Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Apps companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Apps industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top San Francisco Apps Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
DoorDash
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DoorDash is a food delivery platform that connects customers with local and national businesses.
IRL
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IRL App is a social planning application that keeps users connected with each other.
Lime
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Lime helps people move around their cities in an affordable and convenient way while eliminating their carbon footprint.
Nextdoor
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Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you.
Chipper Cash
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Chipper Cash is a fintech platform that offers mobile, cross-border money transfer services.
HoneyBook
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HoneyBook is a business management platform creating tools to help creative entrepreneurs run their business on their own terms.
Coda
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Coda is a new document that brings words, data, and teams together.
Dialpad
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Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that turns conversations into opportunities and helps teams make smart calls.
Uber
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Uber develops, markets, and operates a ride-sharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request.
Calm
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Calm offers a global health and wellness brand application designed to help its users meditate and relax.
Fitbit
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Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Twilio
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Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
Gigster
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Gigster is the first team intelligence engine, enabling software development teams to achieve 30% higher efficiency.
One Medical
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One Medical is a members-only technology platform offering an array of concierge medical services.
RevenueCat
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RevenueCat is a mobile subscription toolkit that makes it easy to build and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.
Unity Technologies
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Unity Technologies provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Copper
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Copper offers customer relationship management solutions for companies that use Google applications.
Grammarly
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Grammarly’s digital writing assistant helps people write more clearly and effectively.
Magic
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Magic provides a 24/7 SMS based on-demand personal assistant service.
Sensor Tower
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Sensor Tower provides market intelligence and analytics for the mobile app economy through their software suite.
Doximity
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Doximity is the leading digital platform for medical professionals
Intercom
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Conversational Relationship Platform helping businesses build customer relationships through personalized, messenger-based experiences.
Expensify
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Expensify is a financial services startup that provides an integrated expense management and corporate card product for customers worldwide.
Notion
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Notion is the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
MuleSoft
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MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Sentry
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Sentry is a developer of an application monitoring platform that helps developers monitor apps in real time to catch bugs early.
SightCall
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SightCall is a live video SaaS enabling visual support for enterprises enriched by Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence insights.
Specto
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Specto is a mobile application performance monitoring platform that collects vital metrics and profiles with just a few lines of code.
Mixpanel
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Mixpanel is an analytic platform that helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data.
Vercel
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Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
Journal
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Journal is a place to visually organize content from every app and website.
Bitski
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Bitski allows creators, brands, and platforms to create, sell, and purchase NFTs.
Sauce Labs
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Sauce Labs provides cloud-based testing for mobile and web applications.
Varo Money
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Varo Money is a mobile banking business that helps customers cover their expenses, pay their bills, and build their wealth over time.
CloudTrucks
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CloudTrucks offers a virtual trucking carrier application designed to reduce operating costs for truck drivers.
Future
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Future offers one-on-one digital training with fitness coaches at home, the gym, or on-the-go.
Jampp
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Jampp is the growth platform of choice for on-demand apps worldwide. We unlock programmatic UA and RTGT to drive incremental performance
RapidAPI
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RapidAPI is an API marketplace that enables developers to find and connect to APIs.
BitTorrent
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BitTorrent is a protocol that creates advanced technologies to efficiently move large files across the internet.
Vivino
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Vivino is a wine app and online wine marketplace that provides users tools to buy better wine based on their unique tastes.
Leo
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Leo is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects.
SplashLearn
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SplashLearn is an EdTech startup company providing game-based math and reading courses to students in pre-kindergarten to grade five.
Doctor On Demand
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Doctor On Demand is a mobile app that provides on-demand and scheduled visits with U.S.-licensed health care providers.
TaskRabbit
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TaskRabbit is a platform that matches up users with help on furniture assembly, moving, and other handyman services.
Airbnb
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Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the internet.
Life360
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Life360 creates a mobile app for families that helps families feel closer together.
Digit
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Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day.
PicsArt
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PicsArt is an all-in-one photo & video editing app, powered by a creative community of more than 150M+ monthly active users and influencers.
Booksy
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Booksy is an online platform for finding and booking beauty and wellness appointments.
Lyft
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Lyft designs, markets, and operates a mobile application that matches drivers with passengers who request rides.
Branch International
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Branch offers mobile financial services across emerging markets to spur human potential.
Chartboost
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Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.
