 establishments in California

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in Starbase, Texas. Since its founding in 2002, the company has made numerous advances in rocket propulsion, reusable launch vehicles, human spaceflight and satellite constellation technology. , SpaceX conducts more orbital launches annually than any other launch provider, including private competitors and national programs like the Chinese space program. SpaceX, NASA, and the United States Armed Forces work clo

LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented social networking service used globally. The platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, as it allows jobseekers to post their CVs and employers to post their job listings. As of 2026, LinkedIn has more than 1.2 billion registered members from over 200 countries and territories. It was launched on May 5, 2003, by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly, receiving financing from numerous venture capital firms, including Sequoia Capital, in the years following its inception. Users can invite other people to become co

city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States

American video game developer

Smosh () is an American YouTube sketch comedy-improv collective, independent production company, and former social networking site founded by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. In 2002, Padilla created a website named "smosh.com" for making Flash animations, and he was later joined by Hecox. They began posting videos on Smosh's YouTube channel in 2005 and quickly became one of the most popular channels on the site. , the main Smosh channel has over 11 billion views and over 26 million subscribers.

GoPro, Inc. (marketed as GoPro or as goPRO) is an American technology company founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman. It manufactures action cameras and develops its own mobile apps and video-editing software. GoPro cameras are widely used for adventure sports, travel recording, and outdoor activities. Founded as Woodman Labs, Inc, the company is based in San Mateo, California.

American computer-animated film production company

American hard rock heavy metal supergroup

discontinued marque of Toyota

American television production and distribution studio

American deathcore band

DevilDriver is an American heavy metal band from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2002, consisting of vocalist Dez Fafara, bassist Jon Miller, guitarist Alex Lee and drummer Davier Pérez. The band was originally named Deathride; however, due to copyright issues and the name being taken by several bands, the band changed its name to DevilDriver.

American musical group; experimental band

Murderdolls was an American rock band formed in Hollywood, California in 2002. Its lineup consisted of core members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison while former touring members included Ben Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Tripp Eisen.

Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles, California

American rock band

American deathcore band

subsidiary of WWE

video game developer

TuneIn (formerly and also known as TuneIn Radio) is an American internet radio and podcasting service owned by Canadian media company Stingray Group. The service offers access to various radio stations (including terrestrial and online radio stations), as well as on-demand audio content such as podcasts and audiobooks.

Vizio is an American designer of televisions, soundbars, and related software and accessories owned by Walmart since 2024. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Irvine, California.

American video game developer

American hardcore band

Sonos, Inc. is an American audio equipment manufacturer headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. The company was founded in 2002 by John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen, and Trung Mai.

organization

American rock band

Asesino (Spanish for "assassin" or "murderer") is an American deathgrind supergroup and a side project of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares. The band has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent, Possessed, Ministry, and Static-X.

American symphonic deathcore band

American music band

band that plays melodic death metal

eparchy

Public university in California, United States

Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. In 2004, Ageia acquired NovodeX, the company who created PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit chip capable of performing game physics calculations much faster than general purpose CPUs; they also licensed out the PhysX SDK (formerly NovodeX SDK), a large physics middleware library for game production.

American video game developer

American rock band

SmugMug is a paid image sharing, image hosting service, and online video platform on which users can upload photos and videos. The company also facilitates the sale of digital and print media for amateur and professional photographers. In 2018, SmugMug purchased Flickr.

US film production studio founded 2002

American punk rock band

American hard rock band

Manzarek–Krieger was an American rock band formed by two former members of the Doors, Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, in 2002. They were also known as "The Doors of the 21st Century", "D21C", and "Riders on the Storm" after the Doors song of the same name. They settled on using "Manzarek–Krieger" or "Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger of The Doors" for legal reasons, after acrimonious debates and court battles between the two musicians and Doors co-founder/drummer John Densmore. They performed Doors material exclusively until the death of Manzarek in 2013.

American pop rock band from Los Angeles, CA.

American folk rock act

American producer of streaming video and audio players for television, based in Los Gatos, California

Networking vendor selling enterprise wireless LAN and edge access networking equipment.

Letlive, stylized letlive., is an American rock band from Los Angeles. The band's final lineup consisted of lead vocalist Jason Aalon Butler (son of Aalon Butler, vocalist, and guitarist of the soul group Aalon), guitarist Jeff Sahyoun, bassist Ryan Jay Johnson and drummer Loniel Robinson. Butler was the band's only constant member. The band has released four full-length albums and one EP, with their final album ''If I'm the Devil'' being released on June 10, 2016. They were last signed to Epitaph Records.

U.S. American music group

baseball stadium in Fresno, California; home of the Fresno Grizzlies

pornographic film studio

limited liability company

division of Sony Pictures Entertainment

American pornographic film studio

band that plays contemporary folk music

Imperva, Inc. was an American cyber security software and services company which provided protection to enterprise data and application software. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

American pornographic film studio

American film production company

coffee roaster and retailer headquartered in Oakland, California

Xcelerator is a steel launched roller coaster located at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, United States. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, it opened in 2002 as the company's first hydraulically launched coaster and cost $13 million to construct. Following the early demise of Windjammer Surf Racers, a dueling roller coaster that briefly operated from 1997 to 2000, Xcelerator was soon announced as its replacement. It launches to a maximum speed of in 2.3 seconds and reaches a height of , and has a short twister section that leads into the brake run.

Perverted Justice Foundation, Inc., more commonly known as Perverted-Justice (also known as PeeJ), was an American organization based in California and Oregon which investigated, identified, and publicized the conduct of adults who have used chat rooms and other social media in order to solicit online sexual conversations and in-person meetings with minors. Their website serves as an archive of collected data on these investigations, which they make available in order to assist law enforcement and the public in understanding the behavior and child grooming techniques of online hebephiles.

American Folk-Punk Trio

band