Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping investment industry in San Francisco. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
Explore classified startups in Radar ↗A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
36 of 638 tracked companies have open roles.
24 of 638 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 23 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 92.0% of disclosed capital, while 96.2% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $55.2M | 34 | 1 |
| 2017 | $5.9M | 33 | 2 |
| 2018 | $6.84M | 34 | 2 |
| 2019 | $440.1M | 23 | 4 |
| 2020 | $0 | 41 | 0 |
| 2021 | $20.69M | 42 | 2 |
| 2022 | $105.8M | 27 | 2 |
| 2023 | $1.18M | 24 | 2 |
| 2024 | $0 | 14 | 0 |
| 2025 | $505.92M | 7 | 3 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
27 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in investment industry company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Neuberger Berman Specialty Finance.
Backed by Fortress and Citadel Securities and others.
Backed by Tetragon and Route 66 Ventures and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Standard Chartered and Digital Ventures and others.
Backed by Capital Z Partners and GE Capital and others.
Backed by CME Group and Seagate and others.
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by AME Cloud Ventures.
Backed by Founders Fund and Slack and others.
Exact designated identities and reviewed filing records were checked, but this page has neither a qualifying preview account nor a target cohort meeting the ten-entity aggregate floor.
How the San Francisco companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
5 of these companies (0.8%) publish at least one Android app — 18 apps in all, carrying 72.8M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| SlackSlack Fund | 49.1M | 4.6 | Business |
| デジラアプリ ～auのデータ残量確認とデータチャージ～KDDI Open Innovation Fund | 14M | — | Tools |
| auメールKDDI Open Innovation Fund | 9.3M | — | Tools |
| Slack for IntuneSlack Fund | 174.3K | 4.3 | Business |
| でんきアプリKDDI Open Innovation Fund | 104K | — | Lifestyle |
| KDDI Knowledge SuiteKDDI Open Innovation Fund | 37.1K | — | Productivity |
| with HOMEKDDI Open Innovation Fund | 25.8K | — | Lifestyle |
| KDDI Safety ManagerKDDI Open Innovation Fund | 14.1K | — | Business |
| KDDIファイルストレージver.2KDDI Open Innovation Fund | 9.4K | — | Business |
| αU wallet - NFT・暗号資産の管理KDDI Open Innovation Fund | 7.4K | — | Finance |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore in RadarCommon revenue models; a company can use more than one.
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
And on March 31, Autodesk finalized the acquisition of data collection firm Rhumbix, which aims to help builders collect more accurate data from jobsites.
Arbiter, backed by Accel-KKR, acquired Vertical Raise...
Epiq announced the acquisition of LitLingo, a business communications monitoring AI that enables organizations to detect, prevent, and measure high-risk global employee communications in real time.
Gasgoo has learned that embodied AI firm Fifth Era has recently closed back-to-back Pre-A and Pre-A+ funding rounds, raising hundreds of millions of yuan in total.
Next 15 Group PLC – London‑based digital marketing firm – Agrees to sell its majority‑owned US‑based capital markets advisory businesses, The Blueshirt Group LLC and Blueshirt Capital Advisors LLC, to their respective founders and senior management teams.
Sixth Street agreed to put in $116 million for a 65 percent stake in Plymouth’s Chicago-area holdings, 34 properties totaling 5.9 million square feet.
MBC was formed in 2022 via the merger of Murry’s and Bake Crafters by Encore Consumer Capital, which had acquired the two family‑owned businesses in 2019 and 2022, respectively.
S2 Capital ('S2'), a national vertically integrated real estate investment manager, today announced the acquisition of Fort Capital ('Fort'), a Texas-based industrial real estate owner and operator.
Uber (UBER) is down 30% since its debut; Lyft (LYFT) is down 55%; Slack (WORK) is down 40%; Peloton (PTON) is down 17%.
San Francisco, Calif.-based Percheron Capital bought the company in 2021.
Top 10 categories among 292 recorded events in the 24-month window.
2 companies with recorded IPO activity
Direct Listing · New York Stock Exchange3 reports
IPO · NASDAQ2 reports
13 tracked people moves
Resignation Previously Director
Appointment Independent Director
Appointment Chief Information Officer
Appointment Head of AI Strategy
Appointment Board of Directors
Appointment Member of the Board of Directors
Appointment
Appointment
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Construction jobsite tools
CAD software
11 recorded customer wins
Customer: pinnacle infotechTechnology
Customer: northrop grummanAerospace and defense
Customer: Biostax Corp d/b/a Attune Biotech Inc.Healthcare
Customer:
Customer: kraft groupConstruction
Customer: nossaman
2 companies with reported reductions
1,000 rolesAI implementation
Scale not stated rolescost reduction
2 recorded events
no penalty due to self-reportingUnited States Securities and Exchange Commission
no penalty resolutionU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
3 tracked suits
Traceability requirement disputeCivil · Ongoing
trademark infringementCivil · Filed
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 55 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autodesk→rhumbix | Completed | 2026-04-16 | Not stated in snapshot |
| arbiter→vertical raise | Announced | 2026-04-03 | Not stated in snapshot |
| EPIQ→litlingo | Announced | 2026-03-25 | Not stated in snapshot |
| K2 Services→EPIQ ↗ | Announced | 2025-11-10 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Founders and senior management teams→the blueshirt group ↗ | Announced | 2025-10-28 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Sixth Street Partners→Plymouth’s Chicago-area holdings | Announced | 2025-10-27 | $116.0M |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
1,010 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 2,103-posting snapshot covers 54 employers.
