50 Best Startups to Work in San Francisco in 2025

Runway

Artificial Intelligence + Computer Vision
About us
We are a global AI research and technology company focused on building Universal Simulation systems. The research we are doing and the tools we are building are maturing rapidly and are quickly becoming the foundation for how we will all soon approach making anything. From images to videos, scripted media to documentaries, graphic design to ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Documented equal pay policy
Remote work program
Pet friendly
Company equity
Employee resource groups
Diversity employee resource groups

Doppler

Security + Software
About us
Doppler is the uncomplicated way to sync, manage, orchestrate, and rotate secrets across any environment or app config with easy to use tools.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Wellness programs
Remote work program
Online course subscriptions available
Flexible time off
Mental health benefits
Home-office stipend for remote employees

Truffle Security

Cybersecurity + Data Privacy
About us
Truffle Security is a cybersecurity company that offers open-source and enterprise solutions for finding and remediating leaked software credentials. Our secret-scanning engine, Truffle Hog, identifies and addresses credentials and passwords before hackers are able to find and exploit them. Detecting these credentials early allows companies to ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health insurance
Wellness days
Company-wide vacation
Life insurance
Company equity
Flexible work schedule

Globality, Inc.

Artificial Intelligence
About us
Globality was founded with a simple but lofty goal: to use AI to transform enterprise spending into a smarter, fairer process, and create more efficient, inclusive markets around the globe. Globality is the future of enterprise spending: an AI solution that is guaranteed to empower employees, bolster the bottom line, and improve business outcomes ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Childcare benefits
Company sponsored family events
Online course subscriptions available
Free snacks and drinks
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Partners with nonprofits

Galileo

Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Galileo is the world’s first Machine Learning Data Intelligence platform- enabling data scientists to build better-performing ML models, faster, by finding and fixing data errors in minutes.

Our founding team Vikram Chatterji, Yash Sheth, and Atindriyo Sanyal have built Machine Learning models for over a decade at Google and Uber. ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Employee-led culture committees
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Mental health benefits
Pet friendly
Open door policy
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Airbyte

Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Airbyte specializes in open-source data integration, designed to centralize data from diverse sources into storage solutions like data warehouses and lakes. Supporting over 400 connectors and a self-serve, extensible framework, Airbyte enables organizations to move both structured and unstructured data seamlessly for uses like AI, analytics, and ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Life insurance
Virtual coaching services
Promote from within
Mandated unconscious bias training
Family medical leave
Bereavement leave benefits

Robust Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
Robust Intelligence's mission is to eliminate risks introduced by AI technologies. We consider the effect of AI risk not only on organizations but also on our society. Our product RIME has the ability to monitor and detect AI failures. We’ve built AI Stress Testing to detect a specific model’s weaknesses in the pre-deployment stage. In the ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Volunteer in local community
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Tuition reimbursement
Family medical leave
Unlimited vacation policy

Matik

Automation + Information Technology
About us
Matik automates the creation and sending of Google/PowerPoint decks with personalized text, images, charts, tables, and AI-powered insights. Just tell Matik who it's for and Matik will query the data to create data-driven content, like QBRs, EBRs, renewal decks, pitch decks, and ROI one-pagers.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Pay transparency
Flexible time off
Online course subscriptions available
Company-sponsored happy hours
Health insurance
Dental insurance

OpenSea

Blockchain + Cryptocurrency
About us
At OpenSea, we're excited about a brand new type of digital good called a non-fungible token or NFT. NFTs have exciting new properties: they’re unique, provably scarce, tradeable, and usable across multiple applications. Just like physical goods, you can do whatever you want with them! You could throw them in the trash, gift them to a friend ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Vision insurance
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Mental health benefits
Free daily meals
Open door policy
Family medical leave

Render

Cloud + Consumer Web
About us
At Render we are building a powerful, easy-to-use cloud platform to host anything online: from simple static sites to complex applications with dozens of microservices. Render offers the flexibility of traditional cloud providers without their complexity and maintenance headaches so developers and businesses can focus on building products instead ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Team based strategic planning
Wellness programs
Online course subscriptions available
Highly diverse management team
Dental insurance
Mother's room

Machinify

Machine Learning + Software
About us
Machinify is an AI start-up in the Healthcare space. Our software platform leverages the latest advances in machine learning, large language models, data analytics, and cloud processing to solve previously intractable problems in the healthcare industry impacting millions of lives.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Life insurance
Mental health benefits
Customized development tracks
OKR operational model
Open door policy

FOSSA

Cybersecurity + Data Privacy
About us
Open Source has become the critical supplier for modern software companies, changing everything about how people think about their code. FOSSA builds the infrastructure for modern teams to be successful with open source.

