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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)
• UnionBanCal Corporation
• Wells Fargo

Beverages (alcoholic)

• Anchor Brewing Company
• 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

• Affirm Holdings
• 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
• 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
• Wikia
• Wolfgang's Vault
• Yammer
• Yelp
• YouNoodle
• Zedo

Construction

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

Consumer financial services

• Chime
• Earnest
• LendUp
• SoFi
• Stripe

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
• Vouch

Investment services

• BV Capital
• Golden Gate Capital
• Linqto
• Liquid Realty Partners
• ThinkEquity LLC
• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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
• AppDynamics
• Bonboard
• BitTorrent, Inc.
• Calypso Technology
• Clarizen
• Clustrix
• Discord
• Kx Systems
• JotForm
• Linden Lab
• MathCrunch
• MyTime
• New Relic
• 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

See also

• List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

References

1. "American Zoetrope".
2. "Block, formerly known as Square, ditches San Francisco as headquarters". The San Francisco Standard. 2022-04-12. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
3. "Coinbase aims to support inclusion with a remote-first workforce". HR Dive. Retrieved 2024-05-03.

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