50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN the Bay Area 2021

Point

Fintech + Real Estate
About us
Point is on a mission to help the millions of equity-rich, but cash-constrained, Americans tap into their homes’ wealth to attain greater financial freedom. Point is truly aligned with consumers’ interests—when the homeowner does well, Point and its investors do well, too.
90
Local Employees
Founded
Palo Alto
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Wellness Programs
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Highly diverse management team
Friends outside of work
Eat lunch together
Health Insurance Benefits
What people are saying
"My first day with Point was our first day of SIP. The company has done a great job navigating uncertain times, and the transparency throughout has been second to none. We are really living that core value. The people make each day great!"

Seesaw

Edtech + Kids + Family
About us
Seesaw is a learning platform that brings educators, students and families together to deepen student learning. Teachers design and facilitate powerful learning experiences, students create, reflect, collaborate, and make their learning visible, and families actively support and celebrate student learning. Seesaw is used by over 10 million teachers
51
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Wellness Programs
401(K)
Paid Holidays
Child Care Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Eat lunch together
What people are saying
"“Seesaw has a small, talented team building a universally-praised product that reaches millions of students every day. Where else could I have such an outsized impact on a mission I care so much about?”

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Second Measure

Big Data + Fintech
About us
Second Measure is a technology company that analyzes billions of anonymized purchases to help some of the world’s largest brands and investment firms answer real-time questions on company performance and consumer behavior.
40
Local Employees
Founded
San Mateo
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous Parental Leave
401(K)
Company Outings
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Casual Dress
Stocked Kitchen
What people are saying
"Second Measure is a place that values inclusion, diversity, innovation, collaboration, client focus & so much more. The product we are building solves real-life problems and brings value to our clients which makes my day feel impactful and rewarding."

Lemonaid Health

Healthtech
About us
Lemonaid Health is leading a second wave of telehealth where technology algorithms power quality care. Lemonaid leverages evidence-based guidelines and the most up-to-date clinical protocols to offer a service direct to consumer for less than typical co-pays.
40
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Hiring Practices that Promote Diversity
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Life Insurance
Vision Benefits
Commuter Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Big Health

Healthtech
About us
Big Health’s mission is to help millions back to good mental health. And we are well on our way, with more than 12 million people across 60+ countries with access to Sleepio™ for helping individuals address poor sleep and Daylight™ for helping individuals address worry and anxiety. Join us!
52
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Diversity Program
Family Medical Leave
Hiring Practices that Promote Diversity
Team based strategic planning
Company Equity
401(K) Matching

Armory

Information Technology + Software
About us
Software is the highest-leverage way for companies to create enterprise value, and forward-thinking enterprises are increasingly empowering their developers to own their services, from code to the cloud. Netflix built Spinnaker – the world’s most powerful multi-cloud continuous delivery platform – to deliver on this vision at massive scale. With
Founded
San Mateo
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Lunch and learns
Performance Bonus
Open door policy
Mental Health Benefits
Stocked Kitchen
Company Outings

Directly

Artificial Intelligence + Enterprise Web
About us
Directly is a leader in intelligent automation, helping enterprises automate customer support in digital messaging channels. Companies like Airbnb, Microsoft, and Samsung use our expert intelligence platform to analyze their contact center interactions and strategically answer, automate, and prevent customer issues.
62
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Casual Dress
Vision Benefits
Lunch and learns
Recreational Clubs
Dental Benefits
Disability Insurance

Duetto

Travel
About us
Learn. Innovate. Have an Impact. Duetto is the only true cloud technology company dedicated to improving the lives of hospitality professionals everywhere through the use of data and analytics, automation and AI. We work with thousands of hotels to ingest a wealth of data, including hundreds of millions of search events, reservations, and
81
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Family Medical Leave
Company Outings
Mental Health Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Onsite Gym
Generous PTO
What people are saying
"Duetto is committed to hiring amazing people. I couldn't ask for a more dedicated, hardworking group of people to work with. "
About us
Founded in 2017 by Enrico Frezza, Peace Out Skincare is changing the industry by developing first-to-market tech solutions for men and women. Their best-selling products combine unique formulations of high quality, active ingredients and cutting-edge delivery systems. Peace Out is determined to bring easy to use results for skin's biggest problems.
12
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Life Insurance
Dental Benefits
Free Daily Meals
Open door policy
401(K)
Group brainstorming sessions

