The 822 SaaS Companies Ranked by Spend from San Francisco (2026)

San Francisco is home to 822 recorded SaaS and AI products headquartered here, led by OpenAI/ChatGPT (4.77% of recorded software spend). The order uses recorded software spend share in the Cledara dataset; directory inclusion does not establish current paid usage. Data as of 26 October 2026, 22:42 UTC.

What this ranking measures

Location is the recorded headquarters, which may differ from where a company was founded or where its customers operate. Vendors are ordered by trailing-12-month software spend share in the Cledara dataset. Recorded products without a current paid observation remain in the directory; inclusion alone does not establish current paid usage.

Annual rank changes use the separate global popularity rank, based on payment activity. Missing calendar endpoints stay unavailable. Founding year, employee and funding fields are recorded enrichment facts, which can be incomplete or historical. Full source data is available from the CSV and JSON download links.

The headline and leader facts describe the complete published location. Search and category selections apply to the directory and its downloads.

Top SaaS companies from San Francisco

Vendors with recorded headquarters in this location, ordered by software spend share; annual changes use the separate global payment-activity rank.
#	Product	Category	Founded	Employees	Funding
301	Brave	IT & Security	2015	51-200 employees
302	Brightback Brightback is a customer retention automation tool for SaaS and subscription businesses that helps stop SaaS churn and retain customers at scale.	Customer Success & Support	2018	Self-employed
303	Brilliant	People Ops & Talent	2012	51-200 employees
304	Bugcrowd Bugcrowd is a platform that allows organizations to collaborate with a network of ethical hackers to identify and report security vulnerabilities. It provides tools for managing cybersecurity testing and integrating identified issues into existing security systems.	IT & Security	2012	201-500 employees	$100M - $250M
305	BuildShip BuildShip is a low-code visual backend builder that enables users to create APIs, workflows, and scheduled tasks using a drag-and-drop interface, integrating AI models and various services without extensive coding.	Engineering & DevOps	2023	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
306	Builtfirst	Marketing & Growth	2020	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
307	Bunny Studio Bunny Studio is a project fulfilment platform that provide creative services such as audio, writing, voice, video, and design services. It also offers a subscription plan for regular creators and businesses to coordinate multiple projects at once.	Marketing & Growth	2021	51-200 employees
308	Business Wire	Marketing & Growth	1961	501-1,000 employees
309	ByteByteGo ByteByteGo offers resources and tools for preparing for technical interviews, focusing on algorithms, system design, and coding questions. It's designed to support individuals aiming to improve their skills for software engineering roles.	People Ops & Talent	2021	Self-employed
310	Calendarific A RESTful API that provides holiday data for over 230 countries and 3000 states, requiring an API key for requests, with limits on free usage and support for ISO-3166 format.	Collaboration & Productivity	2017	2-10 employees
311	Calm Calm is an app that helps users relax, meditate and sleep.	People Ops & Talent	2012	201-500 employees
312	camelAI camelAI provides an AI-driven analytics platform that lets users query and visualize data in natural language. It connects to databases and files, generating dashboards and insights without SQL.	Data & Analytics	2023	2-10 employees	Under $1M
313	CDP Week by Segment	Marketing & Growth	2012	501-1,000 employees
314	CFO.ai CFO.ai provides cloud-based financial planning, modeling, and forecasting software designed for business leaders and finance teams. The platform connects data models, headcount plans, and revenue drivers into interactive visual dashboards for strategic decision-making.	Finance & Accounting	2020	11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
315	Challenge Hound Challenge Hound is a platform that facilitates the creation and management of virtual challenges and races. It integrates with fitness trackers to automatically update participant progress. Users can organize events where participants log their activities, which are then tracked and displayed on leaderboards to monitor competition and accomplishments.	People Ops & Talent	2014	Self-employed
316	Channeled Channeled is a Slack-based platform that enables teams to manage customer interactions by integrating support, sales, and onboarding workflows within Slack channels. It allows users to automate tasks, route conversations, and synchronize data with tools such as CRMs, helpdesks, and project management systems.	Customer Success & Support	2021	2-10 employees
317	Charma Charma is designed to make team management easier, enabling continuous 1:1 feedback, collaborative meetings, recognition, goal tracking, and workflow management.	People Ops & Talent	2019	11-50 employees	$5M - $10M
318	Chartio	Data & Analytics		11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
319	Chatfuel Chatfuel automates customer interactions on WhatsApp, enhancing engagement through personalized responses and real-time order tracking, improving customer service efficiency.	Customer Success & Support	2015	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
320	Ciro Ciro is an AI-driven platform that automates LinkedIn prospecting by scanning profiles, qualifying leads against predefined customer personas, and extracting contact information, including phone numbers and emails. It integrates with CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot, enabling seamless data transfer.	Sales & Revenue	2022	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
321	Claid Claid.AI is an AI-powered photo enhancement tool designed for marketplaces and e-commerce platforms. It automatically enhances, optimizes, and delivers images using advanced machine learning technologies. The service includes features like automatic colour correction, resolution increase, noise reduction, and background removal, aiming to improve the quality of user-generated content on platforms.	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2020	11-50 employees
322	Clearbit Clearbit provides B2B marketing intelligence services, leveraging artificial intelligence to enrich business records and reveal buying intent from website visitors. It gathers public data, proprietary data, and unstructured information, converting it into precise, standardized datasets. The platform offers services such as scoring and routing leads in real-time, identifying high-fit leads, and pro	Sales & Revenue	2015	51-200 employees	$10M - $25M
