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  • 20th Television
    Broadcast syndication
    Twentieth Television is an American television syndication company, and the syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television.
  • 2Win Information Systems, Inc.

    2Win Information Systems, Inc.

    Information technology
  • 3D Systems
    Software development, Electronic Computer Manufacturing
    3D Systems, headquartered in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a company that engineers and manufactures 3D printers. The company is credited with the invention of 3D printing. 3D Systems creates product concept models, precision and functional prototypes, master patterns for tooling, as well as production parts for direct digital manufacturing. 3D Systems uses proprietary processes to fabricate physical objects using input from computer-aided design and manufacturing software, or 3D scanning and sculpting devices. 3D Systems' technologies and services are used in the design, development and production stages of many industries, including aerospace, automotive, architecture, health care, dental, entertainment, recreation and consumer goods. 3D Systems offers professional- and production-grade 3D printers, in addition to a line of personal 3D printers and 3D-printed consumer products, supported by the affiliated online forum Cubify. 3D Systems is notable within the 3D printing industry for developing stereolithography and the STL file format.
  • 42 Entertainment

    42 Entertainment

    Video game
    42 Entertainment is an American company based in Burbank which specializes in creating and producing alternate reality games. The company was founded in 2003 as an independently owned, creative content and interactive agency under the name 4orty 2wo Entertainment. The company started with a nine-person management team and was originally based in Emeryville, California. It produces alternate reality games, including campaigns for Xbox and PS3 titles, the movie The Dark Knight, and the Nine Inch Nails Year Zero album.
  • 686 Clothing

    686 Clothing

  • 7 Studios
    Video game
  • 989 Studios
    Video game, Video game industry
    989 Studios was a division of Sony Computer Entertainment America that developed games for the PlayStation consoles and Windows personal computers. Their games include EverQuest, Twisted Metal III and 4, Syphon Filter and Syphon Filter 2, Jet Moto 3, Bust a Groove, and others. It now exists as the 989 Sports brand owned by SCEA that produces sports games.
  • 99 Ranch Market
    Supermarket, Retail
    99 Ranch Market is an Asian American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc., which is based in Buena Park, California. 99 Ranch has over 30 stores, primarily in California, with other stores in Nevada, Washington, and Texas. 99 Ranch Market is one of the largest Chinese American supermarket chains in the United States. It is also considered a Taiwanese-American market because of the considerable amount of products imported from Taiwan and because the store was founded by Taiwanese-born American Roger H. Chen. Other renderings of the name 99 Ranch Market: traditional Chinese: 大華超級市場; simplified Chinese: 大华超级市场; pinyin: Dàhuá Chāojíshìchǎng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-huâ-chhiau-kip-chhī-tiûⁿ.
  • Equity One

    Equity One

    Real Estate, Property management, Lessors of Real Estate
    Equity One, Inc is a real estate investment trust, traded on the New York Stock Exchange, with corporate offices in New York, NY and Miami, FL. Equity One owns, manages, acquires, develops and redevelops quality retail properties located in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Florida. The company’s mission is - Improving retail real estate in urban communities.
  • A Plus Limos

    A Plus Limos

    Limousine Service, Local Passenger Transportation, NEC (limousine rental with driver and automobile rental with driver)
    A Plus Limos is a sole proprietorship operating in San Diego County, California, USA. A Plus Limousine provides luxury transportation throughout Southern California for special occasions. Cadillac Escalade Limo, Hummer Limo, Lincoln Towncar Limo.
  • A&W Restaurants
    Restaurant, Fast food
    A&W Restaurants, Inc., is a chain of fast-food restaurants distinguished by its draft root beer and root beer floats. A&W started opening franchises in California, in 1923. The company name was taken from the surname initials of partners Roy W. Allen and Frank Wright. The company became famous in the United States for its "frosty mugs," where the mug would be kept in the freezer prior to being filled with root beer and served to the customer. Today, it has franchise locations throughout much of the world, serving a typical fast food menu of hamburgers and french fries, as well as hot dogs. A number of its outlets are drive-in restaurants with carhops. Previously owned by Yum! Brands, the chain was sold to a consortium of A&W franchisees, through A Great American Brand LLC, in December 2011. A&W restaurants in Canada have been part of a separate and unaffiliated chain since 1972.
  • a21, Inc. 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, publishing and media entities, in-house communication departments and outside corporate communications firms, small and home office businesses, and the general public. The company sells its products directly and through a global network of 150 distributors in over 100 countries. It also markets its products through print advertising, direct mail, Web mail, and telemarketing. a21 was formed as in investment company in 2000 and acquired the stock photography agency SuperStock in 2004. They moved into SuperStock's headquarters in Jacksonville, FL and used SuperStock as a vehicle for further expansion. In 2005 they acquired Ingram Publishing Ltd., a UK-based provider of subscription and Royalty-Free images as well as vector graphics and fonts, vehicle outline templates, and print price guides.
  • ABC Studios

    ABC Studios

    Television Production
    ABC Studios is the television production division of Disney–ABC Television Group. ABC Studios was established as Touchstone Films Television Division in 1985 and given its current name in 2007.
  • Acclarent

    Acclarent

    Health Care
    Acclarent, Inc. began as a privately held, venture-backed company, and is now a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson. It is based in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California. Acclarent develops technology for the ENT medical field.
  • Accolade
    Video game
    Accolade, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher of the 1980s and 1990s. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it was founded in 1984 by Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead after leaving another game developer and publisher they had founded, Activision.
  • Acrocat Software

    Acrocat Software

    Acrocat Software, is an American Corporation that was founded in 2001. Acrocat Software has produced two Palm OS applications. PDAbs is licensed and distributed by Handmark, a developer and distributor of mobile content. PDAbs People's Choice Award Winner Champion Award Winner for Best Fitness Application. Selected by members of the media and over 20 industry experts. AcroWiki The first Twiki-based Palm OS application
  • Active-Semi International

    Active-Semi International

    Active-Semi is an industry-leading supplier of advanced power management solutions targeting a broad range of portable equipment including smart phones, portable navigation devices, and personal media players. Active-Semi International was founded in 2004 in Silicon Valley, California, and currently employs more than 170 people worldwide in multiple branch offices in the United States; Europe; Shanghai, China; Shenzhen, China; Taipei, Taiwan; and Hong Kong.
  • Activision Blizzard
    Video game, Interactive entertainment, Video game industry
    Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the American holding company for Activision, Blizzard Entertainment and Sierra Entertainment, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States. In 2009, Activision Blizzard was the world's second-largest gaming company by revenue after Nintendo.
  • Cypress Semiconductor
    Semiconductor Manufacture
    Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
  • Aderra Inc.

    Aderra Inc.

