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Top Private equity companies in San Francisco

Companies that have taken private-equity capital or large secondaries. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

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

  1. 1
    Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 24.3k employees
    • Founded 2012
  2. 2
    Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 14.7k employees
    • Founded 2010
  3. 3
    Samsara· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 5.4k employees
    • Founded 2015
  4. 4
    Elastic· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 5k employees
    • Founded 2012
  5. 5
    One Medical· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 4.4k employees
    • Founded 2007
  6. 6
    Discord· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 4.3k employees
    • Founded 2015
  7. 7
    Postmates by Uber· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 4.1k employees
    • Founded 2011
  8. 8
    New Relic· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 3.1k employees
    • Founded 2008
  9. 9
    Slack· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 3k employees
    • Founded 2009
  10. 10
    MediaMint· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 2.6k employees
    • Founded 2010
  11. 11
    Meltwater· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 2.6k employees
    • Founded 2001
  12. 12
    Gong· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 2.5k employees
    • Founded 2015
  13. 13
    HashiCorp· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 2.2k employees
    • Founded 2012
  14. 14
    Taskrabbit· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.8k employees
    • Founded 2008
  15. 15
    Sitecore· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 1.8k employees
    • Founded 2001
  16. 16
    Turo· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.7k employees
    • Founded 2009
  17. 17
    Glassdoor· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.7k employees
    • Founded 2007
  18. 18
    Faire· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.5k employees
    • Founded 2017
  19. 19
    Plaid· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.4k employees
    • Founded 2013
  20. 20
    Delinea· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 1.3k employees
    • Founded 2021
  21. 21
    Patreon· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.2k employees
    • Founded 2013
  22. 22
    Cribl· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.1k employees
    • Founded 2018
  23. 23
    EIS Ltd· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 1k employees
    • Founded 2008
  24. 24
    Amplitude· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 994 employees
    • Founded 2012
  25. 25
    Omada 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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