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Another article about tech IPOs pointed out that this year the number of public companies headquartered in San Francisco will double. Apparently there are only four now, and at year's end they expect nine.

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Existing Public Companies with SF HQs:

  - DocuSign
  - Dropbox
  - Eventbrite
  - Fitbit
  - LendingClub
  - LiveRamp
  - New Relic
  - Okta
  - Salesforce
  - Splunk
  - Square
  - Twilio
  - Twitter
  - Yelp
  - Zendesk
  - Zynga
  - Wells Fargo
  - Charles Schwab
  - First Republic
  - Pacific Gas & Electric
  - Gap
  - Williams-Sonoma
  - Dolby
  - McKesson (thx khuey; though apparently moving to Dallas soon)
  - Castlight Health

IPOed This Year:

  - Stitch Fix
  - PagerDuty
  - Lyft
  - Pinterest
  - Levi Strauss (thx mykowebhn)

Expected to IPO This Year:

  - Slack
  - Uber
  - AirBnB
  - DoorDash (maybe?)
  - Postmates (maybe?)
  - Instacart (maybe?)
  - Asana (maybe?)

I'm sure I'm missing some....

EDIT: adding new ones as I/others think of them

McKesson

They are here, but moving to dallas

Levi’s, Williams Sonoma, Gap/Old Navy

I believe Levi's plans on IPOing as well.

Correction: Levi's already IPOed.

Add: Marin Software

While technically Marin Software is public it only has a market cap of about 30M so......

@harryh True. With the direction its revenue is going (downwards), I wouldn't be surprised if it gets delisted.

DoorDash may also go this year

aside: anyone else think Uber should buy DoorDash?

I think they're too expensive to buy now, DoorDash will just have to dump on the unexpecting retail investors to cashout

Okta

Autodesk

I had Okta (good one though!).

Autodesk HQ is in San Rafael.

Apparently they meant going public this year. From four to nine. They didn’t count Levi’s.

Pivotal

Zoom, earlier this week.

Zoom HQ is in San Jose, not SF.

With an asterisk, Atlassian is public (NASDAQ) and its US HQ is in the financial district.

Asterisk is the Global HQ is in Sydney.

Asana CEO has stated they won't be IPO'ing this year.

Also, Stitch Fix IPO'd in 2017.

But yes, there are a ton of public companies in SF, both long term and recent IPOs.

Four can't be accurate. Salesforce, square, Twitter, event brite, Wells Fargo is already five.

If Lyft employees put their IPO cash into real estate, they could buy every for-sale home in San Francisco. From https://www.redfin.com/blog/lyft-ipo-san-francisco-real-esta...

Buying every home is one thing but maintaining them too?

The people who IPO try that each time—that's why the prices are what they are.

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