San Francisco Startups List

Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in San Francisco.

66 small and medium businesses Startups View all

Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Bigcommerce - SaaS e-commerce small and medium businesses e commerce platforms

Bigcommerce

The leader in e-commerce for SMBs. $75M in VC, 300 employees, $3BN in orders processed.
Bigcommerce helps fast-growing brands launch beautiful online stores backed with deep analytical insight around visitor and shopper behavior, purchase segmentation, AOV and more. The Bigcommerce platform has a full RESTful API and integrates with more than 250 ...

Thumbtack - marketplaces local small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

Thumbtack

Accomplish your personal projects
Thumbtack helps you accomplish the personal projects that are central to your life. Whether you need to paint your home, learn a new language, or plan your daughter's birthday party, Thumbtack is the easiest and most dependable way to hire the right professional ...

inDinero - financial services small and medium businesses accounting software

inDinero

Better accounting for small business
inDinero helps small businesses manage their finances with accounting, payroll, and tax services. We're an one-stop-shop solution that takes care of all the back office needs that a business can have. We're servicing businesses as small as two employees with ...

NewCo - B2B small and medium businesses

NewCo

Addressing the $15 trillion Business Market
Still in stealth. It's in the financial services space.

Buffer - social media SaaS small and medium businesses productivity software

Buffer

A smarter way to share
Buffer is the simplest and most powerful social media publishing and analytics platform. We help over 1.8m SMBs, of which 28,000+ are paying to power their social media accounts, publishing over 500,000 posts every day. We have consistently grown 10% MoM on average ...

ZenPayroll - SaaS enterprise software small and medium businesses human resources

ZenPayroll

Delightful, modern payroll
ZenPayroll is Delightful, Modern Payroll. Sign up today at www.zenpayroll.com. Our mission is to make payroll as simple & intuitive as possible using the principles & tools of modern software. The payroll market today is filled with unnecessary layers of complexity, ...

Cleanify - location based services mobile commerce marketplaces small and medium businesses

Cleanify

Cleaning Service Marketplace
Cleanify brings every cleaning service on demand. Access real-time pricing & availability of every service provider serving your area. Cleaning partners are offered a new revenue channel, free service management tools and more!

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NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Wishery - B2B CRM business intelligence small and medium businesses

Wishery

A single view of the customer, everywhere you work - Angel Pad Fall 2011
Forget about tab switching, copy/pasting, and lost passwords - Wishery brings contextually-relevant insights out of our user's existing business software and presents them at the point of contact. Wishery's first, highly-rated app is a "single view of the customer" ...

Overstat - e-commerce sales and marketing analytics small and medium businesses

Overstat

Visual website Conversion Rate Optimization.
Overstat was acquired by Tealeaf/ IBM! The Overstat team has started another company, MyCrowd. MyCrowd is actively raising a seed round. Come check us out! https://angel.co/mycrowd Regards, Matthew ================================ang We have the only Website ...

ZeroCater - enterprise software sales and marketing restaurants small and medium businesses

ZeroCater

We help companies build strong cultures through shared meals.
Great companies feed their people. ZeroCater makes it simple by connecting companies awesome food from the best local restaurants, food trucks, and caterers. We currently serve over 300 companies on two coasts including Sony, eBay, CBS, and Electronic Arts. We ...

Konnecti - social media small and medium businesses mobile enterprise

Konnecti

A b2b Yelp for SMB's
Konnecti is the simplest place for you to build your company's online reputation... for FREE Because Konnecti is where small and local businesses rate all the companies they work with now. Everyone from your Attorney to your Zamboni cleaner. And since these ...

UpCounsel - B2B marketplaces small and medium businesses legal

UpCounsel

Making the legal experience remarkable
UpCounsel provides businesses a technology powered alternative to the slow and expensive legal services of traditional law firms. Through UpCounsel, businesses can access high quality, on-demand and cost-effective independent legal professionals for ad hoc or ongoing ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

LocBox - SaaS local small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

LocBox

Revenue and Foot Traffic for Local Businesses
LocBox helps local businesses drive trackable revenue and foot traffic with campaigns that run across Email, Facebook, Facebook Ads, Google AdWords, Twitter, Google+ and Yelp - from one universal dashboard. Our product is used by hundreds of SMBs and produces ...

