List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business.

Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been bought out by other companies and had their headquarters relocated. With the booming tech industry in San Francisco, businesses face a lot of pressure to keep up with the surge of new companies.

Companies currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area

Aerospace/defense L3 Technologies – Menlo Park (Randtron), San Leandro (Applied Technologies), Santa Rosa (Sonoma EO) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Palo Alto, Sunnyvale Redwire Space – Mountain View NASA Ames Research Center – Moffett Field Sandia National Laboratories – Livermore Space Systems Loral – Palo Alto

Apparel Allbirds – San Francisco Bebe – Brisbane Ben Davis – San Rafael Betabrand – San Francisco Dolls Kill – San Francisco Everlane – San Francisco Gap Inc. (199) – San Francisco Jos. A. Bank – Fremont Levi Strauss & Co. (495) – San Francisco Marmot – Petaluma ModCloth – San Francisco Mountain Hardwear – Richmond O'Neill – Santa Cruz Poshmark – Redwood City Quay – San Francisco Title Nine - Emeryville Ross Stores (202) – Dublin Stitch Fix – San Francisco Tea Collection – San Francisco Zazzle – Redwood City

Automotive Cruise – San Francisco Lucid Motors – Newark Motiv Power Systems – Hayward Nio – San Jose Rivian – Palo Alto Uber – San Francisco Waymo – Mountain View Zoox – Foster City

Biotechnology 23andMe – Mountain View Anthera Pharmaceuticals – Hayward Bio-Rad Laboratories – Hercules BioMarin Pharmaceutical – San Rafael Buck Institute for Age Research – Novato Calico – South San Francisco Chiron – Emeryville Codex Labs - San Jose Genentech – South San Francisco Gilead Sciences (140) – Foster City Intuitive Surgical – Sunnyvale Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. – Hayward Nektar Therapeutics – San Francisco Roche Molecular Systems – Belmont Signature BioScience – San Francisco Verily Life Sciences – Mountain View Cepheid – Sunnyvale, California

Consumer goods Benefit Cosmetics – San Francisco Bianchi USA – Hayward CamelBak – Petaluma Clorox (474) – Oakland GoPro – San Mateo Method – San Francisco Sephora – San Francisco Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill

Creative/design Ammunition – San Francisco fuseproject – San Francisco IDEO – San Francisco Landor Associates – San Francisco Traction – San Francisco

Education Chegg – Santa Clara Course Hero – Redwood City Coursera – Mountain View Khan Academy – Mountain View KiwiCo – Mountain View Quizlet – San Francisco Remind – San Francisco Spring Education Group – Campbell Udacity – Mountain View

Electronics Adaptec – Milpitas Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (448) – Sunnyvale Agilent Technologies (547) – Santa Clara Altera (Intel) – San Jose Antec – Fremont Apple Inc. (4) – Cupertino Applied Materials (218) – Santa Clara Asus – Fremont Barracuda Networks – Campbell Broadcom Inc. (138) – San Jose Brocade Communications Systems – Santa Clara Cisco Systems (64) – San Jose Daylight Computer Co. – San Francisco Digidesign – Daly City Dust Networks – Hayward E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley Fairchild Semiconductor – San Jose Fitbit – San Francisco Fujitsu Computer Products of America – Sunnyvale Genesis Microchip – Santa Clara Hewlett-Packard (58) – Palo Alto Hewlett Packard Enterprise (109) – San Jose Hitachi Data Systems – Santa Clara Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – San Jose Integrated Device Technology – San Jose Intel – Santa Clara JDS Uniphase – Milpitas Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale Keysight – Santa Rosa KLA Tencor – Milpitas Lam Research (331) – Fremont Logitech – Newark Marvell – Santa Clara Maxim Integrated – San Jose Microchip Technology – San Jose Monster Cable Products – Brisbane Nest Labs – Palo Alto NetApp (478) – Sunnyvale Nvidia (292) – Santa Clara Philips Lumileds Lighting Company – San Jose Plantronics (Now Poly) – Santa Cruz Rambus – Los Altos Sanmina-SCI (385) – San Jose Seagate Technology (174) – Cupertino Silicon Graphics – Fremont (acquired by Rackable Systems) Silicon Image – Sunnyvale Solectron Corporation – Milpitas Sony Optiarc America Inc. – San Jose Supermicro – San Jose Synnex (130) – Fremont Synopsys – Mountain View TDK – San Jose Terayon – Santa Clara THX – San Rafael Western Digital (198) – San Jose Xilinx – San Jose