FOSSA's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Open office floor plan
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Pay transparency
Employee awards
Employee-led culture committees
Commuter benefits
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Distributional

Artificial Intelligence + Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
About us
Distributional’s active AI testing platform enables AI product teams to identify, understand and address AI risk before production so they can ship high quality AI products with confidence. We've raised $30M in the past year to accomplish our mission.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company equity
Bereavement leave benefits
Health insurance
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Wellness days
Home-office stipend for remote employees
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Nova Credit

Financial Services + Fintech
About us
Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly through alternative credit data. As a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA), Nova Credit leverages its unique data infrastructure, compliance framework, and credit expertise to help lenders fill critical gaps in traditional credit analytics. The ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Life insurance
Company-sponsored happy hours
Mental health benefits
Childcare benefits
Free snacks and drinks

Noyo

Healthtech + Insurance
About us
Noyo is building the digital infrastructure to bring health insurance enrollment into the modern era. Noyo replaces today’s manual data entry and cumbersome legacy systems with a powerful API platform that enables faster, more accurate data exchange between health insurance platforms and their carrier partners.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Fertility benefits
Restricted work hours
Generous parental leave
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Flexible work schedule
What people are saying
"“Noyo is inclusive. It’s an intentional value, one that permeates through the company. Having all these different people with different lives, different backgrounds, and different ideas truly makes Noyo’s culture special.” "
Daryl, Solutions Architect Read all reviews

Sprig

Software
About us
Sprig is the leading product experience insights platform for teams building innovative, user-driven digital products. Our mission is to empower teams to make experiences that matter.

Making awesome products requires working with awesome people. At Sprig, our values are at the core of everything we do, say, and create as a team. ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Paid holidays
Vision insurance
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Generous parental leave
Free snacks and drinks

Check

Data Privacy + Fintech
About us
Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Our API abstracts away the complexities of running payroll: tax calculation, remittance, and filing, plus the movement of money between companies and employees. This enables companies to easily build fully integrated ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Job training & conferences
Relocation assistance
Company-sponsored outings
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Documented equal pay policy
Return-to-work program post parental leave

Butter Payments

Artificial Intelligence + Financial Services
About us
Subscription companies are losing 10%+ of revenue to failed payments—billions of dollars a year—a problem known as “Involuntary churn.”

Butter is on a mission to end involuntary churn. Using machine learning we help the greatest subscription companies in the world—Fabletics, The Athletic, Savage x Fenty, Found, Tonal, Hairstory— ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Free snacks and drinks
Hybrid work model
Company-sponsored outings
Paid sick days
Unlimited vacation policy
Open door policy

Jackpot

Gaming
About us
Since its launch in 2016, Jackpot.com has become a world leader in the online lottery sector, with the goal of fundamentally changing the lottery experience through innovation and variety. Besides offering players the opportunity to bet on the outcomes of the world’s biggest lotteries, Jackpot.com offers an enriched gaming experience through ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Team based strategic planning
Fertility benefits
Paid sick days
Life insurance
Paid holidays
Promote from within

DataGrail

Big Data + Cybersecurity
About us
Privacy is messy. And complicated.

Organizations today rely on dozens of inter-connected data platforms-- SaaS apps, data lakes, and hosted databases -- making it difficult to know where all of a single person's data could be. But with the right solution, it is possible to make sense of privacy, and turn it into an advantage to ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Mentorship program
Pet friendly
Wellness programs
Team based strategic planning

Craft.co

Analytics + Big Data
About us
Craft illuminates the path to global supply chain resilience. We empower businesses to strengthen their supplier networks and supply chains with the industry's most trusted and comprehensive data fabric and advanced risk mitigation engine. Our easy-to-use platform provides 360-degree visibility to quickly explore and evaluate supplier ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Employee awards
Job training & conferences
Diversity recruitment program
Open door policy
Team based strategic planning
Unlimited vacation policy

Cavnue

Automotive + Hardware
About us
Cavnue is building smart roads for smart vehicles, and future-proofing the nation’s roadways.