Brixmark - SaaS business intelligence wine and spirits small and medium businesses

Brixmark

Salesforce.com for grape-growers and winemakers
Brixmark provides CRM and collaboration tools to growers who sell grapes and the wineries who buy them, improving efficiency in this $2.7B market. Our beta manages crucial grape harvest data, 1.0 (Q1 '12) will manage relationships, grape inventory & contracts, ...

Meldium - consumer internet enterprise software small and medium businesses

Meldium

Account & password manager for teams (YC W13)
Meldium is the simplest way for teams to access the cloud tools they need. By aggregating and monitoring accounts across any web service, it frees your people from tedious account management. Unlike other "IT management" tools, it is designed for anyone to use. ...

LocalOn - SaaS local small and medium businesses social media marketing

LocalOn

Marketing on the Go
LocalOn is a marketing on the go app for SMBs. We're a profitable Y-Combinator company and tout stellar growth in the large, under-penetrated SMB market because we've figured out how to reach and sell to SMBs through a source they already trust. www.localon.com

PerkHub - SaaS marketplaces small and medium businesses group buying

PerkHub

Profitable perks platform/marketplace used by Time Warner, American Airlines, TriNet, more
PerkHub is an enterprise SaaS company that powers perks and group buying programs for some of the world's leading companies. Our customers include American Airlines, TriNet, Google and the .CO domain.

Endurance Lending Network - small and medium businesses credit finance technology franchises

Endurance Lending Network

business lending fintech platform
A tech-enabled lending platform for small and medium businesses. Endurance Lending Network is a web-based lender focused on small and medium businesses in the United States. We provide loans of between $50,000 and $500,000 to high-quality entrepreneurs looking ...

BackOps - SaaS small and medium businesses business analytics

BackOps

The World's #1 Back Office Solution
We integrate best of breed back office tools for accounting and HR into one automated back office platform. This means integrated accounting, HR, payroll, tax, and benefits. Your BackOps subscription comes with an entire team of certified experts to handle all ...

Tout - sales and marketing business productivity small and medium businesses email

Tout

Sales Communications Platform
ToutApp streamlines communications for Sales professionals by combining engagement, email and CRM data into one seamless real-time feed. Works inside of Outlook, Gmail, iOS, and Salesforce.

WooBoard - SaaS small and medium businesses corporate wellness enterprise 2.0

WooBoard

Creating One Trillion Moments of Joyous Team Recognition by 2020
A fun and easy tool to explode positive peer recognition, Wooboard enables teams to spontaneously acknowledge and recognize their members' great work.

SimplyInsured - small and medium businesses insurance brokers health and insurance

SimplyInsured

Online small business health insurance
SimplyInsured provides 100% online and paperless purchase of small business health insurance. No more fax, paper, or brokers We have been growing 15% monthly since launch, targeting the $17B small business commission market. Get better health insurance today ...

Dropifi - SaaS lead generation CRM small and medium businesses

Dropifi

We turn contact forms into a marketing/customer support engine for SMB's (500Startups '13)
Featured on CNN, Forbes, TechCrunch, Huffington Post, Ventureburn etc. Dropifi lets you generate more leads, effectively engage site visitors and gain valuable business insights. It takes only 2 mins to setup. Problem: Inbound marketing costs 62% less per lead ...

RecruitLoop - marketplaces crowdsourcing small and medium businesses recruiting

RecruitLoop

Elastic Recruiting: Marketplace of recruiters on-demand
RecruitLoop is a platform for Elastic Recruiting. It's a curated marketplace of recruiters, on-demand at hourly rates. Why Elastic Recruiting? Employers hire an expert recruiter for any part of the process, as much or little as they need. It’s flexible, fast, ...

PeerSpace - business services peer-to-peer small and medium businesses collaborative consumption

PeerSpace

Book Creative Spaces That Inspire
PeerSpace is the first and only community-driven marketplace to provide short-term access to a collection of unique, beautiful work spaces that help you motivate and innovate. Book off-site, production, and event spaces. For both the Guest and the Host, we make ...