Instawork
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Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Smule
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Smule develops music-making apps that connect people online.
PlushCare
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PlushCare is a tech-enabled concierge primary care practice built for the healthcare industry.
Coffee Meets Bagel
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Coffee Meets Bagel is an online dating site that connects individuals with a ‘friend-of-a-friend’ match every day.
Snackpass
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Snackpass is a platform that focuses on mobile order pickup at local restaurants.
Samba TV
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Samba uses data and analytics to improve TV on any screen.
ClassDojo
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ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use to build close-knit communities.
Solv
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Solv simplifies everyday healthcare by providing access to high quality, last-minute care.
Boast.AI
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Boast.AI is a tool designed to automate R&D tax credit-based financing for startups.
Rally
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Rally provides a blockchain platform for the development of video streaming and gaming apps.
Tally
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Tally is a financial automation company that helps members payoff credit card debt.
Carbon Health
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Carbon Health is a tech-enabled healthcare company that delivers a virtual care experience.
Tapjoy
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Tapjoy maximize mobile engagement and monetization for leading advertisers and app developers.
Blendoor
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Blendoor is a computer networking company that specializes in recruiting, SaaS, Mobile, and People Analytics.
Apollo
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Apollo is the GraphQL company. Its Data Graph Platform helps developers, startups, and enterprises get the most out of GraphQL.
mmhmm
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mmhmm is a virtual camera application used to create virtual rooms, backdrops, and presentations during video conferencing calls.
Doppler
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Doppler provides an application management platform used to help developers manage their API keys across their projects.
Scoop Technologies
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Scoop brings commuters together in convenient carpools by partnering with their employers.
Winnie
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Winnie is a marketplace for child care built on powerful data systems and backed by a trusted community of parents and providers.
Keeper Tax
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Discover the tax write-offs you’ve been missing
Abstract
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Abstract is the design workflow management system that empowers design teams and stakeholders to seamlessly manage, version and collaborate.
Elsa
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Elsa is an AI-enabled language learning platform focusing on English pronunciation training and accent reduction.
Buffer
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Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Proxy
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Proxy provides a smartphone-enabled digital identity that allows the user to authenticate and interact with all devices.
Zimperium
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ZIMPERIUM is a mobile security startup that offers protection for mobile devices against the next generation of advanced mobile attacks.
Rainforest QA
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Rainforest QA offers modern testing for web and mobile apps.
PubNub
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The PubNub Data Stream Network enables mobile and web developers to build and scale realtime apps.
MyFitnessPal
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MyFitnessPal is a health smartphone app that tracks nutrition, exercise, and diet.
Wickr
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Wickr is a free top-secret messaging app allowing its users to send and receive top-secret messages, pictures, videos, audios, and files.
Trulia
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Trulia is a home and neighborhood site for buyers and renters to find homes and neighborhoods across the United States.
Soldsie
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Soldsie is a social commerce platform that allows customers to purchase products through comments on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.
Token Transit
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Token Transit is a provider of a mobile ticket booking application intended to help riders pay for transit via a mobile application.
Uber Freight
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Uber Freight is the logistics arm of Uber that helps truck drivers connect with shipping companies.
Foodsmart by Zipongo
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Foodsmart – Eating Well Made Simple
Sanlo
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Vertically-focused platform of financial services for the gaming & app companies
Meemo
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Meemo is an AI-powered social finance app that lets users receive personal rewards based on recent activity and transfer money to friends.
Incode Technologies
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Powering the future of omnichannel biometric identity
Daybreak Health
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Daybreak Health specializes in providing online counseling services, especially for teens, helping to stabilize their mental fitness.
Cover
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Cover is an Android and iOS mobile application that allows its users to insure anything by taking a picture of what they need to insure.
Joy
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Joy helps users with their wedding, from engagement to honeymoon and everything in-between.
Simple Habit
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Simple Habit is a meditation app designed to drive a healthy lifestyle.
CoinTracker
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CoinTracker is a portfolio and tax manager for cryptocurrency.
Roam Research
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Roam Research is a tool that offers services for notetaking and graph databases.
Firebase
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Firebase is Google’s mobile platform that develops apps that grow users base on iOS, Android, or the Web.
Glow
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Glow is a fertility app that crunches and analyzes vast quantities of data to help users take control of their reproductive health.
Humanity
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Humanity is a computer software company that provides software for businesses designed for employee scheduling.
