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Top Developer tools companies in San Francisco

IDEs, runtimes, frameworks, and platforms built primarily for engineers. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

Built from a search like: “Top Developer tools companies in San Francisco”

Ranked by current headcount across Developer tools companies headquartered in San Francisco. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Upwork· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 170.5k employees
    • Founded 2015
  2. 2
    Salesforce· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 87.7k employees
  3. 3
    DoorDash· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 80k employees
    • Founded 2013
  4. 4
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 69.2k employees
    • Founded 2007
  5. 5
    Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 24.3k employees
    • Founded 2012
  6. 6
    Twitch· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series C
    • 17.5k employees
    • Founded 2011
  7. 7
    Autodesk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 15.6k employees
    • Founded 1982
  8. 8
    Databricks· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Debt
    • 14.9k employees
    • Founded 2013
  9. 9
    Pinterest· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 13.4k employees
    • Founded 2010
  10. 10
    Railway· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series B
    • 10.7k employees
    • Founded 2020
  11. 11
    Splunk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 9.5k employees
    • Founded 2003
  12. 12
    Docusign· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 8.4k employees
    • Founded 2003
  13. 13
    Rippling· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series G
    • 7.2k employees
    • Founded 2016
  14. 14
    Okta· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 7.2k employees
    • Founded 2009
  15. 15
    Unity· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 7.1k employees
    • Founded 2004
  16. 16
    Yelp· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 7.1k employees
    • Founded 2004
  17. 17
    Square· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 6.8k employees
    • Founded 2009
  18. 18
    Zendesk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 6.7k employees
    • Founded 2007
  19. 19
    Twilio· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 6.6k employees
    • Founded 2008
  20. 20
    Scale AI· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Corporate
    • 6.5k employees
    • Founded 2016
  21. 21
    Handshake· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series F
    • 6.3k employees
    • Founded 2014
  22. 22
    Motive· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 6.1k employees
    • Founded 2013
  23. 23
    GitHub· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series B
    • 6k employees
    • Founded 2008
  24. 24
    Notion· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 5.7k employees
    • Founded 2016
  25. 25
    Samsara· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 5.4k employees
    • Founded 2015

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Refolk pulled Developer tools companies headquartered in San Francisco from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 10 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

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