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The following is a list of companies based in San Francisco, California.

Companies currently based in San Francisco Bay Area[]

Advertising & PR Advertising and PR[]


Business ServicesBusiness Services[]

  • Ammunition Design Group
  • Duane Morris
  • Elanex
  • Gensler
  • Morrison & Foerster (Law)
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
  • Salesforce.com
  • Studios Architecture
  • XIM

Communications Equipment[]

  • Riverbed Technology

Computer Services[]

Computer Services

  • AfterCollege
  • AllBusiness.com
  • Automattic
  • Bebo
  • Bleacher Report
  • CBS Interactive
  • Craigslist
  • CrowdFlower
  • Digg
  • Dropbox
  • Facebook
  • Fitbit
  • HubPages
  • imgur
  • Instagram
  • Internet Archive
  • Kink.com
  • LiveJournal
  • Mevio
  • Notehall
  • Pinterest
  • Pogo.com
  • Revision3
  • Reddit
  • SAY Media
  • Salesforce.com
  • StumbleUpon
  • Tapjoy
  • Technorati
  • Trulia
  • Ustream
  • Whiskey Media
  • Wolfgang's Vault
  • Yammer
  • Yelp
  • YouNoodle
  • Zedo

Construction, Builders & General Contracting[]

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

Consumer Products[]

Energy and Resource Management[]

  • 3Degrees
  • Recology

Entertainment & Media[]

Finance[]

  • BancWest and Bank of the West
  • Bank of the Orient
  • First Republic Bank
  • UnionBanCal Corporation and Union Bank of California
  • Wells Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo Bank (41)
  • Visa
  • Square
  • PayPal (EBay)
  • Charles Schwab (402)
  • KKR Financial Holdings
  • Liquid Realty Partners
  • ThinkEquity Partners, LLC
  • Thomas Weisel Partners
  • WR Hambrecht + Co
  • Savant Investment Group

Food & Beverage[]

  • TCHO
  • ZeroCater

Health and Fitness[]

  • Club One

Hospitality and Tourism[]

  • Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
  • Hornblower Cruises

Insurance[]

  • Blue Shield of California
  • State Compensation Insurance Fund
  • Esurance
  • CoverHound

Internet & ECommerce[]

Medical & Pharmaceutical[]

  • Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center

Non Profit[]

  • Kiva
  • The Sierra Club
  • TechSoup.org
  • Wikimedia Foundation

Real Estate[]

  • Digital Realty Trust
  • LoopNet
  • Pier 39
  • Shorenstein Company

Retail[]

  • Americana Exchange
  • Gap, Inc. (also Banana Republic and Old Navy)
  • Gymboree
  • Jessica McClintock
  • Good Vibrations
  • Gump's
  • Jessica McClintock
  • Levi Strauss & Co. (also Dockers)
  • Sephora
  • Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (also Pottery Barn, Hold Everything)

Software and Programming[]

  • Advent Software
  • BitTorrent Inc.
  • Calypso Technology
  • Clarizen
  • Kabam
  • iLinke Systems
  • Linden Lab
  • MessageSolution[1]
  • Oracle
  • Sega of America
  • VerticalResponse
  • WideOrbit
  • Zynga

Transportation[]

Utilities[]

  • Pacific Gas & Electric (200)

Other[]

  • RelayRides


Companies formerly based in San Francisco[]

  • Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
  • California State Automobile Association - relocated to unincorporated Walnut Creek, California
  • Esprit relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
  • Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
  • Flickr - acquired by Yahoo!
  • Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
  • Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
  • Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
  • Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City, New York
  • Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
  • Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
  • The Sharper Image
  • Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
  • Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
  • Six Apart - moved to Tokyo
  • Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada.
  • Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
  • Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
  • United Commercial Bank; acquired by East West Bank
  • Pegasus Aviation Finance Company - acquired by AWAS
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