    Aderra Inc. is a music technology company based in Los Angeles, London, Las Vegas, Melbourne, Tokyo, Nashville, New York, Paris and Luxembourg. The company specializes in recording live events directly to USB flash drives which are then distributed to the audience before they leave the venue. Aderra Inc. was founded in Los Angeles by Ed Donnelly on January 1, 2007. The first band recorded live to USB flash drives using Aderra technology was Killola. On June 2, 2007 Aderra recorded Big Head Todd and the Monsters at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado. Beginning in June 2007 Aderra's technology was used to record and distribute Willie Nelson's live concerts on USB Wristband flash drives. In December 2007 Ringo Starr released a studio album entitled "Liverpool 8" on USB Wristbands provided by Aderra. From January through April 2008 Aderra's technology was used on a worldwide tour by rock band Matchbox Twenty. On February 18, 2008 CNET blogger Matt Rosoff posted about live USB recordings and Aderra on his Crave gadget blog. Billboard magazine featured Aderra artist Kim Kline on page 47 of the March 8, 2008 edition
  • Adify
    Advertising, Technology, Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portal
    Adify focusesbrand-driven advertising networks. Adify's partners are able to extend their brands, increase their reach and grow their revenue by using Adify to aggregate niche, high-quality content sites and create customized, vertical ad networks.
  • Adina World Beat Beverages

    Adina World Beat Beverages

    Adina World Beat Beverages is a manufacturer of coffee, tea and juice drinks based in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2004 by Magatte Wade-Marchand, Greg Steltenpohl and Dominique Leveuf. Adina is led by "an international team of entrepreneurs from Odwalla, SoBe and Peet's Coffee" and has worked to preserve traditional beverage recipes from around the world from "being replaced by cola drinks distributed by multinational corporations". Adina manufactures the drinks from "sustainable" ingredients obtained through fair trade and sourced from small-scale farmers in places like India, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Ethiopia. The company says it works to aid to impoverished farmers.
  • Adobe Systems
    Software, Computer, Prepackaged Software
    Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. It is best known for Photoshop, the Portable Document Format and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe was founded in February 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. As of 2015, Adobe Systems has about 13,500 employees, about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in Newton, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; Orlando, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lehi, Utah; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California in the United States.
  • Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

    Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

    Surgical and Medical Instruments and Apparatus, Ophthalmology
    Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices for the eye and contact lens care products.
  • Advis

    Advis

    Men's and Boys' Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing
    Advis, formerly known as "Adviz" was founded in the year 2006 by the young twins Jacob Jason Maramba. Just like the rest of young skateboarders hoping to be noticed, their team organized skateboarders from all over the city, ages 6-21 years old and spent thier days together perfecting flips and grinds.What caught our attention is Advis' mere passion for skateboarding. The team wore thier white t's with their logo spray painted on it with pride. The group would be seen on the street skating from one skate park to another, each day pushing themselves a bit harder than the last.When we discovered that this growing organization was started by the young twins Jacob and Jason, we were surprised with their ideas and concept towards our interest in creating an apparel company. They gave us sketches and an outlook on fashion today.Unlike most skateboarding companies that provide apparel, footwear or gears, that are all about branding and marketing, Advis promotes high quality tees, hoodies, *denim and **decks. We want to make sure that our clothes will not only be fashionable, but will also last you through the slips and falls that come with the sport.Advis' main goal is to help the amature skateboarders out there be noticed and be seen. Advis will be touring skate parks all over California in search of our 8 seasonal skateboarders. Each season, the 8 lucky skaters will recieve rare Advis clothing only offered to the seasonal winners. They will be featured on our montly magazine and website along with thier bio, photos and videos provided by our company. Advis does not promote exclusivity or no limits. Advis supports all skateboarders to be seen, be sponsored and be known.
  • AEOsports
    Website, Sports equipment
    Sell premium professional sporting goods online.
  • Agetec
    Video game, Video game industry
    Agetec Inc. is a US based video game publishing company that is best known for bringing Japanese titles to the US, including their flagship series Armored Core, and the King's Field RPG series, as well as their "designer series" of RPG Maker and Fighter Maker. Agetec publishes games for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable as well as for the Nintendo DS. Agetec has also brought to the US a number of other unique PS2 titles such as Magic Pengel and Cookie & Cream and their best selling fishing titles Bass Landing and Fisherman's Bass Club, plus Disaster Report and its sequel, Raw Danger. Most recently they have developed Cookie & Cream for the Nintendo DS with From Software and published it in the US.
  • Agile

    Agile

    Software, Prepackaged Software, Computer programming
    Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL) helps companies drive profits, accelerate innovation, improve quality, enable globalization and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad suite of enterprise class PLM solutions and time-to-value focused implementations, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. 3COM, Acer, Bayer, Broadcom, CooperVision, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Foxconn, GE Medical Systems, Harris, Heinz, Johnson Johnson, Johnson Diversey, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, McDonald’s, Micron, Philips, QUALCOMM, Sharp, Shell, Siemens, Tyco Healthcare and ZF are among the over 11,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer packaged goods, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and life sciences industries that have licensed Agile PLM solutions.
  • Agility Communications

    Agility Communications

    Agility Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of widely tunable laser solutions for the optical network. With this acquisition, JDSU continues its commitment to investing in innovative technologies in potentially high growth markets. Adding Agility's tunable laser solutions further expands JDSU's portfolio for the agile network. Tunable lasers simplify the deployment of high-speed, metro, and long-haul networks and enable next-generation services. JDSU's agile network portfolio includes products such as EDFAs, ROADMs, wavelength blockers, and optical channel monitors.
  • AKQA
    Advertising
    AKQA is an advertising agency that specializes in creating digital services and products. AKQA has offices in Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and employs 1,600 staff.
  • Alexa Internet
    Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portal
    Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data. Founded as an independent company in 1996, Alexa was acquired by Amazon in 1999. Its toolbar collects data on browsing behavior and transmits it to the Alexa website, where it is stored and analyzed, forming the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. According to its website, Alexa provides traffic data, global rankings and other information on 30 million websites, and as of 2015 its website is visited by over 6.5 million people monthly.
  • Alibris

    Alibris

    Retail
    Alibris is an online store that sells new books, used books, out-of-print books, rare books, and other media through an online network of independent booksellers. Alibris was founded in 1997 by Martin Manley and incorporated in 1998. It grew out of Interloc, an online company founded by antiquarian bookseller Richard Weatherford in 1994. Interloc was one of the earliest successful efforts to centralize used book data online. It remained a private network until 1996, when the company launched its website. The company was backed by venture capital until 2006, when it was purchased by Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity firm. In February 2010 Oak Hill Capital Partners bought Monsoon and merged it with Alibris with Monsoon Commerce owning Alibris. Booksellers list their inventories on Alibris which in turn offers the books on its retail website, a separate library services site, and business to business partners such as Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Chapters Indigo. It also offers services in the UK with the Waterstones market place. It offers more than 150 million books from a network of over 15,000 booksellers in 65 countries.
  • Alien Technology

