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Top 25 Add-on acquisition private equity firms based in France
RevenueBase identified 113 add-on acquisition private equity firms headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 2,634 professional contacts across them, including 775 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers add-on acquisition private equity firms headquartered in France, 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 27, 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 add-on acquisition private equity firms based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PAI Partners is a leading private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Siparex Group, an independent French private equity specialist, has €3.7 billion of capital under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leading private equity firm in Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2008, InfraVia is a leading independent private equity firm specializing in real assets - infrastructure, critical metals, real estate - and technology investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “With €500 million of assets under management and a portfolio of over 160 SMEs, M Capital Partners is a leading Private Equity firm in the French Small-cap market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EMZ is a leading European investment firm with offices in Paris, Munich and Amsterdam.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chequers Capital has unique experience in acquiring and developing small, medium and large-sized companies in partnership with their management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sagard is an alternative asset management firm that invests in venture capital, private equity, private credit, real estate, and royalties.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2014 by Xavier Marin, former Co-Head of Investments at Eurazeo, TRAIL is a European private equity platform managing €1.0bn in assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Activa is a Paris-based private equity firm, deeply rooted in entrepreneurship and focused on mid-sized innovative services companies valued between €30-100 million.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hivest Capital Partners, established in November 2016, is a European-American private equity firm approved by the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Qualium Investissement is a major historic and institutional player in private equity in France with €2.1bn invested in 70 French companies since its creation in 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Adagia Partners is a European MidCap Private Equity firm founded and led by seasoned PE investors & value creation professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Trocadero Capital Partners est un acteur indépendant du capital investissement qui intervient aux côtés d'ETI et PME européennes pour accompagner leur croissance et contribuer à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2009, Florac is a private equity firm chaired by Marie-Jeanne Meyer, historic shareholder and former officer of the Louis Dreyfus Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mutares France, filiale du groupe européen Mutares SE & Co.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Experienced Capital is an operational investment fund dedicated to premium consumer brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2010, BEX Capital is a pioneering private equity secondaries investment firm with over $2 billion of assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mircap Partners is an independent investment firm, focused on co-investments, secondaries and fund investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TRAJAN CAPITAL select, support and finance talented and ambitious entrepreneurs to acquire SMEs with untapped potential, transform them and boost their development to leverage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aldebaran Capital Partners est une société d’investissement française dédiée à la transformation des PME et ETI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Re-Sources est un acteur indépendant du capital investissement entrepreneurial, implanté à Lille, Rennes et Toulouse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based in Paris and Milan, Sienna Private Equity is a mid-cap buyout fund led by its founders and backed by Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “La Maison Partners is a next-generation private equity platform backed by some of Europe’s most prominent entrepreneurial families.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'un des pionniers du capital investissement français depuis plus de 30 ans, Paluel-Marmont Capital réalise des investissements en capital dans des PME/ETI françaises dynamiques…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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: add-on acquisition private equity firms. 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 add-on acquisition private equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of add-on acquisition private equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name add-on acquisition private equity firms. 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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Add-on acquisition private equity firms based in France at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 113 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 add-on acquisition private equity firms, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “add-on acquisition private equity firms”. 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 add-on acquisition private equity firms), 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 add-on acquisition private equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 775 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 27, 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.
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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 add-on acquisition private equity firms, 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 add-on acquisition private equity firms are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 113 add-on acquisition private equity firms headquartered in France 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?
PAI Partners, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most add-on acquisition private equity firms?
Paris leads with 69 headquartered companies, followed by Bordeaux (3) and Lyon (3).
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 775 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 113 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 27, 2026.
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