Most Backed San Francisco, CA Startups 2026

130 San Francisco, CA startups ranked by number of verified backers, led by Anthropic, Uber, Pinterest. Each links to its full syndicate breakdown.

San Francisco, CA accounts for 120 tracked companies with verified cap-table data, 120 of which disclose round sizes totalling $280B. The median disclosed raise is $785M, and the largest is OpenAI at $117B, ahead of JUUL ($16B) and xAI ($12B).

The names that recur most often on these san francisco, ca cap tables are Andreessen Horowitz (19 companies), Sequoia Capital (10 companies), Kleiner Perkins (10 companies), Coatue (10 companies), Khosla Ventures (8 companies), Tiger Global Management (7 companies). By latest disclosed round, the market skews Series F (19), Series D (18), Series C (17), Series E (15).

Best funded San Francisco, CA companies

  1. OpenAI — $117B (latest: Growth)
  2. JUUL — $16B (latest: Series E)
  3. xAI — $12B (latest: Series C)
  4. Cruise — $10B
  5. HashiCorp — $7.7B (latest: IPO)
  6. Airbnb — $6.4B (latest: Series F)
  7. Databricks — $3.6B (latest: Series H)
  8. Angelist — $3.5B
  9. Generate Capital — $3B (latest: Growth)
  10. Groq — $3B (latest: Growth)
  11. Instacart — $2.7B (latest: IPO)
  12. Getaround — $2.5B (latest: Series E)
  13. Brex — $2.3B (latest: Series D)
  14. Thinking Machines Lab — $2B (latest: Seed)
  15. Figure — $2B (latest: Series C)

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