Simon Data

Big Data + Marketing Tech
About us
Simon Data is the first and only enterprise customer data platform with a fully-integrated marketing cloud. Our platform empowers businesses to leverage enterprise-scale big data and machine learning to power customer communications in any channel. Simon’s unique approach allows brands to develop incredible personalization capabilities.
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Someone's primary function is managing the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives
Promote from within
Family Medical Leave
Team owned deliverables
Fitness Subsidies
Paid Volunteer Time
What people are saying
"Starting as an engineer at Simon has given me the opportunity to take the lead on projects and responsibilities far outside the typical scope of a junior engineering role and helped me to grow rapidly as an engineer."

Nylas

Software
About us
At Nylas, our mission is to empower the world to communicate with context and insight. Our hosted sync platform and APIs enable developers to quickly integrate their apps with email, contacts, and calendar across all providers.
36
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Pair programming
Lunch and learns
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Diversity manifesto
Highly diverse management team
Unlimited Vacation Policy

Aisera

Artificial Intelligence + Cloud
About us
Aisera offers the world's first AI-driven service experience solution that automates operations and support for IT, Sales and customer service, making businesses and customers successful by offering consumer-like self-service resolutions to users. Aisera fast tracks the digital transformation journey with user and service behavioral intelligence
70
Local Employees
Founded
Palo Alto
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Life Insurance
Happy Hours
Family Medical Leave
Team owned deliverables
Generous PTO
Health Insurance Benefits

Elevate Labs

Edtech + Gaming
About us
Elevate Labs is on a mission to improve people's minds. Our flagship mobile app, Elevate, teaches concrete cognitive skills in reading, writing, and math, through 35 games. Our second app, Balance, is a personalized meditation app, that helps people with their stress, sleep, focus, and much more. Open roles: https://jobs.lever.co/elevatelabs
26
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco, US
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health Insurance Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Daily stand up
Generous PTO
Paid Sick Days
Company Equity

Vendition

Edtech + Sales
About us
Vendition is a Sales Apprenticeship program that gives individuals the training and experience needed to earn entry-level jobs in tech sales. With minimal sales majors or sales internships available, Vendition helps individuals with little or no sales background acquire the skills needed to launch their careers in tech sales.
20
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Time allotted for learning
Health Insurance Benefits
Free Daily Meals
Unconscious bias training
Unlimited Vacation Policy
Eat lunch together

Outschool

Edtech
About us
Outschool is a marketplace of live online classes for kids. Our mission is to inspire kids to love learning. We provide small group classes that meet over live video chat where learners are connected with teachers and classmates who share their interests. These classes are offered through our marketplace and conducted on our remote learning
98
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco, US
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental Benefits
Partners with Nonprofits
Pair programming
Unlimited Vacation Policy
Hiring Practices that Promote Diversity
Vision Benefits

Sisu

Big Data + Enterprise Web
About us
Sisu (sisudata.com) is an augmented analytics platform purpose-built to help analysts prioritize their time, quickly investigate metrics, and automatically surfacing meaningful changes in their data. Based on years of research at Stanford University, Sisu uses machine learning and powerful statistical analysis to help data teams spend more time...
50
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company Outings
Commuter Benefits
Daily stand up
Team owned deliverables
Team based strategic planning
Casual Dress

Roostify

Software
About us
Roostify is a web and mobile service that simplifies and accelerates the home-buying experience. We provide step-by-step guidance in the home and loan closing process and allow agents, loan officers and home buyers to share and track critical information seamlessly. Our secure interface improves client responsiveness and referrals for agents,
61
Local Employees
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company Equity
Dental Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Flexible Work Schedule
Vision Benefits
Stocked Kitchen

