The 32 SaaS Companies Ranked by Spend from San Mateo (2026)
San Mateo is home to 32 recorded SaaS and AI products headquartered here, led by Freshworks (0.25% 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 .
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 Mateo
| # | Product | Category | Founded | Employees | Funding | 12-mo activity rank change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Freshworks Freshworks is a cloud-based business that provides customer engagement software. The company offers software such as customer service products, information technology service products and customer relationship management products. | Customer Success & Support | 2010 | 1,001-5,000 employees | $50M - $100M | -18 |
| 2 |  SurveyMonkey SurveyMonkey is a platform that offers online survey tools for businesses. SurveyMonkey allows companies to collect data-driven insights through the creation and distribution of surveys. The product is versatile and can be used by different industries and roles, including healthcare, education, technology, marketing, and human resources. Some of the common use cases for SurveyMonkey include online | Customer Success & Support | 1999 | 1,001-5,000 employees | -16 | |
| 3 |  SendBird SendBird is a customizable messaging SDK and chat API that enables businesses to offer in-app messaging for their mobile, web, and consumer applications. | Customer Success & Support | 2013 | 201-500 employees | +120 | |
| 4 |  OneSignal OneSignal is a customer messaging and engagement platform. It provides a solution for push notifications, email, SMS, and in-app messaging channels. The platform offers segmentation, analytics, automated messaging, and personalization to create meaningful customer connections. | Legal, Risk & Compliance | 2014 | 51-200 employees | -40 | |
| 5 |  Neo4j Neo4j is a graph database management system that specializes in storing and processing graph data. It is designed to handle complex and highly interconnected data structures, making it well-suited for applications where relationships between data points are crucial. Key features of Neo4j include a property graph data model, the Cypher query language for expressive graph queries, scalability option | Data & Analytics | 2007 | 501-1,000 employees | $100M - $250M | +503 |
| 6 |  Chartmetric Chartmetric is a music data analytics platform that tracks streaming, social, and live performance metrics for over 9 million artists. It provides insights into audience demographics, playlist adds, chart performance, tour dates, and sync placements across various platforms. | Data & Analytics | 2015 | 11-50 employees | +422 | |
| 7 |  DataFeedWatch DataFeedWatch is a feed management software that helps eCommerce brands, retailers, and digital agencies optimize data feeds for various sales channels to improve their online advertising performance. | Marketing & Growth | 2012 | 51-200 employees | $1M - $5M | +392 |
| 8 |  Eraser Eraser provides a platform for engineering teams to create and manage technical documentation and diagrams. The tool allows engineering teams to maintain documentation with version control, enables collaborative editing, and integrates with external services. The primary focus is on diagramming and document handling within a cloud-based environment.
| Collaboration & Productivity | 2020 | 11-50 employees | $1M - $5M | +339 |
| 9 |  Parasail Parasail provides managed cloud access to specialized graphic processing unit compute infrastructure and programming interfaces for deployed artificial intelligence applications. The web-hosted dashboard allows users to submit serverless machine learning inference workloads, run large language model pipelines, and track compute resource utilization across scalable cloud clusters. | AI Platforms & Model Ops | 2023 | 11-50 employees | $10M - $25M | |
| 10 |  Wufoo Wufoo is a platform that enables users to create online forms, surveys, and event registrations quickly. | Customer Success & Support | 2006 | 1,001-5,000 employees | +472 | |
| 11 |  Guidewire Guidewire offers a suite of software solutions for the property and casualty insurance industry. Their products are designed to modernize various aspects of insurance operations, including underwriting, policy administration, and claims management. It aims to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and improve customer experiences in the insurance sector. | Operations & Supply Chain | 2001 | 1,001-5,000 employees | $250M+ | |
| 12 |  Hightail Hightail is a collaboration software that facilitates creative reviews and asset management. The platform allows teams to share files, collect feedback, manage projects, and approve content in one centralized location. Features include real-time conversations, task assignments, and version control. | Collaboration & Productivity | 2004 | 10,001+ employees | ||
| 13 |  Konnectify Konnectify is a no-code integration and automation platform that lets users connect multiple apps and build workflows to move data and trigger actions across systems. It offers both a standalone iPaaS and an embedded iPaaS for embedding integrations within a SaaS product. | Operations & Supply Chain | 2021 | 11-50 employees | Under $1M | |
| 14 |  Leapfin Leapfin is a revenue accounting automation platform that ingests transaction data from billing, payment, CRM, and other systems, unifies that data into a consistent format, and generates GAAP-ready financial records for revenue recognition, reconciliation, and reporting. The platform connects operational financial data with accounting workflows to enable companies to close books, explore revenue d | Finance & Accounting | 2015 | 11-50 employees | $5M - $10M | |
| 15 |  Limnu Limnu is an online whiteboarding app that allows users to draw on virtual whiteboards and invite others to collaborate. | Collaboration & Productivity | 2012 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 16 |  Observe, Inc. Observe, Inc. is a platform offering The Observability Cloud, designed for engineers to troubleshoot distributed applications. The platform is capable of handling over 1 PB/day of data with sub-second latency. | Engineering & DevOps | 2017 | 201-500 employees | $250M+ | |
