List of companies based in San Francisco

The following is a list of companies based in San Francisco, California. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses, based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies in 2008.

Companies currently based in San Francisco

Advertising

• 3Q Digital
• 140 Proof
• AKQA
• Duncan/Channon
• Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
• iCrossing
• Landor Associates
• Mullen
• Traction
• Flavor Group

Banks

• Bank of the Orient
• Bank of the West (BancWest)
• First Republic Bank
• UnionBanCal Corporation
• Wells Fargo

Beverages (alcoholic)

• Anchor Brewing Company
• SKYY Spirits
• Speakeasy Ales and Lagers

Beverages (non-alcoholic)

• Adina World Beat Beverages

Biotechnology and drugs

• McKesson

Broadcasting and cable TV

• KQED
• Link TV
• Northern California Public Broadcasting
• Pac-12 Network

Business services

• Ammunition Design Group
• Brightpearl
• Coursmos
• Duane Morris
• Elanex
• Gensler
• Morrison & Foerster
• Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
• Sparkpr
• XIM

Communications equipment

• Boombotix
• Riverbed Technology

Computer services

• AfterCollege
• AllBusiness.com
• AppAcademy
• Automattic
• Bebo
• Bleacher Report
• CBS Interactive
• Chegg
• Clicktime.com, Inc.
• Clinkle
• Cotap
• Craigslist
• CrowdFlower
• Digg
• Disqus
• Dropbox
• Dropcam, Inc.
• DocuSign
• Eventbrite, Inc.
• Fitbit
• Hack Reactor
• Hearsay Social
• Hired
• HubPages
• IGN Entertainment
• imgur
• Internet Archive
• Jawbone
• Joyent
• Kink.com
• Kongregate
• LiveJournal
• Lyft
• Meraki
• Mevio
• Mimecast
• ON24
• OpenDNS
• Pinterest
• Pogo.com
• Practice Fusion
• Prezi
• Quantcast
• Reddit
• Revision3
• Salesforce.com
• SAY Media
• SideCar
• Slack
• Snip.it
• Splunk
• StumbleUpon
• Talenthouse
• Technorati
• Trulia
• Twitch
• Twitter
• Uber
• Ustream
• Whiskey Media
• Wikia
• Wolfgang's Vault
• Yammer
• Yelp
• YouNoodle
• Zedo

Construction

• Bechtel
• Gensler
• Swinerton
• T. Y. Lin International
• URS

Consumer financial services

• Earnest
• Social Finance, Inc. (SoFi)
• Square

Energy

• 3Degrees

Food

• Big Heart Pet Brands
• Boudin Bakery
• Del Monte^[1]
• Diamond Foods
• Driscoll's
• Harmless Harvest
• Jack & Jason's Pancakes & Waffles
• La Boulange
• TCHO
• Traveling Spoon

Hospitals

• California Pacific Medical Center
• Dignity Health
  • Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
  • St. Mary's Medical Center

Hotels and motels

• Airbnb
• Joie de Vivre Hospitality
• Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants

Insurance (accident and health)

• Blue Shield of California
• State Compensation Insurance Fund

Insurance (property and casualty)

• Esurance

Investment services

• BV Capital
• Charles Schwab
• Liquid Realty Partners
• NFX Guild
• Savant Investment Group
• ThinkEquity LLC
• Thomas Weisel Partners
• Wells Fargo
• WR Hambrecht + Co

Motion pictures

• Dolby Laboratories
• Industrial Light & Magic
• LucasArts
• Lucasfilm

Personal and household products

• Method Products
• Native Deodorant

Public benefit

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Kiva
• The Sierra Club
• Skoll Foundation
• TechSoup.org
• Wikimedia Foundation

Publishing and printing

• Afar
• Blurb
• Chronicle Books
• Dwell
• McSweeney's
• Mother Jones
• PC World
• VIZ Media
• Wired
• XLR8R

Real estate

• Digital Realty Trust
• LiquidSpace
• LoopNet
• Pier 39
• Prologis
• Storefront

Recreational activities

• Club One
• Good.co
• Hornblower Cruises
• SHN

Resource recovery

• Recology

Resource sharing

• Getaround
• RelayRides

Retail (apparel)

• Banana Republic
• BeGood Clothing
• Everlane
• Stitch Fix
• Gap Inc.
• Gymboree
• Jessica McClintock
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• ModCloth
• Old Navy
• Tea Collection
• North Face

Retail (non-physical)

• Americana Exchange

Retail (specialty)

• Betabrand
• Cameron Hughes Wine
• Good Vibrations
• Gump's
• McRoskey Mattress Company
• One Kings Lane^[2]
• Pottery Barn
• Timbuk2
• Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
• RH
• Cost Plus World Market
• Minted
• Roost

Software and programming

• Advent Software
• AppDynamics
• BitTorrent, Inc.
• Calypso Technology
• Clarizen
• Clustrix
• FileRight
• GroundWork Inc.
• Hired
• Kx Systems
• Linden Lab
• MathCrunch
• MyTime
• New Relic
• OpenTable
• Piggybackr
• Sega of America
• VerticalResponse
• Zynga

Utilities

• Pacific Gas & Electric
• Recology

Companies formerly based in San Francisco

• Bank of America – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
• California State Automobile Association - relocated to Walnut Creek, California
• Chevron – relocated to San Ramon, California
• Crocker Bank – purchased by Wells Fargo Bank
• Esprit – relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
• Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
• Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
• Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
• Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
• Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
• Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
• Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
• Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
• Pegasus Aviation Finance Company - acquired by AWAS
• Popchips
• Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
• Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
• The Sharper Image
• Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
• Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
• Sunset Magazine – relocated to Menlo Park
• Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
• Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
• United Commercial Bank; acquired by East West Bank

See also

• List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area

References