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| x Cisco Systems |
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1984 | San Francisco |
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful
connections-whether in business, education, philanthropy, or
creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to
create the Internet solutions that make networks possible...
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| x Gap Inc. |
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1969 | San Francisco |
The Gap, Inc. (NYSE: GPS) is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 1969 by Donald G. Fisher and Doris F. Fisher. The company has five primary brands: the namesake Gap banner, Banana Republic...
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| x Bank of America |
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San Francisco |
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC), based in Charlotte, North Carolina is one of the largest financial services companies, largest bank by assets, largest commercial bank by deposits and is the second largest by market capitalization in the...
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| x Six Apart |
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Sep 2001 | San Francisco |
Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, with an international presence in Paris and Tokyo with a second US-based office in New York. It is the creator of the widely used Movable Type blogware,...
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| x Double Fine Productions |
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2000 | San Francisco |
Double Fine Productions is a video game developer founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer after his departure from LucasArts. He started Double Fine with a mixture of personnel from the Grim Fandango development team and new employees.
The name "Double...
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| x Levi Strauss & Co. |
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1873 | San Francisco |
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&CO;) is a privately held clothing company known worldwide for its Levi's brand of denim jeans. It was founded in 1853 when Levi Strauss came from Buttenheim, Franconia, (Kingdom of Bavaria) to San Francisco, California to open...
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| x Ghirardelli Chocolate Company |
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1852 | San Francisco |
The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a United States division of Swiss candymaker Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domingo Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California. The...
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| x Zedo | Sep 1999 | San Francisco |
ZEDO is a privately-held company founded in 1999 by Roy de Souza, which provides internet ad serving to web publishers and direct marketers. ZEDO is currently the third largest ad server, with clients such as CNET and PartyPoker. ZEDO employs 120...
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| x Kimpton Hotels & Restaurant Group |
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1981 | San Francisco |
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc. is a hotel and restaurant company founded in 1981 by Bill Kimpton and led by CEO Michael Depatie. It is the largest chain of boutique hotels in the United States. The Company's Headquarters are in San Francisco,...
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| x VIZ Media |
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San Francisco |
Viz Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, is an anime, manga and Japanese entertainment company founded in 1986 as Viz, LLC. In 2005, the Viz, LLC. and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current Viz Media, LLC...
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| x Bank of California |
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1864 | San Francisco |
The Bank of California was opened in San Francisco, California on July 4, 1864, by William Chapman Ralston. It was the first commercial bank in the Western United States, the second-richest bank in the nation, and considered instrumental in...
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| x The Sharper Image |
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San Francisco |
The Sharper Image Corporation (Pink Sheets: SHRPQ), founded by Richard Thalheimer, was an American retailer that specializes in high-end electronics and gifts. The Sharper Image has been in business since 1977. Since filing for bankruptcy in 2008 it...
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| x Critical Path, Inc. |
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1997 | San Francisco |
Critical Path is a provider of messaging services, working in partnerships with mobile operators, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and enterprises.
Critical Path, Inc., founded in 1997, provides messaging solutions for mobile, broadband and fixed...
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| x blinkx |
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2004 | San Francisco |
blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.
Founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake, the company completed a tremendously successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) in May, 2007 and currently has a...
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| x Gymboree Corporation |
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1976 | San Francisco |
The Gymboree Corporation is a publicly-traded San Francisco-based corporation that operates a chain of nearly 900 specialty retail stores of children's apparel in the United States, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Canada, and nearly 500 Play and Music...
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| x NAVTEQ |
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1985 | San Francisco |
NAVTEQ is a Chicago, Illinois-based provider of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data and is a dominant company in providing the base electronic navigable maps. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nokia but operates independently.
NAVTEQ...
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| x Pink Mammoth |
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San Francisco |
Pink Mammoth is a San Francisco-based not-for-profit artist collective, founded by Ryel K and Derek Hena in August, 2003. It is based partially on the philosophy of Burning Man, a radically expressive festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert...
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| x ON24 |
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1998 | San Francisco |
ON24, Inc. is the global leader of webcasting and rich
media marketing solutions. ON24's solutions provide companies a full
range of applications and services to meet corporate and marketing
initiatives such as lead generation, conferences and...
