City by the Bay and tech hub of the Western universe, the San Francisco Bay Area is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of northern California. Companies aim to attract and keep the kind of top talent that drives the future here.
These 19 businesses in the Bay Area are officially unicorns – and that means they’re all privately-held startups valued at over $1 billion dollars. Each one is a statistical rarity, so let’s dive in to see what makes these companies special.
Location: Mountain View, CA
NURO is a technology company which aims to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. It is comprised of a team of entrepreneurs and engineers, designers, and scientists who believe the advancements they are making in robotics and machine learning today will dramatically improve the way they live tomorrow.
Nuro is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Mountain View, CA
Zume Pizza operates as a pizza delivery platform based in Mountain View, CA. Zume has established a formula for partnering people with technology that creates a more thoughtful and efficient way to source, make, bake, and deliver pizza.
Zume Pizza is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Oakland, CA
The Marqeta Platform, built from the ground up with no legacy infrastructure, provides the world’s first fully documented, open API issuer processor platform. Companies can build, issue and deploy innovative payment, finance and commerce solutions with enormous control over what, where, and how purchases are authorized.
Marqeta is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Redwood City, CA
Ivalua is a global provider of spend management solutions. It offers a single platform solution with highly configurable functionality across all major procurement and finance processes. The breadth and flexibility of Ivalua’s offering accelerates user adoption, spend category coverage and bottom-line savings.
Ivalua is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: San Francisco, CA
Calm offers an application designed to help its users meditate and relax. The company develops a range of digital and physical products that enhance mental fitness and alleviate some of the most important mental health issues of the modern age including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and stress.
Calm is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: San Francisco, CA
Vlocity is a leader in industry-specific cloud and mobile software, driving digital transformation for the world’s largest companies. A Forbes Cloud 100 company, Vlocity is an “industry cloud” pioneer built in partnership with Salesforce, the global leader in CRM.
“It’s fast-moving and populated with people who know what they’re doing. I’m proud to say I work here.”
– Environment review
Vlocity employees rated their overall company culture an A+.
Vlocity is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: San Francisco, CA
Turo is a car sharing marketplace where travelers can rent any car they want, wherever they want it, from a community of local car owners. Travelers choose from a unique selection of nearby cars, while car owners earn extra money and help fuel the adventures of travelers they meet along the way.
Turo is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: San Francisco, CA
Wish is a leading e-commerce platform, putting a digital shopping mall of affordable goods directly in the pockets of consumers worldwide. Wish employs big data principles, machine-learning, and state-of-the-art search technologies to create a highly-visual, entertaining, and personalized browsing experience for each user
Wish is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: San Francisco, CA
DoorDash provides on-demand restaurant food delivery services connecting customers with local businesses across the United States and Canada. The company is passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living.
DoorDash is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Palo Alto, CA
AppLovin is a mobile games company that connects people around the world with the best games. Its technologies have been instrumental in driving the explosive growth of games from its studio partners and its own studio. AppLovin makes those same technologies available to all game developers, resulting in a richer mobile game ecosystem and better games for people everywhere
“Very smart group who know the industry extremely well. Feels like we’re in good hands.”
– Leadership review
100% of AppLovin employees say they look forward to interacting with their coworkers.
AppLovin is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Katerra is a technology company optimizing every aspect of building development, design, and construction. The global team includes leaders in design, software and building engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and construction.
Katerra is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Fremont, CA
Royole Corporation is a global pioneer and manufacturer of advanced flexible displays, flexible sensors, and smart devices. Royole Corporation’s screens can be applied to smartphones, mobile devices, computers and televisions.
Royole Corporation is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Hayward, CA
Intarcia Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops therapies for diseases that require long-term chronic treatment. It offers Duros, a drug delivery platform that stabilizes and delivers therapeutic proteins and peptides.
Intarcia Therapeutics is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Grail develops a blood-sampling device that helps reveal cancers at their early stages.
Its pan-cancer screening test measures circulating nucleic acids in blood using high-intensity sequencing, population-scale clinical trials, enabling doctors to develop blood tests for early-stage cancer detection.
Grail is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Foster City, CA
Zoox is a robotics company founded to create autonomous mobility. Operating at the intersection of design, computer science, and electro-mechanical engineering, Zoox is a multidisciplinary team working to imagine and build an advanced mobility experience that will support the future needs of urban mobility for both people and the environment.
Zoox is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Houzz is an online platform for home remodeling, architecture, interior design, decorating, landscaping, and home improvement. From decorating a small room to building a custom home and everything in between, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world.
“I get to work on a product that makes a difference in the lives of millions of real people and solves real problems.”
– Outlook review
Houzz employees rated their overall company culture an A-.
Houzz is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Location: Milpitas, CA
At View, they believe strongly in the benefits of natural light and its positive impact on human health, wellness and productivity. The company’s Dynamic Glass plays a unique role in increasing and optimizing the amount of natural light in buildings while simultaneously improving energy efficiency, as well as advancing smart and connected buildings.
View is hiring! Check out jobs here!
Hippo is a new kind of insurance company that uses modern technology to provide a simpler process, smarter coverage, and a completely new approach to how we care for our homes.
Hippo is hiring! Check out jobs here!