| 17 |  PersistIQ PersistIQ is a sales outreach platform that automates prospecting, email outreach, calls, tasks, and social selling. | Sales & Revenue | 2015 | 11-50 employees | $1M - $5M | |
| 18 |  PlugBear PlugBear is a platform that allows users to integrate artificial intelligence into their applications. It connects AI models to applications, enabling automation and functionality improvements. | AI Platforms & Model Ops | 2023 | 2-10 employees | Under $1M | |
| 19 |  Preset Preset is a platform that focuses on data visualization and dashboard creation. It provides tools and solutions aimed at simplifying the process of building and sharing data visualizations. The platform is designed to address the needs of business intelligence and analytics by offering features that facilitate the creation and sharing of visual representations of data. | Data & Analytics | 2019 | 51-200 employees | $25M - $50M | |
| 20 |  Product Signals Product Signals is a product backlog platform that enables teams to collect and manage product feedback from various departments, including Customer Success and Sales. It offers features such as fast search, data synchronization with CRM systems like Salesforce and HubSpot, and integration with tools like Jira and Slack. | Customer Success & Support | 2020 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 21 |  Remote Interview Remote Interview is a developer recruiting platform. | People Ops & Talent | 2015 | 2-10 employees | ||
| 22 | Roblox | Marketing & Growth | 2004 | 1,001-5,000 employees | $250M+ | |
| 23 |  Rockset Rockset is a cloud-native search and analytics database that empowers users to build real-time analytics applications at scale. With its real-time indexing capabilities and full-featured SQL support for JSON, time series, geospatial, and vector data, Rockset offers a powerful solution for organizations seeking to perform advanced analytics and search operations in the cloud. | Data & Analytics | 2016 | 51-200 employees | $25M - $50M | |
| 24 |  Runbear Runbear provides software that connects communication platforms such as Slack or Microsoft Teams to large language model systems. The platform handles message forwarding between those tools and the connected AI model. | AI Platforms & Model Ops | 2023 | 2-10 employees | Under $1M | |
| 25 |  SnapLogic SnapLogic is an enterprise integration platform (iPaaS) that connects applications, data, and APIs across cloud and on-premises environments using pre-built connectors ('Snaps') and visual pipelines for data movement and automation. | Data & Analytics | 2006 | 201-500 employees | $100M - $250M | |
| 26 |  Synadia Synadia is a platform that provides a suite of tools for managing, securing, and observing NATS deployments across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. It offers components such as the Control Plane for user and account management, JetStream for data persistence, and Workloads for deploying distributed compute tasks, all accessible via a unified interface or API. | Engineering & DevOps | 2017 | 51-200 employees | $25M - $50M | |
| 27 |  Typecast Typecast is a platform that offers tools for generating and customizing AI-generated voiceovers. It enables users to create realistic voice recordings for various applications, including videos, podcasts, and virtual assistants. | Marketing & Growth | 2017 | 51-200 employees | ||
| 28 |  UXPressia UXPressia is a customer journey mapping tool integrates with web analytics tools and supports embed code from dozens of apps. | Customer Success & Support | 2015 | 11-50 employees | ||
| 29 |  Veryfi Veryfi is a tool to extract data from receipts, invoices and other financial documents. | Finance & Accounting | 2017 | 51-200 employees | $10M - $25M | |
| 30 |  Vyond Vyond is a video animation software that helps businesses create animated videos for various purposes such as training, marketing, and internal communications. Its main products include Vyond Go, an AI-powered script and video creator, and Vyond Studio, a drag-and-drop video creation and editing platform. | Marketing & Growth | 2007 | 51-200 employees | $50M - $100M | |
| 31 |  Workona Workona is a browser-based workspace management tool that organizes tabs into separate spaces for each project. It provides features like autosaving, cloud backups, and device synchronization. | Collaboration & Productivity | 2017 | 11-50 employees | $5M - $10M | |
| 32 | Officium Labs | Customer Success & Support | 201-500 employees |
San Mateo startups by size and funding
The largest SaaS company from San Mateo by headcount is Freshworks (1,001-5,000 employees).
20 of 32 have disclosed funding, topped by Guidewire ($250M+).
The newest entrant is Parasail (founded 2023).
What San Mateo startups build
- Customer Success & Support 7
- Data & Analytics 5
- Marketing & Growth 4
- Collaboration & Productivity 4
- AI Platforms & Model Ops 3
- Operations & Supply Chain 2
- Finance & Accounting 2
- Engineering & DevOps 2
- Legal, Risk & Compliance 1
- Sales & Revenue 1
- People Ops & Talent 1
San Mateo vs the United States
San Mateo accounts for 1% 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 Mateo spend ranking?
Freshworks, SurveyMonkey and SendBird are the leading SaaS products headquartered in San Mateo, ordered by recorded software spend share in the Cledara dataset. Last updated 26 October 2026, 22:43 UTC.
How many SaaS companies are based in San Mateo?
32 SaaS and AI products have recorded headquarters in San Mateo in this directory. Products without current paid observations remain included. This is a Cledara dataset count, not a census of local companies.
Which San Mateo vendors gained payment-activity rank?
Wufoo and Chartmetric show the strongest global payment-activity rank gains among vendors headquartered in San Mateo over three calendar months.
How is this different from other San Mateo 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.