The following is a list of companies based in San Francisco, California. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses, based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies in 2008.
Companies currently based in San Francisco edit
Advertising edit
Automotive edit
Banks edit
Beverages (alcoholic) edit
Beverages (non-alcoholic) edit
Broadcasting and cable TV edit
Business services edit
- Ammunition Design Group
- Coursmos
- Duane Morris
- Elanex
- Gensler
- Morrison & Foerster
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Sparkpr
Communications equipment edit
Computer services edit
- AfterCollege
- AllBusiness.com
- Automattic
- Bebo
- Bleacher Report
- Chegg
- Clinkle
- Cloudflare
- Cotap
- Craigslist
- CrowdFlower
- Digg
- Disqus
- Dropbox
- Dropcam, Inc.
- DocuSign
- Eventbrite, Inc.
- Fitbit
- Flexport
- Grammarly
- Hack Reactor
- Hired
- HubPages
- IGN Entertainment
- imgur
- Indiegogo
- Instacart
- Internet Archive
- Jawbone
- Joyent
- Jones IT
- Kink.com
- Kongregate
- LevelUp
- LiveJournal
- Lucidworks
- Lyft
- Meraki
- Meta Platforms
- Mevio
- Mimecast
- Nextdoor
- Nzouat
- ON24
- OpenDNS
- Pogo.com
- Postman, Inc.
- Postmates
- Practice Fusion
- Prezi
- Quantcast
- Revision3
- Salesforce.com
- SAY Media
- Sidecar
- Slack
- Snip.it
- Splunk
- StumbleUpon
- Survata
- Talenthouse
- Technorati
- Trulia
- Twitch
- Uber
- Ustream
- ViacomCBS Streaming
- Whiskey Media
- Wikia
- Wolfgang's Vault
- Yammer
- Yelp
- YouNoodle
- Zedo
Construction edit
Consumer financial services edit
Food edit
- Big Heart Pet Brands
- Boudin Bakery
- Del Monte
- DoorDash
- Double Rainbow (ice cream)
- Diamond Foods
- Driscoll's
- Eatsa
- Guittard Chocolate Company
- Jack & Jason's Pancakes & Waffles
- La Boulange
- OLLY
- TCHO
- Traveling Spoon
Hospitals edit
Hospitality edit
Insurance (accident and health) edit
Insurance (property and casualty) edit
Investment services edit
- BV Capital
- Charles Schwab
- Golden Gate Capital
- Linqto
- Liquid Realty Partners
- Savant Investment Group
- ThinkEquity LLC
- Thomas Weisel Partners
- Wells Fargo
- WR Hambrecht + Co
Motion pictures edit
Personal and household products edit
Public benefit edit
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Kiva
- The Sierra Club
- Skoll Foundation
- TechSoup.org
- Wikimedia Foundation
Publishing and printing edit
- Afar
- Blurb
- Capra Press
- Chronicle Books
- Dwell
- McSweeney's
- Mother Jones
- PC World
- VIZ Media
- Wired
- XLR8R
Real estate edit
Recreational activities edit
Resource recovery edit
Resource sharing edit
Retail (apparel & shoes) edit
- Allbirds
- Amour Vert
- Banana Republic
- BeGood Clothing
- Birdies
- Cuyana
- Everlane
- Stitch Fix
- Gap Inc.
- Jessica McClintock
- Le Tote
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- ModCloth
- Modern Citizen
- Old Navy
- Rothy’s
- Tea Collection
- Thrasher
- North Face
- ThirdLove
- Athleta
- The RealReal
Retail (non-physical) edit
Retail (specialty) edit
- Betabrand
- Brandless
- Cameron Hughes Wine
- Good Vibrations
- Gump's
- McRoskey Mattress Company
- One Kings Lane
- Pottery Barn
- Timbuk2
- Touch of Modern
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
- RH
- Minted
- Roost
- Chairish
Software and programming edit
- Ubisoft
- Advent Software
- AppDynamics
- Bonboard
- BitTorrent, Inc.
- Calypso Technology
- Clarizen
- Clustrix
- Discord
- Kx Systems
- JotForm
- Linden Lab
- MathCrunch
- MyTime
- New Relic
- OpenTable
- Optimizely
- Piggybackr
- Square
- Twist and Shout, Inc.
- VerticalResponse
- Zynga
Utilities edit
Companies formerly based in San Francisco edit
- Bank of America – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
- Bechtel - relocated to Reston, Virginia
- California State Automobile Association – relocated to Walnut Creek, California
- Charles Schwab Corporation - relocated to Westlake, Texas in 2019
- Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California
- Core-Mark - relocated to Dallas, Texas in 2019
- Cost Plus World Market - relocated to Oakland
- Crocker Bank – purchased by Wells Fargo Bank
- Del Monte Foods - relocated to Walnut Creek, California
- Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong
- Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
- Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
- Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
- Gymboree - defunct
- Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
- Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
- Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
- Link TV - merged with KCET in 2012
- McKesson Corp - relocated to Irving, Texas
- Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
- Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company - moved to Oakland, California in 2022
- Palantir Technologies - relocated to Austin, Texas in 2021
- Patelco Credit Union - relocated to Dublin, California in 2018
- Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
- Popchips - relocated to Playa Vista, California
- Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
- Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
- The Sharper Image - relocated to Farmington Hills, Michigan
- Sega of America - relocated to Irvine, California in 2015
- SKYY Spirits - renamed Campari America after acquisition by Campari Group and relocated to New York City in 2018
- Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
- Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
- Sunset Magazine - relocated to Oakland, California
- Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
- Union Bank of California - relocated to New York City
- United Commercial Bank – acquired by East West Bank
- URS Corporation - acquired by AECOM in 2014
