Startups in Oakland — Public Web Data
This post contains a comprehensive list of startups and software companies in Oakland, CA + my favorite picks of private startups well positioned to succeed 🚀
Oakland’s great. If you’re reading this article you’re probably already interested in the tech scene in Oakland, CA. Maybe you’ve founded your own startup, work in tech or are looking to break into the tech industry. Maybe you’d just like to figure what the Oakland startups are. What are they working on? What do they do? Finding that straightforward information can be a pain, if not impossible for someone without a Crunchbase Premium account. I’ve lived in Oakland for a few years and like to keep tabs on which startups are popping up.
At Employbl we’ve begun focusing on filtering our company data based on the company headquarters location. We have some data on satellite locations, for instance Google and Facebook both have San Francisco offices but their main headquarters are down in the South Bay. For the purposes of this article that we’re primarily focused on where the startup’s headquarters is. Naturally the first city I wanted to examine is right where I live in Oakland.
Doing a web search for “startups in oakland” or “tech companies in oakland” or “software companies in oakland” will net you incomplete, out of date and/or irrelevant results. Sure you’ll see a link…