List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.
Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2018, 18 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]
San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been bought out by other companies and had their headquarters relocated.
Companies currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Aerospace/defense
- BAE Systems – Arlington, San Jose
- Hexcel Corporation – Dublin
- L3 Technologies – Menlo Park, (Randtron) San Leandro (Applied Technologies), Santa Rosa (Sonoma EO)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore
- Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Palo Alto, Sunnyvale
- Made In Space, Inc. – Mountain View
- NASA Ames Research Center – Moffett Field
- Sandia National Laboratories – Livermore
- Space Systems Loral – Palo Alto
Apparel
- Bebe – Brisbane
- Betabrand - San Francisco
- Charlotte Russe (clothing retailer)
- Dolls Kill – San Francisco
- Everlane – San Francisco
- Gap Inc. – San Francisco
- Gymboree Corporation – San Francisco
- JanSport – Alameda
- Levi Strauss & Co. – San Francisco
- Marmot – Santa Rosa
- ModCloth – San Francisco
- Mountain Hardwear – Richmond
- The North Face – Alameda
- O'Neill – Santa Cruz
- Ross Stores – Dublin
- Stitch Fix – San Francisco
- Zazzle – Redwood City
- Tea Collection - San Francisco
- Welcome Stranger - San Francisco
Automotive
- Motiv Power Systems[2] – Hayward
- Lucid Motors – Newark, CA
- NIO – San Jose, CA
- Tesla Motors – Palo Alto, Fremont
- Waymo – Mountain View
- Zoox – San Carlos
Biotechnology
- Ancestry – San Francisco
- 23andMe – Mountain View
- Anthera Pharmaceuticals – Hayward
- BioMarin Pharmaceutical – San Rafael
- Bio-Rad Laboratories – Hercules
- Buck Institute for Age Research – Novato
- Calico – South San Francisco
- Chiron – Emeryville
- Genentech (7) – South San Francisco
- Gilead Sciences – Foster City
- Intuitive Surgical – Sunnyvale
- Kosan Biosciences – Hayward
- Nektar Therapeutics – South San Francisco
- Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. – Hayward
- Roche Molecular Systems - Belmont
- Verily Life Sciences – Mountain View
Consumer goods
- Benefit Cosmetics – San Francisco
- Bianchi USA – Hayward
- Clorox (474) – Oakland
- GoPro – San Mateo
- Kleenspeed Technologies – Mountain View
- Method – San Francisco
- Sephora – San Francisco
- Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill
Creative/design
- Ammunition – San Francisco
- Guts & Glory – Oakland
- IDEO – San Francisco
- Landor Associates – San Francisco
- Whipsaw – San Jose
- Traction (agency) - San Francisco
Education
Electronics
- Adaptec – Milpitas
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (406) – Sunnyvale
- Agilent Technologies (443) – Santa Clara
- Altera – San Jose
- AMAX Information Technologies – Fremont
- Antec – Fremont
- Apple Inc. (103) – Cupertino
- Applied Materials (270) – Santa Clara
- Asus – Fremont
- Barracuda Networks – Campbell
- Brocade Communications Systems – Santa Clara
- Cisco Systems (71) – San Jose
- Digidesign – Daly City
- Dust Networks – Hayward
- E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
- Fairchild Semiconductor – San Jose
- Fitbit – San Francisco
- Fujitsu Computer Products of America – Sunnyvale
- Genesis Microchip – Santa Clara
- Hewlett Packard (14) – Palo Alto
- Hitachi Data Systems – Santa Clara
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – San Jose
- Integrated Device Technology – San Jose
- Intel (60) – Santa Clara
- Jawbone – San Francisco
- JDS Uniphase – Milpitas
- Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale
- KLA Tencor – Milpitas
- Lam Research – Fremont
- Logitech – Fremont
- LSI Corporation – Milpitas (acquired by Avago Technologies)
- Marvell – Santa Clara
- Maxtor – Milpitas (acquired by Seagate)
- Monster Cable Products – Brisbane
- National Semiconductor – Santa Clara
- Nest Labs – Palo Alto
- NetApp – Sunnyvale
- Nvidia – Santa Clara
- Philips Lumileds Lighting Company – San Jose
- Rackable Systems – Fremont (name changed to Silicon Graphics)
- Rambus – Los Altos
- SanDisk – Milpitas
- Sanmina-SCI (255) – San Jose
- Seagate Technology – Cupertino
- Silicon Graphics – Fremont (acquired by Rackable Systems)
- Silicon Image – Sunnyvale
- Solectron Corporation – Milpitas
- Sony Optiarc America Inc. – San Jose
- Super Talent – San Jose
- Supermicro – San Jose
- Terayon – Santa Clara
- THX – San Rafael
- Touchstone Semiconductor – Milpitas
- Xilinx – San Jose
Energy
- Bloom Energy – Sunnyvale
- Calpine Corporation (318) – San Jose, California/Houston, Texas
- Chevron (3) – San Ramon
- Cupertino Electric – San Jose
- Energy Recovery Inc. – San Leandro
- Mosaic Inc. – Oakland (solar power crowdfunding)
- PG&E (183) – San Francisco
- Primus Power – Hayward