Osaro

Software
About us
OSARO is AI for industrial automation. In essence, OSARO’s software enables industrial robots to perform diverse tasks in a wide range of environments. OSARO is transitioning the industry from static robotic systems into dynamic solutions. PRODUCTS OSARO Pick is a full suite of machine-learning software, which automates piece picking for
45
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Stocked Kitchen
Dental Benefits
Generous Parental Leave
Pet Friendly
401(K)
Company Equity

Dealpath

Software
About us
We believe that real estate is driven by people with information to shape our built world. At Dealpath, our goal is to transform the way the built world operates by powering its investors and developers with best-in-class tools and technology. With smart pipeline tracking, collaborative workflows, and powerful reporting, Dealpath enables real
43
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Wellness Programs
Disability Insurance
Vision Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Dental Benefits
Generous PTO

Truebill

Fintech & Mobile
About us
Truebill develops a mobile app that helps consumers take control of their financial lives. Truebill leverages AI to analyze users’ spending habits, identify inefficiencies, and take action to ultimately improve their financial health. The app allows people to optimize their spending, manage subscriptions, lower their bills, even set aside money to
20
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Stocked Kitchen
Free Daily Meals
401(K) Matching
Dental Benefits
Company Equity
Vision Benefits

CareMessage

Healthtech
About us
CareMessage is the largest patient engagement platform for underserved populations in the United States. We envision a world where all people regardless of income or background achieve equitable health outcomes. We power the care for more than 7 million underserved patients at over 300 safety net organizations nationwide who receive timely
10
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Disability Insurance
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
Dental Benefits
Vision Benefits
Sabbatical

OnFleet

Logistics
About us
Our mission is to make local delivery efficient and delightful. Onfleet makes it easy for businesses to manage and analyze their local delivery operations. Our product includes intuitive smartphone apps for drivers, a powerful modern web dashboard for dispatchers, and automatic notifications and real-time tracking for recipients. Onfleet has powere
44
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Stocked Kitchen
Commuter Benefits
Life Insurance
401(K)
Vision Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits

Chronicled

Blockchain + Fintech
About us
Based in San Francisco, Chronicled is a technology company leveraging blockchain and IoT to power smart, secure supply chain solutions. The company has developed a decentralized protocol and network for supply chain to enforce cross-organization business rules without revealing private data.
37
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Commuter Benefits
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
Vision Benefits
Free Daily Meals
Fitness Subsidies

Sourcegraph

Software
About us
With rapidly growing codebases, proliferating number of repos, multiple languages and file formats, and a wide variety of developer tools, Sourcegraph Universal Code Search empowers developers to quickly explore and better understand all code faster. Code navigation and code exploration improves developer productivity, contextual code
28
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Remote Work Program
Job Training & Conferences
401(K)
Wellness Programs
Time allotted for learning
Dental Benefits

WeVideo

Software
About us
WeVideo is the leading online video creation platform, providing editing, collaboration, and sharing capabilities across any device. Anyone can access WeVideo, from any computer or device at home, work, or on the go to capture, edit, view and share with secure storage of their content in the cloud.
37
Local Employees
Founded
Mountain View
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Free Daily Meals
Health Insurance Benefits
Stocked Kitchen
Generous PTO
Dental Benefits
401(K)

Kiddom

Kids + Family
About us
Kiddom is taking schools and districts into the future of personalized teaching and learning to help educators meet the needs of every learner. For the first time, open digital curriculum, instruction, and assessments are connected, all in one place. With Kiddom, curriculum teams deliver the highest quality digital curriculum into the hands of
32
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Disability Insurance
Flexible Work Schedule
Life Insurance
Company Equity
Health Insurance Benefits
Vision Benefits

Fieldwire

Software
About us
Construction companies of all sizes use Fieldwire to power clear communication on over 750,000 projects worldwide. With its easy-to-use mobile application, Fieldwire saves each user 1 hour every day by enabling more efficient information sharing onsite. Fieldwire’s key features include plan viewing, task management, issue tracking, reporting, and
60
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Vision Benefits
Dental Benefits
Generous PTO
Health Insurance Benefits
401(K)
Free Daily Meals

