Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Platform acquisition firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 8,658 platform acquisition firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 85,810 professional contacts across them, including 35,164 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers platform acquisition 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 29, 2026. Country and city lists for platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,615 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IAC builds companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H.I.G.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TA is a leading global private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vista Equity Partners (Vista) is a leading global technology investor specializing in software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 732 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Bending Spoons, we acquire and improve digital businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 642 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JV Driver Investments Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 613 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 485 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Volaris Group acquires, strengthens and grows vertical market technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orkla ASA is a leading industrial investment company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 397 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L Catterton is a market-leading consumer-focused investment firm, managing approximately $39 billion of equity capital across three multi-product platforms: private equity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 385 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, CD & R is an investment firm with an investment strategy predicated on building stronger, more profitable businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 378 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “While other purchasers of business seek economies of scale through centralization, we have taken the opposite approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 369 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1993, IDG Capital is a leading private equity investment firm headquartered in Hong Kong, recognized for its global vision and long-standing market presence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “bloom.CAPITAL is an operationally-focused private equity firm that invests in small to mid-market companies in the industrial sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 355 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Novacap est un investisseur nord-américain d’envergure et l’une des sociétés d’investissement privé les plus expérimentées au Canada.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PAI Partners is a leading private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AURELIUS is a global alternative investor, distinguished and widely recognised for its operational approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shore Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm with an office in Nashville, is an investor in lower-middle market companies in the Healthcare, Food and Beverage, Business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nordic Capital is a leading international private equity investor and subsector specialist dedicated to building stronger, more sustainable businesses through operational…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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 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 platform acquisition firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of platform acquisition firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name platform acquisition 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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Platform acquisition firms worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition 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, 35,164 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 29, 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 firms by location
53 lists · largest firstEvery Platform acquisition firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Platform acquisition firms based in the United States3,959
- Platform acquisition firms based in Canada408
- Platform acquisition firms based in the United Kingdom367
- Platform acquisition firms based in Germany175
- Platform acquisition firms based in Australia118
- Platform acquisition firms based in the Netherlands111
- Platform acquisition firms based in Brazil110
- Platform acquisition firms based in the United Arab Emirates104
- Platform acquisition firms based in France101
- Platform acquisition firms based in Sweden99
- Platform acquisition firms based in Italy72
- Platform acquisition firms based in India71
- Platform acquisition firms based in Singapore68
- Platform acquisition firms based in South Africa68
- Platform acquisition firms based in Spain60
- Platform acquisition firms based in Switzerland56
- Platform acquisition firms based in Belgium42
- Platform acquisition firms based in Hong Kong38
- Platform acquisition firms based in Norway36
- Platform acquisition firms based in Mexico29
Cities
- Platform acquisition firms based in New York, United States566
- Platform acquisition firms based in London, United Kingdom243
- Platform acquisition firms based in Chicago, United States201
- Platform acquisition firms based in Dallas, United States174
- Platform acquisition firms based in Toronto, Canada173
- Platform acquisition firms based in Los Angeles, United States148
- Platform acquisition firms based in Austin, United States123
- Platform acquisition firms based in Boston, United States109
- Platform acquisition firms based in Houston, United States109
- Platform acquisition firms based in Miami, United States95
- Platform acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States90
- Platform acquisition firms based in Atlanta, United States84
- Platform acquisition firms based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates68
- Platform acquisition firms based in Denver, United States67
- Platform acquisition firms based in Singapore, Singapore62
- Platform acquisition firms based in Paris, France59
- Platform acquisition firms based in Sao Paulo, Brazil58
- Platform acquisition firms based in Stockholm, Sweden54
- Platform acquisition firms based in Vancouver, Canada54
- Platform acquisition firms based in Charlotte, United States52
- Platform acquisition firms based in Sydney, Australia45
- Platform acquisition firms based in Montreal, Canada38
- Platform acquisition firms based in Tampa, United States33
- Platform acquisition firms based in Calgary, Canada32
- Platform acquisition firms based in Newport Beach, United States30
- Platform acquisition firms based in Birmingham, United States29
- Platform acquisition firms based in Nashville, United States29
- Platform acquisition firms based in Beverly Hills, United States28
- Platform acquisition firms based in Philadelphia, United States28
- Platform acquisition firms based in Washington, United States28
- Platform acquisition firms based in Cleveland, United States27
- Platform acquisition firms based in Minneapolis, United States26
- Platform acquisition firms based in Seattle, 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 platform acquisition 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 platform acquisition firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 8,658 platform acquisition 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?
IAC, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most platform acquisition firms?
The United States leads with 3,959 companies, followed by Canada (408) and the United Kingdom (367). Every platform acquisition firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most platform acquisition firms?
New York leads with 566 headquartered companies, followed by London (247) and Chicago (201).
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 35,164 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 8,658 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 29, 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.