SaaS startups in San Diego

Zeb Evans & Alex Yurkowski

Founded 2017, ClickUp relocated its HQ to San Diego in 2020 and became one of the city's fastest-rising unicorns. Its October 2021 $400M Series C (a16z, Tiger Global) valued the productivity/work-management ...

Adam Markowitz, Daniel Marashlian & Troy Markowitz

Founded 2020 by UC San Diego alum (and ex-NASA engineer) Adam Markowitz, Drata is a security-compliance automation platform (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, etc.). It hit unicorn status in 2021, then raised a...

Doug Winter, Ed Calnan, Nasser Barghouti & Fred Xie

Founded 2010 (famously bootstrapped from a San Diego basement), Seismic is the category-leading AI-powered sales-enablement and content-orchestration platform. It raised a $92M Series F led by Permira in 202...

Mike Anderson & Ali Behnam

Founded 2008, Tealium is a leading independent Customer Data Platform (CDP) and tag-management vendor. It raised a $96M Series G in 2021 (Georgian, Silver Lake Waterman) at a ~$1.2B valuation and reported ~$...

Joe Kudla

Founded 2015 in Carlsbad; premium performance/athleisure apparel brand that scaled via a D2C-plus-selective-retail model and physical stores. Profitable since 2017; an $825M secondary tender led by General A...

Adam Harris & Richard Castle

Founded 2012 by San Diego native Adam Harris, Cloudbeds is a global hospitality-management SaaS platform (PMS, channel manager, revenue/AI marketing tools) used by properties in 150+ countries. Backed by Sof...

Adam Pettit, Weldon Dodd, Mark Daughters & Brandon Pipkin

Founded 2018, Kandji is an Apple device-management and endpoint-security platform (customers include Canva, Notion, Allbirds). Its July 2024 $100M round (General Catalyst) lifted its valuation to $850M on ~$...

Bruce McFarland

Solana Beach (San Diego metro) surf-technology company and creator of the patented PerfectSwell wave system for surf pools/parks, plus SurfStream. Powers commercial surf parks worldwide, with multiple grand ...

Scot Chisholm & Pat Walsh

Founded 2006/launched as SaaS 2011, Classy is a nonprofit online-fundraising and peer-to-peer giving platform. Acquired by GoFundMe in Jan 2022 to form the world's largest giving platform; now operates as Go...

Alex Goode

Founded 2013, GoSite is an all-in-one digital-presence and payments SaaS for small and mid-sized businesses (websites, booking, messaging, invoicing), serving 90,000+ SMBs. Raised a $40M Series B in 2020 led...

Matt Ellis & Lance Onken

Founded 2013 by ex-CBRE sustainability lead Matt Ellis, Measurabl is the most widely adopted ESG / decarbonization data platform for commercial real estate (1,000+ clients across 90+ countries). Raised a $93...

Chris Crawford

Carlsbad maker of portable, pressurized shower systems used by surfers, campers, fishermen, mountain bikers and adventurers — an action-sports/outdoor consumer-hardware brand born from San Diego's surf/outdo...

San Diego action-sports platform built to provide an end-to-end live-streaming, athlete-profile and event-management solution for surf competitions — 11,000+ athlete profiles and 325+ events produced worldwi...