Energy Bloom Energy – Sunnyvale Chevron (15) – San Ramon Cupertino Electric – San Jose Energy Recovery Inc. – San Leandro Mosaic Inc. – Oakland (solar power crowdfunding) PG&E (189) – Oakland Rosendin Electric – San Jose SolarCity – San Mateo SunEdison – Belmont Sungevity – Oakland SunPower – San Jose Sunrun – San Francisco

Engineering and construction DPR Construction – Redwood City Granite Construction – Watsonville Katerra – Menlo Park Swinerton – San Francisco Webcor Builders – San Francisco

Entertainment American Zoetrope – San Franciscohttps://www.zoetrope.com/american-zoetrope/history Capcom U.S.A. – San Francisco Crunchyroll – San Francisco Dolby Laboratories – San Francisco Electronic Arts – Redwood City Industrial Light & Magic – San Francisco Kerner Optical – San Rafael Lucasfilm Animation – San Rafael (Lucas Valley) Netflix (164) – Los Gatos Niantic – San Francisco Pandora Radio – Oakland Philo – San Francisco Pixar – Emeryville Roblox Corporation – San Mateo Sega of America – San Francisco Skywalker Sound – San Rafael (Lucas Valley) Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) – San Mateo Ubisoft – San Francisco Zynga – San Francisco

Financial Bill.com – San Jose Block, Inc. – San Francisco Brex – San Francisco Calypso Technology – San Francisco Coinbase – San Francisco FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) – San Jose and San Rafael Fireman's Fund Insurance Company – Novato (now Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty) First Republic Bank – San Francisco Fisher Investments – Woodside Franklin Templeton Investments (493) – San Mateo Lending Club – San Francisco Patelco Credit Union – Dublin PayPal (182) – San Jose Robert Half International (482) – Menlo Park Robinhood – Menlo Park SigFig – San Francisco Silicon Valley Bank – Santa Clara SoFi – San Francisco TPG Sixth Street Partners – San Francisco Visa, Inc. (137) – San Francisco Wells Fargo Bank (30) – San Francisco Yodlee – Redwood City

Food and drink Food and drink establishments with one location are not included in this list. Local and regional establishments with more than one location are included.

21st Amendment Brewery – San Leandro Anchor Brewers & Distillers, LLC – San Francisco Annabelle Candy Company – Hayward Annie's Homegrown – Berkeley Black Angus Steakhouse – Los Altos Blue Bottle Coffee – Oakland – subsidiary of Nestle C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett Clif Bar – Emeryville Columbus Salame – Hayward Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream – Oakland Extreme Pizza – San Francisco Ghirardelli Chocolate Company – San Leandro Häagen-Dazs – Oakland Hodo – Oakland Il Fornaio – Corte Madera Impossible Foods – Redwood City Jelly Belly – Fairfield Martinelli's – Watsonville Mountain Mike's Pizza – Hayward Odwalla – Half Moon Bay Otis Spunkmeyer – San Leandro Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company – Point Reyes Station PowerBar – Berkeley R. Torre & Company, Inc. – San Leandro See's Candies – South San Francisco Shasta – Hayward Takaki Bakery (Andersen Institute of Bread and Life) – Hayward Togo's – San Jose Verve Coffee Roasters – Santa Cruz

Healthcare Castlight Health – San Francisco Eargo – Mountain Valley Kaiser Permanente – Oakland One Medical – San Francisco Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Palo Alto