354 tracked postings mention remote work.
941 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 2,103 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 413 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Wilbur-Ellis ↗ | 2,354 |
| Keiretsu Forum ↗ | 253 |
| Shorenstein ↗ | 249 |
| Carmel Partners ↗ | 242 |
| Jewish Community Center of San Francisco ↗ | 241 |
| FORMA Brands ↗ | 225 |
| Chinatown Community Development Center ↗ | 209 |
| Callan ↗ | 188 |
562 founders and chief executives across 411 companies.
Ex-CEO Hightail, Dialpad, AOL, Yahoo · The University of Kansas BA, Harvard Business School MBA 1997
ex- Founder- Altamont Pharmaceutical Holdings, Co-Founder- Annex Ventures, Co-Founder- Drawbridge Realty, CRESA Partners…
PREA, ULI. DSU BSc
Ex- StarMine, Piper Jaffray. Bentley University BA & MS
Token Daily, Village Global, ex- MeatMail, Emberley New Zealand, Octagon Rail Jam. Scots College 2006, College of Law 2013…
Ex-Matteson Companies, Acacia Capital, Invesco Realty. University of Portland BS 1991, Claremont McKenna College BS 1994
Ex- KO · Koenig, Oelsner, Taylor, Schoenfeld & Gaddis, PC. University of Iowa BBA, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law JD
Co-Founder-LocalHost, Next Chapterl · Ex-The Residency · Western University BS 2022
SVIEC Foundation, Co-Founder MTS Fund, ex-Corriere della Sera, Google, Giunti Interactive Labs, Omniticket Network. Universita di Genova MS 1993…
Co-Founder & CEO 9Zero, ex-Founder & CEO NationalBLS, Sway Ventures, Nex Cubed, MessageLabs. University of Aberdeen BTech 1993
Ex-Huckleberry Youth Programs, Seneca Center, Fundacion Huesped, Draupnir. University of Chicago MA 2009
The University of British Columbia Master of Science 1997
159 profiles with education records.
50 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
42,642 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Investment Industry coverage tagged San Francisco · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 8,444 |
| 2021Q3 | 11,957 |
| 2021Q4 | 7,824 |
| 2022Q1 | 10,921 |
| 2022Q2 | 9,898 |
| 2022Q3 | 8,874 |
| 2022Q4 | 9,635 |
| 2023Q1 | 11,948 |
| 2023Q2 | 12,281 |
| 2023Q3 | 10,123 |
| 2023Q4 | 13,049 |
| 2024Q1 | 12,919 |
| 2024Q2 | 11,071 |
| 2024Q3 | 11,821 |
| 2024Q4 | 11,087 |
| 2025Q1 | 17,667 |
| 2025Q2 | 11,412 |
| 2025Q3 | 13,406 |
| 2025Q4 | 10,979 |
| 2026Q1 | 12,260 |
| 2026Q2 | 5,997 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
450 recorded company events across 29 companies; percentages use that event total.
Investment Industry coverage tagged San Francisco · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
United States comparison coverage
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| investment deal | 11,071 | 3,690 | 200% |
| stablecoin fx impact | 9,211 | 6,423 | 43% |
| private equity | 6,438 | 1,681 | 283% |
| etf trading | 5,654 | 3,580 | 58% |
| share price | 5,418 | 2,994 | 81% |
| etfs | 4,856 | 3,086 | 57% |
| sector etfs | 4,671 | 2,980 | 57% |
| investment | 4,412 | 1,035 | 326% |
| stock surge | 4,385 | 2,355 | 86% |
| etf structures | 4,345 | 2,674 | 62% |
| tariff negotiations | 13,596 | 23,784 | -43% |
| flood stage forecasting | 607 | 10,570 | -94% |
| hydrologic risk modeling | 79 | 10,120 | -99% |
| free trade deals | 5,648 | 9,436 | -40% |
| economic slowdown | 5,394 | 8,577 | -37% |
United States comparison coverage
territories, disputed islands, stock performance
42.7% critical · 26.8% positiveinvestment deal, inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies
40.0% critical · 49.1% positiveearnings report, cannabis industry regulations, legal cannabis sales
36.2% critical · 44.7% positiveInvestment Industry coverage tagged San Francisco. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 1 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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