Socotra

Software
About us
Socotra is focused on delivering agility to the trillion-dollar global insurance industry. Socotra works with global insurers to modernize their technology, making it easier for them to focus on creating innovative products to grow their business. Serving one of the world's largest and most technologically neglected industries, Socotra's mission
32
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental Benefits
Flexible Work Schedule
Vision Benefits
Wellness Programs
Health Insurance Benefits
Some Meals Provided

Blueboard

HR Tech
About us
Blueboard is the employee rewards and recognition platform for the modern workplace. Blueboard enables companies to reward top employees with memorable, personal and shareable experiences. Experiences as rewards not only provide a more meaningful avenue for employee recognition, but also create a lasting impact on your top engagement metrics (like
16
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Company Equity
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
Continuing Education stipend
Company Outings
Paid Sick Days

mmhmm

Productivity
About us
mmhmm is a new way to communicate via video with tools that make presentations more professional…. and happy hours way more fun.
11
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
401(K)
Generous Parental Leave
Vision Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Dental Benefits

Chairish

Fashion + Retail
About us
Chairish is a curated online marketplace for the best of vintage and used furniture. We make it fun and easy for design lovers to buy and sell vintage and used furniture and, home decor to one another. The Chairish iPhone app provides on-the-go access to great finds at great prices, anytime and anywhere.
45
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous PTO
Documented equal pay policy
Highly diverse management team
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
Flexible Work Schedule

CloudPassage

Security
About us
Founded in 2010, CloudPassage® is a security pioneer awarded the first-ever patents for universal cloud infrastructure security and is a leading innovator in cloud asset visibility. CloudPassage Halo® is an award-winning security solution purpose-built for the cloud that helps customers automatically discover cloud assets, reduce their attack
26
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
401(K)
Life Insurance
Dental Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Vision Benefits

Plate iQ

Fintech + Software
About us
Plate IQ makes automates Accounts Payable. Automated accounts payable software replaces manual data entry by digitizing your invoices down to the line item, automatically assigning them your proper GL codes, syncing the information to your accounting software, and providing analytics around purchasing. Plate IQ also offers one-click bill pay,
21
Local Employees
Founded
Emeryville
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental Benefits
Generous PTO
Health Insurance Benefits
401(K)
Flexible Work Schedule

Motava

Agency + Digital Media
About us
Motava is a digital marketing agency focused on delivering results for businesses who want to grow. We focus on offering web design/development, content marketing, SEO/Linkbuilding, PPC, and also business technology services with a proven track record of helping our clients achieve success. You can view our portfolio here: www.motava.com/portfolio
7
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Highly diverse management team
Flexible Work Schedule
Generous PTO
Friends outside of work
401(K)
Remote Work Program

Extend

Software
About us
Extend allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans though our easy to integrate APIs, or pre built eCommerce applications. We power extended warranties both online and offline, while also providing consumers with a modern, digitally native, experience that eliminates the issues customers face today with legacy offerings.
62
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental Benefits
Remote Work Program
Generous PTO
Health Insurance Benefits
Some Meals Provided
Stocked Kitchen

Deepgram

Software
About us
Deepgram builds Speech Recognition for Enterprise. Powered by our own Deep Learning models, our scalable API reliably translates high-value audio into parsable data with industry leading accuracy.
33
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Unlimited Vacation Policy
Vision Benefits
Dental Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Stocked Kitchen

Carrot Fertility

Healthtech
About us
Carrot is a complete global fertility solution for today's modern employers, providing flexible financial coverage and expert care navigation across the U.S. and 40+ countries.
54
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Vision Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Unlimited Vacation Policy
Commuter Benefits
Dental Benefits

Flyr

Travel
About us
FLYR Labs brings together the best technologists to radically transform air travel through cutting edge technologies that are years ahead of what has been commercially available. We solve complex problems with beautifully engineered solutions that rely on Deep Learning (AI) and our end-to-end Managed Data Infrastructure to help leading airlines
25
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Some Meals Provided
Stocked Kitchen
Dental Benefits
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
Generous PTO