Repairy - SaaS enterprise software automotive small and medium businesses

Repairy

Bringing car repair shops online and to mobile · 500 Startups Fall '12
Repairy is a simple car repair shop management tool, that is different from what is available now - it focuses repair shop teams on executing customer requests on time, not registering data. By processing each customer request, Repairy builds up car and customer ...

Breezeworks - mobile business productivity sales automation small and medium businesses

Breezeworks

Mobile workflow automation for on-site service vendors
Mobile workflow automation application for service professionals.

SignEasy - mobile SaaS small and medium businesses productivity software

SignEasy

The Simplest and Fastest Way to Sign Documents
SignEasy is the simplest, fastest and most secure way to sign and fill paperwork from mobile devices. We help companies and people expedite business transactions and workflows by eliminating the need for printing, faxing, scanning and overnight shipping involved ...

Advsor - business services small and medium businesses accounting human resources

Advsor

Powering Emerging Business
Advsor is a consulting firm that partners exclusively with more than 100 funded startups throughout the U.S. We provide the back office basics from accounting, hr, payroll, tax, insurance and compliance, scaling with our clients with budgeting, advisory, strategy ...

Womply - analytics CRM small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

Womply

We use technology and data to grow, protect, and simplify small business
Womply is one of the fastest growing merchant-focused companies in America. Our mission is to use technology and data to grow, protect, and simplify small business. Every day we serve tens of thousands of merchants, across 400+ business verticals, in every corner ...

Foundersuite - SaaS enterprise software small and medium businesses productivity software

Foundersuite

Productivity tools for the world's 400M entrepreneurs.
Foundersuite is the first dedicated software platform for entrepreneurs-- think "startup as a service." Our suite includes apps for: i) new product ideation & crowdsourced feedback, ii) an Investor CRM for managing a fund raise, iii) a Media CRM for managing PR; ...

Cadee - mobile social media sports small and medium businesses

Cadee

Cadee is helping golfers understand and improve their game
In 2002 U.S. golfers spent $20,000,000,000 on green fees alone. They are fanatics - driven by personal development and a constant struggle to improve. They are always trying to assess their ability and understand what they need to work on to get better. Cadee ...

Frederick - big data local small and medium businesses marketing automation

Frederick

Fully automated marketing for local services, powered by big data.
Frederick is the fully automated marketing genius for the $600B local services market, powered by big data. Frederick helps local service businesses fill empty slots in their schedule with fully automated, data-driven marketing. Frederick taps into data inside ...

Impact Dialing - nonprofits small and medium businesses politics non profit

Impact Dialing

Make phone calls faster
Political campaigns, sales reps, and call centers use Impact Dialing to make their calling operations more efficient. Users upload a list of leads and write a script. Their callers log in and are placed on hold until a lead answers. Impact Dialing displays the ...

Wix - web design small and medium businesses

Wix

Create stunning free websites in just a few clicks
Wix.com is a web development platform enabling anyone to build a stunning online presence using simple cloud-based creation and management tools. At Wix’s core is an HTML5 drag-and-drop website editor, enhanced by a highly curated app market, 100s of designer-made ...

VSIG - mobile business services business productivity small and medium businesses

VSIG

Square for electronic signatures.
VSIG makes signing any document easy and secure. We lock into the signature vital identifying information using our patent pending VSIG technology, turning a signature into a machine readable dataset that is locked to the contract electronically and physically. In ...

sonicpanther - small and medium businesses mobile games music services cloud based music

sonicpanther

real-time music listening with friends/businesses
sonicpanther is a real-time music streaming application that allows people to listen to music with their friends and their favorite venues in real-time from anywhere in the world.

Hubkick - SaaS business productivity collaboration small and medium businesses

Hubkick

Instantly create spaces to organize, share, & visualize what you need to work on.
Hubkick lets you instantly turn your emails into spaces to organize, share, and visualize everything you need to work on. Anyone with an email address can create a space and start organizing simply by sending an email to their space name @hubkick.com There is ...

