<p>Here are the 25 top companies based in Silicon Valley and San Francisco to watch for winter 2022. These companies have big news, filed for IPOs or recently went public.</p>
<p>This list will be updated quarterly for each season.</p>

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	<td class="column-1">Affirm</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Buy now pay later specialist has partnership with leading Internet retailer Amazon.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Airtable</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Connected apps platform raises massive $735 million Series F round.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Archer Aviation</td><td class="column-2">Palo Alto</td><td class="column-3">Successfully tested first hover flight of electric vertical take off and landing aircraft.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Chime</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Fee-free online bank raised $750 million Series G round led by Sequoia Capital.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Genesys</td><td class="column-2">Daly City</td><td class="column-3">Cloud-based customer service software company raised $580 million round led by Salesforce Ventures.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Dexterity</td><td class="column-2">Redwood City</td><td class="column-3">Creator of robotics for logistics and supply chains raised $140 million Series B.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Discord</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Over 150 million people use Discord software for chatting online. Raised $500 million Series I round led by Dragoneer.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Doordash</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Leading food delivery service in the U.S. CEO Tony Xu named to Meta (Facebook) Board of Directors.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Doximity</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Professional network for medical professionals has 80% of U.S. physicians as members.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Enphase Energy</td><td class="column-2">Fremont</td><td class="column-3">Publicly traded company that provides technology to store solar power in homes.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Freshworks</td><td class="column-2">San Mateo</td><td class="column-3">Cloud-based customer service software company went public in September.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Grammarly</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Online writing assistant to improve grammar raised $200 million from Baillie Gifford and Blackrock.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Instacart</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Largest grocery delivery service hires Fidji Simo from Facebook as CEO.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Lucid Motors</td><td class="column-2">Newark</td><td class="column-3">Company's first electric car -- The Lucid Air -- named 2022 Motor Trend Car of the Year.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Nextdoor</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Neighborhood app went public via Khosla Ventures SPAC.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Nuro</td><td class="column-2">Mountain View</td><td class="column-3">Self-driving delivery robots raised $600 million in Series D round with Kroger, FedEx and Domino's as customers.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Pacaso</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Provides fractional home ownership in luxury homes. Raised $125 million led by Softbank Vision Fund 2.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Reddit</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Community site founded in 2005 with over 50 million visitors daily files to go public this year.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Roblox</td><td class="column-2">San Mateo</td><td class="column-3">Gaming network has over 47 million users a day, half under 13 years of age.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Sysdig</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Cloud security firm raised a $350 million Series G round in December at a valuation of $2.5 billion</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Treasure Data</td><td class="column-2">Mountain View</td><td class="column-3">Customer data platform raised $234 million led by Softbank.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Turo</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Car sharing company available in over 7,500 cities looks to go public this year. </td>
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	<td class="column-1">Twelve</td><td class="column-2">Berkeley</td><td class="column-3">Developed first batch of E-Jet, a fossil-free jet fuel made from Carbon Dioxide {CO2) electrolysis, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Upstart Technologies</td><td class="column-2">San Mateo</td><td class="column-3">AI-powered credit analytic firm raises credit approvals and lowers deliquencies.</td>
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	<td class="column-1">Varo</td><td class="column-2">San Francisco</td><td class="column-3">Online bank raises $510 million in funding led by Lone Pine Capital.</td>
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