    Alien Technology

    Alien Technology provides UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) products and services to customers in retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, defense, transportation and logistics, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Organizations use Alien's RFID products and services to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and security of their supply chains, logistics and asset tracking operations. Alien's products include RFID tags, RFID readers and related training and professional services. Alien's patented Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) technology and related proprietary manufacturing processes are designed to enable the manufacture of high volume, low cost RFID tags. Alien was founded in l994. The company's facilities include: its corporate headquarters in Morgan Hill, CA; an RFID tag manufacturing facility in Fargo, ND; the Alien RFID Solutions Center, in the Dayton, Ohio area, and sales offices in the US, Europe and Asia. Alien is a member of EPCGlobal.
  • ALLDATA

    ALLDATA

    Software industry
    ALLDATA LLC is a source of automotive OEM information. ALLDATA provides vehicle manufacturers' diagnostic and repair information. The company was founded in 1986 in Elk Grove, California by entrepreneur Rod Georgiu and a team of computer and automotive professionals. As computer technology took hold, ALLDATA began compiling OEM information. In 1996, ALLDATA was purchased by AutoZone to provide service & repair information in addition to the automotive parts and accessories sold at AutoZone's retail stores. ALLDATA's shop management system fully integrates with Bolt On Technology's automotive software solutions.
  • American Apparel
    Clothing, Retail, Manufacturing
    American Apparel is an American clothing manufacturer, distributor, and retailer based in Los Angeles, California, created by Dov Charney who was born in Montreal, Quebec. It is a vertically integrated clothing manufacturer, wholesaler, and retailer that also performs its own design, advertising, and marketing. It is best known for making basic, solid-color cotton knitwear such as T-shirts and underwear, but in recent years it has expanded—to include leggings, leotards, tank tops, vintage clothing, dresses, pants, denim, nail polish, bedding and accessories for men, women, children, babies, and dogs in various prints and colors.
  • American Continental Bank

    American Continental Bank

    Financial Services
    American Continental Bank is an overseas Chinese bank in the United States. Headquartered in Industry, California, with a branch office in San Gabriel, California, this privately held community bank was established on October 6, 2003. The bank was first created by a group of local businessmen and individuals who were interested in providing specialized financial services to the Chinese community. The city of Industry, California is an area with higher factories, and the local Chinese population is greatly involved in the production. As a result, the bank was providing financial services to small and mid-sized business like the other overseas Chinese bank in the United States, but the bank originally focused on those in the manufacturing business.
  • American Premier Bank

    American Premier Bank

    Financial Services
    American Premier Bank is a California state bank established by Chinese Americans in the United States. Headquartered in Arcadia, California, this is a privately held community bank established on July 7, 2003. On January 31, 2011, American Premier Bank, Arcadia merged with First General Bank, Rowland Heights. The name of the two merged banks will remain as First General Bank. The bank caters to the local Chinese and Asian community which is more than 45% of the total population of the city.
  • American RingWorks

    American RingWorks

    Jewelry (except Costume) Manufacturing
    American RingWorks is a small, veteran owned business that specializes in creating custom military rings and jewelry for service members and their families in recognition of their service.
  • American Video Entertainment

    American Video Entertainment

    Video game
    American Video Entertainment was a San Jose, California–based software development company that developed unlicensed video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The company developed two games on its own, Krazy Kreatures and Trolls on Treasure Island in 1990, and published 19 games altogether for the NES.
  • Amina – Chechen Republic Online

    Amina – Chechen Republic Online

    The Internet
    Amina – Chechen Republic Online, popularly known as Amina.com, is a social networking website that includes information on the Chechen language and culture and photos of the First and Second Chechen Wars. It was founded on March 13, 1997 by Albert Digaev, a Chechen refugee living in the United States, as a means of communication for the disparate global Chechen diaspora community. At its inception, it was the first website about Chechnya on the Internet, and for a while the only one. Taking its name after a well-liked Chechen girl's name, the website initially provided information, links and images about and from Chechnya, its history, people, culture and the conflict. After numerous website layout updates, the site has expanded to include online discussion boards, chatroom, photo gallery, and private email service. Amina – Chechen Republic Online now ranks in the top 25,000 sites based on web traffic on the Internet according to the website Alexa. The website's popularity grew to such an extent that it was once closely monitored by the pro-Russian Chechen government.
  • Amy's Kitchen is a family-owned, privately held company that manufactures organic and non-GMO convenience and frozen foods. Founded in 1987 by CEO Andy Berliner and Rachel Berliner, and incorporated since 1988, Amy's Kitchen took its name from their then-newborn daughter, Amy. All of Amy's 250+ products are vegetarian and made with organic ingredients. The company makes over 130 gluten-free options.
  • Andronico's Community Markets, known locally as "Andronico's", is a supermarket chain based primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its first store was founded in 1929 on Berkeley's Solano Avenue by Greek immigrant Frank Andronico. In late 2011, Andronico's filed for bankruptcy. A new group of investors has assumed management of the chain during the reorganization process.
  • Anybots

    Anybots

    Robotics
    Anybots Inc. is a robotics company founded in 2001 by Trevor Blackwell in Santa Clara, CA. David Rogan became CEO in July 2012.
  • Appirio
    Software
    Appirio Inc. is an information technology consulting company headquartered in San Francisco, California that offers technology and professional services to companies wishing to adopt public cloud applications. This includes Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service technologies like Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Workday, Cornerstone OnDemand and Amazon Web Services.
  • Apple Inc.
    Digital distribution, Consumer electronics, Software
    Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an American multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include Macintosh computers, the iPod and the iPhone. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes media browser, the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software, the iWork suite of productivity software, and Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products. The company operates more than 250 retail stores in nine countries and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.
  • Applied Minds
    Consumer electronics, Software, Robotics
    Applied Minds, Llc. is an American company founded in 2000 by ex-Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren that provides technology, design, R&D, and consulting services to multiple firms, including General Motors, Intel, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Herman Miller, Harris Corporation, Sony, and Sun MicroSystems. The company's headquarters are in Glendale, California, and it maintains offices in New York and Washington DC. It supplies products and services in software, aerospace, entertainment, electronics, biotechnology and architectural design. It has spun out several companies including Metaweb Technologies, TouchTable, and Applied Proteomics.
  • Aptera Motors