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| x United Commercial Bank |
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1974 | San Francisco |
United Commercial Bank (Chinese: 聯合銀行) is an overseas Chinese bank in the United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It is a subsidiary of UCBH Holdings. Founded in 1974 as United Federal Savings and Loan Association, it changed its name to United...
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| x Yelp |
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Jul 2004 | San Francisco |
Yelp is a web 2.0 company that operates a social networking and user review website by the same name. Yelp hosts an online database of user-generated reviews of local businesses. It is the ultimate city guide that taps into the community's voice and...
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| x DoubleTwist Ventures | San Francisco |
DoubleTwist Ventures is a digital media interoperability company notable for having reverse engineered Apple's FairPlay DRM system. According to Fortune Magazine, DoubleTwist is offering two software products: one that would let other companies sell...
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| x Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
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Jul 2005 | San Francisco |
Metaweb Technologies, Inc., builds infrastructure for Web application
developers and publishers. Based in San Francisco, Metaweb was spun out
of Applied Minds, Inc., in July 2005 by veterans of Netscape, The
Internet Archive, Alexa, Tellme, Intel...
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| x Lexica | San Francisco | Employer | |||
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| x crism consulting | Feb 1, 2001 | San Francisco |
Chris Maden conducted a data and document consulting business under the business name of “crism consulting” from 2001, when his employer shut down unexpectedly, until late 2005, after taking employment with Applied Minds, Inc. (as part...
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| x Hahn's Hibachi | 1978 | San Francisco |
Started in 1978 with one location on Clement Street in San Francisco, this Bay Area chain is family run with more than a half dozen locations.
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| x Linden Lab |
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1999 | San Francisco |
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as Second...
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| x Alexa Internet |
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1996 | San Francisco |
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California, U.S.-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and website. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the website where it is stored and...
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| x Clickability, Inc. | Apr 1999 | San Francisco | Employer | ||
| x PixOasis LLC | San Francisco | Employer | |||
| x Coldwell Banker |
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1906 | San Francisco |
Coldwell Banker is a large real estate franchise owned by Realogy, which also owns Century 21 Real Estate and ERA Real Estate. The company was founded in 1906 in San Francisco.
Coldwell Banker has an international presence, with offices on six...
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| x OpenTable |
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1998 | San Francisco |
OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN) is an online real-time restaurant reservation service founded by Chuck Templeton in San Francisco, CA in 1998. Reservations are free to end users; the company charges restaurants monthly and per-reservation fees for their...
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| x Chronicle Books |
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1967 | San Francisco |
Chronicle Books is a San Francisco-based American publisher of books for adults and children.
The company was established in 1968 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1999...
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| x I. Magnin | 1876 | San Francisco |
I. Magnin & Company was a San Francisco, California-based, high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store. Over the course of its existence, it expanded across the West into Southern California and the adjoining states of Arizona, Oregon,...
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| x Transamerica Corporation |
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1928 | San Francisco |
Transamerica Corporation is a holding company for various life insurance companies and investment firms doing business primarily in the United States.
Transamerica began as a holding company controlled by A. P. Giannini, then head of Bank of America...
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| x Bank of the Orient | San Francisco |
Bank of the Orient (建東銀行) is a overseas Chinese bank in the United States.
Headquartered in San Francisco, with branch offices in Industry, California, Hawaii, and Xiamen, this privately-held bank is one of few overseas Chinese banks in the United...
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| x Secret Level |
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San Francisco |
Secret Level is a game developer based in San Francisco, California owned by Sega. It has worked on America's Army: Rise of a Soldier released in 2005 for Xbox. They also worked on the Xbox port of Final Fight: Streetwise and Karaoke Revolution....
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| x Babcock and Brown |
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1977 | San Francisco |
Babcock & Brown was a global investment and advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia. It was best known in financial markets for structured finance deals that is currently in liquidation. The company had at its peak 28 offices and in excess of 1,500...
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| x Frog City Software | San Francisco |
Frog City Software was a computer game developing company which focused on strategy games, openned in 1995. Frog City Software was a subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive until they closed it in 2006.