323	Clearout Clearout is an email verification service that validates email addresses in real-time, ensuring 99% accuracy and reducing bounce rates. It supports bulk uploads and API integration.	Marketing & Growth	2017	11-50 employees
324	CleverTap CleverTap is a cloud-based customer engagement platform that ingests and analyzes user data, enabling real-time segmentation and personalized marketing across multiple channels. Requires integration with apps.	Marketing & Growth	2013	501-1,000 employees	$100M - $250M
325	Click Labs	Operations & Supply Chain	2011	501-1,000 employees
326	Climatebase	People Ops & Talent	2020	11-50 employees
327	Cline	Engineering & DevOps		11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
328	Clockwise Clockwise is a platform designed to optimize time management and productivity for individuals and teams within businesses. It integrates with calendar applications to analyze schedules and identify opportunities for focused work time. The platform automatically schedules "Focus Time" blocks, during which users can work without interruptions. It also provides insights and recommendations to help us	Collaboration & Productivity	2016	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
329	Cloudflare	Engineering & DevOps	2009	1,001-5,000 employees
330	CloudHQ CloudHQ is a platform that offers a range of productivity tools to enhance Gmail user experience. The product aims to solve common business problems related to data loss, collaboration, and email organization.	Collaboration & Productivity	2011	11-50 employees
331	CodeAnt AI CodeAnt AI is an AI-powered code quality and security platform that helps engineering teams review code, detect vulnerabilities, and improve maintainability across repositories and development workflows. It provides automated analysis for pull requests and codebases to support faster, safer software delivery.	Engineering & DevOps	2023	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
332	CodeSignal CodeSignal provides technical assessment and skills evaluation tools for hiring and workforce development. The platform enables companies to test coding skills, conduct technical interviews, and measure employee proficiency through online assessments and learning modules.	People Ops & Talent		51-200 employees	$50M - $100M
333	CommandBar CommandBar is an AI-powered user assistance platform focused on improving user onboarding and retention for products.	Customer Success & Support	2021	11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
334	Composio Composio is a platform that allows AI agents and language models to connect with external software tools and services. It manages authentication and enables agents to perform actions across different systems.	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2023	11-50 employees
335	Connecty Connecty AI is a cloud platform that connects to enterprise data sources and generates insights by interpreting business questions against unified contextual data. The system produces analytic results and recommended actions by applying autonomous reasoning over linked data.	Data & Analytics	2023	2-10 employees	$1M - $5M
336	Conveyor Conveyor is a customer trust platform designed to simplify the process of building trust through data security. It allows customers and vendors to share security documents, answer questionnaires, and access security information via a streamlined platform, thus aiming to enhance trustworthiness and speed up sales and engagement processes.	Legal, Risk & Compliance	2021	11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
337	Convoy Convoy provides a webhook gateway for sending and receiving events. The platform includes tools for managing endpoint security, payload signing, and automatic retries to improve the reliability of API and webhook integrations.	Engineering & DevOps		2-10 employees	$1M - $5M
338	Cooby Cooby is a platform that provides tools for managing and organizing communication within messaging apps, with a focus on WhatsApp. It allows users to categorize conversations, set reminders, and manage follow-ups within the messaging interface. The platform aims to enable users to organize chats into different categories and track conversations. Cooby integrates with existing messaging apps, allow	Sales & Revenue	2022	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
339	Copper Copper is a customer relationship management (CRM) software that integrates with Google Workspace to manage interactions with customers and prospects. It includes features for organizing contacts, automating tasks, and tracking deals to support sales processes and customer engagement. The platform is designed for ease of use and aims to reduce manual data entry while improving productivity.	Sales & Revenue	2012	51-200 employees	$10M - $25M
340	COR COR is a platform for professional services that provides project management, automated time tracking, and profitability analysis. It helps teams manage workloads, track actual vs. estimated hours, and analyze project margins.	Collaboration & Productivity	2017	51-200 employees
341	Cortex Cortex is a software platform designed as an internal developer portal to help engineering teams manage and improve their software development processes. It integrates with a wide range of tools to provide a unified view of software ownership, quality, and operational standards.	Engineering & DevOps	2019	51-200 employees	$50M - $100M
342	Courier Courier is a platform that helps businesses streamline and automate their notifications and messaging processes, allowing them to send messages across various channels.	Engineering & DevOps	2019	11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
343	Crosschq Crosschq is a platform that offers tools to facilitate the collection, analysis, and validation of candidate references.	People Ops & Talent	2018	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
344	Dacast Dacast is a video streaming platform that provides live and on-demand video hosting, transcoding, monetization, and analytics, supporting various video formats and devices.	Marketing & Growth	2008	11-50 employees
345	Dagster Dagster Cloud is an enterprise orchestration platform focusing on developer experience. It supports serverless or hybrid deployments and aims to simplify data pipeline building and operations, reducing downtime and operational burdens. It's designed for scalability and supports a range of deployment configurations.	Data & Analytics	2018	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