SafeBreach

Security
About us
SafeBreach helps answer the questions security leaders are being asked by their CEO/boards today - Are we secure?"​ and "Can a breach happen to us?"​ Our platform simulates hacker breach methods across the entire kill chain to identify breach scenarios in your environment before an attacker does. Think of it as your very own "virtual hacker"​
35
Local Employees
Founded
Sunnyvale
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous PTO
Health Insurance Benefits
Dental Benefits
Vision Benefits

Glow

Healthtech
About us
Glow is an ambitious enterprise that uniquely applies the power of data science to health. Our personal health tracking products illuminate health through data, and empower people with new information about their bodies. We’ve also created a thriving Community in which women across all stages in life, all over the world, support and learn from each
16
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Child Care Benefits
Wellness Programs
Health Insurance Benefits
Generous PTO
401(K)

Whisper

Healthtech
About us
Whisper is a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing. We set out to make the Whisper Hearing System so our parents, grandparents, friends, and teammates can have a tomorrow that sounds even better than today.
53
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Generous PTO
Stocked Kitchen
Health Insurance Benefits
Some Meals Provided
401(K)
Wellness Programs

SalesHood

Sales
About us
SalesHood is the Sales Enablement Platform teams use to quickly boost sales performance. SalesHood helps teams Learn, Coach and Sell faster, improving time to ramp, quota attainment and sales velocity. The SalesHood Platform is purpose-built to enable fast-paced sales teams to quickly boost sales productivity, at scale. SalesHood is modeled
21
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health Insurance Benefits
Vision Benefits
Dental Benefits

SimpleLegal

Legal Tech
About us
SimpleLegal is the modern legal operations platform for in-house legal. Easily track, manage, and report on legal spend, accruals, budgets, vendors and more with an intuitive UI that you and your law firms will actually like using.
33
Local Employees
Founded
Mountain View
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits
Vision Benefits
About us
Splice Machine is a scalable SQL database that enables companies to modernize their legacy and custom applications to be agile, data-rich, and intelligent – all without re-writes. Unlike other Big Data platforms that provide offline, batch analysis, Splice Machine powers intelligent applications that are woven into the operational workflows of
16
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Vision Benefits
Dental Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits

Datavant

Healthtech
About us
Datavant connects healthcare data to eliminate the silos of healthcare information that hold back innovative medical research and improved patient care. We help data owners manage the privacy, security, compliance, and trust required to enable safe data sharing.
49
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health Insurance Benefits
Dental Benefits
Vision Benefits

Pixlee

Social Media
About us
Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands leverage happy customers to grow their business. The platform curates customer-generated content in real-time, manages permission rights and easily integrates the content directly into multi-channel browsing and shopping experiences. Pixlee works with more than 150 brands such
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Dental Benefits
Vision Benefits
Health Insurance Benefits

Tempo

Fitness
About us
Be the first to experience Tempo—the game-changing home gym that tracks your motion and improves your form.
84
Local Employees
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health Insurance Benefits
Wellness Programs
Company Equity
Unlimited Vacation Policy
Team workouts

Collectively

Social Media
About us
Collectively—recently named on Fast Company's 2018 Most Innovative Companies list—is a full-service influencer marketing agency connecting brands with the most creative voices on social media. From our offices in San Francisco and New York City, we partner with forward-thinking brands in technology, fashion, retail, gaming, entertainment, consumer
24
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Health Insurance Benefits
Dental Benefits
401(K)

Poynt

Information Technology
About us
Poynt is a revolutionary open commerce platform empowering merchants with software and services to transform their business. Founded in 2013, Poynt reimagined the ubiquitous payment terminal into a connected, multi-purpose device that runs third-party apps. As smart terminals become mainstream, Poynt OS is an open operating system that can power
72
Local Employees
Founded
Palo Alto
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Paid Holidays
Some Meals Provided
401(K)
Health Insurance Benefits
About us
The Abnormal Security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Abnormal Behavior Technology (ABX) models the identity of both employees and external senders, profiles relationships and analyzes email content to stop attacks that lead to account takeover, financial damage and organizational mistrust. Though one-click, API-based
52
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
TOP PERKS + BENEFITS
Stocked Kitchen
Wellness Programs
Generous PTO
Health Insurance Benefits

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