Best Cafes: SF Tech Week 2025
The Brex team curated a map of San Francisco’s best cafés for founders and investors during SF Tech Week — optimized for serendipity, strong coffee, and good conversation. Want to be added? DM Phil Chen on LinkedIn or Twitter. Phil Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipalexanderchen/ https://x.com/PhilChen22
Best Cafes
Cafe Shoji (SOMA)
Cafe Shoji: Monday-Sunday, 9am-3pm Bar Shoji: Tuesday-Saturday, 5pm- 12am
Blue Bottle on 2nd Street (SOMA)
Blue Bottle on 2nd Street in SOMA
Philz Coffee (SOMA)
Over 20 carefully selected blends are used at this casual coffee chain serving light bites.
Blue Bottle (South Park)
Trendy cafe chain offering upscale coffee drinks & pastries, plus beans & brewing equipment.
Postscript (North Beach)
Specialty market and cafe in Jackson Square
Cafe Zoetrope (North Beach)
Francis Ford Coppola's cafe offers classic Italian fare & wines amid film decor in a historic space.
Cafe Reveille (North Beach)
Cafe for New American breakfast & lunch plus coffee drinks in a loftlike, contemporary setting.
Cafe Reveille (Mission Bay)
Sophisticated coffeehouse with sidewalk tables serving eclectic American breakfast & lunch fare.
Blue Bottle (Fidi)
Trendy cafe chain offering upscale coffee and pastries, plus coffee beans and brewing equipment.
Andytown Coffee Roasters (Fidi)
Paper Son Coffee (FiDi)
Casual shop serving coffee, pastries and tea, plus outdoor seating.
Ritual Coffee (Hayes Valley)
Ritual coffee's Hayes Valley location. Only outdoor seating
La Boulangerie (Hayes Valley)
Daytime cafe chain offering baked goods & light American & French fare in a chic, casual setting.
Blue Bottle (Ferry Building)
Trendy cafe chain offering upscale coffee drinks & pastries, plus beans & brewing equipment.
Sohn (Dogpatch)
A Korean American-Inspired Café and Gathering Space in Dogpatch
Piccino Coffee Bar (Dogpatch)
Small cafe
Tartine Manufactory (Mission)
Bread is the star here, whether heritage grain loaves, sweet pastries or rustic sandwiches.
Sightglass (Mission)
Indie outfit serving worldly coffees in a modern setting with an espresso bar & an on-site roaster.
SPRO (Mission)
Modern, pared-down spot for specialty java drinks & inventive takes on breakfast & lunch fare.
Four Barrel Coffee (Mission)
Exposed beams create a sleek & rustic ambiance for this Mission cafe specializing in drip coffee.
Motoring Coffee (Marina)
Casual cafe and shop where you can sip coffee among vintage cars that are regularly switched out.
Equator Coffee (Marina)
Hip local coffeehouse chain serving single-origin coffee, tea & light eats.
Cafe Reveille (Marina)
Relaxed cafe offering espresso and pastries, plus an impressive breakfast menu, outdoor seating and a parklet.
The Mill (Nopa)
Bright & airy coffee shop serving a simple menu curated by Four Barrel Coffee & Josey Baker Bread.
Il Parco (Presidio)
Cafe and food
SF VCs
NFX
Founded in 2014, NFX Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Fransisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the bio, gaming, generative artificial intelligence, property technology, space, financial technology, marketplaces, and cryptocurrency sectors across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Israel. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Acrew Capital
Founded in 2019, Acrew Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in Palo Alto, California. The firm seeks to invest in financial services, cybersecurity, data, augmented reality, virtual reality, web 3.0, and cryptocurrency sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Forerunner Ventures
Founded in 2010, Forerunner Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the consumer sector. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Founders Fund
Founded in 2005, Founders Fund is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Susa Ventures
Founded in 2013, Susa Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in early-stage companies operating in the enterprise software, finance technology, healthcare, consumer technology, logistics, and frontier technology sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
General Catalyst
Founded in 2000, General Catalyst is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to make investments in companies operating in consumer, enterprise, fintech, crypto, and health assurance sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Soma Capital
Founded in 2015, Soma Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in B2B SaaS, artificial intelligence, fintech, clean-tech, frontier-tech, prop-tech, cryptocurrency, health tech, and the consumer sector based in Africa, the Middle East, South America, and Asia. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Index Ventures
Founded in 1996, Index Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in artificial intelligence, machine learning, business applications, data, entertainment, fintech, the future of work, healthcare, media, mobility, open source, retail, security, and talent sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Initialized Capital
Founded in 2011, Initialized Capital Management is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in the technology, mobile, software, and design sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA). They have Initialized investments across all sectors and are an early backer of companies like Coinbase, Instacart, Rippling, Flexport, and Flock Safety. With $3 Billion+ in assets under management, our portfolio includes 175+ companies worth close to $200 Billion in company valuations, with 25+ valued at $1 Billion or more.
