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Startups in San Francisco

Companies headquartered in San Francisco, and the founders who built them.

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Thinking Machines LabPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2025

Mira Murati, John Schulman, Barret Zoph, Barrett Zoph

Perplexity AIPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2022

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski, Andrew Konwinski

AnthropicPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2021

Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Jack Clark, Chris Olah, Tom Henighan, Benjamin Mann, Ben Mann

InstabasePrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Enterprise Software · USA · 2015

Anant Bhardwaj

OpenAIPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2015

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Trevor Blackwell, Diederik P. Kingma, Vicki Cheung, Pamela Vagata

DatabricksPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Data & Analytics · USA · 2013

Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

PatreonPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Marketplace · USA · 2013

Jack Conte, Sam Yam, Jack Conte Sam Yam

PlaidPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Fintech · USA · 2013

Zach Perret, William Hockey

LyftPublic 🦄 Unicorn

Automotive & Mobility · USA · 2012

Logan Green, John Zimmer

RipplePrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Fintech · USA · 2012

Chris Larsen, Jed McCaleb, Arthur Britto, David Schwartz

PicsartPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Software & IT · United States · 2011

Hovhannes Avoyan, Artavazd Mehrabyan, Mikayel Vardanyan

CloudflarePublic 🦄 Unicorn

Developer Tools · USA · 2009

Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, Oren Falkowitz, Blake Darche, Phil Syme

HouzzPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Marketplace · USA · 2009

Adi Tatarko, Alon N. Cohen

SlackAcquired 🦄 Unicorn

Enterprise Software · USA · 2009

Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Eric Costello, Serguei Mourachov

UberPublic 🦄 Unicorn

Automotive & Mobility · USA · 2009

Travis Kalanick, Garrett Camp

New RelicAcquired 🦄 Unicorn

Developer Tools · USA · 2008

Lew Cirne

TwilioPublic 🦄 Unicorn

Developer Tools · USA · 2008

Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, John Wolthuis

AutomatticPrivate 🦄 Unicorn

Software & IT · USA · 2005

Matt Mullenweg

SherpaPrivate YC S26

Enterprise Software · USA · 2026 · YC S26

Ethan Kinnan, Norbu Sonam, Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria

LapisPrivate YC F25

Enterprise Software · USA · 2025 · YC F25

Varunram Ganesh, Sai Surbehera, Lea Melandri

MinervaPrivate YC S25

Enterprise Software · USA · 2025 · YC S25

Peter Zhu, Om Agarwal

RadiusPrivate YC F25

Enterprise Software · USA · 2025 · YC F25

Quentin Romero Lauro, Michael Klikushin, Andy Hertzfeld, Burrell Smith

CarmaPrivate YC W24

Enterprise Software · USA · 2024 · YC W24

Muhammad Alasgarli, Suleyman Alasgarli, Sean O'Sullivan

Adept AIPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2022

David Luan, Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar

AnyspherePrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2022

Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, Aman Sanger

CambioPrivate YC S22

Real Estate & Construction · USA · 2022 · YC S22

Leia de Guzman, Stephanie Grayson, Daniel Samper Pizano, Patricia Lara Salive

CursorPrivate

Developer Tools · USA · 2022

Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, Aman Sanger

EmigrePrivate YC W22

Fintech · USA · 2022 · YC W22

Nishant Aggarwal, Zuzana Licko, Rudy VanderLans

LangChainPrivate

Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2022

Harrison Chase, Ankush Gola

NashPrivate YC W22

Fintech · USA · 2022 · YC W22

Anthony Wagacha, Mahmoud Ghulman, Aziz Alghunaim, Yevhenii Muraev

VesselPrivate YC W22

Enterprise Software · USA · 2022 · YC W22

Avery Yip, Zachary Kirby, Jason Kilar

ClickHousePrivate

Developer Tools · USA · 2021

Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, Yury Izrailevsky

ArtifactPrivate YC S20

Consumer · USA · 2020 · YC S20

Ross Chanin, Moncef Biaz, Martin Gouy, George Quraishi, Antony Samuel, Corbin Klett, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger

AvalanchePrivate YC W19

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2020 · YC W19

Emin Gün Sirer, Elezhan (Ijan) Zhakiya, Robin Langtry, Brian Riordan, Kevin Sekniqi, Maofan Yin, Maofan Ted Yin

BeeperPrivate YC S21

Consumer · USA · 2020 · YC S21

Eric Migicovsky, Brad Murray, Tulir Asokan

ClubhousePrivate

Social · USA · 2020

Paul Davison, Rohan Seth

DenoPrivate

Developer Tools · USA · 2020

Ryan Dahl, Bert Belder

SupabasePrivate YC S20

Developer Tools · USA · 2020 · YC S20

Paul Copplestone, Ant Wilson

CerebralPrivate

Healthcare · USA · 2019

Kyle Robertson, Ho Anh

DeelPrivate YC W19

Fintech · USA · 2019 · YC W19

Alex Bouaziz, Shuo Wang, Ofer Simon

JunoPrivate YC S26

Software & IT · United States · 2019 · YC S26

Talmon Marco, Jonathan Scherr, BJ Siegel, Marshall Everett, Chester Chipperfield, Marshall Gould, Isaac Tolley, Harjit Sajjan, Hunter Scharfe, David Haase

WorldcoinPrivate

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2019

Sam Altman, Alex Blania, Max Novendstern

Chipper CashPrivate

Fintech · USA · 2018

Ham Serunjogi, Maijid Moujaled

InsitroPrivate

Biotech & Pharma · USA · 2018

Daphne Koller

OxygenPrivate YC S18

Fintech · USA · 2018 · YC S18

Hussein Ahmed, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldine Laybourne

SolanaPrivate

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2018

Anatoly Yakovenko, Raj Gokal, Greg Fitzgerald, Stephen Akridge

VantaPrivate YC W18

Software & IT · USA · 2018 · YC W18

Christina Cacioppo, Erik Goldman

WithinPrivate YC S18

Enterprise Software · USA · 2018 · YC S18

Andrew Antos, Nischal Nadhamuni, Chris Milk, Aaron Koblin

Anchorage DigitalPrivate

Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2017

Nathan McCauley

BrexPrivate YC W17

Fintech · USA · 2017 · YC W17

Henrique Dubugras, Pedro Franceschi

Chia NetworkPrivate

Fintech · USA · 2017

Bram Cohen, Ryan Singer

Craft VenturesPrivate

Fintech · USA · 2017

David O. Sacks, Bill Lee

FairePrivate YC W17

Marketplace · USA · 2017 · YC W17

Max Rhodes, Marcelo Cortes, Daniele Perito, Jeffrey Kolovson, Jeff Kolovson, Lauren Cooks Levitan

Hims & HersPublic

Healthcare · USA · 2017

Andrew Dudum, Hilary Coles, Joe Spector, Jack Abraham

LimePrivate

Automotive & Mobility · USA · 2017

Toby Sun, Brad Bao

RetoolPrivate YC W17

Developer Tools · USA · 2017 · YC W17

David Hsu

SubstackPrivate YC W18

Media & Entertainment · USA · 2017 · YC W18

Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie, Jairaj Sethi

ExpoPrivate YC S16

Enterprise Software · USA · 2016 · YC S16

Charlie Cheever, James Ide, Stieg Larsson

FlutterwavePrivate YC S16

Fintech · USA · 2016 · YC S16

Olugbenga Agboola, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Adeleke Adekoya, Olugbenga GB Agboola

Pony.aiPrivate

Automotive & Mobility · People's Republic of China · 2016

Tiancheng Lou, James Peng, James Peng Tiancheng Lou