Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Black-owned recruitment firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 5,065 black-owned recruitment firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 54,363 professional contacts across them, including 9,407 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers black-owned recruitment firms worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for black-owned recruitment firms follow the table.
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 black-owned recruitment firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,421 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LIVE CONNECTIONS is a Search & Recruitment Organization that specializes in finding and placing professionals across all sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LGC’s team is built by diverse individuals who are passionate about developing long-lasting relationships between clients and candidates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,015 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Randstad Australia is the world’s leading talent company and a partner of choice to clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 960 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Max International is a trusted US staffing and recruitment firm committed to connecting top-tier talent with leading organizations across the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 893 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you're looking for a new opportunity, the recruiting and staffing experts at Nelson Connects can help.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 841 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elite Network is a recruiting firm specializing in accounting and finance, with deep roots in the Bay Area and clients across the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 807 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “True is modernizing executive hiring by combining global search expertise with the True AI Capability Index™, the industry’s only methodology for assessing candidate adaptability…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 804 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bring Top Talent With Your Company With Russell Tobin Headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Brazil…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 731 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genesis10 connects companies and professionals through every stage of the hiring journey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 591 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Goodwin Recruiting (Forbes America's Best Recruiting Firms since 2020) has been connecting top talent with amazing opportunities since Our expert team brings hands-on experience…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 531 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CyberCoders, a division of ASGN Incorporated, is a leading permanent placement recruiting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 522 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We focus on the permanent and temporary recruitment of general administrative and office support personnel together with sales and service professionals for leading African firms…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 495 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1965, HOBAN Recruitment has been providing innovative recruitment solutions Australia wide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 462 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1981, Criterion Executive Search has built a reputation as a premier national recruiting firm, connecting exceptional talent with opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 396 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fosse: Empowering people and businesses to thrive in a tech-driven world We are La Fosse.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 393 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “2016 förvärvade Randstad det nordiska bemanningsföretaget Proffice Group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gravitas are serious about impacting the recruitment industry - positively.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1983, StevenDouglas has established itself as a recognized leader in providing access to top talent, driven by highly tenured and experienced professionals committed to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 365 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Smart IT Frame is a leading NMSDC-certified staffing partner, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlas Search is an executive recruiting firm dedicated to placing accounting, finance, front office, middle office, technology, healthcare, clinical research, human resources, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ktek Resourcing is a global staffing and recruitment firm specializing in IT, engineering, and professional services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LINKING TOP TALENT WITH BUSINESSES TO FUEL GROWTH AND SUCCESS For over 20 years, we’ve connected skilled professionals with organizations in Finance, Accounting, Real Estate…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Find Great People (FGP) is a nationally recognized talent acquisition and human resources consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liberty Personnel is widely recognized as the finest direct placement and contract recruiting firm in the region.” 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: black-owned recruitment 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 black-owned recruitment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of black-owned recruitment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name black-owned recruitment 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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Black-owned recruitment firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 black-owned recruitment 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for black-owned recruitment firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “black-owned recruitment 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 black-owned recruitment 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 black-owned recruitment firms, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 9,407 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.
Black-owned recruitment firms by location
21 lists · largest firstEvery Black-owned recruitment firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in the United States1,731
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in India555
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in South Africa401
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in the United Kingdom316
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Canada184
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Brazil145
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Australia88
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in the Netherlands62
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in France60
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Germany58
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in the United Arab Emirates49
Cities
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in New York, United States114
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Johannesburg, South Africa109
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Atlanta, United States68
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Chicago, United States63
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Cape Town, South Africa54
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Mumbai, India54
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Dallas, United States48
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Los Angeles, United States47
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Houston, United States45
- Black-owned recruitment firms based in Austin, United States31
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 black-owned recruitment 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 black-owned recruitment firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 5,065 black-owned recruitment firms worldwide 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?
Live Connections, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most black-owned recruitment firms?
The United States leads with 1,731 companies, followed by India (555) and South Africa (401). Every black-owned recruitment firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most black-owned recruitment firms?
London leads with 170 headquartered companies, followed by New York (114) and Johannesburg (109).
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 9,407 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 5,065 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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About this data
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.