Headline
Founded in 1998, Headline VC is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the fintech, e-commerce, software, digital health, developer tools, open-source, media, digital innovation, and consumer services sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Craft Ventures
Founded in 2017, Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in business products, business services, consumer products, consumer services, information technology, e-commerce, SaaS, cryptocurrency, and blockchain sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
First Round Capital
Founded in 2004, First Round Capital is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in the enterprise, fintech, healthcare, consumer, hardware, artificial intelligence, and web3 sectors.
Obvious Ventures
Founded in 2014, Obvious Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests in industries across planetary, human, and economic health. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Menlo Ventures
Founded in 1976, Menlo Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, later-stage, and growth-stage companies operating in the computer hardware, software, big data, fintech, and healthcare sectors. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Tribe Capital
Founded in 2018, Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. The firm prefers to invest in seed to growth-stage technology companies. This firm is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA).
Greenoaks
Greenoaks is a leading global investment firm based in San Francisco. Greenoaks makes concentrated, long-term investments in enduring technology businesses around the world.
GIC
Established in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves, GIC strives to achieve good long-term real returns on assets under management to preserve and enhance the value of Singapore's reserves.
Human Capital
Human Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm. They build and invest in companies that define the world’s most critical industries. Human Capital partners with founders to assemble teams that create exceptional businesses.
SV Angel
SV Angel (SVA) is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with their founder-first approach have driven their strategy.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is the leading startup accelerator for entrepreneurs. Since 2005, YC has invested in over 4,500 companies, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Reddit, Instacart, DoorDash, and Coinbase. Today, YC has built the most powerful startup community in the world alongside the products and programs to support founders for the life of their company.
Blank Ventures
Blank is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the edge of fintech and commerce.
Raine Ventures
Raine manages strategies across growth equity and venture capital, with current assets under management in excess of $3.4 billion. Our growth and venture strategies seek investments in fast-growing TMT enterprises.
Spark Capital
We are Spark Capital, investors in products we love by creators we admire, including Affirm, Carta, Cruise, Discord, Oculus, Plaid, Postmates, Slack, Twitter, and Wayfair. We know there are no playbooks or formulas for success and are here to help founders win their own way.
Amity Ventures
Amity Ventures is a people-focused firm that supports founders of technology companies in building category-defining businesses. Based in San Francisco, CA, the partners at Amity have invested in over fifty companies across all stages of company growth throughout their years in business together.
Base10 Partners
Base10 is an early stage venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs who are bringing automation to traditional sectors of the economy - what we call automation of the real economy.
Pear VC
We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.
Uncork Capital
Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses on SaaS, consumer, marketplaces, hardware, and new technology startups.
Munich Re Ventures
Munich Re Ventures (MRV) is the venture capital group of Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurance company, and a leading global provider of primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions.
Bloomberg Beta
Bloomberg Beta is an early stage venture capital firm with $375M under management, capitalized solely by Bloomberg. The fund exists to expand Bloomberg’s horizons by investing in companies built by extraordinary founders that make business work better, with a focus on machine intelligence.
NextView Ventures
Seed stage investors who champion founders who want to redesign the Everyday Economy.
Cambrian
fund & community for founders + builders in fintech
Kindred Ventures
Kindred Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on software, Internet, and deep technology investing. The fund is managed by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, and is located in San Francisco, California. Notable portfolio companies include Uber, Coinbase, Color Health, Perplexity, Postmates, Poshmark, Tonal, dYdX, Magic Eden, Humane, and Tala.
Andreessen Horowitz
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces.