    Aptera Motors

    Automotive industry
    Aptera Motors was an American startup company seeking to manufacture high-efficiency road vehicles. Formerly known as Accelerated Composites, the company was based in Oceanside, California. The company was bought by a Chinese auto manufacturer in mid-2012 and reactivated as Zaptera USA as a going concern after having announced closure on December 2, 2011. Aptera’s first product, a three-wheeled two-seater named the Aptera 2 Series, was under development. The fuel efficiency of 300 mpg when plugged in every 120 miles would make it one of the most fuel-efficient cars in the world. This is without accounting for any fuel used for generating the power that charges the batteries. If that is provided for, the equation could stand significantly altered, depending on the source of the energy. The name Aptera is Greek for “wingless,” a nod to their light-aircraft-inspired design and construction techniques, and is correctly pluralized either as 'Apterae' or ‘Apteras.’ However, Aptera Motors maintains that Aptera translates to “wingless flight.”
  • Arista Networks

    Arista Networks

    Cloud computing, Networking hardware
    Arista Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking solutions for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments. Arista's products include an array of 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet low-latency cut-through switches, including the 7124SX, which remained the fastest switch using SFP+ optics through September 2012, with its sub-500ns latency, as well as the 7500 series, Arista’s award-winning modular 10G/40G/100Gbit/s switch. Arista's own Linux-based network operating system, EOS, runs on all Arista products.
  • ArcSight

    ArcSight

    Software, Enterprise software
    HP ArcSight is a cyber security company founded in 2000 that provides big data security analytics and intelligence software for security information and event management and log management solutions. ArcSight solutions help customers identify and prioritize security threats, organize and track incident response activities, and simplify audit and compliance activities. May 2013 marked the 10th consecutive year that Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM rated ArcSight in the leader’s quadrant. It became a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard in 2010. HP ArcSight, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with sales offices in other countries.
  • Areae

    Areae

    Video game
    Areae, Inc. was founded in July of 2006. They are venture-backed now, and run by their President, Raph Koster and John Donham, veterans of the whole “massively multiplayer” scene. They´re working on some new tech that will literally change how virtual worlds are made. They’ve got a cool world or two incubating on the back burner.
  • Arena Solutions

    Arena Solutions

    Software, Software as a service
    Arena pioneered cloud product lifecycle management PLM applications. The company’s suite of products, including BOMControl, Arena Exchange, Arena Demand, Arena API and Arena Projects, enable engineering and manufacturing teams of all sizes and their extended supply chains to speed up prototyping, reduce scrap, and streamline supply chain management. Arena cloud product lifecycle management applications simplify bill of materials and change management for companies of all sizes, and offer the right balance of flexibility and control at every point in the product lifecycle—from prototype to full-scale production. The patented cloud solution allows Arena to connect with other supplier’s clouds and painlessly retrieve part information, schematics and other connected, contextual data. This saves an enormous amount of time and greatly reduces the opportunity for data entry errors.
  • Artemis

    Artemis

    Pet food
    Artemis Pet Food Company, Inc. is a manufacturer and supplier of holistic pet foods. Established in 1998, and based in Carson, California on the premise that an animal's health starts with its diet.
  • Artificial Life, Inc.
    Video game, Video game industry
    Artificial Life, Inc. (Artificial Life) is a mobile phone application software provider and engage in the broadband mobile technology, mobile games, interactive mobile television (TV), mobile business applications and m-commerce platforms.
  • Artimi

    Artimi

    Artimi is a fabless semiconductor company leading the development of globally compatible single chip WiMedia-based silicon solutions for low power, high bandwidth wireless connectivity based on Ultra Wideband (UWB) technologies. Artimi's dual-band products include MAC, I/O and software, which are ideal for high speed Certified Wireless USB applications, such as bulk data transfer and synchronization in power sensitive consumer, communication and PC peripherals, and high speed Bluetooth over WiMedia UWB applications.
  • Aruba Networks

    Aruba Networks

    Computer network
    Aruba Networks, Inc. is a networking vendor selling enterprise wireless LAN and edge access networking equipment. The company has over 1,200 employees and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Aruba's core products are access points, mobility controllers, and network management software through their Airwave Management Platform product. According to the Dell'Oro Report published in Q211, Aruba ranked #2 in market share in the wireless LAN market. In May 2009, the company introduced the Virtual Branch Network family of products targeting branch offices and remote locations.
  • Athletic Model Guild
    Motion Picture and Video Production
    The Athletic Model Guild, or AMG, was founded by Bob Mizer in December 1945. During those post-war years, United States censorship laws allowed women, but not men, to appear in various states of undress in what were referred to as “art photographs". Mizer began his business by taking pictures of men that he knew. His subjects would often pose for pictures which illustrated fitness tips and the like, but were also viewed as homoerotic material.
  • Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its numerous recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, jazz, and hip hop. Over its first 20 years of operation Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American recording labels, specializing in jazz, R&B and soul recordings by African-American musicians including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Ruth Brown and Otis Redding, a position greatly enhanced by its distribution deal with Stax Records. In 1967 Atlantic became a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, now the Warner Music Group, and expanded into rock and pop music. In 2004 Atlantic Records and its sister label Elektra Records merged into Atlantic Records Group. Craig Kallman is currently Chairman of Atlantic Records. Label co-founder Ahmet Ertegün served as Founding Chairman until his death on December 14, 2006, at age 83. The label also has a number of deals with previously independent labels such as Must Destroy and VP Records. Atlantic Records has housed many artists of different genres like Bruno Mars, Ryan Star, Coldplay, K.
  • Trend Micro
    Computer security, Software, Software Publishing
    Trend Micro Inc. is a global security software company founded in Los Angeles, California with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, and regional headquarters in Asia, Europe and the Americas. The company develops security software for servers, cloud computing environments, and small business. Its cloud and virtualization security products provide cloud security for customers of VMware, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and vCloud Air. Eva Chen serves as Trend Micro’s chief executive officer, a position she has held since 2005 when she succeeded founding CEO Steve Chang. Chang serves as chairman of Trend Micro.
  • Atomic Aquatics

    Atomic Aquatics

    Atomic Aquatics is a manufacturer of scuba gear, founded in 1995 in Huntington Beach, CA by Dean Garraffa and Doug Toth. The company is best known for regulators, but also manufactures snorkels, masks, and fins. The company introduced the world's first titanium diving regulator in January 1997. All Atomic first stages are flow-through piston designs.
  • Autodesk
    Software, Prepackaged Software, Geographic Information System
    Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San Francisco building. The company has offices world wide, with U.S. locations in Northern California, Oregon, and in New England in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1982 by John Walker, a coauthor of the first versions of AutoCAD, the company's flagship computer-aided design software. Its AutoCAD and Revit software is primarily used by architects, engineers, and structural designers to design, draft, and model buildings and other structures. Autodesk software has been used in many fields, from the New York Freedom Tower to Tesla electric cars. Autodesk became best known for AutoCAD but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment as well as a line of software for consumers, including Sketchbook, Homestyler, and Pixlr.
  • Avenda Systems

