Top Private equity companies in San Francisco
Companies that have taken private-equity capital or large secondaries. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.
- StagePrivate equity
- HQSan Francisco
- Matches131
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Ranked by current headcount across Private equity companies headquartered in San Francisco. Refreshed daily.
- 1Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 24.3k employees
- Founded 2012
- 2Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 14.7k employees
- Founded 2010
- 3Samsara· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 5.4k employees
- Founded 2015
- 4Elastic· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 5k employees
- Founded 2012
- 5One Medical· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 4.4k employees
- Founded 2007
- 6Discord· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 4.3k employees
- Founded 2015
- 7Postmates by Uber· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 4.1k employees
- Founded 2011
- 8New Relic· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 3.1k employees
- Founded 2008
- 9Slack· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 3k employees
- Founded 2009
- 10MediaMint· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 2.6k employees
- Founded 2010
- 11Meltwater· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 2.6k employees
- Founded 2001
- 12Gong· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 2.5k employees
- Founded 2015
- 13HashiCorp· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 2.2k employees
- Founded 2012
- 14Taskrabbit· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.8k employees
- Founded 2008
- 15Sitecore· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 1.8k employees
- Founded 2001
- 16Turo· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.7k employees
- Founded 2009
- 17Glassdoor· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.7k employees
- Founded 2007
- 18Faire· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.5k employees
- Founded 2017
- 19Plaid· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.4k employees
- Founded 2013
- 20Delinea· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 1.3k employees
- Founded 2021
- 21Patreon· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.2k employees
- Founded 2013
- 22Cribl· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 1.1k employees
- Founded 2018
- 23EIS Ltd· San Francisco, California, United States
- Private equity
- 1k employees
- Founded 2008
- 24Amplitude· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 994 employees
- Founded 2012
- 25Omada Health· San Francisco, California, United States
- Secondary
- 931 employees
- Founded 2011
Find engineers at Private equity companies in San Francisco
Private equity companies in San Francisco are some of the fastest-moving employers in the market. The list above ranks the largest Private equity-stage companies headquartered in San Francisco by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 131 matching companies in our index, the density of senior engineers, designers, and founders is unusually high.
At Private equity, 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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