Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech 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 ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
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28 of 328 tracked companies have open roles.
116 of 328 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 162 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 46.8% of disclosed capital, while 64.6% 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 | $210.16M | 22 | 13 |
| 2017 | $129.72M | 25 | 16 |
| 2018 | $315.66M | 23 | 13 |
| 2019 | $639.67M | 16 | 19 |
| 2020 | $277.98M | 16 | 15 |
| 2021 | $1.6B | 14 | 21 |
| 2022 | $455.01M | 18 | 14 |
| 2023 | $49.61M | 31 | 7 |
| 2024 | $152.65M | 25 | 6 |
| 2025 | $94.3M | 17 | 8 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
192 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in recruiting tech company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Goodwater Capital and others.
Backed by 1984 Ventures.
Backed by DST Global and Sequoia Capital and others.
Backed by Scale Venture Partners and Liquid 2 Ventures and others.
Backed by Baillie Gifford and Franklin Templeton Investments and others.
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund and others.
Backed by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Investments and others.
Backed by Coatue and Base10 Partners and others.
Backed by T. Rowe Price and Coatue and others.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by T. Rowe Price and Accel and others.
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Spark Capital and others.
Backed by GGV Capital and Kleiner Perkins and others.
Backed by DST Global and Sequoia Capital and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 1 reporting entities from 1 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not San Francisco market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
None of 1 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 1 reporting entities
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| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upwork ↗1627475 | $787.8m | $115.4m | +14.7% | — | — |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
|---|
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
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.
25 of the 328 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (7.6%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 915,535 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upworkupwork.com | 46,189,874 | 74 | 15.9% |
| Glassdoorglassdoor.com | 24,860,253 | 77 | 53.9% |
| Handshakejoinhandshake.com | 17,589,111 | 65 | 31.5% |
| Lensalensa.com | 12,079,269 | 41 | 89.7% |
| Clockifyclockify.me | 10,822,310 | 63 | 6.5% |
| Checkrcheckr.com | 6,339,878 | 57 | 83% |
| Creative Marketcreativemarket.com | 3,838,718 | 52 | 22.8% |
| Toptaltoptal.com | 2,635,270 | 59 | 16.8% |
| Remotasksremotasks.com | 2,094,569 | 46 | 49.3% |
| Casting Call Clubcastingcall.club | 1,876,976 | 41 | 56.7% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
32 of these companies (9.8%) publish at least one Android app — 41 apps in all, carrying 60.4M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glassdoor | Jobs & CareersGlassdoor | 28.9M | 4.7 | Business |
| UpworkUpwork | 18.3M | 3.7 | Business |
| JobseekerJobseeker | 3.5M | 3.3 | Business |
| Handshake Jobs & New CareersHandshake | 1.5M | 4.4 | Business |
| Seasoned Service Industry JobsSeasoned | 1.2M | 4.3 | Social |
| Clockify — Time TrackerClockify | 1.2M | 3.2 | Productivity |
| GigwalkGigwalk | 1.2M | 3.1 | Lifestyle |
| Legion Workforce EngagementLegion | 1M | 4.7 | Business |
| Humanity Schedule by TCPHumanity | 820.1K | 4.8 | Business |
| Bluecrew - Find Flexible WorkBlueCrew | 756.2K | 3.3 | Business |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q2–2026Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hrtech | 41 | 60.4M | Glassdoor | Jobs & Careers 28.9M | |
| Gig Employer It | 2 | 1M | Legion Workforce Engagement 1M | |
| In Store Retail Tech | 2 | 822.1K | Humanity Schedule by TCP 820.1K | |
| Field Force Automation | 4 | 57.2K | vWork 43.7K | |
| K-12 Edtech | 2 | 19.7K | HelloGenius 11.1K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 40 of 41 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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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.
27 companies hiring · $4.53B disclosed funding
Explore in RadarCommon revenue models; a company can use more than one.
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
DOXA has entered the UK market with a deal for managing general underwriter (MGU) Eaton Gate Group.
Paraform has now raised a total of $65.0M in total equity funding and is backed by A*, Felicis, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners.
Braintrust, a San Francisco, CA–based technology company focused on AI observability, has raised $80 million in a Series B round.
Toptal, which ranks as the world’s eighth-largest talent platform, acquired Graphite, a fellow talent platform with more than 12,000 vetted independent experts, consultants and executives.
RefAssured, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of automated reference checking and performance insights for the staffing industry, has raised $3.3 million in Seed round.
Upwork, a platform that connects companies with freelancers, announced it has acquired Bubty, a workforce management platform, and has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ascen, a global compliance and EOR (employer of record) company, ahead of its second‑quarter earnings call on August 6.
Cutback Secures $2.6 Million Seed Funding to Enhance AI-Powered Video Editing Agent
Legion, a cybersecurity startup specialising in AI‑driven Security Operations Centre (SOC) technology, has emerged from stealth mode with $38m in funding.
Salesforce has acquired Moonhub, a Menlo Park-based AI-powered recruiting startup.
Illinois-based Dover on Monday announced an agreement to pay more than $622 million in cash to acquire Sikora — a German firm whose technology supports the build‑out of data centers.
Top 10 categories among 127 recorded events in the 24-month window.
6 tracked people moves
Departure Previously Chief Financial Officer
Appointment Chief Financial Officer
Resignation General Manager, Marketplace
Appointment General Manager and Chief Operating Officer
Appointment chief corporate development officer
Appointment Chief Executive Officer and President
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Cross‑system finance AI agents
2 recorded customer wins
2 companies with reported reductions
Scale not stated rolesAI focus
21.0% rolescost reduction
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 34 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doxa→Eaton Gate Group | Announced | 2026-04-28 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Doxa→Jupiter Underwriting Group | Completed | 2026-04-06 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Toptal→graphite | Announced | 2026-01-26 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Toptal→welovenocode | Announced | 2026-01-08 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Toptal→VironIT.com | Announced | 2026-01-08 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Toptal→growth collective | Announced | 2026-01-08 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
1,819 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 4,179-posting snapshot covers 57 employers.
