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Top IPO companies in San Francisco

Public companies and recent post-IPO follow-on raises. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

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

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

  1. 1
    Uber· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 155.6k employees
    • Founded 2009
  2. 2
    Salesforce· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 87.7k employees
  3. 3
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 69.2k employees
    • Founded 2007
  4. 4
    Lyft· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 27.7k employees
    • Founded 2012
  5. 5
    Levi Strauss & Co.· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 16.8k employees
  6. 6
    Autodesk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 15.6k employees
    • Founded 1982
  7. 7
    Williams-Sonoma, Inc.· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 15.4k employees
    • Founded 1956
  8. 8
    Pinterest· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 13.4k employees
    • Founded 2010
  9. 9
    Sunrun· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 10.3k employees
    • Founded 2007
  10. 10
    Splunk· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 9.5k employees
    • Founded 2003
  11. 11
    Udemy· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 9.3k employees
    • Founded 2010
  12. 12
    Docusign· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 8.4k employees
    • Founded 2003
  13. 13
    Okta· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 7.2k employees
    • Founded 2009
  14. 14
    Unity· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 7.1k employees
    • Founded 2004
  15. 15
    Cloudflare· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 6.9k employees
    • Founded 2009
  16. 16
    Twilio· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 6.6k employees
    • Founded 2008
  17. 17
    SoFi· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 6.2k employees
    • Founded 2011
  18. 18
    Prologis· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 3.7k employees
    • Founded 1983
  19. 19
    TPG· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 3.1k employees
    • Founded 1992
  20. 20
    Affirm· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 3k employees
    • Founded 2012
  21. 21
    Figma· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 2.9k employees
    • Founded 2012
  22. 22
    Zynga· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 2.8k employees
    • Founded 2007
  23. 23
    Wag! Group Co.· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 2.4k employees
    • Founded 2014
  24. 24
    Doma· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 2.1k employees
    • Founded 2016
  25. 25
    hims & hers· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 2k employees
    • Founded 2017

Find engineers at IPO companies in San Francisco

IPO companies in San Francisco are some of the fastest-moving employers in the market. The list above ranks the largest IPO-stage companies headquartered in San Francisco by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 112 matching companies in our index, the density of senior engineers, designers, and founders is unusually high.

At IPO, teams tend to be small, ambitious, and on the hunt for senior talent. The companies on this list are good signals for where the San Franciscotalent market is heating up — and for which engineers and founders are about to become tomorrow’s operators.

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How this list is built

Refolk pulled IPO companies headquartered in San Francisco from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 5 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

Last refreshed: Thu, 07 May 2026 07:52:05 GMT

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