The interstate highway system defined mobility in the second half of the 20th century. Now, transportation is changing again. Mobility in the 21st century will be defined by intelligent, connected, and autonomous vehicles and while billions ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Free snacks and drinks
Lunch and learns
Family medical leave
Health insurance
Remote work program
Promote from within

January

Financial Services + Fintech
About us
At January, we bring humanity to consumer finance. Using data intelligence, we create trust and deliver better outcomes for consumers and creditors alike. Our mission is simple: expand access to credit while empowering consumers to achieve lasting stability and control of their financial lives.

We began by building the foundation ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Mental health benefits
Bereavement leave benefits
Highly diverse management team
Health insurance
Free snacks and drinks
Vision insurance
What people are saying
"I love the people at January! Everyone you speak to is genuinely interested in you as a person, not just an employee. We have weekly coffee chats that are a great way to meet new people. Team collaboration is a verb for us, not just a saying."
Ray, Workplace Experience Manager Read all reviews
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Unlearn.AI

Artificial Intelligence + Generative AI
About us
Unlearn is advancing AI to eliminate trial and error in medicine, starting with reinventing clinical trials for the 21st century. We create AI-generated digital twins of individual trial participants that are forecasts of their future health outcomes. Digital twins of participants are used to run smaller, more efficient clinical trials that help ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Job training & conferences
Free snacks and drinks
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Quarterly engagement surveys
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Home-office stipend for remote employees

Parade.ai

Logistics + Software
About us
Parade is the leading capacity management platform for freight brokerages. By integrating with our customers' technology stack, we're able to create a single pane of glass that enables freight brokers to automate and scale their business. Parade's platform is built using cutting edge AI, Machine Learning, and advance automation ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
OKR operational model
Bereavement leave benefits
Open door policy
Company equity
Virtual coaching services
Flexible work schedule

Vareto

Enterprise Web + Fintech
About us
We automate and streamline repetitive, manual work so finance organizations can focus on driving the business forward. We're proudly backed by industry-leading investors, executives, and finance teams.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Open door policy
Wellness programs
Some meals provided
401(K) matching
Documented equal pay policy
Generous parental leave

Fractal Software

Angel or VC Firm + Financial Services
About us
Fractal provides aspiring entrepreneurs with a business idea, a highly capable and complementary co-founder, capital, and ongoing support. Together, we’ll create fast-growing vertical SaaS companies that help modernize overlooked American industries.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Mental health benefits
Company-sponsored happy hours
Friends outside of work
OKR operational model
Generous parental leave
Paid sick days

Xage Security

Information Technology + Security
About us
Xage is a global leader in zero trust access and protection on a mission to pioneer a secure tomorrow. Control access and prevent attacks in the cloud, in the data center, at the remote operational edge anywhere on Earth, and even in orbit with the Xage Fabric Platform. Xage is easy to manage and can be deployed in a day, giving users easy and ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Pair programming
Bereavement leave benefits
Open door policy
Flexible work schedule
Disability insurance
Mentorship program

Aalto

PropTech + Real Estate
About us
On Aalto, buyers and sellers directly connect in a new, tech-enabled way that helps everyone save time, stress, and money.

Our mission is to build a place where buyers and sellers come together to accomplish their homeownership goals through a trusted, flexible, and transparent experience.

Aalto has raised over $17M ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Friends outside of work
Paid holidays
401(K)
Mandated unconscious bias training
Disability insurance
Documented equal pay policy

UP.Labs

Angel or VC Firm + Automotive
About us
We work with global corporate partners to identify the most pressing challenges that they, and broader society, face. Inspired by these complex problems, we launch startups built by proven entrepreneurs, product leaders and technologists that use their agility and talent to develop transformative solutions. After these companies have matured and ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Life insurance
Free daily meals
Company-wide vacation
Employee stock purchase plan
Free snacks and drinks
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Stytch

Cybersecurity + Information Technology
About us
Stytch is the most powerful identity platform built for developers. By powerful, we mean:

**Comprehensive:** Stytch has everything you need to identify, authenticate, and manage your users, including fraud prevention tools like device fingerprinting.
**Adaptable:** Stytch is the only auth provider that enables you to build ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Promote from within
Mother's room
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Mandated unconscious bias training
Company-sponsored happy hours
Free daily meals

Finch

Fintech + HR Tech
About us
The world is moving towards more standardized, open, and interconnected data systems. However, employment infrastructure remains complex, closed, and fragmented.

