Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Industry research companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 7,503 industry research companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 112,798 professional contacts across them, including 25,012 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Pune the largest hub.
This list covers industry research companies 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 21, 2026. Country and city lists for industry research companies 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 industry research companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,845 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It's been more than 30 years since entrepreneur and Chairman of the Group, Marcus Evans, launched the first of his businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,068 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Euromonitor International leads the world in global market intelligence into industries, companies, economies and consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,862 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2009, MarketsandMarkets recognized uncharted business potentials within disruptive trends, forecasting a surge of $25 trillion in new B2B revenues by 2030.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Mintel, we empower businesses to navigate the future with confidence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,260 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GD Research Center Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 821 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In our world of rapid change, the need for reliable information to make confident decisions has never been greater.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 795 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YipitData is the leading market research and analytics firm for the disruptive economy and most recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 741 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hansa Research is a full-service global market research agency conducting research in over 100 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 734 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a global research analytics and advisory firm with over 20 years of experience in helping organizations take strategic business and investment decisions fearlessly and with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 734 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2007, Jasper Colin is a leading provider of comprehensive research and analytics services, powered by technology and backed by a growing team of industry experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CRU delivers independent, expert intelligence into the global commodities markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 702 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide high performing intelligence that answers critical business questions for leading companies around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 685 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cheers Interactive is a specialised custom research, analytics and sales & marketing solutions company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 671 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “VISASQ/COLEMAN was established as a partnership between VisasQ Inc, Asia’s top expert network and the only publicly traded company in this field, and Coleman Research, a trusted…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 667 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GreyB is an innovation consulting firm that helps technology leaders at Fortune Global 500 companies and leading IP professionals turn complex patent and R&D landscapes into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 664 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Market Xcel, we're dedicated to delivering high-quality results for our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 651 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Infiniti Research is a leading provider of market intelligence and customer intelligence solutions with 20+ years’ experience spanning across 20+ industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 647 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a fully revenue-funded organization from founding in 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 574 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Market Research Future (MRFR) is one of the most trusted firms for syndicated research services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 564 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Over the last 15 years Ascentrik Research has served top companies in Europe, US, Middle East, Africa and Asia, across multiple industries and sectors, from 3 facilities in India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 548 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Insight Partners is a one stop industry research provider of actionable solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 546 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HBG is a market intelligence firm offering insightful, validated & high quality qualitative & quantitative research data solutions to clients across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 539 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grand View Research is an end-to-end market research technology and consulting business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tegus, by AlphaSense is the leading company intelligence platform for key decision makers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MediaRadar equips marketing, sales and analytics leaders with the intelligence they need to stay ahead.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: industry research companies. 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 industry research companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of industry research companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name industry research companies. 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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Industry research companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 21, 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 industry research companies, 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 industry research companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “industry research companies”. 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 industry research companies), 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 industry research companies, 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, 25,012 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 21, 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.
Industry research companies by location
40 lists · largest firstEvery Industry research companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Industry research companies based in the United States1,534
- Industry research companies based in India1,224
- Industry research companies based in the United Kingdom492
- Industry research companies based in Brazil327
- Industry research companies based in Germany160
- Industry research companies based in France159
- Industry research companies based in Canada142
- Industry research companies based in Spain135
- Industry research companies based in China121
- Industry research companies based in Australia118
- Industry research companies based in Mexico106
- Industry research companies based in Italy81
- Industry research companies based in the United Arab Emirates78
- Industry research companies based in the Netherlands65
- Industry research companies based in South Africa61
- Industry research companies based in Poland45
- Industry research companies based in Japan43
- Industry research companies based in Indonesia39
- Industry research companies based in Türkiye36
- Industry research companies based in Belgium33
- Industry research companies based in Peru33
- Industry research companies based in Romania33
- Industry research companies based in Hong Kong27
- Industry research companies based in Sweden26
Cities
- Industry research companies based in Pune, India309
- Industry research companies based in New York, United States177
- Industry research companies based in New Delhi, India123
- Industry research companies based in Mumbai, India93
- Industry research companies based in Noida, India62
- Industry research companies based in Delhi, India56
- Industry research companies based in Bangalore, India48
- Industry research companies based in Chicago, United States45
- Industry research companies based in Hyderabad, India43
- Industry research companies based in San Francisco, United States42
- Industry research companies based in Gurgaon, India40
- Industry research companies based in Los Angeles, United States37
- Industry research companies based in Kolkata, India30
- Industry research companies based in Washington, United States26
- Industry research companies based in Atlanta, United States25
- Industry research companies based in Boston, 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 industry research companies, 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 industry research companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 7,503 industry research companies 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?
Marcus Evans Group, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most industry research companies?
The United States leads with 1,534 companies, followed by India (1,224) and the United Kingdom (492). Every industry research companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most industry research companies?
Pune leads with 309 headquartered companies, followed by London (265) and New York (180).
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 25,012 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 7,503 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 21, 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.