This is a list of current and former companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area, broken down by type of business. Fortune 500 rankings are indicated in parentheses. The San Francisco Bay Area has more Fortune 500 headquarters than any other region except for the tri-state New York City region. Ranking is based on the list of the Fortune 500 companies from 2008. San Francisco based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been bought out by other companies and had their headquarters relocated.
BAE Systems – Arlington, San Jose
Hexcel Corporation – Dublin
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory – Livermore
Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Palo Alto
Lockheed Martin Space Systems – Sunnyvale
Made In Space, Inc. – Mountain View
NASA Ames Research Center – Sunnyvale
Space Systems Loral – Palo Alto
Titan Aerospace – Mountain View
Bebe – Brisbane
Charlotte Russe – San Francisco
Gap Inc. – San Francisco
Gymboree Corporation – San Francisco
JanSport – Alameda
Levi Strauss & Co. – San Francisco
Marmot – Santa Rosa
Mountain Hardwear – Richmond
The North Face – Alameda
O'Neill – Santa Cruz
Zazzle – Redwood City
ModCloth – San Francisco
Stitch Fix – San Francisco
Everlane – San Francisco
Ross Stores – Dublin
Motiv Power Systems – Hayward
Tesla Motors – Palo Alto – Fremont
Waymo - Mountain View
Anthera Pharmaceuticals – Hayward
Bio-Rad Laboratories – Hercules
Buck Institute for Age Research – Novato
Calico – South San Francisco
Chiron – Emeryville
Genentech (7) – South San Francisco
Gilead Sciences – Foster City
Intuitive Surgical – Sunnyvale
Kosan Biosciences – Hayward
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. – Hayward
Verily Life Sciences – Mountain View
Benefit Cosmetics – San Francisco
Bianchi USA – Hayward
Clorox (474) – Oakland
GoPro – San Mateo, CA
Kleenspeed Technologies – Mountain View
Method – San Francisco, CA
Specialized Bicycle Components - Morgan Hill
Ammunition - San Francisco
Guts & Glory - Oakland
IDEO - San Francisco
Landor Associates - San Francisco
Punchcut - San Francisco
Whipsaw - San Jose
Chegg – Santa Clara
Magoosh – Berkeley
Adaptec – Milpitas
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (406) – Sunnyvale
Agilent Technologies (443) – Santa Clara
Altera - San Jose
AMAX Information Technologies - Fremont
Antec - Fremont
Apple Inc. (103) – Cupertino
Applied Materials (270) – Santa Clara
Asus - Fremont
Barracuda Networks – Campbell
Brocade Communications Systems – Santa Clara
Cisco Systems (71) – San Jose
Digidesign – Daly City
Dust Networks – Hayward
eero inc. - San Francisco
E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
Fairchild Semiconductor – San Jose
Fitbit – San Francisco
Fujitsu Computer Products of America – Sunnyvale
Genesis Microchip – Santa Clara
Hewlett Packard (14) – Palo Alto
Hitachi Data Systems – Santa Clara
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies – San Jose
Integrated Device Technology – San Jose
Intel (60) – Santa Clara
Jawbone - San Francisco
JDS Uniphase – Milpitas
Juniper Networks – Sunnyvale
KLA Tencor – Milpitas
Lam Research – Fremont
Logitech – Fremont
LSI Corporation – Milpitas (acquired by Avago Technologies)
Marvell – Sunnyvale
Maxtor – Milpitas (Acquired by Seagate)
Monster Cable Products – Brisbane
National Semiconductor – Santa Clara
Nest Labs – Palo Alto
NetApp – Sunnyvale
Next Thing Co. – Oakland
Nvidia – Santa Clara
Philips Lumileds Lighting Company – San Jose
Rackable Systems – Fremont (name changed to Silicon Graphics)
Rambus – Los Altos
SanDisk – Milpitas
Sanmina-SCI (255) – San Jose
Seagate Technology – Cupertino
Silicon Graphics – Fremont (acquired by Rackable Systems)
Silicon Image – Sunnyvale
Solectron Corporation – Milpitas
Sony Optiarc America Inc. – San Jose
Super Talent – San Jose
Supermicro – San Jose
Terayon – Santa Clara
THX – San Rafael
Touchstone Semiconductor – Milpitas
