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Top SaaS companies in San Francisco

Software-as-a-service vendors selling subscription cloud software to other businesses. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

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

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

  1. 1
    Upwork· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 170.5k employees
    • Founded 2015
  2. 2
    Uber· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 155.6k employees
    • Founded 2009
  3. 3
    Salesforce· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 87.7k employees
  4. 4
    DoorDash· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 80k employees
    • Founded 2013
  5. 5
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 69.2k employees
    • Founded 2007
  6. 6
    Stealth Startup· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series A
    • 32.4k employees
    • Founded 2020
  7. 7
    Outlier· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series B
    • 27.7k employees
    • Founded 2023
  8. 8
    Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 24.3k employees
    • Founded 2012
  9. 9
    Twitch· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series C
    • 17.5k employees
    • Founded 2011
  10. 10
    Autodesk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 15.6k employees
    • Founded 1982
  11. 11
    Databricks· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Debt
    • 14.9k employees
    • Founded 2013
  12. 12
    Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 14.7k employees
    • Founded 2010
  13. 13
    Pinterest· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 13.4k employees
    • Founded 2010
  14. 14
    Railway· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series B
    • 10.7k employees
    • Founded 2020
  15. 15
    Medium· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 9.8k employees
    • Founded 2012
  16. 16
    Splunk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 9.5k employees
    • Founded 2003
  17. 17
    Docusign· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 8.4k employees
    • Founded 2003
  18. 18
    Remotasks· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 7.7k employees
    • Founded 2017
  19. 19
    Rippling· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series G
    • 7.2k employees
    • Founded 2016
  20. 20
    Okta· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 7.2k employees
    • Founded 2009
  21. 21
    Unity· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 7.1k employees
    • Founded 2004
  22. 22
    Yelp· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 7.1k employees
    • Founded 2004
  23. 23
    Y Interval· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 6.9k employees
  24. 24
    Square· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 6.8k employees
    • Founded 2009
  25. 25
    Zendesk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 6.7k employees
    • Founded 2007

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How this list is built

Refolk pulled SaaS 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.

Last refreshed: Thu, 07 May 2026 07:51:46 GMT

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