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
Continuing education stipend
Generous PTO
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Life insurance
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company-sponsored outings

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
Lunch and learns
Pair programming
Flexible time off
Team based strategic planning
Generous PTO
Floating holidays

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
Flexible work schedule
Pet insurance
Pair programming
Promote from within
Life insurance
Dental insurance

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
Commuter benefits
Childcare benefits
Performance bonus
Free daily meals
Volunteer in local community
Health insurance

Galileo

Artificial Intelligence + Big Data
About us
Galileo is the AI observability and evaluation platform that helps engineers ship reliable agents.

With one line of code, Galileo provides instant insight into multi-agent behavior so teams can find & fix errors quickly. Galileo provides automated testing in the development lifecycle to prevent regressions. And Galileo is ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Commuter benefits
Life insurance
Unlimited vacation policy
Wellness days
Remote work program
Paid sick days
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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
Vision insurance
Commuter benefits
Open office floor plan
Team based strategic planning
Flexible work schedule
Pair programming

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
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Company-sponsored happy hours
Paid volunteer time
Mentorship program
Family medical leave

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
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Quarterly engagement surveys
Open door policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Flexible work schedule
Paid volunteer time

OpenSea

Blockchain + Cryptocurrency
About us
At OpenSea, we’re building the destination for the onchain economy — a place where anyone, anywhere, can trade everything seamlessly. In 2021, we helped bring the first wave of everyday internet users onchain, introducing millions to digital ownership through NFTs. Collectors, artists, gamers, and creators all found a new way to own and exchange ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Quarterly engagement surveys
Wellness days
Generous parental leave
Disability insurance
Paid sick days
Team based strategic planning

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
Hybrid work model
Generous PTO
Continuing education available during work hours
Free daily meals
Floating holidays
Online course subscriptions available

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
Unlimited vacation policy
Employee awards
Health insurance
Mental health benefits
Open office floor plan
OKR operational model

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
Mandated unconscious bias training
Bereavement leave benefits
Paid holidays
Free snacks and drinks
Flexible time off
Hiring practices that promote diversity
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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
Dental insurance
Paid sick days
Job training & conferences
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Wellness programs
Wellness days
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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
Mental health benefits
401(K)
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Employee-led culture committees
Adoption Assistance
Diversity employee resource groups

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
Charitable contribution matching
Transgender health care benefits
Generous PTO
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Highly diverse management team
401(K)
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
401(K)
Health insurance
Some meals provided
Open door policy
Life insurance
Dental insurance

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
Company-sponsored outings
Flexible work schedule
Documented equal pay policy
401(K)
Some meals provided
Home-office stipend for remote employees

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
Mother's room
Generous parental leave
Promote from within
Highly diverse management team
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Free snacks and drinks

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
Vision insurance
401(K)
Lunch and learns
OKR operational model
Transgender health care benefits
Unlimited vacation policy

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
Online course subscriptions available
Flexible work schedule
Generous PTO
Health insurance
401(K)
Vision insurance

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
Online course subscriptions available
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Hybrid work model
Team based strategic planning
Some meals provided
Hiring practices that promote diversity

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
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Vision insurance
Paid industry certifications
401(K)
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule

January

Analytics + Artificial Intelligence
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
Mother's room
Some meals provided
Mental health benefits
Highly diverse management team
Vision insurance
Volunteer in local community
What people are saying
"We have fun! We celebrate our wins and support each other's interests. This allows everyone to bring their true selves to work. Time off is required and supported through unlimited vacation. We believe in work/life balance and don’t glorify burnout."
Lina , Compliance 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
Performance bonus
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Mother's room
Free snacks and drinks
Virtual coaching services
Company equity

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
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Team based strategic planning
Open door policy
Virtual coaching services
Performance bonus
Return-to-work program post parental leave

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
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Company equity
Paid holidays
Remote work program
Diversity recruitment program
Disability insurance

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
Performance bonus
Free snacks and drinks
Generous parental leave
401(K)
Wellness programs
Disability insurance

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
Company-sponsored happy hours
Mentorship program
Company-sponsored outings
Remote work program
Team based strategic planning
Job training & conferences

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
Cross functional training encouraged
Generous PTO
Job training & conferences
Paid holidays
Open door policy
Life insurance

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
Commuter benefits
Vision insurance
Lunch and learns
Team based strategic planning
Flexible time off
Free snacks and drinks

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
Mother's room
Commuter benefits
Vision insurance
Company-sponsored outings
Paid holidays
Quarterly engagement surveys

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
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Flexible work schedule
Documented equal pay policy
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
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
Paid volunteer time
Generous parental leave
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Free snacks and drinks
Return-to-work program post parental leave

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
Paid sick days
Fitness stipend
Life insurance
Open office floor plan
Company-sponsored outings
Unlimited vacation policy
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 frees developers to build with safe, high-fidelity synthetic data to accelerate software and AI innovation while protecting data privacy. Through industry-leading solutions for data synthesis, de-identification, and subsetting, our products enable on-demand access to realistic structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data for ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Continuing education available during work hours
Vision insurance
Company-sponsored outings
Unlimited vacation policy
Promote from within
Some meals provided

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
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Life insurance
Flexible work schedule
Open office floor plan
Remote work program
Company equity

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
Unlimited vacation policy
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Remote work program
Promote from within

Deepgram

Artificial Intelligence + Conversational AI
About us
Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS) and full speech-to-speech (STS) offerings. 200,000+ developers build with Deepgram’s voice-native foundational models – accessed through APIs or as self-managed software – due to our unmatched accuracy, latency and pricing. Customers ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous parental leave
Open office floor plan
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Vision insurance
Paid holidays
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
Free snacks and drinks
Free daily meals
Casual Dress
Group brainstorming sessions
Remote work program
Diversity Program

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
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Open office floor plan
Onsite gym
Flexible work schedule
401(K) matching
Free daily meals

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
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Paid sick days
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Dental insurance
Life insurance
Lunch and learns

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
Flexible work schedule
Health insurance
Life insurance
Mental health benefits
Childcare benefits
Onsite office parking

Hex

Analytics + Artificial Intelligence
About us
Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility.

We are a ...
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Some meals provided
Paid sick days
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Company equity

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
Mental health benefits
Promote from within
Team workouts
Mentorship program
Commuter benefits
Paid holidays

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
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Flexible time off
Fitness stipend
Disability insurance
Highly diverse management team
Vision insurance

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
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Open office floor plan
Family medical leave
Onsite office parking
Open door policy
Volunteer in local community

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
Dental insurance
Paid sick days
Promote from within
401(K)
Paid holidays
Hiring practices that promote diversity
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
Vision insurance
Pet friendly
Unlimited vacation policy
Flexible work schedule
Mandated unconscious bias training
Hiring practices that promote diversity

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
OKR operational model
Remote work program
Company-sponsored outings
Vision insurance
Team based strategic planning
Life insurance

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