San Francisco CA. Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) fintech. Founded by Max Levchin (PayPal CTO) + others. NASDAQ: AFRM. $2.6B+ revenue FY2025. One of largest BNPL platforms globally.

Spend management and corporate cards for startups. San Francisco CA. Y Combinator + Ribbit + DST. Raised $200M 2024. Shifted focus from SMB to enterprise.

Online graphic design platform. HQ: Sydney AU, major US presence San Francisco. General Catalyst + Sequoia. 220M+ users. Raised $250M 2024 at $26B valuation. CEO: Melanie Perkins.

Equity management platform for startups and investors. San Francisco CA. a16z + Spark Capital. $7.4B valuation. Used by 40,000+ companies to manage cap tables.

San Francisco CA. Social enterprise developing low-cost infant warmers for premature/low-birth-weight babies in developing countries. Co-founded by Jane Chen (TED2012 Senior Fellow), Naganand Murty, Linus Liang, Rahul Panicker. 1M+ babies impacted in 25 countries. Series A: Vinod Khosla Impact Fund 2012. Marc Benioff angel investor 2014. Jane Chen subsequently moved to King River Capital (VC investor).

San Francisco CA. Online family tree and genealogy platform. Founded by David Sacks (PayPal COO) + others. Acquired by MyHeritage 2012.

San Francisco CA. Nonprofit micro-lending platform. Premal Shah (PayPal PM) was founding president. Enables individuals to lend to entrepreneurs globally. $1.9B+ in loans facilitated.

Produces organic nitrogen fertilizer from air, water, and renewable energy; backed by Chipotle's Cultivate Next fund.

San Francisco CA. OT (operational technology) and IoT security and visibility. IQT portfolio. Critical infrastructure protection — industrial control systems, SCADA. $100M+ Series E (2023). Customers: utilities, energy, manufacturing, government. Relevant to DOE/DHS critical infrastructure protection mission.

San Jose CA. Originally Confinity (Peter Thiel + Max Levchin, 1998) merged with X.com (Elon Musk, 1999). Renamed PayPal. Acquired by eBay $1.5B 2002. IPO 2015 (spun off from eBay). Flagship product: online payments. Origin company of the PayPal Mafia — 20+ subsequent billion-dollar companies founded by alumni. Stanford and UIUC heavily represented in founding team.

Emeryville (SF Bay Area). Born as the Graphics Group inside Lucasfilm (1979), spun out 1986 when Steve Jobs bought it. Created RenderMan, the rendering standard Hollywood VFX adopted — the tech that taught LA how to render (Toy Story, 1995 = first fully CG feature). Acquired by Disney 2006; Pixar's Ed Catmull and John Lasseter then ran Walt Disney Animation. The Bay-Area source of the compute capability LA productionized.

Financial data network connecting apps to bank accounts. San Francisco CA. NEA + Andreessen Horowitz. Visa attempted acquisition ($5.3B) blocked 2021. Raised $575M Apr 2024 at $6.1B.

San Francisco CA. Commercial satellite imagery and geospatial analytics. Acquired Boundless Spatial (IQT portfolio). IQT portfolio company. NYSE: PL. 200+ satellite constellation. Daily global imagery. Key IC/NGA customer. Competes with Maxar, BlackSky. Imagery used for agricultural monitoring, military activity tracking, disaster response.

Ritchey Design is a San Carlos, California-based bicycle components company with over 50 years of design innovation. Founded by Tom Ritchey, the company produces frames and components including bars, stems, seatposts, headsets, forks, and wheels for road, gravel, and mountain bikes.

Smart electrical panel and home energy management platform. San Francisco CA. Founded by Arch Rao (fmr Tesla Energy product lead). $100M+ raised — $10M seed + $90M Series B (2022) led by Fifth Wall Climate Tech and Wellington Management. Also: Angeleno Group, FootPrint Coalition. Enables EV charging, solar, battery integration via intelligent panel. Clean energy infrastructure for the electrified home.

San Francisco CA (now Block Inc). Mobile payments and point-of-sale hardware. Founded 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey. Keith Rabois (PayPal) was COO 2010-2013. NYSE: SQ (rebranded Block Inc 2021). $22B+ revenue.

San Francisco CA. Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that operate in cooperative swarms. IQT Fall 2024 investment ($13M seed, IQT co-invested). GPS/comms-denied environment operations. Modular design. Applications: undersea ISR, mine countermeasures, port security. Led by AJ Bertone (IQT Managing Director) investment. George Hoyem noted on LinkedIn.

Global bank; legal/SEC HQ San Francisco, CA, with a major East Coast operational hub (301 S College St) in Charlotte, NC, inherited from its 2008 absorption of First Union/Wachovia (both Charlotte-rooted).

San Francisco CA. Founded 2004 by Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons (both PayPal alumni). Online reviews platform for local businesses. NYSE: YELP. $1B+ revenue annually.

San Bruno CA. Founded 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim (all PayPal alumni). Acquired by Google $1.65B 2006. Largest video platform globally, 2B+ logged-in users/month. One of most consequential PayPal Mafia exits.