1,323 SaaS Companies in San Francisco (2026)
LeadWave's database lists 1,323 SaaS companies headquartered in San Francisco, California. Software Engineering is the most common category among them. Below are the largest, with their headcount, funding, LinkedIn and CEO.
- Companies
- 1,323
- In LeadWave's database, October 2026
- Total funding raised
- $398.1B
- Across 620 funded companies
- Median headcount
- 26
- Of 1,153 with a known headcount
- Median year founded
- 2017
- Of 1,126 with a known year
The largest SaaS companies in San Francisco
The top 30 of 1,323, 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 Stripe | stripe.com | 5,001–10,000 | 13,382 | $2.2B | John Collison | |
3 Remote | remote.com | 1,001–5,000 | 11,127 | $196M | Job van der Voort | |
4 Okta | okta.com | 1,001–5,000 | 8,669 | $1.2B | Todd McKinnon | |
5 Splunk | splunk.com | 5,001–10,000 | 8,098 | $1B | Gary Steele | |
6 DocuSign | docusign.com | 5,001–10,000 | 7,486 | $536.2M | Allan Thygesen | |
7 Twilio | twilio.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,590 | $236.2M | Jeff Lawson | |
8 Zendesk | zendesk.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,176 | $85.5M | Tom Eggemeier | |
9 OpenAI | openai.com | 1,001–5,000 | 4,500 | $334.3B | Denilson Torres | |
10 Asana | asana.com | 1,001–5,000 | 4,156 | $453.2M | Justin Rosenstein | |
11 Dropbox | dropbox.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,918 | $1.7B | Drew Houston | |
12 Optimizely | optimizely.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | $251.2M | Alexander Atzberger | |
13 The Service Source | servicesource.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | $66M | Louis Meeks | |
14 SpotOn | spoton.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Zachary Hyman | |
15 Zeta | zeta.tech | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Bhavin Turakhia | |
16 Slack | slack-corp.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,936 | $1.4B | Stewart Butterfield | |
17 Databricks | databricks.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,909 | $1.9B | Ali Ghodsi | |
18 Figma | figma.com | 501–1,000 | 2,771 | $532.9M | Dylan Field | |
19 Medallia | medallia.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,638 | $325M | Joe Tyrrell | |
20 Motive | gomotive.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,604 | $417.3M | Shoaib Makani | |
21 Substack | substack.com | 201–500 | 2,572 | $50M–100M | Chris Best | |
22 Flexport | flexport.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,551 | $1.3B | Ryan Petersen | |
23 Cloudflare | cloudflare.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,418 | $332.1M | Matthew Prince | |
24 Miro | miro.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,410 | $76.3M | Andrey K. | |
25 Anaplan | anaplan.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,271 | $299.9M | Charlie Gottdiener | |
26 Meltwater | meltwater.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,267 | $235M | Jorn Lyseggen | |
27 Writer | writer.com | 51–200 | 2,267 | — | May Habib | |
28 New Relic | newrelic.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,152 | $214.5M | Lew Cirne | |
29 Rippling | rippling.com | 501–1,000 | 2,142 | $197M | Parker Conrad | |
30 Any.do | any.do | 501–1,000 | 2,096 | $6M | Omer Perchik |
SaaS companies in San Francisco at a glance
- The largest is Salesforce, with 83,334 employees.
- 620 have disclosed funding, $398.1B in total; 124 raised $100M or more.
- Half were founded before 2017, and 26% in 2020 or later.
- Software Engineering142 · 11%
- Marketing103 · 8%
- Coding93 · 7%
- Finance81 · 6%
- Customer Support78 · 6%
- Sales75 · 6%
- Ecommerce74 · 6%
- Fintech59 · 4%
- 1–10382 · 31%
- 11–50442 · 36%
- 51–200239 · 19%
- 201–50085 · 7%
- 501–1,00037 · 3%
- 1,001–5,00037 · 3%
- 5,001–10,0005 · 0%
- 10,000+1 · 0%
- Before 200016 · 1%
- 2000–200998 · 9%
- 2010–2014282 · 25%
- 2015–2019441 · 39%
- 2020–2022215 · 19%
- 2023 or later74 · 7%
- Under $1M71 · 11%
- $1M–5M124 · 19%
- $5M–10M67 · 10%
- $10M–50M173 · 27%
- $50M–100M75 · 12%
- $100M–500M94 · 15%
- $500M–1B19 · 3%
- $1B+16 · 3%
How this list was built
A company is on this list if its headquarters, as recorded in LeadWave's database, is in San Francisco. Different spellings of the city count as one, and so do its districts: Brooklyn and Manhattan are part of New York City.
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 1,323 SaaS companies in San Francisco 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 Stripe and Remote.
OpenAI ($334.3B), Cursor ($3.4B) and Thinking Machines Lab ($3B), 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.