Xilinx – San Jose
Bloom Energy – Sunnyvale, California
Calpine Corporation (318) – San Jose, California/Houston, Texas
Chevron (3) – San Ramon
Cupertino Electric - San Jose
Energy Recovery Inc. – San Leandro
Mosaic Inc. – Oakland (solar power crowd funding)
PG&E (183) – San Francisco
Primus Power – Hayward
Rosendin Electric - San Jose
SolarCity - San Mateo
SunEdison – Belmont
Sungevity – Oakland
SunPower – San Jose
SunRun - San Francisco
Electronic Arts – Redwood City
Industrial Light & Magic – San Francisco
Kerner Optical – San Rafael
Lucasfilm Animation – San Rafael (Lucas Valley)
Netflix – Los Gatos
Niantic – San Francisco
Pandora Radio – Oakland
Pixar – Emeryville
Sega of America – San Francisco
Skywalker Sound – San Rafael (Lucas Valley)
Sony Interactive Entertainment (PlayStation) – San Mateo
Zynga – San Francisco
Charles Schwab Corporation – San Francisco
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company – Novato
Fisher Investments – Woodside
Franklin Templeton Investments – San Mateo
PayPal – San Jose
Robert Half International – Menlo Park
Square, Inc. - San Francisco
Visa, Inc. – Foster City
Wells Fargo Bank – San Francisco
Food and drink
Food and drink establishments with one location are not included in this list. Local and regional establishments with more than one location are included.
Anchor Brewers & Distillers, LLC – San Francisco
Annabelle Candy Company – Hayward
Annie's Homegrown – Berkeley
Black Angus Steakhouse – Los Altos
C&H Pure Cane Sugar – Crockett
Campari – San Francisco, CA
Clif Bar – Berkeley
Columbus Salame – Hayward
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream – Oakland
Ghirardelli Chocolate Company – San Leandro
Häagen-Dazs – Oakland
Il Fornaio - Corte Madera
Jamba Juice – Emeryville
Jelly Belly – Fairfield
Mountain Mike's Pizza – Hayward
Odwalla – Half Moon Bay
Otis Spunkmeyer – San Leandro
Peet's Coffee & Tea – Emeryville
Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company – Point Reyes Station
PowerBar – Berkeley
The Republic of Tea – Novato
See's Candies – South San Francisco
Shasta – Hayward
Takaki Bakery (Andersen Institute of Bread and Life) – Hayward
Eargo - Mountain Valley, California
Kaiser Permanente – Oakland
McKesson – San Francisco
Palo Alto Medical Foundation – Palo Alto
Castlight Health - San Francisco, CA
Airbnb – San Francisco
Alphabet Inc. – Mountain View
Ask.com – Oakland
Box - Redwood City
Craigslist – San Francisco
Cisco - San Jose, California
eBay (326) – San Jose
Facebook – Menlo Park
Funny Or Die – San Mateo
Google (150) – Mountain View
Hearsay Social - San Francisco
LinkedIn – Mountain View
Lyft - San Francisco
Pinterest – San Francisco
Quora – Mountain View
Salesforce.com – San Francisco
Sgrouples – Sunnyvale
SurveyMonkey – Palo Alto
Tripping.com - San Francisco
Twitter – San Francisco
Uber – San Francisco
Wikimedia Foundation – San Francisco
Yahoo! (353) – Sunnyvale
Yelp – San Francisco
YouTube – San Bruno
Zoosk – San Francisco
Communication Arts – Menlo Park, California
Daily Review – Hayward
Future US – South San Francisco
Oakland Tribune – Oakland
POPSUGAR Inc. - San Francisco, California
San Francisco Chronicle – San Francisco
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose, California
University of California Press – Berkeley, California
MobiTV – Emeryville
TubeMogul - Emeryville
Bleacher Report - San Francisco
Musical instruments and accessories
Dunlop Manufacturing – Benicia
E-mu Systems – Scotts Valley
Saga Musical Instruments – South San Francisco
Santa Cruz Guitar Company – Santa Cruz
Aryaka Networks – Milpitas
Brocade Communications – San Jose
Cisco – San Jose
Ericsson – Santa Clara
Juniper Networks - Sunnyvale
NETGEAR - San Jose
LiquidSpace – San Francisco
Prologis – San Francisco
BeGood Clothing – San Francisco
Cost Plus Inc. – Oakland
Cycle Gear – Benicia
Gap.com – San Francisco
Gymboree – San Francisco
