Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Internet companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Internet 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 Internet Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Ripple
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Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain.
Fastly
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Fastly helps digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering secure and online experiences.
Thumbtack
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Thumbtack is a technology company that builds a modern home management platform.
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Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
NerdWallet
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NerdWallet helps people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates, refinance their student loans.
GitHub
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GitHub provides code hosting services that allow developers/people to build software for open source and private projects in organizations.
Nextdoor
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Nextdoor is the app where you plug into the neighborhoods that matter to you.
Niantic
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Niantic builds augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware.
Snapdocs
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Snapdocs is a mortgage technology company that helps real estate participants closing work together through integration and automation.
Coda
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Coda is a new document that brings words, data, and teams together.
Aclima
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Putting air pollution and greenhouse gases on the map, block by block, to reduce emissions, improve public health and advance equity.
Strava
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Strava is an online network where runners and cyclists can record their activities, compare performance, and compete with their community.
AngelList
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AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Medium
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Medium is a social publishing network that connects ideas and perspectives on topics that matter.
Vanta
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Vanta is an automated security monitoring platform that helps companies get SOC 2, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 certified quickly.
Samsara
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Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud
Sitecore
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Sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides multichannel marketing automation software and web content management.
Solana
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Solana is a crypto startup that builds and develops crypto apps for decentralized apps and marketplaces.
MURAL
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MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration
Heap
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Heap is a platform that provides analytics infrastructure to reduce the annoying parts of user analytics.
Visa
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Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
dYdX
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dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum.
Helium
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Helium is an Internet-of-Things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data.
Doximity
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Doximity is the leading digital platform for medical professionals
Shift
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Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars.
Crate.io
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Crate.io develops CrateDB, purpose-built to scale applications in a machine data world.
Vim
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Vim is a technology company building digital infrastructure for healthcare.
Checkr
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Checkr seeks to automate the process of professional background checks.
Vercel
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Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.
Pantheon
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Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
HackerOne
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HackerOne is a powered security platform that connects businesses with penetration testers and cybersecurity researchers.
GrubMarket
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GrubMarket supplies local fresh food online with affordable prices and convenient delivery.
Quizlet
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Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Protocol Labs
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Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols.
sticky.io
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sticky.io is a ecommerce platform provider for order management and recurring billing.
MoEngage
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MoEngage is an internet company that features cloud-based marketing services for consumer businesses.
Sense
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Sense is a smart talent engagement and communication platform that helps companies find, recruit, and deploy talent.
Brave
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Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators.
Sigma Computing
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Sigma Computing is an analytics platform that provides live access to cloud data warehouses using an intuitive spreadsheet interface.
LightStep
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LightStep’s mission is to deliver confidence at scale for those who develop, operate, and rely upon today’s powerful software applications.
InfluxData
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the open source time series database.
TuneIn
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From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.
BitTorrent
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BitTorrent is a protocol that creates advanced technologies to efficiently move large files across the internet.
DroneDeploy
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DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Optimizely
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Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Eventbrite
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Eventbrite develops an online platform that lets users find and create events.
Brightside Health
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Brightside Health is a mental healthcare company that helps employees better navigate and manage their financial well-being.
Tipe
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Tipe is a next generation API-first CMS for developers.
Digit
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Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day.
Rocket Lawyer
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Rocket Lawyer specializes in providing online legal services.
Orbit
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Grow and measure your community across any platform with Orbit, mission control for your community.
Astranis
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Astranis is a space startup that builds small and low-cost telecommunications satellites to provide internet access in remote regions.
Hone
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Hone is a next-generation platform for live online leadership and management training.
Instawork
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Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for gig workers and hospitality businesses.
Valimail
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Valimail is an email security company that offers zero-trust, authentication-based solutions for organizations.
Gem
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Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Hired
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Hired is a career marketplace that matches tech talent with innovative companies.
CaptivateIQ
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CaptivateIQ is a modern sales compensation software aimed to help businesses leverage the power of incentives to motivate teams.
Minted
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Minted is a design marketplace that connects users with artists to help them create something one-of-a-kind.
Aizon
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Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Metabase
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Metabase is an open-source analytics and business intelligence application that allows users to create dashboards or emails.
Particle
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Particle provides hardware and software tools to help users prototype, scale, and manage IoT products.
RangeMe
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RangeMe is revolutionizing how retailers and brands work together.
Solv
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Solv simplifies everyday healthcare by providing access to high quality, last-minute care.
Change.org
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Change.org is social change platform with over 150 million users worldwide.
RiskIQ
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RiskIQ provides digital threat management solutions to reduce your attack surface and detect threats across web, mobile, and social channels
CloudPassage
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CloudPassage offers a server security and compliance platform that works seamlessly across data centers and elastic infrastructure.
Lightbend
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Lightbend offers a reactive application development platform for building distributed applications and modernizing aging infrastructures.
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Pocket is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Zendrive
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Zendrive leverages mobile sensor data to provide actionable insights that improve safety for passengers and drivers worldwide.
TechCrunch
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TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
HackerEarth
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HackerEarth is adeveloper assessment software that helps companies to accurately measure a developer’s skills through online coding tests.
Peek
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Peek is a travel activities marketplace based in San Francisco, California.
Unstoppable Domains
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Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites.
Triplebyte
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Triplebyte is a recruiting and technical screening platform for tech companies.
Buffer
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Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Swiftly
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Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility.
Tempo Automation
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Tempo Automation is the world’s first AI-driven Smart Factory designed for low volume, high complexity PBCA production.
Sight Machine
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Sight Machine provides analytics platform that helps address critical challenges in quality and productivity throughout the enterprise.
VentureBeat
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VentureBeat is an online technology news platform that is engaged in technology publication and events business.
Helpshift
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Helpshift is a conversational customer service platform that leverages AI, bots, and messaging-based communication.
Houseparty
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Houseparty is a face-to-face social network that brings empathy to online communication.
Dealpath
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Dealpath is the intelligent software solution empowering smart investment decisions with data-driven insights and digital collaboration
Span.IO
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Span.IO develops products to enable rapid adoption of renewable energy and deliver an intuitive interface for the home.
Rinse
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Rinse provides garment care services. Its services include dry cleaning, launder and press.
Clockwise
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Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
Orion Labs
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Orion Labs is a voice-first enterprise communication platform connecting frontline workers and teams and with AI-driven automation.
PubNub
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The PubNub Data Stream Network enables mobile and web developers to build and scale realtime apps.
Courier
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The fastest way for developers to build notifications for their app. Email, SMS, push, chat, and more.
AnyRoad
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AnyRoad is an ERM platform that helps companies create brand loyalty, change consumer behavior, and understand their brand associations.
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.
Tilt
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Tilt allows users to pool funds for objectives in a simple, social, and frictionless way online.
Pathlight
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Pathlight is a developer of a platform designed for managers to be more effective.
Codility
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Codility is a SaaS platform that helps tech recruiters and hiring managers engage, recruit, and train stronger engineers, faster.
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.
Brilliant.org
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Brilliant is a high-quality free online mathematics and science problem solving website for high aptitude students around the world.
LeadIQ
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LeadIQ is a lead capture tool that enables its users to find prospects, discover emails and contact info of potential customers online.
Lyte
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Lyte is a technology platform that makes it easy for fans to buy, sell, and exchange tickets to live events.
