At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 42 SMS companies in San Francisco, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top SMS Companies & Startups (San Francisco, California)
Octane AI
Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Founder(s): Ben Parr, Leif K-Brooks, Matt Schlicht
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing Automation, Messaging, SaaS, SMS, Social Media Advertising
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Plivo
Plivo is a leading cloud communication platform that helps companies quickly program voice and SMS capabilities into their applications.
Founder(s): Michael Ricordeau, Venky Balasubramanian
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Cloud Computing, Developer APIs, Mobile, SMS, Telecommunications
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Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Founder(s): Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Đệ Phan
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Messaging, SMS, Social Media
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Heymarket
The professional way to text message and manage customer relationships from anywhere.
Founder(s): Amit Kulkarni, Manav Monga
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, CRM, Field Support, Messaging, SMS, Social Media
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Nexmo
Nexmo provides innovative communication SMS and Voice APIs that enable applications and enterprises to easily connect to their customers.
Founder(s): Eric Nadalin, Tony Jamous
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Developer APIs, E-Commerce, Messaging, Mobile, SMS
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Avochato
Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management.
Founder(s): Alex De Simone, Christopher Neale
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Messaging, SMS, Software
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Cartloop
Cartloop is a conversational SMS marketing and text marketing platform for e-commerce.
Founder(s): Andrei Negrau, Lisa Popovici
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Messaging, Personalization, SMS, Text Analytics
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Leanplum
Leanplum is a mobile marketing platform that delivers meaningful engagement across messaging and the in-app experience.
Founder(s): Andrew First, Momchil Kyurkchiev
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: A/B Testing, CRM, E-Commerce Platforms, Email Marketing, Enterprise Software, Intelligent Systems, Marketing, Predictive Analytics, SaaS, SMS
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Mitoo Sports
The platform for the world’s sports
Founder(s): Andrew Crump, Jack O’Connor, Piers Rollinson, Timothy Sherratt
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Android, Email, iOS, Mobile, SMS, Soccer, Sports
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Sonar Technologies, Inc.
Sonar Technologies, Inc. is an enterprise text and messaging sales engagement and analytics company.
Founder(s): Matt Berman, Neeharika Bhartiya
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Apps, Messaging, SMS, Software
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Hustle
Hustle is a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that enables personal conversations at scale.
Founder(s): Perry Rosenstein, Roddy Lindsay, Tyler Brock
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: CRM, Enterprise Software, Messaging, SaaS, SMS, Software
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OtherLevels
Mobile marketing platform that includes sophisticated segmentation, targeting & retargeting tools across native App & mobile web platforms
Founder(s): Brendan O’Kane
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Ad Retargeting, Analytics, CRM, Email, Mobile, SMS, Software
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Bitesize
We help 1 person talk to 1,000s people at once.
Founder(s): Jessica Hyejin Lee, Joe Hendren, Omid Ahourai
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Automotive, Digital Marketing, Mobile, Predictive Analytics, Sales Automation, SMS
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Quest app
Quest let people answer your question. Ask a question from any mobile phone via text message, iPhone and Android apps.
Founder(s): Deepak Ravindran, Mohammed Hisamuddin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Android, iOS, Mobile, SMS
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Telerivet
Telerivet enables users to create, launch and manage SMS services or interfaces that run on any mobile network.
Founder(s): Jesse Young, Joshua Stern
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Android, Mobile, SMS, Telecommunications
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HandStack
HandStack is a company that helps build powerful movements by making it easier and faster to engage community and accomplish goals.
Founder(s): Benjamin Jones, James Andrix, Jessica Hyejin Lee, Victor Konshin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Brand Marketing, Communities, Mobile, SMS
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Textline
Allowing your organization or business communicate with contacts and customers using text messages
Founder(s): Alan Braverman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, SaaS, SMS, Telecommunications
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BluPods
Driving engagement through better communication
Founder(s): Gauthier Philippart
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Mobile, SMS
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JeKudo
JeKudo is building the very best easy to use privacy tools, starting with group messaging.
Founder(s): Elissa Shevinsky
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Information Technology, Messaging, SMS
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tyntec
tyntec develops technology solutions that focus on telecommunication to connect brands with their customers.