215 tracked postings mention remote work.
852 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 4,179 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 217 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| ALOIS Healthcare ↗ | 10 |
| Upwork ↗ | 10 |
| Toptal ↗ | 9 |
| SupportFinity ↗ | 7 |
| Assembled ↗ | 5 |
| Lavendo ↗ | 5 |
| Clipboard Health ↗ | 5 |
| Workrise ↗ | 3 |
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Toptal ↗ | 5,272 |
| Checkr ↗ | 791 |
| Upwork ↗ | 650 |
| Clipboard Health ↗ | 490 |
| Braintrust ↗ | 205 |
| HackerEarth ↗ | 121 |
| Dover ↗ | 109 |
| Legion ↗ | 107 |
248 founders and chief executives across 163 companies.
Ex-Citadel Investment Group, D.E. Shaw, Goldman Sachs. Mays Business School - Texas A&M University BBA 2007
Blaise Pascal University (Clermont-II) - Clermont-Ferrand 2010, UTBM MSc 2013
Ex-LivePerson, Microsoft, McKinsey. Princeton University AB, University of Oxford
Ex-ITOxygen Enterprise. Michigan Technological University BS
Ex-SAP, Ariba, Verizon. Pune University BE, Cornell University MS
Transunion, ex-Linkedin, ex-Grafica, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011
Ex-Asaii, Lemonade · Hindu College, University of Delhi 2021
Forbes Technology Council, ex-Google, ex-Keyideas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ex-Co-Founder Funzio, AnswerU, GREE International, Hi5. Punjab Engineering College BE 1997, MIT Sloan School of Management MBA 2006
Ex-Sendwave, Teleborder, Moelis & Company, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Yale Law School JD 2008
Ex-Co-Founder Covaid, Cruise. Carnegie Mellon University BS 2020
Ex-Hub, Presdo, Tresidder Networks. Stanford University BS 1991, PhD 1994, MIT MS 1993
70 profiles with education records.
20 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
Compare demand signals in San Francisco’s newsflow with the recruiting tech categories mapped to each signal.
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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| Signal family | Signal percentile | Supply percentile | Relative gap | Gap (points) | Signal share vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source momentum ↗Ecosystem Signal | 16.7 | 0.0 | +16.7 | +82.4% | |
| Tech workforce shifts ↗Spending Pressure | 50.0 | 50.0 | +0.0 | +68.7% | |
| Cloud & platform build-out ↗Infrastructure Shift | 83.3 | 100.0 | -16.7 | +239.4% | |
| Security incidents & breaches ↗Risk Pressure | 50.0 | — | No matching category | — | +120.2% |
Showing all 4 signals. Select a family for its history and mapped categories.
All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. San Francisco is highlighted.
Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage. Rows cover all of the United States for this page's signal families; San Francisco is marked.
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out · Security incidents & breaches
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches · Cloud & platform build-out
Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts · Security incidents & breaches
Open-source momentum can seed the commercial layer around the projects teams adopt.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 14 | 7.43 |
| 2024Q4 | 21 | 12.28 |
| 2025Q1 | 9 | 3.6 |
| 2025Q2 | 26 | 20.02 |
| 2025Q3 | 29 | 24.56 |
| 2025Q4 | 3 | 3.35 |
| 2026Q1 | 10 | 6.04 |
Hiring, visa and layoff cycles can resize teams — per-seat budgets tend to follow.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 25 | 13.26 |
| 2024Q4 | 66 | 38.61 |
| 2025Q1 | 48 | 19.21 |
| 2025Q2 | 20 | 15.4 |
| 2025Q3 | 76 | 64.36 |
| 2025Q4 | 53 | 59.12 |
| 2026Q1 | 35 | 21.14 |
Cloud and platform build-out can multiply the pipelines and environments a team must manage.
Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 14 | 7.43 |
| 2024Q4 | 11 | 6.43 |
| 2025Q1 | 13 | 5.2 |
| 2025Q2 | 10 | 7.7 |
| 2025Q3 | 52 | 44.03 |
| 2025Q4 | 22 | 24.54 |
| 2026Q1 | 17 | 10.27 |
Breach pressure can push security into every buying decision.
This signal has no matching category in the page’s recruiting tech market map, so no supply percentile or gap is assigned.
Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline
| Quarter | Mentions | Per 10,000 articles |
|---|---|---|
| 2024Q3 | 10 | 5.3 |
| 2024Q4 | 11 | 6.43 |
| 2025Q1 | 7 | 2.8 |
| 2025Q2 | 32 | 24.64 |
| 2025Q3 | 20 | 16.94 |
| 2025Q4 | 5 | 5.58 |
| 2026Q1 | 21 | 12.68 |
San Francisco recruiting tech coverage
IEEE Access
23 citations in the snapshot
SSRN Electronic Journal
14 citations in the snapshot
International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
7 citations in the snapshot
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
6 citations in the snapshot
San Francisco coverage of this page's demand families
| Keyword | Recent articles | Prior articles | Share change |
|---|---|---|---|
| cloud infrastructure | 33 | 11 | 358.7% |
| threat feed integration | 21 | 8 | 301.4% |
| vulnerability intelligence | 19 | 8 | 263.1% |
| ai hardware | 29 | 20 | 121.7% |
Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.
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: 3 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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