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Startups in San Francisco

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

Enterprise Software 1621Consumer 423Healthcare 353Fintech 257Industrials & Manufacturing 203Artificial Intelligence 67Real Estate & Construction 67Developer Tools 54Education 41Cybersecurity 28Data & Analytics 26Media & Entertainment 25Software & IT 25Marketplace 21Government & Nonprofit 20Biotech & Pharma 19Crypto & Web3 18HR & Recruiting 15Hardware & Electronics 15Retail & E-commerce 15Logistics & Supply Chain 14Marketing & Advertising 11Automotive & Mobility 9Gaming 9Productivity 9Social 9Food & Agriculture 6Robotics 6

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Thinking Machines LabPrivate 🦄 Unicorn
Artificial Intelligence · USA · 2025
Mira Murati, John Schulman, Barret Zoph, Barrett Zoph, Lilian Weng, Andrew Tulloch, Luke Metz
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, Christopher Olah
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, Matt von Horn, Marcus Cohn
RipplePrivate 🦄 Unicorn
Fintech · USA · 2012
Chris Larsen, Jed McCaleb, Arthur Britto, David Schwartz, Brad Garlinghous, Stefan Thomas
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, Lidiane Jones (CEO)
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, AJ Park, Alain Rossmann
CarmaPrivate YC W24
Enterprise Software · USA · 2024 · YC W24
Muhammad Alasgarli, Suleyman Alasgarli, Sean O'Sullivan, Lawrence Mulligan, Emmett Murphy
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, Dan Westgarth
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, Michelle Gilmore, Josh Davey, Devon Tivona, Sam Felsenthal, Varun Deshpande, Siddharth Verma, Ratnesh Ray, Devin Tivona, Kate Porter
WorldcoinPrivate
Crypto & Web3 · USA · 2019
Sam Altman, Alex Blania, Max Novendstern, Alex Bania
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, Diogo Mónica
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