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Top 25 Equity firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 11,184 equity firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 150,381 professional contacts across them, including 67,450 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers equity 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 19, 2026. Country and city lists for equity 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 equity firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,915 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a leading global investment firm that invests as long-term owners on behalf of institutions and individuals worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,940 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nuveen is a global investment leader, managing public and private assets for clients around the world and on behalf of TIAA, our parent company and one of the world’s largest…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,515 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,068 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1984, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,740 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Algihaz Holding is a Saudi Arabian investment group that has emerged as a leading organization since 1975.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H.I.G.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,290 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Warburg Pincus LLC is the pioneer of global growth investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Golub Capital is a market-leading, award-winning direct lender and experienced private credit manager.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,025 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Advent is a leading global private equity investor committed to working in partnership with management teams, entrepreneurs, and founders to help transform businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 998 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Itautec faz parte do Grupo Itaúsa - Investimentos Itaú S.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 899 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity financing provided by investors to early-stage, high-potential, and high-risk startups or growing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “TA is a leading global private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vista Equity Partners (Vista) is a leading global technology investor specializing in software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 820 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “General Atlantic is a leading global investor with more than four and a half decades of experience providing capital and strategic support to over 830 companies throughout its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 802 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sixth Street is a global investment firm with over $135 billion in assets under management and committed capital.* The firm uses its long-term flexible capital, data-enabled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 722 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1964, Alger is recognized as a pioneer of growth-style investment management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JV Driver Investments Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 629 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 624 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eurazeo is a leading global investment company, with a diversified portfolio of €40 billion in assets under management, including €31 billion from third parties, invested in 600…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 577 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1995 by Tom Gores, Platinum Equity is a global investment firm with approximately ~$48 billion of assets under management and a portfolio of approximately 60 operating…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bridgepoint Group is one of the world's leading mid-market investors, specialising in private equity, infrastructure, credit, secondaries and private wealth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 536 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PSG is a growth equity firm that partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to help them navigate transformational growth, capitalize on strategic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1997 and owned by its partners, Triton is a leading European mid-market sector-specialist investor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 469 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We identify the hidden value in companies that are often in challenging or complex situations, but have a strong core offering.” 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: 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 equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Equity firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
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 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.
- Coverage
- 35 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Australia, Sweden, India, the United Arab Emirates and 25 more. Country and city lists for equity firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 equity 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, 67,450 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.
Equity firms by location
76 lists · largest firstEvery Equity firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Equity firms based in the United States6,010
- Equity firms based in the United Kingdom904
- Equity firms based in Canada590
- Equity firms based in Germany346
- Equity firms based in the Netherlands250
- Equity firms based in France245
- Equity firms based in Australia235
- Equity firms based in Sweden203
- Equity firms based in India191
- Equity firms based in the United Arab Emirates185
- Equity firms based in China184
- Equity firms based in Brazil181
- Equity firms based in South Africa145
- Equity firms based in Switzerland144
- Equity firms based in Spain141
- Equity firms based in Singapore133
- Equity firms based in Italy128
- Equity firms based in Belgium100
- Equity firms based in Hong Kong99
- Equity firms based in Denmark85
- Equity firms based in Norway75
- Equity firms based in South Korea73
- Equity firms based in Mexico62
- Equity firms based in Luxembourg57
- Equity firms based in Finland52
- Equity firms based in Malaysia47
- Equity firms based in Israel43
- Equity firms based in Saudi Arabia42
- Equity firms based in Austria40
- Equity firms based in Portugal35
- Equity firms based in Türkiye35
- Equity firms based in Japan34
- Equity firms based in Indonesia33
- Equity firms based in Ireland30
- Equity firms based in Poland27
Cities
- Equity firms based in New York, United States869
- Equity firms based in Chicago, United States297
- Equity firms based in Dallas, United States252
- Equity firms based in Toronto, Canada238
- Equity firms based in Los Angeles, United States200
- Equity firms based in San Francisco, United States189
- Equity firms based in Boston, United States179
- Equity firms based in Austin, United States162
- Equity firms based in Houston, United States160
- Equity firms based in Miami, United States158
- Equity firms based in Atlanta, United States126
- Equity firms based in Denver, United States94
- Equity firms based in Vancouver, Canada94
- Equity firms based in Charlotte, United States71
- Equity firms based in Montreal, Canada54
- Equity firms based in San Diego, United States51
- Equity firms based in Calgary, Canada50
- Equity firms based in Washington, United States50
- Equity firms based in Philadelphia, United States48
- Equity firms based in Minneapolis, United States45
- Equity firms based in Nashville, United States45
- Equity firms based in Tampa, United States45
- Equity firms based in Newport Beach, United States44
- Equity firms based in Munich, Germany43
- Equity firms based in Berlin, Germany41
- Equity firms based in Beverly Hills, United States39
- Equity firms based in Seattle, United States39
- Equity firms based in Salt Lake City, United States38
- Equity firms based in Cleveland, United States37
- Equity firms based in Birmingham, United States36
- Equity firms based in Boca Raton, United States36
- Equity firms based in Scottsdale, United States32
- Equity firms based in Hamburg, Germany31
- Equity firms based in Menlo Park, United States30
- Equity firms based in New York City, United States30
- Equity firms based in Phoenix, United States30
- Equity firms based in Santa Monica, United States30
- Equity firms based in Palo Alto, United States29
- Equity firms based in Fort Lauderdale, United States26
- Equity firms based in West Palm Beach, United States26
- Equity firms based in Stamford, 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 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 equity firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 11,184 equity 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?
Brookfield, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most equity firms?
The United States leads with 6,010 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (904) and Canada (590). Every equity firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most equity firms?
New York leads with 869 headquartered companies, followed by London (634) and Chicago (297).
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 67,450 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 11,184 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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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.