List of companies based in Oakland, California

This is a list of companies based in Oakland, California , including both current and former businesses.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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• 99Designs ^[1]

A

• AK Press
• AMCO Chemical
• Armor All
• Ask.com
• Atlas-Imperial

B

• Babette, defunct fashion line
• BandCamp
• BarNone
• BART
• Bay Area News Group
• Blue Bottle Coffee Company
• Bookpeople, defunct book distributor
• BrightSource Energy
• Broadly ^[2]
• Buenaventura Press

C

• CashBet ^[2]
• Catchword Branding
• Ceres Imaging ^[2]
• Claremont Resort
• Clorox
• Colombo Baking Company
• Comfy (Siemens) ^{[1] [3]}
• Cost Plus, Inc.

D

• Dreyer's

E

• East Bay Express
• Ecologic Brands, Inc.

F

• Fabric Genomics ^[2]
• Fageol
• Family Radio
• Fentons Creamery
• Fivetran ^{[4] [ citation needed ]}
• Free Range

G

• Generation Tux ^[5]
• Glad, manufacturing
• Golden West Financial
• Goldie Blox
• Granny Goose
• GT Nexus

I

• Independent Iron Works
• Intrada Records

K

• Kaiser Permanente
• KTVU

L

• LaunchDarkly ^{[1] [6]}
• LendStreet ^[1]
• LifeRing Secular Recovery
• Livescribe

M

• Magnolia Editions
• Marqeta ^{[1] [7]}
• Matson, Inc., relocated to Hawaii in 2011
• Moore Dry Dock Company
• Mosaic Inc.
• Mother's Cookies
• Mynd Property Management ^[2]

N

• Namesys
• New Harbinger Publications
• New Village Press
• Next Thing Co.
• Nexus Audio Recording Studio
• Niman Ranch
• Numi Organic Tea
• NZOUAT ^[8]

O

• Oakland Athletics
• Oakland Roots SC
• Oakland Terminal Railway
• Oakland Tribune (corporate headquarters moved to San Jose; defunct as of April 2016)
• Oaklandish
• Oberheim Electronics
• OneCalifornia Bank
• Orb, software, shut down in 2013 ^[9]

P

• Pac-West Telecomm
• Pacific Coast Borax Company
• Pacific Gas and Electric Company
• Pandora Radio
• Pet Food Express
• Phat Beets Produce
• PM Press

R

• Red Bay Coffee ^[10]
• Roofstock ^[1]

S

• Safeway, moved to Pleasanton, California in 1996
• San Francisco and Oakland Helicopter Airlines
• Sequoia Voting Systems
• Sungevity
• Swarm Gallery

T

• Thomas Guide
• Transocean Airlines

V

• Vaccination Records
• Vidado (formerly Captricity) ^[1]
• VSCO ^{[1] [11]}

Y

• Yoshi's, jazz nightclub
• Your Black Muslim Bakery, defunct bakery

Z

• DZS (formerly Zhone Technologies), moved to Plano, Texas in 2020 ^[12]

References

1. "2018 Best Tech Startups in Oakland". thetechtribune.com. February 6, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
2. "10-best-tech-startups-in-oakland". thetechtribune.com. Retrieved October 25, 2019.^{[ title missing ]}
3. "Siemens Acquires Comfy App Company Expanded Smart Building Solution". facilityexecutive.com. June 26, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
4. "Oakland based Fivetran raises $44 million in Series B round". www.techpluto.com. September 24, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
5. "generationtux". www.owler.com. Retrieved October 25, 2019.^{[ title missing ]}
6. "tech-oakland-launchdarkly-lake-merritt-signs-lease". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved October 25, 2019.^{[ title missing ]}
7. "Marqeta". www.forbes.com. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
8. NZOUAT
9. "Shutdown notice - Orb". www.orb.com. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013.
10. http://www.oaklandmagazine.com/Red-Bay-Coffee-Expands/, Published September 14, 2019. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
11. https://www.officelovin.com/2015/09/28/a-look-inside-vscos-amazing-headquarters-in-oakland/, Published September 28, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2019.
12. "California telecom company moving HQ to Plano, creating engineering center". Dallas News. March 2, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2025.

See also

• List of companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area