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Top 25 Foundation branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 360 foundation branding agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 6,697 professional contacts across them, including 1,268 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (1,620 companies); San Francisco has 360.
This list covers foundation branding agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 30, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest foundation branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MINE™ is a San Francisco-based design and brand communication firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 751 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Setting the standard for the next generation of global agencies, Archetype partners with category creators and industry leaders to build the world’s most magnetic brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Landscape is an integrated creative studio providing brand strategy, design systems, and campaign production to clients pursuing intentional, sustainable, and influential change…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a Digital Brand Strategy and UX Design agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leading a team of 100 in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, Ken Fulk Inc.’s projects range from private compounds and high-concept hospitality to boats, planes and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turner Duckworth are behind the brand identities for some of the world’s most iconic brands; Coca-Cola, Amazon, McDonald’s, Samsung and Levi’s - to name a few.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brick Design is a San Francisco-based firm that partners with clients to reframe their brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brand Design Agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Media Cause is a mission-driven marketing and creative agency that helps nonprofits grow and accelerate their impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Godfrey Dadich Partners (GDP) brings together designers, journalists, strategists, engineers, and more to help brands communicate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We help brands navigate the complex challenges of this ever-changing world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sequence creates connected experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manual: Shaping and amplifying world-changing ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Cutwater, we hone and sharpen a brand into something more distinctive so it has a better chance of cutting through, being heard, and standing apart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “21CB is a global brand consultancy that partners with the world’s most brand-ambitious leaders who want to unleash brand as a driver of purposeful, profitable growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Sköna, we transform complex B2B tech into brands people actually care about.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ramotion is a design agency that partners with growing startups, mid-market companies, corporations, enterprise organizations, and high-growth technology platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mortar, we don’t just create marketing-we deliver “A-ha” moments that make brands unforgettable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission Minded is a strategy and creative firm that helps good causes have greater impact.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1995, DDW is an award-winning Bay Area based brand story and design agency with over 25 years' of experience helping clients of all sizes develop deep and meaningful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elixir is a San Francisco-based brand strategy firm specializing in strategy and design for memorable corporate identity, positioning, messaging, marketing collateral, direct…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We built the media agency that brands actually need.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Citizen is a pro-social marketing, design and brand management agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Underground* is a creative agency dedicated to serving change makers: clients making a positive difference in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: foundation branding agencies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names foundation branding agencies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of foundation branding agencies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name foundation branding agencies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Foundation branding agencies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 30, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 360 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among foundation branding agencies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “foundation branding agencies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names foundation branding agencies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among foundation branding agencies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,268 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 30, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Foundation branding agencies by metro in the United States
- Foundation branding agencies in New York1620
- Foundation branding agencies in Los Angeles900
- Foundation branding agencies in Chicago514
- Foundation branding agencies in Atlanta451
- Foundation branding agencies in Miami378
- Foundation branding agencies in Austin318
- Foundation branding agencies in Denver318
- Foundation branding agencies in Houston299
- Foundation branding agencies in Dallas293
- Foundation branding agencies in Portland290
- Foundation branding agencies in Seattle271
- Foundation branding agencies in San Diego242
- Foundation branding agencies in Minneapolis223
- Foundation branding agencies in Washington210
- Foundation branding agencies in Boston206
- Foundation branding agencies in Brooklyn180
- Foundation branding agencies in Philadelphia172
- Foundation branding agencies in Tampa161
- Foundation branding agencies in Orlando154
- Foundation branding agencies in Nashville139
- Foundation branding agencies in Phoenix132
- Foundation branding agencies in Charlotte128
- Foundation branding agencies in Columbus114
- Foundation branding agencies in St. Louis107
- Foundation branding agencies in Cincinnati105
- Foundation branding agencies in Detroit103
- Foundation branding agencies in Richmond101
- Foundation branding agencies in Raleigh100
- Foundation branding agencies in Indianapolis94
- Foundation branding agencies in Kansas City91
- Foundation branding agencies in Las Vegas91
- Foundation branding agencies in San Antonio90
- Foundation branding agencies in Baltimore78
- Foundation branding agencies in Salt Lake City70
- Foundation branding agencies in Jacksonville69
- Foundation branding agencies in Pittsburgh69
- Foundation branding agencies in Charleston68
- Foundation branding agencies in Cleveland66
- Foundation branding agencies in Milwaukee65
- Foundation branding agencies in Irvine64
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- Foundation branding agencies in Grand Rapids62
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- Foundation branding agencies in Fort Lauderdale60
- Foundation branding agencies in Santa Monica58
- Foundation branding agencies in Boulder57
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- Foundation branding agencies in Birmingham53
- Foundation branding agencies in New Orleans53
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- Foundation branding agencies in Springfield44
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- Foundation branding agencies in Long Beach42
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- Foundation branding agencies in Honolulu38
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names foundation branding agencies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many foundation branding agencies are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 360 foundation branding agencies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
MINE, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most foundation branding agencies?
New York leads the United States with 1,620 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (900) and Chicago (514). San Francisco has 360.
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,268 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 360 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 30, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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