    Avenda Systems

    Security, Computer networking
    Avenda Systems is a Silicon Valley start-up, that develops network access security products with operations in Santa Clara, California, USA and Bangalore, India.
  • Volcom
    Clothing, Footwear Manufacturing
    Volcom, Inc. is a modern lifestyle brand that designs, markets, and distributes youth oriented products. The company primarily produces clothing, footwear, accessories, and related products for young men and women. Volcom is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, United States. Volcom is known for its trademark stone logo, its slogan True To This, and the Let the Kids Ride Free campaign. Jason Steris is the CEO of Volcom.
  • Avery Dennison
    Office supplies, Stationery, Tablet
    Avery Dennison Corporation is a global manufacturer and distributor of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials, apparel branding labels and tags, RFID inlays, and specialty medical products.
  • Avistar

    Avistar

  • AvoDerm
    Pet food
    AvoDerm is a line of natural dog and cat food manufactured by Breeder's Choice, Inc., of Irwindale, California. The company was founded by Harold Taylor in 1947. The AvoDerm line was launched in 1982 as a specialty food for the alleviation of skin and coat problems in dogs. Eight of the brand's formulas include avocado meal, stating that the ingredient contains Vitamins A, E and C in abundance, as well as folate, potassium, niacin, and fatty acids. The food is also free of chemical or artificial preservatives, such as Ethoxyquin, BHA, or BHT.
  • Axiom Microdevices

    Axiom Microdevices

    Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing
    Axiom Microdevices Inc. is a supplier of Power Amplifiers and other RF semiconductor devices for the worldwide mobile handset market. The company’s patented technology enables conventional CMOS to be used to realize Watt level RF power amplifiers without the requirement for a module package.
  • Babcock & Brown
    Real Estate, Private equity, Investment banking
    Babcock & Brown was a global investment and advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia that went into liquidation in 2009. It was best known in financial markets for structured finance deals. The company had at its peak 28 offices and over 1,500 employees worldwide. Although headquartered in Sydney, it had a significant presence in Europe and the United States. The creditors of Babcock & Brown voted to place the company into liquidation on 24 August 2009. At the end of 2008 Babcock had a market capitalisation of just over $8.5 billion, and in 2007 its market capitalization peaked at above $9.1 billion. However, by October 2008 the share price had collapsed by 95% to A$1.30 and by December 2008 by 99.6% to A$0.14, representing a market capitalisation of less than $50 million. On 13 March 2009 the company was placed into voluntary administration. Approximately 45% of its shares were owned by the executives of the firm. Nicknamed the "Mini Macquarie", it was a company frequently compared with larger competitor Macquarie Bank.
  • Banana Republic
    Retail, Ophthalmic Goods Manufacturing
    Banana Republic is a clothing and accessories retailer owned by American multinational corporation Gap Inc. It was founded in 1978 by Mel and Patricia Ziegler with a safari theme; in 1983, Gap purchased the company and gave it a more upscale image. Banana Republic has over 600 stores located internationally.
  • Bank of America Corporation
    Bank, Financial Services, National Commercial Banks
    Bank of America is an American multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets. As of 2013, Bank of America is the twenty-first largest company in the United States by total revenue. In 2010, Forbes listed Bank of America as the third biggest company in the world. The bank's 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch made Bank of America the world's largest wealth management corporation and a major player in the investment banking market. According to the Scorpio Partnership Global Private Banking Benchmark 2014 it had assets under management of 1,866.6 an increase of 12.5% on 2013. The company held 12.2% of all bank deposits in the United States in August 2009, and is one of the Big Four banks in the United States, along with Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo—its main competitors. Bank of America operates—but doesn't necessarily maintain retail branches—in all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia and more than 40 other countries.
  • 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 developing the American Old West.
  • Bank of Italy

    Bank of Italy

    The Bank of Italy was founded in San Francisco, California, United States, on October 17, 1904 by Amadeo Giannini. It grew by a branch banking strategy to become the Bank of America, the world's largest commercial bank, with 493 branches in California and assets of $5 billion in 1945. The bank was established to serve working class citizens of the area, especially Italian Americans living in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood. The bank survived the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 and was one of the first to offer loans to businesses to help rebuild the city. The Bank of Italy building—which later became a National Historic Landmark—was opened in 1908. Giannini had his office space in an open area on the first floor. In 1909, the bank began opening branches in other cities. It had 24 branches by 1918, at which time it was the first state-wide branch banking system. The Bank of Italy merged with the smaller Bank of America, Los Angeles in the 1928. In 1930, Giannini changed the name "Bank of Italy" to "Bank of America". As chairman of the new, larger Bank of America, Giannini expanded the bank throughout his tenure, which ended with his death in 1949.
  • Bank of the Orient
    Financial Services
    Bank of the Orient is an Asian American bank in the United States. Headquartered in San Francisco, with branch offices in California, Honolulu, and Xiamen, this privately held bank is one of few Asian American banks in the United States that has successfully expanded beyond their original communities. The bank was established on March 17, 1971. The first solely owned Asian American bank to be launched in California since World War II, Bank of the Orient was founded in 1971 by Ernest Go, a Chinese Filipino whose family was successful in international banking business. The bank originally served the local Chinese and Asian communities in San Francisco, where most of its branch offices still locate today, and with its success, the bank gradually expanded into Hawaii. Bank of the Orient is one of the first to venture into the growing Chinese market and its Xiamen branch office was in business since the mid-1990s.
  • Banks Power

    Banks Power

  • Bay Area News Group

    Bay Area News Group

    Mass media, Newspaper
    Bay Area News Group is the largest newspaper publisher in the San Francisco Bay Area and has corporate headquarters based in San Ramon, California with publication offices in San Jose and Walnut Creek, although the Walnut Creek location is scheduled to be closed under a 2011 restructuring. BANG publishes several daily and weekly newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including its flagship, the San Jose Mercury News. Previously known as ANG, the name changed to Bay Area News Group in 2006 after the MediaNews Group bought the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times from McClatchy Co. It had a production facility in Pleasanton, California. The organizational structure allowed for the company to share stories between its various newspapers, meaning one reporter can get the story for all the publications. Most production aspects have now moved to the Mercury News facilities in San Jose, California. The entity is a subsidiary of the Denver, Colorado based MediaNews Group.
  • Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing
    Beckman Coulter Inc., is an American company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments. Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented, the company eventually grew to employ over 10,000 people, with $2.4 billion in annual sales by 2004. Its current headquarters are in Brea, California.
  • Bell Sports Corp