Traxian - enterprise software cloud computing payments small and medium businesses

Traxian

making integration viral, just as Facebook made friendships viral
Traxian’s Intercloud Gateway solution enables major business solution providers to interconnect their own and others’ proprietary cloud platforms for the exchange of invoices, payments and other data. For their end users, connecting systems to sync data becomes ...

Tiempo - mobile payments small and medium businesses freelancers

Tiempo

Tracking and Payments for the 1099 Economy (YC S14)
Tiempo is custom tracking, approval, and payments for your contract workers. Whether you pay by the hour, project, word, or widget, Tiempo's got you covered. Quickly look across your workforce to understand who's been working, what they’ve done, and what they’re ...

Plastiq - e-commerce education payments small and medium businesses

Plastiq

Make payments for tuition, cars, and more on credit card
We have a simple idea – make payments easier for people by letting them use the credit cards they prefer, to pay for things they want, when they want to.

Expensify - mobile enterprise software financial services small and medium businesses

Expensify

Expense Reports that Don't Suck!
Expense Reports that Don't Suck! http://use.expensify.com

Gloopt - video small and medium businesses reviews and recommendations application platforms

Gloopt

The easiest way to create a professional video for your business
Gloopt is on its way to change the game for Professional Video Communication via our Mobile Video Platform, allowing every business to create short professional videos for under $10 and under 10 minutes from any mobile device. Our unique solution is very easy to ...

SixDoors - mobile commerce marketplaces small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

SixDoors

Anti-Amazon For Local
*Company is now shut down* Independent retailers ($60B in sales in top 25 US cities) are for the most part not equipped to thrive in the post Amazon Prime era. However, many consumers still love shopping local. After talking to tens of store owners and working ...

damntheradio - social media CRM facebook applications small and medium businesses

damntheradio

Social Rewards Platform
damntheradio is a social CRM platform that helps businesses—from local coffee shops to large brands—reward, engage, and grow their fans on Facebook and Twitter. damntheradio was acquired in 2011 by FanBridge. • http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/18/2-million-fanbridge-damntheradio/ • ...

Equity - financial services small and medium businesses venture capital legal

Equity

A high-end tech law boutique, attached to a legal services business accelerator
Startups. Law. Equity. We are a high-end tech law boutique with a legal service business accelerator. The accelerator exchanges business services, community, and legal counsel for equity, a 3 month intensive class within a 1-year program.

Bento - financial services small and medium businesses mobile payments

Bento

Financial Innovation for Small Business
Bento is a financial services platform built from the ground up for small businesses. Small businesses are the backbone of most economies in the world however no bank builds financial products specifically for small businesses. Really. Bento is here to change ...

StartupKit - Work smarter not harder - lead generation small and medium businesses content discovery app discovery

StartupKit - Work smarter not harder

The discovery engine for startups. Find great stuff for your business without searching.
We are in the middle of a digital entrepreneurial revolution. More and more startups appear every day, and even more tools, classes, articles and events are created especially for them. The problem is that there is much more content than there is time to consume ...

Insightly - sales and marketing CRM project management small and medium businesses

Insightly

#1 Online Small Business CRM
We designed Insightly as a simple to use yet powerful CRM system for small business. Insightly helps companies effectively build happy loyal customers! With integrations to social channels, Google Apps, Office 365, MailChimp, Evernote, PandaDoc, Zapier and more, ...

SiliconPrime - information services deep information technology small and medium businesses web development

SiliconPrime

A Startup for the Startups
We are the virtual CTO for your startup. We have developed web and mobile app for some of the very successful startups in the valley.

Cazoomi - enterprise software nonprofits small and medium businesses cloud data services

Cazoomi

Enables business apps to talk to each other using SyncApps®
Cazoomi enables business applications to talk to each other using SyncApps®, the Integration Cloud for Small Business.

PayTango - payments small and medium businesses accounting

PayTango

Simple, modern invoicing
PayTango provides biometric identification for payments and access control applications. The PayTango terminal transmits fingerprints as card data that existing systems already understand. Registration takes mere seconds — place two fingers on the fingerprint ...

