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[]

• 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)
• Charles Schwab
• Chime
• 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
• Hint Water

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[]

• 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
• 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
• Twitter
• Uber
• Ustream
• ViacomCBS Streaming
• Whiskey Media
• Wikia
• Wolfgang's Vault
• Yammer
• Yelp
• YouNoodle
• Zedo

Construction[]

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

Consumer financial services[]

• Block
• Earnest
• LendUp
• SoFi
• Stripe

Food[]

• Big Heart Pet Brands
• Boudin Bakery
• Del Monte
• Double Rainbow (ice cream)
• Diamond Foods
• Driscoll's
• Eatsa
• Guittard Chocolate Company
• 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
• 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
• Vouch

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[]

• 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[]

• 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)[]

• Allbirds
• Banana Republic
• BeGood Clothing
• Everlane
• Stitch Fix
• Gap Inc.
• Jessica McClintock
• Le Tote
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• ModCloth
• Old Navy
• Tea Collection
• Thrasher
• North Face
• ThirdLove
• Athleta

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

Software and programming[]

• Advent Software
• AppDynamics
• BitTorrent, Inc.
• Calypso Technology
• Clarizen
• Clustrix
• Discord
• Kx Systems
• JotForm
• Linden Lab
• MathCrunch
• MyTime
• New Relic
• OpenTable
• Optimizely
• Piggybackr
• Square
• Twitter
• VerticalResponse
• Whatsapp
• Zynga

Utilities[]

• Pacific Bell
• 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
• 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

See also[]

• List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

References[]