33 Top San Francisco Software Engineering Companies and Startups of 2021

June 18, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Software Engineering companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Software Engineering 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 Software Engineering Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

PostHog

PostHog

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PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.

Honeycomb

Honeycomb

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The fastest way to visualize, understand and debug software. Find the critical issues that logs and metrics can’t see.

Honeycomb

Retool

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Retool is a fast way of building internal applications.

Honeycomb

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.

Honeycomb

Rescale

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Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.

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Builder

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Builder helps people build their technology without having to become an engineer or hire a team.

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Lightbend

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Lightbend offers a reactive application development platform for building distributed applications and modernizing aging infrastructures.

Honeycomb

Holberton School

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Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers.

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Release

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Release simplifies development by making the creation of environments easy.

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Play Piper

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A DIY Minecraft Computer to teach electronics and programming

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OfficeTogether

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OfficeTogether designs and develops desk reservation and team scheduling software to hybrid remote workforces.

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Mozart Data

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Mozart Data specializes in data stack, SaaS, data-visualization and engineering solutions for companies.

Honeycomb

interviewing.io

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Interviewing.io is an anonymous technical interviewing platform.

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Terminal

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Terminal builds engineering teams to accelerate companies.

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Semmle

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Semmle develops an engineering analytics platform to manage the software development process.

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Py

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Py is a learn-to-code mobile app that trains and matches developers with jobs.

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Theorem

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Theorem uses data science and machine learning to invest in marketplace lending loans, profitably managing over $800mm in assets.

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Software.com

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Software collects data to help developers and teams learn from their data, increase productivity, and code smarter.

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Qulture.Rocks

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Qulture.Rocks builds people management applications for some of the world’s most influential companies.

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Toptal

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Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand.

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Disclosures.io

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Disclosures.io builds software to help real estate agents manage property disclosures such as leaking roofs and broken sewer lines.

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CSPA

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CSPA (Computer Science Proficiency Assessment) is a comprehensive standardized exam for software engineers.

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Pramp

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Pramp is an online community for software engineers, developers and hackers to practice live coding interviews, for free.

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Robust Intelligence

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Robust Intelligence is a provider of an AI security and reliability platform that secures the deployment of artificial intelligence.

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Outtalent

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Outtalent helps top software engineers from emerging markets get jobs abroad at companies like Google.

Honeycomb

Code Inspector

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Code Inspector is a platform to analyze your source code and mitigate technical debt

Honeycomb

EveryTeam

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EveryTeam is a modern repository that connects and organizes all your team’s shared information.

Honeycomb

Plasticity

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Plasticity makes better natural language understanding open and accessible through simple APIs.

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Cloudstitch

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Cloudstitch is a web development platform that uses your office suite as the back-end.

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Chesky

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Chesky is an easiest way to prepare for a technical interview.

Honeycomb

BairesDev

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Powered by Technology. Driven by Talent.

Honeycomb

TRiiBE Networks

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TRiiBE Is A Custom Business Hardware Systems Provider Focused On Merchant Services

Honeycomb

Scalable Press

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Scalable Press is using technology to reinvent the mass customization industry.

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