Marketplace startups in San Francisco Bay Area

FleetWorks

San Francisco

FleetWorks builds voice agents to modernize freight booking, creating a more efficient marketplace for brokers and forwarders. With Series A funding, it is led by Paul Singer and Quang Tran and based in SOMA.

Loma

San Francisco

Loma is a click-to-deploy commerce platform for online communities and creators, enabling them to own commerce. Founded by engineers from Instagram, Nextdoor, Wayfair, and Zillow, it has a pre-seed led by Lerer Hippeau and seed round driven

Paraform

San Francisco

Paraform is a recruiting marketplace that connects companies with a network of specialized recruiters to fill roles faster and more accurately. Backed by prominent investors and partners like Palantir and Decagon, it aims to be the first en

Suger

San Francisco

Suger is a Cloud GTM platform that lets software companies list, transact, and co-sell through cloud marketplaces and partner portals (AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Alibaba), automating cross-functional GTM work for faster deal closure; 250+

Whatnot

San Francisco

Whatnot is a community marketplace and livestream shopping platform that started with Funko Pops and Pokémon cards and has grown into the leading marketplace for collector communities, expanding into sports cards, NFTs, and vintage fashion.

Shef

San Francisco

Shef operates an online marketplace that connects local, food-safety-certified cooks with customers for homemade meals, and advocates expanding home-cooking laws to let cooks earn income from their own kitchens, highlighting a diverse, incl

Instawork

San Francisco

Instawork is an on-demand staffing app that connects hourly hospitality workers with businesses, backed by $120 million in funding and led by CEO Sumir Meghani. Founded in 2016 in San Francisco, it aims to create economic opportunities glob

Alcove

San Francisco

Alcove offers a platform that enables shared housing in any rental property, facilitating collaborative living across rental properties.

Lugg

San Francisco

Lugg connects customers with movers and trucks to move items, enabling same-day furniture delivery through partnerships with Costco, IKEA, Restoration Hardware, and Pottery Barn. Based in San Francisco and backed by Sequoia Capital, Y Combi

Dover

San Francisco

Dover is building the first end-to-end recruiting orchestration platform via a Recruiter Marketplace that connects companies with expert Recruiting Partners; launched in 2024 and now serves 200+ early-stage tech companies, 150+ using its pr

Oway

San Francisco

Oway is an AI-driven rideshare freight platform in the US trucking industry that fills unused capacity by connecting a marketplace of carriers and businesses to coordinate shipments, backed by Y Combinator and investors including Uber, Flex

Attain

San Francisco

Attain is a seed-stage startup that aggregates supplier inventory for convenience store owners, tackling fragmentation and antiquated procurement to cut inventory inefficiencies for over 150,000 stores. It offers price transparency, reliabi

Clipboard

San Francisco

Clipboard connects workplaces with nearby professionals to turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. It is a Y Combinator W17 company founded by Wei Deng, a Yale and Yale Law School graduate.

DoorDash

San Francisco

DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company building a local delivery platform by partnering with merchants, hiring drivers, and developing logistics software to enable real-time delivery of goods and services. It aims to be the wo