List of companies based in San Francisco
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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
Banks
- Bank of the Orient
- Bank of the West (BancWest)
- Chime
- First Republic Bank
- UnionBanCal Corporation
- Wells Fargo
Beverages (alcoholic)
Beverages (non-alcoholic)
Broadcasting and cable TV
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
- LiveJournal
- Lucidworks
- Lyft
- Meraki
- Meta Platforms
- Mevio
- Mimecast
- Nextdoor
- 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
Hospitality
Insurance (accident and health)
Insurance (property and casualty)
Investment services
- BV Capital
- Charles Schwab
- Liquid Realty Partners
- Golden Gate Capital
- Savant Investment Group
- ThinkEquity LLC
- Thomas Weisel Partners
- Wells Fargo
- WR Hambrecht + Co
Motion pictures
Personal and household 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
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)
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
- BitTorrent, Inc.
- Calypso Technology
- Clarizen
- Clustrix
- Discord
- Kx Systems
- JotForm
- Linden Lab
- MathCrunch
- MyTime
- New Relic
- OpenTable
- Optimizely
- Piggybackr
- Square
- VerticalResponse
- Zynga
Utilities
Companies formerly based in San Francisco
- Bank of America – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
- California State Automobile Association – relocated to Walnut Creek, California
- Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California
- Cost Plus World Market - relocated to Oakland
- Crocker Bank – purchased by Wells Fargo Bank
- Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
- 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
- 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
- Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
- Popchips
- Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
- Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
- The Sharper Image
- Sega of America - relocated to Irvine, California in 2015
- Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
- Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
- Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
- Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
- United Commercial Bank – acquired by East West Bank