- Rosendin Electric – San Jose
- SolarCity – San Mateo
- SunEdison – Belmont
- Sungevity – Oakland
- SunPower – San Jose
- SunRun – San Francisco
Engineering and Construction
- URS Corporation - San Francisco
- Swinerton - San Francisco
Entertainment
- Dolby Laboratories – San Francisco
- Electronic Arts – Redwood City
- Industrial Light & Magic – San Francisco
- Kerner Optical – San Rafael
- Lucasfilm Animation – San Rafael (Lucas Valley)
- Netflix – Los Gatos
- Niantic – San Francisco
- Pandora Radio – Oakland
- Pixar – Emeryville
- Roblox – San Mateo
- Sega of America – San Francisco
- Skywalker Sound – San Rafael (Lucas Valley)
- Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) – San Mateo
- Zynga – San Francisco
Financial
- Calypso Technology - San Francisco
- Charles Schwab Corporation – San Francisco
- Coinbase – San Francisco
- FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) - San Jose and San Rafael
- Fireman's Fund Insurance Company – Novato (now Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty)
- Fisher Investments – Woodside
- Franklin Templeton Investments – San Mateo
- PayPal – San Jose
- Robert Half International – Menlo Park
- Silicon Valley Bank – Santa Clara
- Square, Inc. – San Francisco
- Visa, Inc. – Foster City
- Wells Fargo Bank – San Francisco
- Lending Club - San Francisco
Food and drink
Food and drink establishments with one location are not included in this list. Local and regional establishments with more than one location are included.
- Anchor Brewers & Distillers, LLC – San Francisco
- Annabelle Candy Company – Hayward
- Annie's Homegrown – Berkeley
- Black Angus Steakhouse – Los Altos
- C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett
- Clif Bar – Berkeley
- Columbus Salame – Hayward
- Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream – Oakland
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Company – San Leandro
- Häagen-Dazs – Oakland
- Impossible Foods - Redwood City
- Il Fornaio – Corte Madera
- Jelly Belly – Fairfield
- Mountain Mike's Pizza – Hayward
- Odwalla – Half Moon Bay
- Otis Spunkmeyer – San Leandro
- Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville
- Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company – Point Reyes Station
- PowerBar – Berkeley
- See's Candies – South San Francisco
- Shasta – Hayward
- Takaki Bakery (Andersen Institute of Bread and Life) – Hayward
- Togo's - San Jose
Healthcare
- Castlight Health – San Francisco
- Eargo – Mountain Valley
- Kaiser Permanente – Oakland
- McKesson – San Francisco
- Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Palo Alto
Internet
- Airbnb – San Francisco
- Alphabet Inc. – Mountain View
- Ask.com – Oakland
- Box – Redwood City
- Cisco – San Jose
- Craigslist – San Francisco
- Dropbox - San Francisco
- Ebates – San Francisco
- eBay (326) – San Jose
- Evernote - Redwood City
- Facebook – Menlo Park
- Google (150) – Mountain View
- Hearsay Social – San Francisco
- Instacart – San Francisco
- LinkedIn – Sunnyvale
- Lyft – San Francisco
- Pinterest – San Francisco
- Quora – Mountain View
- Salesforce.com – San Francisco
- Slack Technologies – San Francisco
- Poll Everywhere - San Francisco
- SurveyMonkey – San Mateo
- Tripping.com – San Francisco
- Twitter – San Francisco
- Uber – San Francisco
- Wikimedia Foundation – San Francisco
- Workday – Pleasanton
- Yahoo! (353) – Sunnyvale
- Yelp – San Francisco
- Yummly – Redwood City
- YouTube – San Bruno
- Zendesk - San Francisco
- Zoosk – San Francisco
Media
- Communication Arts – Menlo Park
- Daily Review – Hayward
- Dwell – San Francisco
- Future US – South San Francisco
- POPSUGAR Inc. – San Francisco
- San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco
- San Jose Mercury News – San Jose
- University of California Press – Berkeley
- Complex (magazine) – San Francisco
Mobile media
- Bleacher Report – San Francisco
- MobiTV – Emeryville
- TubeMogul – Emeryville
Musical instruments and accessories
- Dunlop Manufacturing – Benicia
- E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
- Saga Musical Instruments – South San Francisco
- Santa Cruz Guitar Company – Santa Cruz
Networking
- A10 Networks – San Jose
- Arista Networks – Santa Clara
- Aryaka Networks – Milpitas
- Barefoot Networks – Palo Alto
- Big Switch Networks – Santa Clara
- Brocade Communications – San Jose
- Cisco – San Jose
- Ericsson – Santa Clara
- F5 Networks – San Jose
- Fortinet – Sunnyvale
- Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale
- Minerva Networks – San Jose
- NETGEAR – San Jose
- Palo Alto Networks – Santa Clara
Real estate
- Digital Realty – San Francisco
- Jay Paul Company – San Francisco
- LiquidSpace – San Francisco
- Prologis – San Francisco
- Redfin – San Francisco
- Trulia – San Francisco
Retail
