List of companies based in San Francisco

Companies currently based in San Francisco

Advertising

• 140 Proof
• AKQA
• Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
• Landor Associates
• Mullen
• Traction

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)

• Adina World Beat Beverages
• 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
• Jawbone
• Joyent
• Jones IT
• Kink.com
• Kongregate
• LevelUp
• LiveJournal
• Lucidworks
• Lyft
• Meraki
• Mevio
• Mimecast
• Network Right
• Nextdoor
• Nzouat
• ON24
• OpenDNS
• Pinterest
• Pogo.com
• Postman, Inc.
• Postmates
• Practice Fusion
• Prezi
• Quantcast
• Reddit
• Revision3
• Salesforce.com
• SAY Media
• Sidecar
• Slack
• Snip.it
• Splunk
• StumbleUpon
• Survata
• 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

• 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
• Amour Vert
• Banana Republic
• Birdies
• Cuyana
• Everlane
• Stitch Fix
• Gap Inc.
• Jessica McClintock
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• ModCloth
• Modern Citizen
• 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
• Airbyte
• Anthropic
• AppDynamics
• Bonboard
• 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

References

References

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