List of companies based in San Francisco
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
Advertising
Automotive
- Cruise Automation
- Otto (company)
Banks
- Bank of the Orient
- BancWest)
- UnionBanCal Corporation
- Wells Fargo
Beverages (alcoholic)
Beverages (non-alcoholic)
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
Computer services
- 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
Consumer financial services
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
- University of California, San Francisco
- UCSF Medical Center
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Hospitality
Insurance (accident and health)
Insurance (property and casualty)
Investment services
- 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
- American Zoetrope[1]
- Dolby Laboratories
- Industrial Light & Magic
- LucasArts
- Lucasfilm
Personal and household products
- JUUL
- Method Products
Public benefit
- 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
Recreational activities
Resource recovery
Resource sharing
- Getaround
- RelayRides
- Turo
Retail (apparel & shoes)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- California State Automobile Association – relocated to Walnut Creek, California
- Charles Schwab Corporation - relocated to Westlake, Texas in 2019
- Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California
- Dallas, Texasin 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!
- The J.M. Smucker Co.
- Gymboree - defunct
- Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securitiesfollowing Chase's purchase of JPM
- New York City
- Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
- Link TV - merged with KCET in 2012
- McKesson Corp - relocated to Irving, Texas
- NationsBank Corporationon June 30, 1997
- 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
- Playa Vista, California
- FleetBostonin 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, Californiain 2015
- New York Cityin 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
- Aegon
- New York City
- United Commercial Bank – acquired by East West Bank
- URS Corporation - acquired by AECOM in 2014