- Charlotte Russe (clothing retailer)
- Cost Plus Inc. – Oakland
- Cycle Gear – Benicia
- Gap.com – San Francisco
- Gymboree – San Francisco
- Levi's – San Francisco
- Macys.com – San Francisco
- Minted – San Francisco
- Orchard Supply Hardware – San Jose
- Pottery Barn – San Francisco
- Restoration Hardware – Corte Madera
- Ross Stores (412) – Pleasanton
- Safeway (55) – Pleasanton
- Shutterfly – Redwood City
- Walmart.com – San Bruno
- Williams-Sonoma – San Francisco
- Zazzle – Redwood City
Software
- Adobe Inc. – San Jose
- AppDynamics – San Francisco
- Autodesk – San Rafael
- Business Objects – San Jose
- DocuSign - San Francisco
- Dropbox - San Francisco
- Genesys – Daly City
- GitHub - San Francisco
- Intuit – Mountain View
- McAfee – Santa Clara
- Medallia – Palo Alto
- Mozilla – Mountain View
- NetApp - Sunnyvale
- NetSuite – San Mateo
- New Relic – San Francisco
- Nutanix – San Jose
- Objectivity, Inc. – San Jose
- Oracle (137) – Redwood City
- Palantir Technologies – Palo Alto
- People Power Company – Palo Alto
- Piggybackr – San Francisco
- Pyze – Redwood City
- Sage Intacct – San Jose
- SAP – Palo Alto
- SuccessFactors – South San Francisco
- Sybase – Dublin
- Symantec (461) – Mountain View
- TeleNav – Santa Clara
- TIBCO Software – Palo Alto
- VMware –Palo Alto
Sports
- 24 Hour Fitness – San Ramon
- All Pro Wrestling – Hayward
- Fox Racing Shox – Scotts Valley
- Giro – Santa Cruz
- Golden State Warriors – San Francisco
- GoPro – San Mateo
- Hydrapak – Oakland
- JumpSport – San Jose
- Kestrel USA – Santa Cruz
- Lowepro – Sebastopol
- Oakland A's – Oakland
- Oakland Raiders – Oakland
- Pac-12 Conference – Walnut Creek
- San Francisco 49ers – San Francisco
- San Francisco Giants – San Francisco
- San Jose Earthquakes - San Jose
- San Jose Sharks – San Jose
- San Jose Barracuda – San Jose
- Santa Cruz Bicycles – Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz Skateboards – Santa Cruz
- Santa Cruz Warriors – Santa Cruz
- Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill
- TRX System – San Francisco
Telecommunications
- Avaya – Santa Clara
- Pacific Telemanagement Services – San Leandro
Transportation and logistics
- Gillig Corporation – Livermore
Companies formerly based in the San Francisco Bay Area
This list contains both extant companies which have moved their headquarters out of the Bay Area (often during a corporate buyout), and defunct companies.
- Bare Escentuals – purchased by Shiseido, now headquarters in Rutherford, New Jersey
- Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
- Bechtel- relocated to Reston, Virginia
- Best Manufacturing Company – San Leandro (defunct)
- Caterpillar Inc. (50) – relocated to Peoria, Illinois
- Chaosium – formerly based in Oakland, then Hayward, now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
- ComputerLand – Hayward (defunct)
- Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
- Etec Systems, Inc. – Hayward (defunct)
- Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
- Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
- FMC Corporation (Farm Machinery Corp, Farm Machinery and Chemical Corp) – moved headquarters from San Jose to Chicago; subsequently moved to Philadelphia
- Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
- Friden, Inc. – San Leandro (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
- Hunt Brothers Cannery – moved from Hayward
- Jamba Juice - moved from Emeryville to Frisco, Texas
- Knight-Ridder – purchased by The McClatchy Company
- Leslie Salt – purchased by Cargill in 1978
- Mervyn's – Hayward (defunct)
- Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
- NUMMI – automobile manufacturer (defunct)
- Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
- Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
- Peterbilt Motors – relocated to Denton, Texas
- Qume – Hayward (defunct)
- Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
- Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
- Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker – acquired by The Hershey Company
- The Sharper Image
- 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
- Victoria's Secret - started in Palo Alto, now headquartered in Reynoldsburg, Ohio
- Virgin America – Burlingame - acquired by Alaska Airlines
See also
- List of California companies
- List of companies based in Berkeley, California (subset, mostly included in this list)
- List of companies based in Hayward, California (subset, mostly included in this list)
- List of companies based in Oakland, California (subset, mostly included in this list)
References
- ^ "1 Out of 3 Fortune 500 Companies Are Headquartered in These 6 Cities". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
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