Our mission is to democratize access to the infrastructure that underpins the employment sector and unlock much-needed innovations and create tremendous economic ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Documented equal pay policy
Mandated unconscious bias training
Family medical leave
Promote from within
Lunch and learns
Free daily meals
What people are saying
"I joined Finch because I would be working with very like-minded individuals who are hungry, who are passionate, and who are, quite frankly, smarter than me. That is the type of environment I strive to be in order to push myself and the team. "
Phil , Account Executive Read all reviews

Onfleet

Software + Transportation
About us
Onfleet helps businesses around the globe power their deliveries.

Our mission is to make it easy for every retailer to offer fast, affordable, and delightful delivery to their customers.

Our software platform includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Flexible work schedule
Company equity
Company-sponsored happy hours
Free snacks and drinks
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Vision insurance

Opto Investments

Financial Services + Fintech
About us
Opto Investments (“Opto”) are engineering the future of private markets, offering the solution for wealth managers to efficiently build and manage differentiated private investment programs.

Opto’s end-to-end technology solution dramatically streamlines building, fundraising for, and managing a bespoke private markets fund or ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Customized development tracks
Some meals provided
Dental insurance
What people are saying
"The culture is built to encourage open dialogue. And we can take good ideas and make them reality very quickly. It's exciting to be part of. "
Matt Malone, Head of Investment Management Read all reviews

Tonic.ai

Enterprise Web + Machine Learning
About us
Tonic.ai was born out of a very tangible, practical need: equipping developers with high-quality, realistic data for dev and testing. Admittedly, it makes us sound like just another developer tool, but at the core of that need is our belief for why it truly matters. We wholeheartedly believe that data privacy is a human right. It isn’t just about ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Flexible work schedule
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Company equity
Open door policy
401(K)
Continuing education available during work hours

Rune Labs

Information Technology
About us
Every day, thousands of brain images and signals are captured during clinical trials and in the course of routine patient care. Our software platform helps partners in med-tech and pharma ingest, organize, and analyze large amounts of brain data, all on state-of-the-art secure cloud infrastructure. Enabled by brain data, StrivePD, our patient and ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Life insurance
401(K)
Free snacks and drinks
Generous parental leave
Job training & conferences
OKR operational model

Tango.us

Cloud + Edtech
About us
Tired of taking manual screenshots or recording (and re-recording…) videos for documentation? We hear you. Tango takes the pain out of documenting processes by automatically generating how-to guides while you work.

Easily share and scale your team's knowledge—all while conducting business as usual. No more disruptions, ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Employee stock purchase plan
Some meals provided
Flexible work schedule
Vision insurance
Mental health benefits
Promote from within

Deepgram

Artificial Intelligence + Machine Learning
About us
Our end-to-end deep neural network is revolutionizing the speech-to-text market and taking on the big guys. We’re redefining what companies can do with voice by offering a platform with AI architectural advantage, not legacy tech retrofitted with AI. We’ve raised over $56M and have been recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace (2021 and 2022), a ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
OKR operational model
Paid sick days
Company-sponsored outings
Life insurance
Family medical leave
What people are saying
""Fun people who really strive to support each other. No spotlight hogs. These folks give credit where it's due. Fully remote but they strive to be well connected and foster relationships. They hire quality people and let them do what they're good at."
Deepgram Employee, Read all reviews

Arc Technologies

Financial Services + Fintech
About us
Arc is the future of startup finance. Founded in 2021, Arc converts startups’ future revenue into upfront capital, provides a cash management account to store, manage and spend funds, and delivers financial analytics to drive growth. The company is based in San Francisco and is funded by Left Lane Capital, NFX, Bain Capital Ventures, Clocktower ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company-sponsored happy hours
Open door policy
Family medical leave
Cross functional training encouraged
Eat lunch together
Continuing education stipend

