- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
What is Best Places to Work?
Best Places to Work rates companies algorithmically based on compensation and employer benefits data they provide to us.
50 BEST SMALL COMPANIES TO WORK FOR IN San Francisco
Philo
Cloud + Digital Media
About us
Inspired by Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, Philo was created to build a better TV experience. The company started in the college market and is available nationwide, offering subscribers dozens of top-rated television channels for a low monthly subscription.
71
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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
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
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Superhuman
Consumer Web + Productivity
About us
We rebuilt the inbox from the ground up to make you brilliant at what you do. We specifically designed it for those of you who want the best.
Superhuman is gorgeous. Blazingly fast. And comes with advanced features that make you feel superhuman.
Superhuman is so fast, delightful, and intelligent — you’ll feel like you have superpowers.
45
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Bloomberg Second Measure
Big Data + Fintech
About us
Bloomberg 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.
37
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Carrum Health
Healthtech
About us
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, we’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. We do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive
38
Local Employees
Founded
Sprig
Software
About us
Sprig has pioneered a new approach to product research that helps companies learn from their customers in real-time and deliver award-winning product experiences. Companies like Dropbox, Square, Opendoor, Loom and Shift all use Sprig to understand their customers at the pace of modern software development, so they can build customer-centric
30
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
PicnicHealth
Healthtech + Machine Learning
About us
PicnicHealth believes the key to improving healthcare is giving everyone access to their own health data. That's why PicnicHealth has created a new way for patients and scientists to interact with complete medical records. PicnicHealth works directly with patients to bring labs, images, doctor's notes, and more all in one place. For patients
40
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Tonkean
Artificial Intelligence + Information Technology
About us
Tonkean is the OS for business operations, transforming operations teams from facilitators into makers with an enterprise-grade, no-code process orchestration platform. By abstracting the technical knowledge required to automate, monitor, and manage mission-critical business processes, Tonkean enables enterprises to drive operational efficiency
31
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Doorvest
Fintech + Real Estate
About us
Our all-in-one solution gives customers access to the upside potential of real estate investing while hedging against downside risk. This means customers make more while paying less.
Doorvest officially launched in April 2020 and despite a global pandemic, has grown exponentially.. In the first five months of 2021, Doorvest grew 13x and are
13
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Afresh
Artificial Intelligence + Retail
About us
Afresh has built the first Fresh Operating System—a solution created specifically for fresh inventory, forecasting, ordering, and grocery store operations. Our approach blends fresh-first AI and human insight to drive profits for grocers, provide fresher food for people, and improve sustainability in the fresh supply chain.
60
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Codefresh
Software
About us
Codefresh is the first cloud-native DevOps automation platform. Our mission is simple: to provide a platform and practices that enable companies to confidently ship code faster. We help automate GitOps workflows and advanced deployments such as Canary and Blue/Green and are the premium Argo enterprise solution. Companies like Gap, GoodRx, Monday
37
Local Employees
Founded
Mountain View
Location
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
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
CodeSignal
HR Tech + Information Technology
About us
Founded in 2015, we are the first company to develop an objective skills-based assessment platform that can be used as a standard for technical hiring. CodeSignal helps companies #GoBeyondResumes with automated and live technical interviewing solutions!
We have built a suite of three products, Certify, Test & Interview, to support our mission to
50
Local Employees
Founded
San Fransisco
Location
Peace Out Skincare
Beauty
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
Ladder
Fintech + Insurance
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 on
50
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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.
14
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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
Deepgram
Artificial Intelligence + Natural Language Processing
About us
Legacy speech recognition tech is slow, inaccurate, and expensive. It’s time to stop settling for out-of-the-box solutions that don’t meet enterprise needs. Deepgram is the only true end-to-end Deep Learning ASR offering real-time transcription, built to scale. Use it alone or on top of your existing tech and see results in weeks, not months or
33
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Carbon Five
Agency + Software
About us
At Carbon Five, we are a group of curious individuals dedicated to building exceptional products for awesome clients, in a healthy, sustainable way.
Over the last 20 years, we have learned a whole lot about what it takes to successfully build, launch, and scale digital products and grow agile teams. From startups to Fortune 500 companies, we've
29
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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
Meter
Hardware + Software
About us
Meter is a startup building next-generation volumetric imaging technology. We are using innovative hardware and software to transform manufacturing inspection with the goal of reducing costs by more than 10x. Our technology will give engineers, designers, and eventually medical practitioners more confidence in their processes and lower the barrier
15
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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.
