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Index Ventures portfolio in San Francisco

Transatlantic venture firm with a deep bench of enterprise SaaS and fintech bets. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

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Ranked by current headcount across Index Ventures-backed companies in San Francisco. Refreshed monthly.

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    Remote· San Francisco, California, United States

    Global employment runs on Remote. Employing and paying people across borders is complex. Every country has different employment laws, tax codes, payroll rules, and compliance requirements. Getting it wrong has real legal and financial consequences.Remote is the intelligent infrastructure built to solve exactly this. One system of record for EOR, global payroll, PEO, contractor management, and compliant payments, worldwide. In-house experts in every country we operate in, infrastructure we own and run ourselves. Built to connect with any HRIS, tool, or AI agent your business already runs on.The infrastructure trusted by the world's leading HR platforms for global payroll and EOR. A regulated payments institution with owned entities operating across the world.This is not software. This is infrastructure... so the world can get to work.To learn more or book a demo, visit remote.com. To join our team, visit remote.com/careers.

    • Series C
    • 18.8k employees
    • Founded 2019
  2. 2
    Elastic· San Francisco, California, United States

    Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

    • Secondary
    • 14.2k employees
    • Founded 2012
  3. 3
    Plaid· San Francisco, California, United States

    Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey.

    • Secondary
    • 10.3k employees
    • Founded 2013
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    Notion· San Francisco, California, United States

    Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion, they're all in one place, and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. It's the all-in-one workspace for you, your team, and your whole company. We humans are toolmakers by nature, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Our team at Notion is on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.

    • Secondary
    • 7.6k employees
    • Founded 2016
  6. 5
    Zendesk· San Francisco, California, United States

    Move beyond deflection. Deliver real resolutions with self-improving AI agents that learn, adapt, and outperform, on every channel, on any platform.

    • Private equity
    • 7.5k employees
    • Founded 2007

Index Ventures portfolio companies in San Francisco

Index Ventures’s San Francisco portfolio is one of the most active recruiting pools in the market. The list above ranks Index Ventures-backed companies headquartered in San Francisco by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 111 matching companies in Refolk’s index, you can see exactly where the Index Ventures thesis has landed locally.

Index Ventures companies in San Francisco tend to attract a specific type of operator - a founder or early hire bought into both the firm’s thesis and the city’s ecosystem. That makes the engineers and designers at these companies particularly valuable signals.

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Refolk pulled companies whose disclosed Crunchbase investor list includes Index Ventures and whose HQ is in San Francisco, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 5 employees. The list refreshes monthly.

Last refreshed: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:10:09 GMT

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