Internet Airbnb – San Francisco Alphabet Inc. (11) – Mountain View Ask.com – Oakland Box – Redwood City Cisco (64) – San Jose Craigslist – San Francisco Deel – San Francisco DoorDash – San Francisco Dropbox – San Francisco Ebates – San Francisco eBay (295) – San Jose Evernote – Redwood City Fandom – San Francisco Glassdoor – Mill Valley Google – Mountain View – subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Instacart – San Francisco LinkedIn – Sunnyvale Lyft – San Francisco Meta (46) – Menlo Park Pinterest – San Francisco Poll Everywhere – San Francisco Poshmark – Redwood City Postmates – San Francisco Quora – Mountain View Replit – Foster City Rubrik – Palo Alto Salesforce.com (190) – San Francisco Slack Technologies – San Francisco SurveyMonkey – San Mateo Tripping.com – San Francisco Twitch – San Francisco Uber (228) – San Francisco Wikimedia Foundation – San Francisco Workday – Pleasanton Yelp – San Francisco YouTube – San Bruno – subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Yummly – Palo Alto – subsidiary of Whirlpool Corporation Zendesk – San Francisco Zoom Video Communications – San Jose Zoosk – San Francisco

Media Communication Arts – Menlo Park Complex – San Francisco Daily Review – Hayward Dwell – San Francisco Future US – South San Francisco POPSUGAR Inc. – San Francisco San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco San Jose Mercury News – San Jose University of California Press – Berkeley

Mobile media Bleacher Report – San Francisco MobiTV – Emeryville TubeMogul – Emeryville

Musical instruments and accessories Dunlop Manufacturing – Benicia E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley Saga Musical Instruments – South San Francisco Santa Cruz Guitar Company – Santa Cruz Universal Audio – Scotts Valley

Networking A10 Networks – San Jose Arista Networks – Santa Clara Aryaka Networks – Milpitas Barefoot Networks (Intel) – Palo Alto Brocade Communications (Broadcom) – San Jose Cisco (64) – San Jose Ericsson – Santa Clara Extreme Networks – San Jose F5 Networks – San Jose Fortinet – Sunnyvale Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale Minerva Networks – San Jose NETGEAR – San Jose Palo Alto Networks – Santa Clara

Real estate Digital Realty – San Francisco Jay Paul Company – San Francisco LiquidSpace – San Francisco Prologis – San Francisco Trulia – San Francisco

Retail BevMo! – Concord California Closets – Richmond Cost Plus Inc. – Alameda Gap.com – San Francisco Grocery Outlet – Emeryville Gymboree – San Francisco Jos. A. Bank – Fremont Levi's – San Francisco Macys.com – San Francisco Minted – San Francisco Pottery Barn – San Francisco Restoration Hardware – Corte Madera Ross Stores (412) – Dublin Safeway – Pleasanton – subsidiary of [Albertsons] Sephora – San Francisco Shutterfly – Redwood City Timbuk2 – San Francisco Walmart.com – San Bruno West Marine – Watsonville Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (489) – San Francisco Zazzle – Redwood City

Software Adobe Inc. (285) – San Jose AppDynamics – San Francisco Autodesk – San Rafael Box – Redwood City Business Objects – San Jose Cloudera – Palo Alto Cloudian - San Mateo DocuSign – San Francisco Dropbox – San Francisco Friend (AI) - San Francisco Genesys – Daly City GitHub – San Francisco Imperva – San Mateo Intuit (445)– Mountain View Malwarebytes – Santa Clara McAfee – Santa Clara Medallia – Palo Alto Mozilla – Mountain View Neo4j – San Mateo New Relic – San Francisco Nutanix – San Jose Objectivity, Inc. – San Jose Palantir Technologies – Palo Alto People Power Company – Palo Alto Piggybackr – San Francisco Pivotal Software (VMware) – San Francisco Qualys – Foster City Sage Intacct – San Jose SAP – Palo Alto ServiceNow – Santa Clara Splunk – San Francisco Sybase (SAP) – Dublin TeleNav – Santa Clara TIBCO Software – Palo Alto Trimble – Sunnyvale VMware – Palo Alto

Sports 24 Hour Fitness – San Ramon All Pro Wrestling – Hayward Bay Area Panthers – San Jose Fox Racing Shox – Scotts Valley Giro – Santa Cruz Golden State Warriors – San Francisco GoPro – San Mateo JumpSport – San Jose Kestrel USA – Santa Cruz Oakland A's – Oakland Pac-12 Conference – Walnut Creek San Francisco 49ers – Santa Clara