    Bell Sports Corp

    Manufacturing
  • Beloe Footwear

    Beloe Footwear

    Beloe footwear is a skateboardingshoe company based out of Laguna Hills, CA headed up by Russ Pope.
  • Benchmade
    Manufacturing
    The Benchmade Knife Company is a knife manufacturer run by Roberta and Les de Asis in Oregon City, Oregon, United States. Its products are geared toward many niche markets, such as outdoor sporting cutlery, rescue, law-enforcement, martial-arts, and military. The company has collaborated with a number of custom knife makers since its inception.
  • Benchmark

    Benchmark

    Venture capital financing
    Benchmark is an American venture capital firm responsible for the early stage funding of several successful startups including Twitter, Uber, Snapchat, and Instagram. In 1997, the firm invested $6.7 million in eBay, which made it worth more than $5 billion by the spring of 1999. Other high-profile investments have included or currently include Instagram, Zillow, Zipcar, Zendesk, Yelp, Demandforce, and Proofpoint as well as Ariba, Juniper Networks, Red Hat, and Twitter. Benchmark is noted for creating the first equal ownership and compensation structure for its partners. The "maverick" firm differs from most VC firms, which are named for their founders and are structured hierarchically; Benchmark is "a lean operation in which its six full-time partners share profits equally." The firm announced in May 2012 it would be expanding beyond its Menlo Park, California headquarters by opening a second headquarters with more than 10,000 square feet in San Francisco’s emerging tech corridor, the Mid-Market neighborhood.
  • Bently Holdings

    Bently Holdings

    Real Estate, Property management
    Bently Holdings is a private asset holdings and management company. We oversee real property investments, and operate under strict green business practices with little to no debt. The company holds its assets for the long term, and is always expanding through its focus on buildings of historic value or architectural splendor. Although Bently Holdings invests in real estate, we’re in the people business too. Careful selection and superb care for our tenants is of the utmost importance — as are the employees we choose to represent Bently Holdings. We’re a principle driven company that adheres to a strict set of core values. We attract the sort of person who’s looking to take pride in something special, something to call home. In all properties we use only non-toxic janitorial supplies and renewable building supplies, and have succeeded in drastically reducing power consumption. Our offices are run in an almost paperless digital environment, and use only recycled paper products printed with natural soy inks. All new tenant build-outs are mandated to be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. Carpets, which take up some of the largest space in landfills, must be made from recycled materials in all of our new build-outs. We’ve even mandated that sheet rock, aluminum studs, nails, and concrete are to come from recycled materials. Demolition, must all go to be recycled as well, we aim to have 0% waste going to land fills. We are committed to using environmentally friendly paint products which contain no VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds). We are voluntarily upgrading all older, less environmentally friendly building systems such as HVAC chiller units to systems that not only emit near zero harmful emissions, but run on considerably less energy. Bently Holdings is also engaged in alternative energies. We’re looking to offset more than 90% of our energy consumption at Belvedere Place in Marin county with solar power. All the vehicles in our corporate fleet, as well as all generators, run on pure B100 biodiesel produced by our sister company, Bently Biofuels.
  • Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company co-founded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. It made money early on by performing contract work for the National Institutes of Health, specifically in making modifications to the Macintosh so that it could be used by partially sighted or blind people. Several of these Access programs were licensed by Apple Computer and added to the operating system. Perhaps the most ambitious of these technologies was a program that could read the Macintosh screen, called outSPOKEN, which won a technology award from the Smithsonian in 1990. The first commercial success for Berkeley Systems was a virtual desktop product for the Macintosh called Stepping Out. Given the small size of the first Macintosh screens, this product had some use and the idea was widely copied. The much bigger success was After Dark, a modular screen saver that included flying toasters, and the first of its kind to be sold. The idea was brought to Berkeley Systems by Jack Eastman and Patrick Beard. Eastman was later put in charge of software development at Berkeley Systems.
  • BGW Systems

    BGW Systems

    BGW Systems is a designer and manufacturer of audio power amplifiers based in Southern California in the United States. The company also manufactures other audio electronics designs as well as computer systems and sheet metal products.
  • Bi-Rite Market
    Supermarket
    Bi-Rite Market is a grocery store in San Francisco, California owned and operated by chef Sam Mogannam, who had previously worked at Jardinière in SF. He and his brother Raphael took over the grocery store from his family in 1997, and began to sell prepared foods, using locally grown produce, which he strongly advocates. Mogannam has spoken at TED on reinventing capitalism. He has been profiled at Fast Company as one of the 100 most creative people in business for 2012. The Market runs a non-profit community food education project, 18 Reasons. The store is a pioneer in the new farm-to-grocery store movement, and has published a book, Eat Good Food. Whole Foods Market has sent staff to the store to adopt practices from there. The store opened a second location, in the Divisadero Street Commercial District, in the Western Addition neighborhood, in 2013.
  • BigBand Networks

    BigBand Networks

    BigBand Networks, or BigBand, was a multinational corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States, and is currently a division within ARRIS Group. BigBand manufactured and sold digital video and data processing platforms and solutions in areas ranging from digital video to CMTS.
  • BioDot

    BioDot

    Biotechnology
    BioDot Inc. is a privately held company that has developed proprietary technologies for the dispensing of low volumes of fluids and low volumes of powders that meet the needs of industrial, life science, diagnostic, and medical product needs. These different technologies have been integrated into batch and inline systems that can be used from research to product development and scaled to manufacturing. In addition, BioDot has developed complimentary product technology for vision, lamination, cutting, drying, and assembly that can be integrated with fluid and powder dispensing to provide complementary process capability for product development and manufacturing. With its core capabilities BioDot has addressed a number of markets that include the following: Lateral Flow and Flow Through devices for point of care diagnostics. Immunoblots for allergy testing Dry Chemistry for point of care, environmental and industrial diagnostics Glucose Biosensors for diabetic testing Biosensors for a variety of environmental, human, veterinary diagnostics Microfluidic diagnostics Liquid transfers for screening or diagnostic assays such as low volume PCR, etc.
  • BitPass