The company was founded by the brothers Bill Spieth...
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| x A21, Inc. | San Francisco |
a21, Inc. (OTCBB: ATWO) aggregates visual content from photographers, photography agencies, archives, libraries, and private collections; and licenses that content for its customers. The company's customers include advertising and design agencies,...
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| x Scribd |
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2006 | San Francisco |
Scribd is a Silicon Valley startup creating technology that makes it easy to share documents online. Scribd's mission is to create the world's largest open library of documents where everyone can publish original contents. The company was founded in...
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| x Mobius.net | San Francisco | Employer | |||
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| x Determine Software | San Francisco | Employer | |||
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| x Public Library of Science |
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Oct 2000 | San Francisco |
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit open-access scientific publishing project aimed at creating a library of open access journals and other scientific literature under an open content license. It launched its first journal, PLoS...
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| x Justin.tv |
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Oct 10, 2006 | San Francisco |
Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv is a new media company that makes
great tools for broadcasting and viewing live video online. Their mission
is to make live video easy and allow anyone to
participate in a format that has previously been...
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| x TripIt |
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Oct 2006 | San Francisco |
TripIt is an online service that helps travelers organize all their travel plans—no matter where they booked. With TripIt, it’s easy for travelers to print or access their trip plans from anywhere—and to share itineraries and travel calendars with...
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| x Mercantila | San Francisco | Employer | |||
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| x JumpStart | 2006 | San Francisco |
JumpStart is a San Francisco based nonprofit organization that provides support to families with autistic children.
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| x Direct Medical Knowledge |
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1995 | San Francisco |
Direct Medical Knowledge develops customized online health reports for consumers through their managed care programs.Acquired by WebMD in 1999.
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| x Kongregate |
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2006 | San Francisco |
Kongregate is a social Web games site that combines over 300
user-submitted games with compelling social and community features.
Based in San Francisco, CA, the company was founded in 2006 by
brother-and-sister team Jim Greer, a...
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| x Zannel |
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San Francisco |
Zannel is the mobile industry’s first Instant Media Messaging™ service,
allowing people to instantly update their friends and start real time
conversations by sending video, picture and text updates from their
mobile phones. Within Zannel’s mobile...
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| x Specialty's Cafe & Bakery |
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Mar 15, 1998 | San Francisco |
Today, after 18-years of successful operation, Specialty's Cafe & Bakery is a highly respected foodservice company with 16 bakery-cafes in the San Francisco and Seattle markets. The typical Specialty's Cafe & Bakery is located in an urban...
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| x Get Satisfaction |
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Jan 2007 | San Francisco |
Where customer and employees come together to answer questions, share ideas, and solve problems around products and services.
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| x Powerset |
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Aug 2005 | Palo Alto |
Powerset is a company based in San Francisco, California that is developing a natural language search engine for the Internet.
Powerset is working on building a natural language search engine that can find targeted answers to user questions (as...
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| x Jobvite |
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San Francisco |
Jobvite creates recruitment solutions that fundamentally change the way
companies hire. They believe collaboration, not automation, builds great
companies. Jobvite's on-demand recruitment application is radically easy to
use, so everyone can use it....
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| x Thrasher magazine |
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1981 | San Francisco |
Thrasher is a monthly skateboarding magazine founded in 1981 by Kevin Thatcher and Fausto Vitello. It regularly publishes articles (not limited to the skateboarding subject), skateboard photography, interviews with professional skateboarders,...
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| x Decentral.tv | 2006 | San Francisco |
The Kyte social communications platform enables partners - including
media companies, social networks and mobile operators - to offer their
users an easy way to create embedded interactive channels and produce
multimedia shows in real-time from...
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| x Henry's Hunan Restaurant | 1974 | San Francisco | Restaurant | ||
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| x TeeBeeDee | San Francisco | Employer | |||
| x LicketyShip |
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2004 | San Francisco |
LicketyShip is a
startup Internet shopping and delivery company founded by Notre Dame students
and alumni. Lickety Ship challenges the status quo of Internet delivery by
offering delivery of items such as electronics, office supplies and books...
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| x Flixster |
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San Francisco | Website Owner | ||
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