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Top 25 Child care chains worldwide
RevenueBase identified 13,536 child care chains worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 222,943 professional contacts across them, including 32,783 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers child care chains 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for child care chains 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 child care chains worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,348 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Transform lives-including yours-with the nation’s leading provider of early childhood education and child care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,746 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Primrose Schools® is a national franchise company that provides high-quality early education and care to children and families across America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,294 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About us Goodstart is Australia’s largest provider of early learning and care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 3,238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Al 50 jaar biedt Partou in een groot deel van Nederland: kinderdagverblijf, peuteropvang en buitenschoolse opvang.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,006 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Numéro 1 de la garde d’enfants à domicile, Kinougarde est née en 2010 d’une envie sincère d’accompagner les parents pour faciliter leur quotidien, avec souplesse, confiance et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,961 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Petite Academy has been a longtime early childhood provider for families across Florida and has now expanded its footprint throughout the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,465 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Childcare Network was founded in 1988 in Columbus, Georgia with the initial acquisition of just two schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,319 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For over 40 years, Kiddie Academy® Educational Child Care has been a leader in education-based child care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,102 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Child Care Services Association (CCSA) is now Early Years!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,970 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en pionnier des crèches privées, Les Petits Chaperons Rouges est aujourd'hui l’acteur de référence de la petite enfance avec le plus grand réseau de crèches en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,942 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Avec un réseau de 3 200 structures d'accueil dans le monde (crèches, clubs enfants et écoles maternelles), le Groupe Babilou propose des solutions #parentalité à toutes les étapes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,878 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than 50 years of experience, we pride ourselves on being a trusted, supportive, reliable provider of early education and care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,601 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wij zijn Humankind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,440 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than five decades, Childtime has been a guiding light in the child care and early education field.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,344 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 20 ans, people & baby accompagne les familles, les entreprises et les collectivités dans l’accueil des jeunes enfants en crèche privée.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,268 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ensemble, donnons aux tout-petits les clés pour s’épanouir aujourd’hui et dessiner demain » Depuis sa création en 2004, La Maison Bleue s'engage à offrir aux enfants, aux familles…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,219 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At NTUC First Campus, we are committed to enabling bright futures for every child and their family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,044 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The first few years shape everything that follows - how a child thinks, relates, and learns for life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,025 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Love What We Do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 968 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tutor Time has been supporting working families in Florida since the 1980s.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 906 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From the first hello of the day, to the last good-bye, we want every child to feel safe, nurtured, and excited to learn and grow with us, and for you to consider Lightbridge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 865 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sittercity is committed to connecting families with high-quality, trustworthy child care providers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 860 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadence Education is one of the nation’s premier early childhood educators, providing high-quality childcare and early learning programs including play-based, Montessori, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 821 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Kids & Company, we’re passionate about providing a dynamic and engaging early learning experience that’s centered around our emergent curriculum and learn-through-play…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) assists close to parents, children, and child care providers each month in Northern Los Angeles County and the entirety of San Bernardino County…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: child care chains. 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 child care chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of child care chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name child care chains. 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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Child care chains worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 child care chains, 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 child care chains are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “child care chains”. 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 child care chains), 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 child care chains, 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, 32,783 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 19, 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.
Child care chains by location
24 lists · largest firstEvery Child care chains list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Child care chains based in the United States6,236
- Child care chains based in the United Kingdom1,242
- Child care chains based in the Netherlands824
- Child care chains based in Australia776
- Child care chains based in Canada731
- Child care chains based in Germany368
- Child care chains based in India329
- Child care chains based in France260
- Child care chains based in Brazil252
- Child care chains based in Switzerland171
- Child care chains based in New Zealand129
- Child care chains based in Ireland88
- Child care chains based in Belgium72
- Child care chains based in Portugal62
- Child care chains based in Singapore41
Cities
- Child care chains based in Chicago, United States69
- Child care chains based in Toronto, Canada64
- Child care chains based in Houston, United States57
- Child care chains based in Philadelphia, United States49
- Child care chains based in Portland, United States44
- Child care chains based in Columbus, United States39
- Child care chains based in Seattle, United States33
- Child care chains based in Austin, United States27
- Child care chains based in Washington, United States25
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 child care chains, 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 child care chains are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 13,536 child care chains 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?
Kindercare Learning Companies, headquartered in Lake Oswego, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most child care chains?
The United States leads with 6,236 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (1,242) and the Netherlands (824). Every child care chains list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most child care chains?
London leads with 152 headquartered companies, followed by New York (88) and Chicago (69).
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 32,783 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 13,536 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 19, 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.