    BitPass

    BitPass was an American company from 2002-2007 that developed an online payment system for digital content and services including micropayments. One of its best known projects was the Mperia online music store catering to unsigned artists.
  • Black Isle Studios
    Video game, Video game industry
    Black Isle Studios is a division of the computer and video game developer and publisher Interplay Entertainment. Black Isle Studios is a division that develops role-playing video games, and it previously published several games from other developers. Black Isle is based in Irvine, California. The division was formed in 1996, adopting the name "Black Isle Studios" in 1998. The idea for the division's name came from the Black Isle in Scotland - founder Feargus Urquhart's ancestral country. Black Isle Studios is most famous for working on the first two games in the popular and influential Fallout series as well as the critically acclaimed Planescape: Torment. They also achieved success with the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series of role-playing video games, though they only published the Baldur's Gate series. In 1999, IGN's RPG Vault gave it the award for a Developer Of The Year. On August 22, 2012, Black Isle Studios was reborn with the motto "Our goal has always been to make the world's best RPGs" and the slogan "Black Isle is Back".
  • blinkx

    blinkx

    Blinkx, is an Internet Media platform that connects online video viewers with publishers and distributors, using advertising to monetize those interactions. blinkx has an index of over 35 million hours of video and 800 media partnerships; 111 patents related to the site's search engine technology, which is known as CORE. Founded in 2004, blinkx went public on the London Stock Exchange in May, 2007. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and London, England.
  • Blizzard Entertainment
    Video game, Video game industry
    Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles, Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce, and is currently a subsidiary of American company Activision Blizzard. Based in Irvine, California, the company originally concentrated primarily on the creation of game ports for other studios before beginning development of their own software in 1993 with the development of games like Rock n' Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In 1994 the company became Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. before being acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates and later by Vivendi. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. Blizzard went on to create several successful video games, including the Warcraft sequels, StarCraft, and Diablo series, and the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
  • Blue California

    Blue California

    Food and Beverage
    Blue California is a Southern California, USA, based ingredient manufacturer who manufactures highly purified botanical extracts and specialty ingredients using raw materials from around the world. Blue California's Good Manufacturing Process and ISO-9000-certified facility produces non-irradiated ingredients using steam and ozone sterilization. There are more than 550 Kosher-certified ingredients in the product line.
  • Blue Shift Inc.

    Blue Shift Inc.

    Video game industry
    Blue Shift is an independent computer game developer. Blue Shift or BSI, was founded in 1995 by John Brooks, Doug Snyder, John Salwitz, Will Noble, Bob Flanagan and Dave Ralston. Since that time BSI has worked on or been the sole developer on over 20 different titles. BSI's core focus is on console game development, and has done titles on the Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Xbox 360 and PS3. BSI is best known for their sports titles.
  • Boingo Wireless
    Software, IT service management
    About Us Welcome to Wireless Freedom. Boingo® provides software technology and roaming services that help bring the wireless Internet to the masses. The company has assembled a large and rapidly growing roaming system with tens of thousands of hot spot locations under contract around the world. Boingo also invented the world's most powerful software for discovering and connecting to hot spots. With the Boingo retail service, customers can connect in thousands of airports, hotels, convention centers, cafes and other public locations, all for one low monthly fee. Boingo's award-winning wireless software makes using hot spots a one-click breeze. Through its roaming system and software technology, Boingo powers the wireless offerings of major carriers and ISPs, enabling their customers to connect in thousands of hot spots, all from a single, powerful, carrier-branded software interface. Boingo can augment a carrier's existing Wi-Fi efforts or provide a complete, private-label, turnkey solution.
  • Bon Appétit Management Company

    Bon Appétit Management Company

    The Bon Appétit Management Company is a Palo Alto, California-based on-site restaurant company, owned by Compass Group, that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. The company operates over 500 cafes in 32 states. Princeton Review has named Bon Appétit the "No. 1 College Food Service in the Country" for several years.
  • Borland
    Software, Computer, Prepackaged Software
    Borland Software Corporation is a software company that facilitates software deployment projects. Borland was first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and now in Austin, Texas. It is now a Micro Focus subsidiary. It was founded in 1983 by Niels Jensen, Ole Henriksen, Mogens Glad and Philippe Kahn.
  • Boudin Bakery is a bakery based in San Francisco, California, known for its sourdough bread. It was established in 1849 by Isidore Boudin, son of a family of master bakers from Burgundy, France, by blending the sourdough prevalent among miners in the Gold Rush with French techniques. Steven Giraudo, an artisan baker from Italy whose first job in America was at Boudin, bought the bakery in 1941 but later sold it. After a series of ownership changes the bakery was bought by two of Giraudo's sons through an investment bank. The bakery has locations on Fisherman's Wharf near San Francisco Bay, Disney California Adventure Park, and 30 other cafés scattered throughout California. The main bakery in San Francisco is in the Richmond District on the corner of 10th Avenue and Geary Boulevard. The Boudin Bakery hosts the attraction "The Bakery Tour" at Disney California Adventure, where tourists are given a tour about how sourdough bread is produced. The bakery still uses the same starter yeast-bacteria culture it developed during the California Gold Rush. The first outlet outside of California at the Yorktown Center mall in Lombard, Illinois closed in mid-2009, after about a year.
  • Boulevard Coffee Roasting Company

    Boulevard Coffee Roasting Company

    A locally owned and operated independent coffee roaster serving the Central Sacramento Valley....established in 1982. Current operations include a 7 day a week retail establishment providing retail sales of 30 coffees, 40 teas, and accessories with a full traditional espresso bar and seating. Nearby our wholesale roasting facility provides sales, delivery, and shipping of wholesale beans and leaf teas.
  • Breuners Home Furnishings

    Breuners Home Furnishings

    Retail
    Breuners Home Furnishings or Breuners is an online furniture company that was a chain of brick and mortar furniture stores in the United States for 148 years before declaring bankruptcy in 2004. Founded in California during the California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century, its stores served California and Nevada before expanding to the east coast in the late 20th century. In 2004 the company declared bankruptcy, closed all its retail stores, and now operates solely through the Internet.
  • BrightRoll

    BrightRoll

    Advertising
    BrightRoll is a subsidiary of Yahoo! and unified programmatic video advertising platform. The company was founded in 2006 by Tod Sacerdoti, the company’s CEO, and Dru Nelson. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, with offices across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
  • Bristol Farms
    Supermarket, Retail
    Bristol Farms Inc. is an upscale grocery store chain in California, United States. Founded in Los Angeles County, Bristol Farms operates fifteen stores, twelve in Southern California, and one in San Francisco. The fourteenth and fifteenth stores operate as Lazy Acres Market in Santa Barbara and Long Beach, respectively. After several changes in ownership over the years, the company is now privately owned.
  • BroadLogic

    BroadLogic

    Headquartered in San Jose, California, BROADLOGIC designs and supplies breakthrough video-processing mixed signal semiconductors that enable broadband network operators to maintain their competitive edge by offering next-generation video-on-demand, digital-video, voice, and high-speed data services to consumers. BROADLOGIC’s patented technologies simultaneously process an order of magnitude more digital video content than conventional approaches, helping operators maximize revenue gains while controlling operational and capital expenditures.
  • BT Managed Security Solutions

