Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Private equity recruiters worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,722 private equity recruiters worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 25,815 professional contacts across them, including 8,973 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers private equity recruiters 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 private equity recruiters 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 private equity recruiters worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 881 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 2 | 869 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “H.P.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 376 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Coller Capital, founded in 1990, is one of the world's leading investors in the secondary market for private assets – and widely acknowledged as an innovator in secondaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1983, StevenDouglas has established itself as a recognized leader in providing access to top talent, driven by highly tenured and experienced professionals committed to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 343 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Century Group is an executive recruiting and professional staffing firm providing top-tier accounting, finance and human resources talent to start-up, mid-market and Fortune 500…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “W Capital Partners is a private equity firm that provides secondary liquidity to shareholders in private businesses and growth capital for those companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 329 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PAI Partners is a leading private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 322 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlas Search is an executive recruiting firm dedicated to placing accounting, finance, front office, middle office, technology, healthcare, clinical research, human resources, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 290 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “JM Search is the leading retained executive search firm for private equity, and other growth-oriented private and public organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en 2001, le cabinet Fed Finance positionne son offre sur le recrutement temporaire et permanent des métiers de la finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 251 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Moonfare is a leading global private equity investment platform and manager that provides eligible individual investors and family offices on a global scale access to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are the leading retained search and recruitment specialists for private markets professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its formation in 1993, EM Group through its divisions EM Finance, EM Consulting, EM Legal and EM Financial Services has delivered executive search solutions to companies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Inflexion is a leading European mid-market private equity firm with €20bn under management investing in high growth, entrepreneurial businesses with ambitious management teams and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Meritmind is one of Sweden's leading consulting and recruitment company specializing in finance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ECA is an executive search firm focused on serving private equity clients and their portfolio companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission Staffing, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bespoke Partners is the largest firm focused exclusively on executive recruiting services for software and SaaS companies in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “FALCON, Private Equity’s C-Suite Recruiter, is built to drive top-quartile performance for CEOs, CFOs, GPs and LPs who participate in the private equity-backed, middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 150 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Finatal is the human capital partner to private capital, hiring outstanding talent for funds and accelerating value creation in portfolio companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 143 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1996, CPI is a global recruiting firm which specializes in placing individuals and teams on behalf of investment firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Are you seeking exceptional talent to drive your organization's success, or are you a highly skilled professional looking for your next career opportunity?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kingfish is a different kind of private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Incline Equity Partners is the driving force in middle market private equity.” 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: private equity recruiters. 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 private equity recruiters.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity recruiters, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity recruiters. 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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Private equity recruiters 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 private equity recruiters, 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 private equity recruiters are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “private equity recruiters”. 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 private equity recruiters), 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 private equity recruiters, 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, 8,973 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.
Private equity recruiters by location
21 lists · largest firstEvery Private equity recruiters list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Private equity recruiters based in the United States1,082
- Private equity recruiters based in the United Kingdom470
- Private equity recruiters based in Canada74
- Private equity recruiters based in the Netherlands64
- Private equity recruiters based in France57
- Private equity recruiters based in Germany56
- Private equity recruiters based in Australia50
- Private equity recruiters based in India40
- Private equity recruiters based in Hong Kong39
- Private equity recruiters based in Switzerland31
- Private equity recruiters based in South Africa25
Cities
- Private equity recruiters based in London, United Kingdom356
- Private equity recruiters based in New York, United States219
- Private equity recruiters based in Chicago, United States51
- Private equity recruiters based in Paris, France40
- Private equity recruiters based in Toronto, Canada36
- Private equity recruiters based in Los Angeles, United States35
- Private equity recruiters based in Dallas, United States31
- Private equity recruiters based in San Francisco, United States30
- Private equity recruiters based in Boston, United States28
- Private equity recruiters based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong28
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 private equity recruiters, 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 private equity recruiters are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,722 private equity recruiters 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?
TA Associates, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most private equity recruiters?
The United States leads with 1,082 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (470) and Canada (74). Every private equity recruiters list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most private equity recruiters?
London leads with 358 headquartered companies, followed by New York (219) and Chicago (51).
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 8,973 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,722 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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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.