346	Dashworks Dashworks is a platform that offers a unified search solution across an organization's internal documents, messages, and emails. It integrates with company applications to allow users to access and organize internal knowledge from a single point.	Collaboration & Productivity	2021	11-50 employees
347	DataBees	Sales & Revenue	2016	201-500 employees
348	Dataloader.io Dataloader.io is a data integration platform designed to facilitate the import and export of data to and from various cloud applications. It is commonly utilized in conjunction with Salesforce to perform data-loading tasks. The platform offers users the capability to manage and transfer data between different systems, enabling streamlined and efficient data integration processes.	Data & Analytics	2014	5,001-10,000 employees
349	Datameer Datameer is an analytic platform where you can manipulate data with SQL code or no-code interface.	Data & Analytics	2009	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
350	Decart Decart provides a platform for the development and deployment of real-time world models and live video transformation. The software enables the creation of interactive generative environments and frame-level edits to video streams during live interaction.	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2023	51-200 employees	$100M - $250M
351	DeepAI DeepAI offers a suite of tools that use AI.	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2017	2-10 employees
352	Demand Curve	Marketing & Growth	2017	11-50 employees
353	Digits Digits is an accounting platform that connects to financial accounts, credit cards and expense accounts to automate transaction import, categorization, bookkeeping, invoicing, bill pay, and financial reporting.	Finance & Accounting	2018	51-200 employees	$50M - $100M
354	Disqus Disqus is a platform that assists publishers in connecting with and keeping users engaged while also enabling them to generate revenue. The platform offers customizable tools that improve website comment systems, administrative and moderation capabilities, and community functions.	Customer Success & Support	2007	11-50 employees	$10M - $25M
355	Dolby.io Dolby.io provides a set of APIs and tools designed to enhance audio and video experiences in applications and services. The platform offers solutions for media processing, improving sound quality, and real-time communication, leveraging Dolby's know-how in audio technology.	Engineering & DevOps	2021	1,001-5,000 employees
356	Dover	People Ops & Talent	2019	51-200 employees	$10M - $25M
357	Dub Dub is an open-source link management tool that enables marketing teams to create, share, and track short links.	Marketing & Growth	2024	11-50 employees
358	Duende Duende Software provides identity and access-management software for .NET applications, including authentication and token-based security frameworks. The company licenses commercial components and offers related support and consulting services.	IT & Security	2020	11-50 employees
359	Ease Benefits management platform for employees.	People Ops & Talent	2015	201-500 employees	$25M - $50M
360	Eden Eden is a platform offering tools to manage hybrid workplaces, including desk booking, room scheduling, visitor management, deliveries, and internal ticketing.	IT & Security	2020	11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
361	Elegant Themes	Marketing & Growth	2008	51-200 employees
362	Elementl Elementl is a software company dedicated to empowering organizations to build productive and scalable data platforms.	Data & Analytics	2018	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
363	Elements.cloud Elements.cloud is a platform that provides tools and features for process documentation, visualization, and management.	Collaboration & Productivity	2014	11-50 employees
364	ELSA Speak ELSA Speak is an AI-powered language learning platform that provides speech recognition and pronunciation analysis to help users improve their English-speaking skills.	People Ops & Talent		51-200 employees	$100M - $250M
365	Email Love Email Love provides a platform that tracks real-world email campaigns from thousands of brands and allows users to view full customer journey sequences, export email HTML, and analyse industry-wide email sending trends. The platform enables marketing, design and development teams to curate, study and benchmark email programmes and creative strategies from competitors and peers.	Collaboration & Productivity	2021	2-10 employees
366	Enable Us Enable Us is a buyer-centric enablement platform that provides different tools such as content management, digital sales rooms, customer references and more.	Sales & Revenue	2020	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
367	Envoy Envoy is a provider of workplace management software. Its main products include solutions for visitor management, workplace optimization, and hot desk booking, facilitating a secure and efficient hybrid work environment.	People Ops & Talent	2013	201-500 employees	$100M - $250M
368	Eventbrite	Marketing & Growth		501-1,000 employees	$100M - $250M
369	Explo Explo is a low-code analytics platform that enables users to create customizable dashboards and reports from relational databases, supporting real-time data insights and self-service analytics.	Data & Analytics	2019	11-50 employees	$10M - $25M
370	Exploding Topics Exploding Topics analyzes millions of searches, conversations and mentions across the internet.	Marketing & Growth	2020	2-10 employees
371	Extruct AI Extruct AI is an AI-powered B2B prospecting and data intelligence platform that helps teams discover companies, enrich lead data, and automate go-to-market research workflows. It is used to identify target accounts and streamline sales and revenue operations.	Sales & Revenue	2024	2-10 employees	Under $1M
372	Featherless AI	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2023	2-10 employees	$5M - $10M
373	Feathery Feathery is a platform that enables users to create online forms based on text prompts. Users can design pixel-perfect user interfaces, implement automation logic, and connect with various systems and documents.	Marketing & Growth	2021	11-50 employees	$1M - $5M
374	Fig Fig adds visual apps, shortcuts, and autocomplete to your terminal.	Engineering & DevOps	2020	2-10 employees	$1M - $5M
375	Findr Findr is an AI-powered workplace search tool designed for enterprises, allowing users to search across all their apps simultaneously. It aims to save time by eliminating the need to ask for links or recreate existing documents, providing instant access to necessary information and files. Additionally, Findr offers interactive features like chatting with the AI to receive answers, generate summarie	Collaboration & Productivity	2023	2-10 employees
