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 2024.
Companies currently based in San Francisco Advertising 140 Proof AKQA Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Landor Associates Mullen Traction
Artificial intelligence and robotics OpenAI Anthropic Automotive Cruise Automation Otto (company)
Banks Bank of the Orient Bank of the West (BancWest) UnionBanCal Corporation Wells Fargo
Beverages (alcoholic) Anchor Brewing Company Speakeasy Ales and Lagers
Beverages (non-alcoholic) Hint Water
Boat Navier Boat
Broadcasting and cable TV Northern California Public Broadcasting Pac-12 Network
Business services Ammunition Design Group Coursmos Duane Morris Elanex Gensler Morrison & Foerster Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Sparkpr
Communications equipment Boombotix Riverbed Technology
Computer services Affirm Holdings AfterCollege AllBusiness.com Automattic Bebo Bleacher Report Chegg Clinkle Cloudflare Cotap Craigslist CrowdFlower Digg Disqus Dropbox Dropcam, Inc. DocuSign Eventbrite, Inc. Fandom Fitbit Flexport Grammarly Hack Reactor Hired HubPages IGN Entertainment imgur Indiegogo Instacart Internet Archive Joyent Kink.com Kongregate LiveJournal Lucidworks Lyft Meraki Mevio Mimecast Nextdoor ON24 OpenDNS Pinterest Pogo.com Postmates Practice Fusion Prezi Quantcast Reddit Revision3 Salesforce.com SAY Media Sidecar Slack Splunk StumbleUpon Talenthouse Technorati Trulia Twitch Uber Ustream ViacomCBS Streaming Whiskey Media Wolfgang's Vault Yammer Yelp YouNoodle Zedo
Construction Gensler Swinerton T. Y. Lin International URS
Consumer financial services Chime Earnest LendUp SoFi Stripe SyntheticFi
Food 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 California Pacific Medical Center Dignity Health Saint Francis Memorial Hospital St. Mary's Medical Center University of California, San Francisco UCSF Medical Center UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Hospitality Airbnb Joie de Vivre Hospitality Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
Insurance (accident and health) Blue Shield of California State Compensation Insurance Fund
Insurance (property and casualty) Esurance Metromile
Investment services BV Capital Golden Gate Capital Linqto Liquid Realty Partners Thomas Weisel Partners Wells Fargo WR Hambrecht + Co
Motion pictures American Zoetrope Dolby Laboratories Industrial Light & Magic LucasArts Lucasfilm
Personal and household products JUUL Method Products
Public benefit CraigsList Daylight Computer Co. Electronic Frontier Foundation Kiva The Sierra Club Skoll Foundation TechSoup.org Wikimedia Foundation
Publishing and printing Afar Blurb Capra Press Chronicle Books Dwell McSweeney's Mother Jones PC World VIZ Media Wired XLR8R
Real estate Digital Realty Jay Paul Company LiquidSpace LoopNet Pier 39 Prologis
Recreational activities Club One Hornblower Cruises Golden State Warriors San Francisco 49ers San Francisco Giants SHN
Resource recovery Recology
Resource sharing Getaround RelayRides Turo
Retail (apparel & shoes) Allbirds Banana Republic Everlane Stitch Fix Gap Inc. Jessica McClintock Levi Strauss & Co. ModCloth Old Navy Rothy's Tea Collection Thrasher ThirdLove Athleta The RealReal
Retail (non-physical) Americana Exchange True & Co.
Retail (specialty) 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 Ubisoft Advent Software Anthropic AppDynamics BitTorrent, Inc. Calypso Technology Clarizen Clustrix Discord Kx Systems JotForm Linden Lab MathCrunch MyTime New Relic OpenAI OpenTable Optimizely Perplexity AI Piggybackr Square Twist and Shout, Inc. VerticalResponse WhatsApp Zynga
Utilities Pacific Bell Pacific Gas & Electric Recology
Companies formerly based in San Francisco Bank of America – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina Bechtel - relocated to Reston, Virginia Block, Inc. - no designated headquarters location since 2022 California State Automobile Association – relocated to Walnut Creek, California Charles Schwab Corporation - relocated to Westlake, Texas in 2019 Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California Coinbase - no designated headquarters location since 2020 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 Levison Brothers / California Jewelry Co. San Francisco - defunct Link TV - merged with KCET in 2012 McKesson Corporation - relocated to Irving, Texas in 2019 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 X Corp. - relocated to Bastrop, Texas in 2024 Adina World Beat Beverages – defunct, shutdown in 2012
See also List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
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