20
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Assembled
Software
About us
Assembled is building the operating system for support teams. Today, our workforce management product helps some of the most customer-centric brands (Stripe, Betterment, and Everlane, to name a few) deliver responsive and empathetic customer experiences. Come help us build for the teams who are quietly carrying their companies each day, and for the
Founded
Torch
HR Tech
About us
We are coaches, psychologists, entrepreneurs, and people managers who have seen firsthand the impact of thoughtful leadership. We’ve also seen the chaos that results from ill-equipped leaders at the helm.
This is why we exist – to build better leaders.
Torch's flexible platform combines both humans and technology to deliver digital learning
80
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
kea
Artificial Intelligence + Food
About us
Launched in 2018, kea is changing the way restaurants operate. We've built a SaaS voice product that takes calls on the behalf of the restaurant, helping customers place their orders without having to speak to someone in the store. This allows the restaurant to stop context-switching and focus on what they do best: making great food. We've raised
43
Local Employees
Founded
Coil
Consumer Web + Payments
About us
Coil is building a better business model for the web. Coil makes it easy for creators to monetize their content across the internet, and provides an alternative to invasive ads and site-by-site subscription models. As members enjoy content, Coil uses an open web standard called Web Monetization o stream micropayments to creators in real time.
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Scalero
Agency + Information Technology
About us
Scalero is a lifecycle marketing studio. We help companies with their email marketing and build tools to make email marketing workflow simpler.
5
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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
Aerial Canvas
Marketing Tech + Real Estate
About us
Aerial Canvas is a real estate media company serving San Francisco Bay. We specialize in producing stunning photos, cinematic video tours, aerial drone videography, 4k 3D tours by Matterport, dedicated property websites, and the latest marketing solutions for the real estate industry. We're the go-to company to create all marketing content for
Founded
San Carlos
Location
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
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
Intellimize
Machine Learning + Marketing Tech
About us
We know that website personalization is key to successful conversion and are on a mission to deliver that capability to more organizations and their customers. We work with A-list companies including Snowflake, Drift, Sumo Logic, Dermalogica, Unilever Prestige, Tableau, Gong, Looker, Sunbasket and many more, and we are uniquely positioned to
25
Local Employees
Founded
San Mateo
Location
Beautiful.Ai
Software
About us
It’s an expert deck designer; that builds designer presentations. Make your business look brilliant, keep your team forever on brand, and save hours on pitches you’re actually proud of.
20
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Artesian Builds
3D Printing + eCommerce
About us
Artesian Builds is the largest business in the world operating almost entirely on twitch.tv (yes the video game streaming site, that's the one!), where we bring live hardware builds and other interesting projects to life every single day. From both coasts of the US, we provide legendary support, the best parts in the world, and LIVE entertainment.
30
Local Employees
Founded
Flair
Energy + Greentech
About us
We’re building next-generation data-driven controls and energy management technology that bring home heating and cooling into the 21st century. Our Puck distributed wireless thermostat and Smart Vents use sophisticated algorithms and real-time data to deliver automated comfort.
2
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Angle Health
Healthtech + Insurance
About us
Angle Health is a full-stack health insurance carrier delivering comprehensive healthcare benefits tailored to startups and technology companies. Angle's fully digital platform delivers a first-of-its-kind employer and member experience that centers around ease of use, personalization, and better access to care. Currently launched in Utah, Angle
3
Local Employees
Founded
San Francisco
Location
Greg
Greentech + Machine Learning
About us
Our goal is to build the future of living with plants.
We've started by creating a delightful mobile app that helps people grow thriving plants. Our community has grown from 100 beta users in August 2020 to over 60,000 active users today. Plants have been watered with Greg over 3M times, and partners like The Sill and over 100 other retailers
2
Local Employees
Founded
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
Mutiny
Marketing Tech
About us
Virtually every B2B company serves multiple audiences with different needs, yet lacks sufficient technical resources to personalize their experience. Mutiny is a complete personalization platform that gives marketing and growth leaders everything they need to personalize their buying experience without dependencies on technical teams.
Founded
San Francisco
Location
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
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
Canny
Productivity + Professional Services
About us
Canny helps companies build better software products by being better at listening to and acting on user feedback.
Billions of people use software products every day. By helping software providers figure out which features to build and which bugs to fix, we're improving UX and efficiency at a global scale.
– Profitable early-stage startup, 10
Founded
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
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
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
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