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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Companies currently based in San Francisco

Advertising

• 3Q Digital
• 140 Proof
• AKQA
• Duncan/Channon
• Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
• iCrossing
• Landor Associates
• Mullen
• Traction
• Flavor Group

Banks

• Bank of the Orient
• Bank of the West (BancWest)
• First Republic Bank
• UnionBanCal Corporation
• Wells Fargo

Beverages (alcoholic)

• Anchor Brewing Company
• SKYY Spirits
• Speakeasy Ales and Lagers

Beverages (non-alcoholic)

• Adina World Beat Beverages

Biotechnology and drugs

• McKesson

Broadcasting and cable TV

• KQED
• Link TV
• Northern California Public Broadcasting
• Pac-12 Network

Business services

• Ammunition Design Group
• Brightpearl
• Coursmos
• Duane Morris
• Elanex
• Gensler
• Morrison & Foerster
• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
• Sparkpr
• XIM

Communications equipment

• Boombotix
• Riverbed Technology

Computer services

• AfterCollege
• AllBusiness.com
• AppAcademy
• Automattic
• Bebo
• Bleacher Report
• CBS Interactive
• Chegg
• Clicktime.com, Inc.
• Clinkle
• Cotap
• Craigslist
• CrowdFlower
• Digg
• Disqus
• Dropbox
• Dropcam, Inc.
• DocuSign
• Eventbrite, Inc.
• Fitbit
• Hack Reactor
• Hearsay Social
• Hired
• HubPages
• IGN Entertainment
• imgur
• Internet Archive
• Jawbone
• Joyent
• Kink.com
• Kongregate
• LiveJournal
• Lyft
• Meraki
• Mevio
• Mimecast
• ON24
• OpenDNS
• Pinterest
• Pogo.com
• Practice Fusion
• Prezi
• Quantcast
• Reddit
• Revision3
• Salesforce.com
• SAY Media
• SideCar
• Slack
• Snip.it
• Splunk
• StumbleUpon
• Talenthouse
• Technorati
• Trulia
• Twitch
• Twitter
• Uber
• Ustream
• Whiskey Media
• Wikia
• Wolfgang's Vault
• Yammer
• Yelp
• YouNoodle
• Zedo

Construction

• Bechtel
• Gensler
• Swinerton
• T. Y. Lin International
• URS

Consumer financial services

• Earnest
• Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi)
• Square

Energy

• 3Degrees

Food

• Big Heart Pet Brands
• Boudin Bakery
• Del Monte
• Diamond Foods
• Driscoll's
• Harmless Harvest
• Jack & Jason's Pancakes & Waffles
• La Boulange
• TCHO
• Traveling Spoon

Hospitals

• California Pacific Medical Center
• Dignity Health
  • Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
  • St. Mary's Medical Center

Hotels and motels

• 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

Investment services

• BV Capital
• Charles Schwab
• Liquid Realty Partners
• NFX Guild
• Savant Investment Group
• ThinkEquity LLC
• Thomas Weisel Partners
• Wells Fargo
• WR Hambrecht + Co

Motion pictures

• Dolby Laboratories
• Industrial Light & Magic
• LucasArts
• Lucasfilm

Personal and household products

• Method Products
• Native Deodorant

Public benefit

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Kiva
• The Sierra Club
• Skoll Foundation
• TechSoup.org
• Wikimedia Foundation

Publishing and printing

• Afar
• Blurb
• Chronicle Books
• Dwell
• McSweeney's
• Mother Jones
• PC World
• VIZ Media
• Wired
• XLR8R

Real estate

• Digital Realty Trust
• LiquidSpace
• LoopNet
• Pier 39
• Prologis
• Storefront

Recreational activities

• Club One
• Good.co
• Hornblower Cruises
• SHN

Resource recovery

• Recology

Resource sharing

• Getaround
• RelayRides

Retail (apparel)

• Banana Republic
• BeGood Clothing
• Everlane
• Stitch Fix
• Gap Inc.
• Gymboree
• Jessica McClintock
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• ModCloth
• Old Navy
• Tea Collection
• North Face

Retail (non-physical)

• Americana Exchange

Retail (specialty)

• Betabrand
• Cameron Hughes Wine
• Good Vibrations
• Gump's
• McRoskey Mattress Company
• One Kings Lane
• Pottery Barn
• Timbuk2
• Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
• RH
• Cost Plus World Market
• Minted
• Roost

Software and programming

• Advent Software
• AppDynamics
• BitTorrent, Inc.
• Calypso Technology
• Clarizen
• Clustrix
• FileRight
• GroundWork Inc.
• Hired
• Kx Systems
• Linden Lab
• MathCrunch
• MyTime
• New Relic
• OpenTable
• Piggybackr
• Sega of America
• VerticalResponse
• Zynga

Utilities

• Pacific Gas & Electric
• Recology

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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
• Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
• Sunset Magazine – relocated to Menlo Park
• 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

See also

• List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area