Culture Biosciences

Biotech + Cloud
About us
Culture’s mission is to make bioprocess development and scale-up as fast and easy as scaling software. Towards this aim, Culture’s first offering enables biopharma, biotechnology, and synthetic biology companies to run their bioprocessing R&D in the cloud. Clients design, manage, and analyze bioprocess experiments in Culture’s Console web ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Paid holidays
Employee resource groups
Employee awards
Free daily meals
Generous parental leave
Onsite gym

WeaveGrid

Automotive + Energy
About us
Our mission is to drive rapid decarbonization in global transport and power sectors by intelligently connecting electric vehicles to the grid.
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous parental leave
Some meals provided
Paid holidays
401(K)
Unlimited vacation policy
Remote work program

Relyance AI

Data Privacy + Software
About us
We are building the trust and governance infrastructure for the internet.

Data protection and trust go beyond borders, beyond organizations, and beyond individual teams.

Believing that the global data protection and privacy environments have been far more complex than they should be, Relyance is reimagining what data ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental insurance
Mental health benefits
Promote from within
Open door policy
Flexible work schedule
Company-sponsored outings

Hex

Analytics + Artificial Intelligence
About us
We're building a collaborative platform for data science and analytics. Our product empowers users to explore, analyze, and share data more effectively and has become essential to how data teams at 800+ companies like Notion, Brex, and Fivetran operate.

Every day, Hex empowers thousands of people to ask and answer new ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Life insurance
Continuing education stipend
Some meals provided
Open office floor plan
Paid sick days
Remote work program

ALT

Fintech
About us
We’re a passionate bunch dedicated to transforming collectible cards – and eventually other assets such as watches, sneakers, and art – into investable assets. Join our thriving team that is redefining the alternative investing space!
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company equity
Commuter benefits
Open office floor plan
Health insurance
Continuing education stipend
Fitness stipend

Nirvana Insurance

Information Technology + Insurance
About us
Nirvana is on a mission to modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. Our technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.

To start, we’re transforming the legacy, $750B+ commercial insurance industry ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid sick days
Company equity
Highly diverse management team
Team based strategic planning

Dealpath

Analytics + Cloud
About us
Dealpath is the industry’s most trusted cloud-based real estate investment management platform, providing real-time access to vetted, secure, up-to-date investment data to empower collaboration, strategic, and predictive decisions. Investment and development firms leverage Dealpath as their command center for smart pipeline tracking, powerful deal ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous parental leave
Open office floor plan
Childcare benefits
Free snacks and drinks
Mental health benefits
Vision insurance

Memfault

Big Data + Cloud
About us
Memfault is the first IoT reliability platform that empowers teams to build more robust devices with software at scale. We believe that device reliability engineering will transform how developers build and operate IoT and edge devices with more productivity and more collaboration. As IoT applications continue to grow in complexity, it is more ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Family medical leave
Employee-led culture committees
Free daily meals
Hybrid work model
Remote work program
What people are saying
"The team at Memfault is one of the most widely skilled groups of people I've been lucky enough to work with- the enthusiasm everyone brings every day makes our work an absolute joy!"
Noah, Firmware Solutions Engineer Read all reviews

SamaCare

Healthtech
About us
SamaCare helps to eliminate the administrative barriers that limit patient access to life-changing therapies. Insurance-related administrative hassles for prescription drugs worsen outcomes for patients, delay therapy, and result in over $100B of administrative waste for the US healthcare system. Medical providers are forced to manage these ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Paid holidays
Team based strategic planning
Unlimited vacation policy
401(K)
Pair programming
Company equity

StreamNative

Big Data + Cloud
About us
Founded by the original creators of Apache Pulsar, StreamNative offers the most cost-effective data streaming platform. It is Kafka API-compatible, easy to operate and scale. StreamNative rearchitected data streaming from ground up making sure it scales without high cost and without sacrificing performance. It’s available across all three major ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Remote work program
Disability insurance
Company equity
Promote from within
Company-sponsored outings
Life insurance

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