Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Platform acquisition companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 8,828 platform acquisition companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 133,719 professional contacts across them, including 60,631 with verified work emails and 44,431 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers platform acquisition 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 5, 2026. Country and city lists for platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition companies 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,515 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Partners Group is a global private markets firm with USD 186 billion in assets under management and c.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,615 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IAC builds companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H.I.G.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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 5, 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,025 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TA is a leading global private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vista Equity Partners (Vista) is a leading global technology investor specializing in software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 752 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hg is an investor in European and transatlantic technology and services businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JV Driver Investments Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 629 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 613 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 604 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carlson's roots are set in 1938, when Curtis L.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 577 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 465 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 464 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Northland is a real estate private equity firm with $8 billion of assets under management, including more than residential units and 1.3 million square feet of commercial space…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Riverside Company is a global investment firm focused on being one of the leading private capital options for business owners and employees at the smaller end of the middle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hillhouse Investment is a long-term investor focused on partnering with quality business leaders to help them grow their organizations globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 438 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Apax Partners LLP ("Apax") is a global private equity advisory firm investing in mid-market businesses across the Technology, Services, and Internet/Consumer sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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: platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of platform acquisition companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name platform acquisition 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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Platform acquisition companies worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 5, 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 platform acquisition 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
- 15 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the Netherlands, Brazil, Switzerland, South Africa and 5 more. Country and city lists for platform acquisition companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition 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, 60,631 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 between September 5, 2026 and September 14, 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.
Platform acquisition companies by location
53 lists · largest firstEvery Platform acquisition companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Platform acquisition companies based in the United States6,143
- Platform acquisition companies based in the United Kingdom679
- Platform acquisition companies based in Canada560
- Platform acquisition companies based in Germany227
- Platform acquisition companies based in Australia194
- Platform acquisition companies based in France150
- Platform acquisition companies based in the Netherlands142
- Platform acquisition companies based in Brazil123
- Platform acquisition companies based in Switzerland109
- Platform acquisition companies based in South Africa103
- Platform acquisition companies based in Sweden102
- Platform acquisition companies based in Spain99
- Platform acquisition companies based in Italy84
- Platform acquisition companies based in Belgium71
- Platform acquisition companies based in the United Arab Emirates42
Cities
- Platform acquisition companies based in Toronto, Canada240
- Platform acquisition companies based in New York, United States225
- Platform acquisition companies based in Charlotte, United States77
- Platform acquisition companies based in Chicago, United States76
- Platform acquisition companies based in Vancouver, Canada76
- Platform acquisition companies based in London, United Kingdom69
- Platform acquisition companies based in Los Angeles, United States66
- Platform acquisition companies based in Dallas, United States62
- Platform acquisition companies based in Montreal, Canada57
- Platform acquisition companies based in Austin, United States54
- Platform acquisition companies based in Tampa, United States53
- Platform acquisition companies based in Washington, United States53
- Platform acquisition companies based in Nashville, United States52
- Platform acquisition companies based in Boston, United States51
- Platform acquisition companies based in Calgary, Canada50
- Platform acquisition companies based in Newport Beach, United States48
- Platform acquisition companies based in San Francisco, United States48
- Platform acquisition companies based in San Diego, United States47
- Platform acquisition companies based in Philadelphia, United States46
- Platform acquisition companies based in Miami, United States43
- Platform acquisition companies based in Minneapolis, United States41
- Platform acquisition companies based in Seattle, United States39
- Platform acquisition companies based in Birmingham, United States38
- Platform acquisition companies based in Cleveland, United States38
- Platform acquisition companies based in Salt Lake City, United States38
- Platform acquisition companies based in Boca Raton, United States37
- Platform acquisition companies based in Beverly Hills, United States36
- Platform acquisition companies based in Munich, Germany35
- Platform acquisition companies based in Phoenix, United States33
- Platform acquisition companies based in Scottsdale, United States33
- Platform acquisition companies based in New York City, United States32
- Platform acquisition companies based in Houston, United States30
- Platform acquisition companies based in Fort Lauderdale, United States29
- Platform acquisition companies based in West Palm Beach, United States29
- Platform acquisition companies based in Denver, United States28
- Platform acquisition companies based in Santa Monica, United States28
- Platform acquisition companies based in Atlanta, United States25
- Platform acquisition companies based in Berlin, Germany25
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 platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 8,828 platform acquisition 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?
Brookfield, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most platform acquisition companies?
The United States leads with 6,143 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (679) and Canada (560). Every platform acquisition companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most platform acquisition companies?
New York leads with 883 headquartered companies, followed by London (493) 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 60,631 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,828 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between September 5, 2026 and September 14, 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.