Ekwity - marketplaces small and medium businesses recruiting

Ekwity

The Business and Job creation ecosystem
Ekwity (ek·wi·ty • ˈekwitē) is a unique professional platform that enables working relationships by providing entrepreneurs and cash-strapped businesses specific alternatives to cash to compensate new hires and contractors.

FiveStars - loyalty programs small and medium businesses

FiveStars

Universal customer loyalty platform
FiveStars is the fastest growing company in customer loyalty and marketing automation for local businesses. Launched out of Y-Combinator three years ago to democratize Fortune 500-level loyalty technology, we now drive two million customer visits per month across ...

GVING - mobile small and medium businesses college campuses

GVING

Putting all your customers in one spot.
GVING is the simplest way for small businesses to acquire, own & manage their customers through a real time,maintenance free,consumer powered CRM. Merchants reward their customers through GVING's consumer-facing mobile application.The GVING app is the most beautiful ...

Stitch Labs - SaaS cloud computing small and medium businesses retail technology

Stitch Labs

Multichannel Selling Made Simple
Since 2011, Stitch Labs has been creating software that simplifies commerce, decisions, and life for retailers and wholesalers. The intuitive Stitch Labs platform streamlines inventory, orders and data across multiple channels. It also delivers the most robust ...

Chalkboard - location based services mobile advertising small and medium businesses local advertising

Chalkboard

Connecting local biz to people nearby instantly, locally and socially on mobile & web.
Chalkboard is a daily marketing solution for EVERY small business enabling businesses to communicate instantly, locally and socially over mobile and web. The business owners can communicate today’s special, real-time updates and business information to people ...

CareLuLu - marketplaces local parenting small and medium businesses

CareLuLu

Online Marketplace for Daycare & Preschool
CareLuLu finds the best daycare for you! CareLuLu is a marketplace that connects parents with licensed daycares or preschools that fits their family's specific needs. With CareLuLu, parents avoid the hassle of spending hours searching Google or driving around ...

MileIQ - mobile SaaS business services small and medium businesses

MileIQ

Smart mileage tracking.
MileIQ uses smart drive-detection technology to automatically log your drives and calculate their value. You get the reimbursement or deduction you deserve with a minimum amount of effort. TURN YOUR MILES INTO MONEY IN 2015 IRS deduction rates are 0.575c per ...

MyBusiness - social media monitoring small and medium businesses social crm

MyBusiness

Social CRM for Small Business
MyBusiness.com consists of a Web based application for Small Businesses to manage their Social Media and online communication efforts. This tool allows the Small Business to connect and engage with its audience, as well as streamline its online marketing efforts ...

Elto - small and medium businesses

Elto

Curated marketplace of expert marketers and developers.
Elto makes it easy to improve your online business by connecting you with the best online marketers and developers. Our focus is determining the fastest way to improve your traffic, increase conversion rates and grow revenue. Our project management team helps ...

WorkHands - social media small and medium businesses recruiting personal branding

WorkHands

Exclusively for skilled trades workers
WorkHands is building the blue collar web -- a network that connects workers, employers, and trade organizations online.

LookAcross - enterprise software sales and marketing sales automation small and medium businesses

LookAcross

Farecast for Sales Teams: find the best time to connect with anyone
LookAcross tells you the best time to connect with anyone. Sales teams LOVE us: we save them time AND make them money. Beta customers include sales reps from Yahoo, Laerdal and Sunlife Financial. LookAcross addresses one of the biggest challenges in sales, connecting ...

Outbound - SaaS sales and marketing small and medium businesses business analytics

Outbound

Optimizely for messages
Outbound allows businesses to send messages to their users when they take one step, but not the next. Say they add to cart, but don't checkout. Signup, but don't fill out their profile. Messages can be sent on any channel: Email, Mobile push notifications, SMS, ...

RAVN - big data social commerce small and medium businesses bridging online and offline

RAVN

Curated local events
RAVN Events is the "Pandora of Event Discovery", offering personalized recommendations of local events for people on the go or simply too busy to keep up with the different unique events going on in their city every week.

TextMarks - mobile group sms small and medium businesses social media marketing

TextMarks

Mobile & Social Marketing

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