    BT Managed Security Solutions

    Computer
    BT Counterpane, formerly Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., is a company that sells managed computer network security services. The company was founded by American cryptographer Bruce Schneier in August 1999. Their "Enterprise Protection Suite" is a service package that includes network scanning, security device management and consulting services based on their "Managed Security Monitoring" service. The company was acquired by BT Group on 25 October, 2006.
  • BTV247, Inc
    Digital media
    AffinityTV247, Inc. is a digital media company primarily focused on content derived from or related to Black culture. AffinityTV247, Inc. was founded in Los Angeles, California in June 2008 by Justin Beckett and Cecil Cox. The initial seed funding for the venture was provided by VIZX Corporation. AffinityTV247, Inc. has three operating divisions: BlackTV247.com, BTV Productions and BlackTV247 University.com.
  • Buck Knives
    Manufacturing
    Buck Knives is an American knife manufacturer founded in San Diego, California and now located in Post Falls, Idaho. The company has a long history through five generations of the Buck family from 1902 to the present day. Buck Knives primarily manufactures sport and field knives and is credited with inventing the "folding hunting knife" and popularizing it to such a degree that the term "buck knife" has become synonymous with folding lockback knives, including those made by other manufacturers.
  • Budget Rent a Car System, Inc. is an American car rental company that was founded in 1958 in Los Angeles, California by Morris Mirkin. Budget's operations are headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. With its original fleet of 10 cars, the company lived up to the 'Budget' name by undercutting the daily and per mile rental rates of the established airport based car rental companies. Mirkin was joined in 1959 by Julius Lederer who built the company, and made it an international company. In 1960, the headquarters moved to Chicago, Illinois and the rental fleet expanded with franchised and wholly owned rental outlets. The company was eventually acquired by Transamerica Corporation, and then sold in 1986 in a leveraged buyout by Gibbons, Green and van Amerongen Ltd., along with management and selected investors. The company made its first public stock offering in 1987. Team Rental Group purchased the public company in 1997 and took the name Budget Group. In 2002, it sold the company's assets to Cendant Corporation, which also owned Avis and in September 2006, Cendant Corporation separated into four independent companies.
  • C.E.O. Women

    C.E.O. Women

  • Caffe Trieste

    Caffe Trieste

    Coffeehouse
    Caffè Trieste is an internationally known chain of four Italian-themed coffeehouses plus one retail store in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas California. Caffè Trieste was opened in 1956 by Giovanni Giotta, who in 1951 had emigrated to the United States from the small fishing town of Rovinj, Yugoslavia. Missing the espresso houses of Trieste, Italy, Giotta opened his own cafe. Caffè Trieste is said to be the first espresso house on the West Coast.
  • Cala Foods
    Supermarket, Retail
    Cala Foods was a supermarket chain operating in San Francisco, California. Cala Foods was the sister chain to Bell Markets. Cala operated stores almost exclusively within the San Francisco city limits, with one satellite store operating 5 miles south at 555 Oceana Blvd. in Pacifica. The last Cala Foods store closed its doors on December 1, 2011.
  • CAPP Records

    CAPP Records

    Music
    CAPP Records Inc. is an American record label and sync licensing company based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California which was founded in 1995 by Dominique C. Toulon & Marc J. Oshry. In February 2014, the label launched CAPP Jingles which is a one-stop in-house production division of the company for licensing music to television & film trailers, video games and advertisers. In January 2014, the parent company launched CAPP Classics which is a premium one-stop boutique music library featuring all original & authentic recordings dating from the 2000s all the way back to the early 1920s. In January 2013, CAPP Records launched CAPP Sync, a new division of the company which specializes in licensing its own catalog of music to television, film, video games and advertisers. In February 2009, CAPP Records incorporated had been formed. In June 2009, CAPP Company, parent of dance record label CAPP Records formally launched two new Internet-based radio stations, iDanceRadio.fm and iDanceTechno.fm, coinciding with their inclusion in the Apple iTunes Radio listings, included with every copy of the iTunes software.
  • Carbine Studios

    Carbine Studios

    Video game, Interactive entertainment, Video game industry
    Carbine Studios is a video game developer and subsidiary of NCSOFT, founded in 2005 by former members of Blizzard Entertainment. They are the developers of the upcoming online role-playing game WildStar.
  • CardIt

    CardIt

    CardIt is an online payment system for monthly mortgage bills using a major credit card. Philip Mikal and Alex Zada were co-founders. CardIt is a California limited liability corporation with headquarters in San Francisco. It was founded in 2006 and has partnered with major technology and financial services companies.
  • Catalina Yachts is a U.S.-based builder of fiberglass monohull sloop-rigged sailboats ranging in sizes from eight to 47 feet in length. It was founded in 1969 in Hollywood, California by Frank Butler .
  • Cathay Bank
    State Commercial Banks, Financial Services
    Cathay Bank is a Chinese American bank based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1962, it has since expanded its network throughout California and into Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Washington, Illinois, and New Jersey. Additionally, it has representative offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei.
  • CBS Films

    CBS Films

    Motion Picture and Video Production
    CBS Films is an American film production and distribution company founded in 2007 as a division of CBS Corporation and is considered a mini-major studio. CBS Films will distribute, develop and produce four to six $50 million budget movies a year.
  • CBS Television Distribution
    Broadcast syndication
    CBS Television Distribution is an American television distribution company, formed from the merger of CBS Corporation's domestic television distribution arms CBS Paramount Domestic Television and King World Productions, including its home entertainment arm CBS Home Entertainment. The division, the main distribution arm of CBS Television Studios and of the CBS television network, was formed on September 26, 2006 by CBS Corporation and was headed by Roger King, the CEO of King World until his death in 2007. The current CEO and President is Armando Nuñez.
  • CBS Television Studios

    CBS Television Studios

    CBS Television Studios is an American television production company that was formed on January 17, 2006 by CBS Corporation merging Paramount Television and CBS Productions. It is the television production arm of the CBS network, and, alongside Warner Bros. Television, it is also the television production arm of The CW Television Network.
  • Centrify

    Centrify

    Centrify delivers integrated software and cloud-based solutions that centrally control, secure and audit access to cross-platform systems, mobile devices and applications by leveraging the infrastructure organizations already own — Microsoft Active Directory. From the data center and into the cloud, more than 4000 organizations, including over 40% of the Fortune 50, rely on Centrify's identity consolidation and privilege management solutions to reduce IT expenses, strengthen security and meet compliance requirements.
  • Century 21 Real Estate LLC is an American real estate agent franchise company founded in 1971. The System consists of approximately 7,100 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 74 countries and territories worldwide with over 100,000 sales professionals. Since December 2012, www.Century21.com has been the most visited real estate franchise web site. Century 21 Real Estate is headquartered in Madison, New Jersey.
  • CertGuard
    Software, Computer