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Top 100 Developer Tools Startups in San Francisco 2026

The most-funded developer tools, DevOps and open-source startups headquartered in San Francisco, ranked by total capital raised.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $35.3B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised

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curl "https://indexed.vc/api/v1/companies?industries=Developer+Tools,DevOps,Open+Source&countries=United+States&cities=San+Francisco&operatingStatus=active&sort=total_funding_raised&order=desc&limit=100" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

The API has no company type filter, so public companies can appear; this list counts private companies only.

The API cannot leave out companies whose latest round is a grant, private equity or debt financing; this list does.

Data from Indexed.vcUpdated

Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by disclosed total funding in USD. Companies whose latest round is one of: Grant, Private Equity, Debt Financing are excluded. Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. Open a company profile for its funding summary and available detail. How this data is built.

26
Algolia

Algolia provides an AI search and retrieval platform that helps businesses deliver relevant disco...

San Francisco, United States501–1000Developer Tools, SaaS
Series DTotal funding$332.8MJul 2021
27
Wispr Flow

Wispr Flow is the voice-to-text AI that turns speech into clear, polished writing in every app.

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
Series BTotal funding$323.6MMay 2026
28
Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties o...

San Francisco, United States51–200Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$300.0MSep 2025
29
Rescale

Rescale provides a cloud-based digital engineering platform that gives R&D teams high-performance...

San Francisco, United States201–500Cloud, Developer Tools
Series DTotal funding$272.4MApr 2025
30
Redpanda

Provides a high-performance, Kafka-compatible streaming platform and Agentic Data Plane to connec...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Databases
Series DTotal funding$265.5MApr 2025
31
Productboard

Productboard helps product teams understand customer needs, prioritize what to build, and align s...

San Francisco, United States201–500Developer Tools, SaaS
Series DTotal funding$261.3MFeb 2022
32
Canary Technologies

Canary provides web-based guest management software that helps hotels streamline operations, incr...

San Francisco, United States51–200Cybersecurity, Developer Tools
Series DTotal funding$242.4MJun 2025
33
Omni Analytics

Omni Analytics is a business intelligence platform helping organizations analyze data with modern...

San Francisco, United States51–200Developer Tools, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$230.5MJul 2026
34
Emergent

Autonomous coding agents for software migration and modernization

San Francisco, United States11–50Developer Tools, Generative AI
Series CTotal funding$223.0MJul 2026
35
Domino Data Lab

Domino Data Lab provides an enterprise AI platform that helps regulated industries like life scie...

San Francisco, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Corporate RoundTotal funding$220.6MAug 2025
36
Imbue

Builds AI systems and developer tools (Sculptor) that make coding agents reliable and verifiable ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$220.0MSep 2023
37
Pantheon

WebOps platform for WordPress and Drupal sites; hosting, staging, and workflow tools for 700k+ we...

San Francisco, United States201–500Cloud, Developer Tools
Series ETotal funding$217.0MJul 2021
38
Netlify

Netlify is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, serving milli...

San Francisco, United States51–200Cloud, Developer Tools
Series DTotal funding$214.1MNov 2021
39
Retool

Retool is the fastest way to build internal applications.

San Francisco, United States201–500Developer Tools, SaaS
Series DTotal funding$206.2MOct 2025
40
Sentry

Sentry helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize application performance, supporting more than...

San Francisco, United States201–500Developer Tools, Analytics
Series ETotal funding$206.0MMay 2022
41
CircleCI

CI/CD platform built by DevOps experts that helps software teams automate build, test, and deploy...

San Francisco, United States201–500Developer Tools, SaaS
Series FTotal funding$201.5MMay 2021
42
Helium

Helium replaces cell towers with community-hosted Hotspots that deliver affordable wireless conne...

San Francisco, United States51–200Crypto & Web3, Developer Tools
Series DTotal funding$200.0MMar 2022
43
Resolve AI

Autonomous AI Site Reliability Engineer that investigates and resolves production incidents acros...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, DevOps
Extension RoundTotal funding$200.0MApr 2026
44
Swift Navigation

Swift Navigation provides precise GNSS positioning solutions — including RTK receivers and the Sk...

San Francisco, United States201–500Developer Tools, Space Tech
Series ETotal funding$195.0MJul 2025
45
You.com

At You.com, we help engineers move fast on what matters most. We focus on delivering accurate, fr...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series CTotal funding$195.0MSep 2025
46
Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect is a full-stack platform for training and deploying frontier AI models using dece...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$194.9MJan 2025
47
Endor Labs

AI-native application security platform helping teams find, prioritize, and fix critical code and...

San Francisco, United States51–200Cybersecurity, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$188.0MApr 2025
48
Airbyte

Airbyte is an open-source data integration platform that moves data via 600+ connectors into any ...

San Francisco, United States51–200Data & Analytics, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$181.2MDec 2021
49
PostHog

PostHog is an all-in-one platform where product engineers build self-driving products, combining ...

San Francisco, United States51–200Open Source, Analytics
Series ETotal funding$175.0MSep 2025
50
Hayden AI

Hayden AI combines advanced vision AI with vehicle-mounted hardware to analyze urban environments...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
Growth EquityTotal funding$172.5MJul 2024