Best SaaS Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 231 best SaaS companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: fountain.
Our analysis of 50 SaaS companies
$3.4b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2020.
Ranked: Best SaaS companies in San Francisco
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fountain Fountain is a talent platform that develops to make workforce management and hiring easier. 72Tech top 11%Funding top 28%Growth top 30%Moat top 38% All 10 signals ▾Techtop 11% Fundingtop 28% Growthtop 30% Moattop 38% Producttop 41% Markettop 42% Globalbottom 42% Innovationbottom 29% Patentsbottom 29% Newsbottom 23% Tech: 98 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $185M · 5 rounds over 12 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $185M | 48 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+29 | 2 patents Ultra-small lipid nanoparticle production for pharmaceutical drug delivery | 1 partnership |
| 2 | almanac Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration. 29Funding top 33%Tech bottom 48%Global bottom 39%Market bottom 28% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 33% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 28% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $43.0M · 2 rounds over 6 yrs (0.3/yr) Tech: 27 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $43M | 58 mo ago | Series A | — | 2018 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowcore-js+24 | — | — |
| 3 | craft.co Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create… 83Talent top 15%Moat top 22%Funding top 24%Growth top 26% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 15% Moattop 22% Fundingtop 24% Growthtop 26% Techtop 31% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 39% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $42M | 40 mo ago | Series B | — | 2011 | WordPressSentryApple iCloud Mail+34 | — | — |
| 4 | WOO Woo helps companies source interview-ready candidates from their existing database. 14Funding top 46%Global bottom 42%Market bottom 32%Tech bottom 22% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 46% Globalbottom 42% Marketbottom 32% Techbottom 22% Funding: Raised $11.3M · 3 rounds over 10 yrs (0.3/yr) Global: Investors from 3 countries beyond United States rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $11M | 103 mo ago | Series A | — | 2015 | — | — | 1 launch |
| 5 | Papercups Provider of free open source software | $150K | 69 mo ago | Seed | Alex Reichert Co-Founder | 2020 | DocusaurusVercelReact+4 | — | — |
| 6 | terusama Terusama is a virtual logistics coordinator that offers self-service dock scheduling, digital driver… | $125K | 72 mo ago | Seed | — | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 7 | floydhub FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the… | $120K | 104 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 8 | scopeai ScopeAI automatically extracts actionable insights from customer conversations using AI. | — | 99 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
Top 8 SaaS companies in San Francisco
#1
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2011 · 129 employees$42Mraised▾
Developer of a proprietary data platform designed to understand, monitor, and optimize the company's supply chain and enterprise ecosystem. The company's cloud-based portal can integrate into existing enterprise workflows and deploys packed with data from thousands of financial and alternative sources, and surfacing signals on any company worldwide, enabling clients to compare human capital and operating metrics across many companies.
#2
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2014 · 347 employees$185Mraised▾
Developer of hiring automation software designed to simplify the process of workforce management and hiring. The company's software offers an all-in-one workforce management and hiring system that does background checks and document signing scheduling of independent candidates, enabling companies to quickly screen and hire an independent workforce for their organizations.
#3
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2018 · 46 employees$43Mraised▾
Developer of collaborative documentation tool designed to build knowledge infrastructure for the digital economy. The company's tool offers a knowledge base that combines wisdom from tech leaders with the team's own practices and also leverages compositional tools, enabling clients to be efficient in their projects and formats that make the information actionable, searchable, and fresh.
#4
Series A · San Francisco, CA · founded 2015 · 40 employees$11.3Mraised▾
Woo helps companies source interview-ready candidates from their existing database. We created a smart automated technology that engages and creates long term relationships with past candidates, and matches them to current opportunities.
#5
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 3 employees$150Kraised▾
Developer of an open-source live customer chat tool designed to provide customer support. The company's platform is a customer messaging application that provides clients with the benefits of self-hosting with the reliability and scalability of the cloud, enabling companies to connect with customers in real-time chat and address their concerns.
#6
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 1 employees$125Kraised▾
Developer of a dock management platform designed to track and monitor freight congestion. The company's platform permits easy check-ins without waiting in a queue, planning on loading and unloading thereby reducing congestion, enabling freight industries to track, measure, and improve their services.
#7
Deadpooled · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 4 employees$120Kraised▾
Developer of a deep learning platform intended to facilitate training in the cloud across teams and vertical management strata. The company's platform helps to configure CPU and GPU environments primed for deep learning, saves projects, databases automatically through cloud-based interactions and have an in-built web dashboard to track, monitor, edit and share project progress, job-related queries, enabling clients to share and collaborate on their deep learning projects across single and multiple teams and increase team productivity through performance reviews and project planning.
#8
Acquired · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 3 employees—raised▾
Developer of a feedback management platform designed to analyze customer feedback. The company's platform aggregates product feedbacks from different channels, analyze trends over time, and auto-updates bugs and feature requests, enabling companies to improve their business through customer interaction.
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of SaaS coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Cloud Computing is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 8,654 United States-affiliated papers.
- Film Independent588
- Microsoft147
- Goddard Space Flight Center135
- University of Washington130
- NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research117
- Scalability51→526
- Software deployment12→253
- Key (lock)16→192
- Operating system45→218
- Workflow3→176
- Scalability14→264
- Key (lock)9→192
- Operating system18→190
- Software deployment9→176
- Analytics8→149
- Key (lock)9→128
- Scalability10→101
- Software deployment2→76
- Operating system13→83
- Big data17→80
Where cloud computing is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing cloud computing patents in the United States
United States cloud computing patent filing is cooling — 6,575 filings from 3,147 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Microsoft, Intel; annual filings 708→574.
- IBM1262
- Microsoft892
- Intel641
- Vmware477
- Oracle381
- Cisco238
- RED HAT185
- Nutanix173
Common questions
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