Macys.com – San Francisco
Minted – San Francisco
Orchard Supply Hardware – San Jose
Pottery Barn – San Francisco
Restoration Hardware – Corte Madera
Ross Stores (412) – Pleasanton
Safeway (55) – Pleasanton
Shutterfly – Redwood City
Walmart.com – San Bruno
Williams-Sonoma – San Francisco
Zazzle – Redwood City
Adobe Systems – San Jose
AppDynamics - San Francisco
Autodesk – San Rafael
Business Objects – San Jose
Genesys - Daly City, California
Intuit – Mountain View
McAfee – Santa Clara
Medallia – Palo Alto
Mozilla – Mountain View
NetSuite - San Mateo
New Relic - San Francisco
Objectivity, Inc. – San Jose
Oracle (137) –Redwood City
Palantir Technologies – Palo Alto
People Power Company - Palo Alto
Piggybackr – San Francisco
SAP – Palo Alto
SuccessFactors – South San Francisco
Sybase – Dublin
Symantec (461) – Mountain View
TIBCO Software – Palo Alto
VMware – Palo Alto
24 Hour Fitness – San Ramon
All Pro Wrestling – Hayward
Fox Racing Shox – Scotts Valley
Giro – Santa Cruz
Golden State Warriors - San Francisco
GoPro - San Mateo
Hydrapak – Oakland
JumpSport – San Jose
Kestrel USA – Santa Cruz
Lowepro – Sebastopol
Oakland A's - Oakland
Oakland Raiders - Oakland
Pac-12 Conference – Walnut Creek
San Francisco 49ers - San Francisco
San Francisco Giants - San Francisco
San Jose Sharks - San Jose
San Jose Barracuda - San Jose
Santa Cruz Bicycles – Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Skateboards – Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Warriors - Santa Cruz
Specialized Bicycle Components – Morgan Hill
TRX System – San Francisco
Avaya – Santa Clara
Pacific Telemanagement Services – San Leandro
Transportation and logistics
Gillig Corporation – Hayward
Virgin America – Burlingame
This list contains both extant companies which have moved their headquarters out of the Bay Area (often during a corporate buyout), and defunct companies.
Bank of America (9) – relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina
Best Manufacturing Company – San Leandro (defunct)
Caterpillar Inc. (50) – relocated to Peoria, Illinois
Chaosium – formerly based in Oakland, then Hayward, now based in Ann Arbor, Michigan
ComputerLand – Hayward (defunct)
Esprit relocated to Ratingen, Germany and Hong Kong, China
Etec Systems, Inc. – Hayward (defunct)
Excite@Home – purchased by Ask.com
Flickr – acquired by Yahoo!
FMC Corporation (Farm Machinery Corp, Farm Machinery and Chemical Corp) – moved headquarters from San Jose to Chicago; subsequently moved to Philadelphia
Folgers Coffee – acquired by The J.M. Smucker Co.
Franklin Ophthalmic Instruments – Hayward (defunct)
Friden, Inc. – San Leandro (defunct)
Hambrecht & Quist, LLC – purchased by Chase Manhattan Bank, later folded into JP Morgan Securities following Chase's purchase of JPM
Hearst Corporation – relocated to New York City
Hills Brothers Coffee – purchased by Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
Hunt Brothers Cannery – moved from Hayward
Knight-Ridder – purchased by The McClatchy Company
Leslie Salt – purchased by Cargill in 1978
Mervyn's – Hayward (defunct)
Montgomery Securities – purchased by NationsBank Corporation on June 30, 1997
NUMMI – automobile manufacturer (defunct)
Pacific Telesis – acquired by SBC Communications, which became AT&T when it purchased AT&T Corporation
Pegasus Aviation Finance Company – acquired by AWAS
Peterbilt Motors – relocated to Denton, Texas
Qume – Hayward (defunct)
Robertson Stephens – closed by its parent company FleetBoston in July 2002
Rolling Stone – relocated to New York City, New York
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker – acquired by The Hershey Company
The Sharper Image
Six Apart – moved to Tokyo
Southern Pacific – acquired by Union Pacific Railroad
Swensen's Ice Cream – acquired by International Franchise Corp (IFC) of Markham, Ontario, Canada
Transamerica – purchased by Aegon
United Commercial Bank - acquired by East West Bank
