2,976 SaaS Companies in California (2026)
LeadWave's database lists 2,976 SaaS companies headquartered in California, with the most in San Francisco. Software Engineering is the most common category among them. Below are the largest, with their headcount, funding, LinkedIn and CEO.
- Companies
- 2,976
- In LeadWave's database, October 2026
- Total funding raised
- $508.5B
- Across 1,390 funded companies
- Median headcount
- 31
- Of 2,407 with a known headcount
- Median year founded
- 2015
- Of 2,627 with a known year
The largest SaaS companies in California
The top 30 of 2,976, strongest matches first, then by size. Headcount is the latest known figure.
| Company | Website | Employees | Headcount | Funding | CEO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Salesforce | salesforce.com | 10,000+ | 83,334 | $65.4M | Marc Benioff | |
2 ServiceNow | servicenow.com | 10,000+ | 17,751 | $83.7M | Bill McDermott | |
3 Workday | workday.com | 10,000+ | 15,517 | $230.6M | Aneel Bhusri | |
4 Micro Focus | microfocus.com | 10,000+ | — | $186M | Leon Powe | |
5 Accretive | r1rcm.com | 10,000+ | — | $1M | Hank Reeves | |
6 Stripe | stripe.com | 5,001–10,000 | 13,382 | $2.2B | John Collison | |
7 Remote | remote.com | 1,001–5,000 | 11,127 | $196M | Job van der Voort | |
8 Zoom | zoom.us | 5,001–10,000 | 10,500 | $146M | Eric Yuan | |
9 Okta | okta.com | 1,001–5,000 | 8,669 | $1.2B | Todd McKinnon | |
10 Splunk | splunk.com | 5,001–10,000 | 8,098 | $1B | Gary Steele | |
11 Freshworks | freshworks.com | 5,001–10,000 | 7,650 | $484M | Girish Mathrubootham | |
12 Veritas | veritas.com | 5,001–10,000 | — | — | Greg Hughes | |
13 DocuSign | docusign.com | 5,001–10,000 | 7,486 | $536.2M | Allan Thygesen | |
14 Twilio | twilio.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,590 | $236.2M | Jeff Lawson | |
15 Anduril | anduril.com | — | 6,438 | — | Brian Schimpf | |
16 [24]7.ai | 247-inc.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,378 | $22M | PV Kannan | |
17 NetSuite | netsuite.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,271 | $157.8M | Evan Goldberg | |
18 Zendesk | zendesk.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,176 | $85.5M | Tom Eggemeier | |
19 Veeva | veeva.com | 5,001–10,000 | 5,405 | $7M | Peter Gassner | |
20 OpenAI | openai.com | 1,001–5,000 | 4,500 | $334.3B | Denilson Torres | |
21 Asana | asana.com | 1,001–5,000 | 4,156 | $453.2M | Justin Rosenstein | |
22 Dropbox | dropbox.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,918 | $1.7B | Drew Houston | |
23 Proofpoint | proofpoint.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,836 | $85.5M | Sumit Dhawan | |
24 PowerSchool | powerschool.com | 11–50 | 3,600 | $31.5M | Antonio Pietri | |
25 Box | box.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,301 | $1.1B | Aaron Levie | |
26 xAI | x.ai | 1,001–5,000 | 3,200 | $49.3B | Hiroki Niizeki | |
27 Coursera | coursera.org | 1,001–5,000 | 3,001 | $444.9M | Jeff Maggioncalda | |
28 Automation Anywhere | automationanywhere.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | $852.7M | Neeti Mehta Shukla | |
29 Procore | procore.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | $650M | Tooey Courtemanche | |
30 Optimizely | optimizely.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | $251.2M | Alexander Atzberger |
SaaS companies in California at a glance
- San Francisco is home to 44% of them (1,323 companies).
- The largest is Salesforce, with 83,334 employees.
- 1,390 have disclosed funding, $508.5B in total; 258 raised $100M or more.
- Half were founded before 2015, and 18% in 2020 or later.
- San Francisco1,323 · 44%
- Los Angeles193 · 6%
- Palo Alto165 · 6%
- San Diego113 · 4%
- San Jose102 · 3%
- Mountain View85 · 3%
- Software Engineering261 · 9%
- Marketing230 · 8%
- Finance197 · 7%
- Ecommerce180 · 6%
- Customer Support176 · 6%
- Sales155 · 5%
- Coding146 · 5%
- Fintech138 · 5%
- 1–10804 · 28%
- 11–501,053 · 37%
- 51–200602 · 21%
- 201–500222 · 8%
- 501–1,00082 · 3%
- 1,001–5,00072 · 3%
- 5,001–10,00011 · 0%
- 10,000+5 · 0%
- Before 200077 · 3%
- 2000–2009356 · 14%
- 2010–2014696 · 26%
- 2015–20191,018 · 39%
- 2020–2022382 · 15%
- 2023 or later98 · 4%
- Under $1M183 · 13%
- $1M–5M277 · 20%
- $5M–10M146 · 10%
- $10M–50M398 · 28%
- $50M–100M151 · 11%
- $100M–500M209 · 15%
- $500M–1B33 · 2%
- $1B+23 · 2%
How this list was built
A company is on this list if its headquarters, as recorded in LeadWave's database, is in California. The state comes from the company's HQ city or address.
The data comes from LeadWave's database of SaaS and AI companies, last updated in October 2026. Companies that share a website are counted once. Headcount, funding and CEO come from public sources, so some fields are blank for smaller companies.
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Frequently asked questions
LeadWave's database lists 2,976 SaaS companies in California as of October 2026. This page shows the 30 largest; the full list, with CEO contacts, is part of our 15,000+ SaaS companies list.
By headcount, Salesforce, with 83,334 employees, followed by ServiceNow and Workday.
San Francisco, with 1,323 of the 2,976 companies whose city we know, ahead of Los Angeles (193).
OpenAI ($334.3B), xAI ($49.3B) and Safe Superintelligence ($8B), by total disclosed funding.
LeadWave's SaaS companies list covers 15,000+ companies and 16,000+ CEOs, with verified CEO emails, LinkedIn profiles, headcount and funding in one CSV. It's on the List of SaaS Companies page.