Founder(s): Ralph Kunz, Thorsten Trapp
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, Mobile, SMS, Telecommunications, VoIP
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Heysan
Heysan is a mobile community and messaging service.
Founder(s): Marie Brattberg, Michael Ossareh, Pär Lindhe
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, SMS
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Textras
Textras is a free, cross-platform messaging app for direct or group communication and commerce.
Founder(s): Paul Tomkinson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, Private Social Networking, SMS, Social Media
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Red Oxygen
Red Oxygen is a business SMS solutions provider. We focus on developer partnerships and our custom off-the-shelf solutions.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Collaboration, Enterprise Software, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Messaging, Mobile, SaaS, SMS
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TextMarks
TextMarks is a mobile marketing provider of group mobile alerts for consumers and a group text messaging platform for businesses.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Enterprise Software, Information Technology, iOS, Marketing, Mobile, SMS, Software
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Clerk Chat
Clerk Chat helps in keeping track of customer support, operations, and sales messages.
Founder(s): Igor Boshoer
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: SMS, Software, Telecommunications
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3Jam
3jam enables people to send and receive text messages using their phone number from the web, social networks, and PC desktop.
Founder(s): Andy Jagoe, Enlai Chu
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Messaging, SMS
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InSequent
InSequent is a fully hosted mobile marketing platform specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses.
Founder(s): Chen Hu, David Grohol, David Roach
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Information Technology, Marketing, Messaging, Mobile, SaaS, SMS
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CloudContactAI
SMS and Email Marketing
Founder(s): Joel Garcia
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing, Information Technology, Marketing Automation, SMS, Telecommunications
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Relevvant
Relevvant leverages big data in real-time to provide tools for brand marketers to engage better with their audiences.
Founder(s): Craig Davis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Email, Mobile, SaaS, SMS, Social Media
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TextualAds
Textualads leverages the user’s social presence to create and send highly-targeted and engaging mobile SMS campaigns.
Founder(s): Craig Davis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Ad Targeting, Advertising, Apps, Mobile, SMS, Social Media
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Slingkast
Mobile marketing platform for businesses
Founder(s): Bill Hoffman, Brian Hoskins
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Analytics, Big Data, Brand Marketing, Email Marketing, Messaging, Mobile, SMS
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Kadoink
Kadoink provides short messaging service, instant messaging and single-hosted voice system integration services.
Founder(s): Ronna Tanenbaum
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Audio, Developer Tools, Mobile, Music, SMS
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SparkPage
SparkPage is a growth automation platform for marketing teams at consumer tech companies
Founder(s): Peter Tanham
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, App Marketing, Marketing Automation, Mobile, SEO, SMS
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Mobillcash
Mobillcash is a platform that allows users to pay for goods and services through their mobile devices.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Mobile, Payments, SMS
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Coordinatr
Coordinatr is a free site for small event creation and group organization.
Founder(s): Dan Morin, Jeff Morin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Events, Mobile, Private Social Networking, SMS, Software, Web Development
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ClassPager
ClassPager is a service for teachers to facilitate their interaction with students.
Founder(s): Mahipal Raythattha
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Education, Law Enforcement, Market Research, SMS
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NumberCop
NUMBERCOP is a mobile security company which was established to combat phone spam, such as unsolicited calls and spam text messages.
Founder(s): Jan Volzke
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Android, Cyber Security, iOS, Mobile, Security, SMS, Spam Filtering, Telecommunications
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kwiry
kwiry is an online reminder service that turns text messages into reminders which users can retrieve online.
Founder(s): Jon Sugihara, Steve Au
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Content, E-Commerce, Information Technology, Internet, Messaging, Mobile, Mobile Apps, Search Engine, SMS
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Mailboto
Mailboto is providing enterprise email marketing, list management, and text-messaging solutions to companies.
Founder(s): Neej Gore
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Email Marketing, SMS, Software
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SwingTime
Easy scheduling for golf and tennis
Founder(s): Donnie Wang
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Events, SMS, Tennis
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RemindBlast
SMS or email reminders
Founder(s): Audrey Bilsborrow, Chris Hobbs, David Passiak, Kevin Trowbridge
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Email, Messaging, SMS
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Twilio
Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.
Founder(s): Evan Cooke, Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Enterprise Software, Messaging, Mobile Apps, SMS, Software
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