376	FinOps	Finance & Accounting	2019	11-50 employees
377	Firebender Firebender is an AI-powered plugin for Android Studio that integrates directly into JetBrains IDEs. It enables code generation, inline edits, and terminal command execution using models like OpenAI’s GPT-4. The tool supports Kotlin, Java, and Jetpack Compose.	Engineering & DevOps	2024	2-10 employees
378	Firefox	IT & Security	2005	501-1,000 employees	Under $1M
379	Flagright Flagright provides an AML/transaction monitoring and fraud prevention platform that helps fintechs and financial institutions detect financial crime in real time and automate compliance workflows. It offers rule engines, machine learning models, and orchestration tools to manage sanctions, KYC, and suspicious activity reporting.	Legal, Risk & Compliance	2021	51-200 employees	$5M - $10M
380	FleetDM FleetDM provides an open-source platform for managing endpoints, including device management across operating systems such as macOS, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS. The platform aims to consolidate device management by offering features for security audits, configuration changes, and facilitating zero trust access frameworks.	IT & Security	2020	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
381	Flickr Flickr is a platform for uploading, sharing, and discovering photos and videos, catering to photographers and visual content creators. It provides tools for managing and organizing digital images, along with community features for interaction and engagement among users. The service offers different levels of access and storage based on subscription models.	Marketing & Growth	2004	51-200 employees
382	FlowiseAI FlowiseAI is an open-source platform that allows users to build and orchestrate AI agents and large language model (LLM) workflows using a visual, drag-and-drop interface rather than complex code.	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2023	2-10 employees	Under $1M
383	Flux.ai Flux.ai is a web-based electronic design automation (EDA) platform that integrates AI assistance for printed circuit board (PCB) design. It addresses challenges in PCB development by automating tasks such as component selection, layout routing, and design validation.	Engineering & DevOps	2019	11-50 employees
384	Foqal Foqal is an operational support platform that automates ticketing, approvals, and request management natively inside communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. The platform captures incoming messages, uses artificial intelligence to deflect routine questions, and routes complex workflows to cross-functional operational queues.	Customer Success & Support	2022	2-10 employees
385	FormKeep FormKeep is an online form backend that captures submissions, integrates with over 2000 apps, and sends notifications via email or Slack.	Customer Success & Support	2010	2-10 employees
386	FOSSA FOSSA is a platform that provides open source vulnerability management and license compliance solutions. It automates dependency scanning, vulnerability detection, and compliance reporting, helping organizations manage security risks and legal obligations associated with open source software use.	IT & Security	2015	51-200 employees	$5M - $10M
387	Foundersuite Foundersuite is a cloud-based solution designed to help investment bankers, startups, entrepreneurs, incubators and growth companies manage processes for the entire fundraising lifecycle.	Sales & Revenue	2015	11-50 employees	$10M - $25M
388	Freshmail Freshmail is a platform that offers email marketing services for businesses.	Marketing & Growth	2010	51-200 employees
389	Freshpaint Freshpaint is a no-code customer data platform that detects customer clicks and actions on the user's site to then send historical and future data to any tool in the tech stack.	Data & Analytics	2019	51-200 employees	$25M - $50M
390	FriendliAI FriendliAI is a platform that provides cloud-accessible services for deploying, scaling, and serving large language models and generative AI applications through APIs and endpoints. The platform handles model inference workloads and integration so teams can run AI models without managing the underlying infrastructure.	AI Platforms & Model Ops	2021	11-50 employees	$25M - $50M
391	Front App	Customer Success & Support		501-1,000 employees	$50M - $100M
392	G Merge Plus G Merge Plus is a SaaS product designed for Gmail and G Gsuite users, providing mail merge and document merge capabilities. This tool accelerates workflow by automating the generation of personalized documents in multiple formats, including PDF, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and email.	Collaboration & Productivity	2015	2-10 employees
393	Galileo AI Galileo AI is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to convert text or images into user interface designs. It automates the process of UI creation, allowing users to generate design elements quickly and efficiently from textual descriptions or visual inputs.	Marketing & Growth	2022	2-10 employees	$1M - $5M
394	GC AI GC AI provides legal professionals with an automated environment for contract review and document drafting through integrated artificial intelligence models. This tool generates legal guidance and citations to assist users with research and commercial redlining directly within standard productivity software.	Legal, Risk & Compliance	2023	51-200 employees	$10M - $25M
395	General Translation General Translation is a web platform that provides automated translation and localization for application user interfaces and content by integrating with development workflows and libraries. The system connects to codebases and generates translated content, manages language files, and serves localized text through its services.	Engineering & DevOps		2-10 employees
396	GetFeedback GetFeedback helps companies to understand customer experience by providing a software to create branded surveys.	Customer Success & Support	2013	11-50 employees
397	GetProven Proven is a vendor management platform for VC and PE firms, enabling portfolio companies to connect with pre-vetted vendors, track savings, and manage perks efficiently.	Operations & Supply Chain	2021	11-50 employees	Under $1M
398	GiftRocket	Marketing & Growth	2010	2-10 employees
399	GigaReels GigaReels provides an automated video generation platform to create viral short-form content for social media. The tool uses artificial intelligence to produce brainrot-style videos, educational clips, and user-generated content for platforms like TikTok and Instagram.	Marketing & Growth	2022	51-200 employees	$10M - $25M
400	Glassdoor	People Ops & Talent	2007	501-1,000 employees

