List of start-up Tech/Web companies in San Francisco-Bay Area?

Wanted to have a list of local start-up tech/web companies that our hot or worth mentioning and our located in San Francisco or Bay Area. One site/company per answer Include the address/location if you know it!

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feel free to expand to this :)

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For for a comphrensive list of all companies based in San Francisco, see the Wikipedia article here

It's a list of companies headquartered in San Francisco, companies headquartered near San Francisco (within San Francisco Bay Area), and companies formerly headquartered in or near San Francisco.

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Dropbox is a tech startup based in San Francisco - it allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically.

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I have invited well over 3k for they give you free space for each sign up. 5.25 GB max for free service with all invites

(22 Jan '10, 22:22) ashbury ♦♦

You can run multiple accounts on your MAC. http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/MultipleInstancesOnUnix

(22 Jan '10, 22:22) ashbury ♦♦

Well, the first thing that came to my mind was a site I use pretty often in our fair City by the Bay: Yelp! You can find them at:

706 Mission Street in San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone number is (415) 908-3801

Yelp

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4	Twitter, Inc. 795 Folsom St., Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94107 link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 23 Jan '10, 00:30 ashbury ♦♦ 5.7k●2●7●22 accept rate: 22% wikified 07 Mar '11, 10:37

4	Wikipedia / Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 23 Jan '10, 20:30 Sharon ♦ 1.3k●1●15 accept rate: 31% wikified 07 Mar '11, 10:37 ashbury ♦♦ 5.7k●2●7●22

Linden Lab (Second Life)

945 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111-1305 (415) 243-9000

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answered 23 Jan '10, 20:31

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what do they do?

(24 Jan '10, 08:09) ashbury ♦♦

Second Life is a virtual environment. It's an open sandbox, like a chat room with 3D avatars... there's a thriving in-game economy, too. Think of things like World of Warcraft, but with no competitive activity built in.

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3	StumbleUpon 660 4th street, #247. San Francisco, CA, 94107 link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 24 Jan '10, 08:02 ashbury ♦♦ 5.7k●2●7●22 accept rate: 22% edited 09 Feb, 15:25 1 oh how I love to stumble upon things...:) (24 Jan '10, 08:07) ashbury ♦♦

They are the creator of the widely used Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. They also used to own LiveJournal.

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Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email. We launched in July 2008 and we've been steadily growing and adding features.

We love sharing thoughts, photos, audio, and files with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was... so we made a better way. That's posterous. We're super excited to see what happens when blogging becomes as easy as email, and we hope you enjoy posterous as much as we do. Thanks for trying it.

Posterous is an angel and Y Combinator-funded early stage software startup in the heart of San Francisco's North Beach district. We're just four engineers and are looking for the absolute best to join our small and fast-moving team.

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3	Heroku offers a solution to deploy and host rails applications with git. link This answer is marked "community wiki". answered 11 Nov '10, 18:51 grimmdude 1●2 accept rate: 0% edited 02 Aug '11, 16:02 ashbury ♦♦ 5.7k●2●7●22

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