San Francisco startups by size and funding

The largest SaaS company from San Francisco by headcount is Upwork (501-1,000 employees).

519 of 822 have disclosed funding, topped by OpenAI/ChatGPT ($250M+).

The newest entrant is LIM (founded 2025).

What San Francisco startups build

Engineering & DevOps 168
Marketing & Growth 146
Collaboration & Productivity 94
AI Platforms & Model Ops 67
Data & Analytics 62
Sales & Revenue 61
People Ops & Talent 52
IT & Security 48
Customer Success & Support 47
Finance & Accounting 30
Operations & Supply Chain 24
Legal, Risk & Compliance 19
Other 4

San Francisco vs the United States

San Francisco accounts for 23% of the 3,551 recorded SaaS products headquartered in the United States. See the full United States ranking →

Frequently asked questions

Which SaaS vendors lead the San Francisco spend ranking?

OpenAI/ChatGPT, Cursor and GitHub are the leading SaaS products headquartered in San Francisco, ordered by recorded software spend share in the Cledara dataset. Last updated 26 October 2026, 22:42 UTC.

How many SaaS companies are based in San Francisco?

822 SaaS and AI products have recorded headquarters in San Francisco in this directory. Products without current paid observations remain included. This is a Cledara dataset count, not a census of local companies.

Which San Francisco vendors gained payment-activity rank?

LIM and Sphere show the strongest global payment-activity rank gains among vendors headquartered in San Francisco over three calendar months.

How is this different from other San Francisco startup lists?

This directory groups vendors by recorded headquarters and orders them by trailing-12-month software spend share in Cledara's customer dataset. The annual change column uses the separate global payment-activity rank. Neither measure is a distinct-customer adoption percentage.