Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Software acquisition firms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,245 software acquisition firms worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,895 professional contacts across them, including 7,799 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers software 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 software 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 software acquisition firms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 424 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Constellation Software is an international provider of market leading software and services to a select number of industries, both in the public and private sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Roper Technologies is a constituent of the S&P 500 and Fortune 500.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thoma Bravo is the world’s largest software-focused investment firm, with more than $172 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “York IE® is an investment and operating firm that combines a family of funds with a hands-on operating platform to build and back software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 287 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aspire Software is a global software investment and operating company focused on acquiring, building, and scaling exceptional vertical market software businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that invests in software and services businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 272 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 2007, we’ve specialized in transforming good businesses into great companies through our differentiated approach to partnership investing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 253 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Enghouse Systems Limited is a leading global provider of enterprise software solutions serving a variety of distinct vertical markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software businesses, their employees, and customers to preserve the legacy of founders, while helping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1980, GTCR is a leading private equity firm that invests behind The Leaders Strategy™ – finding and partnering with management leaders in core domains to identify…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accel-KKR is a technology-focused investment firm with $23 billion in capital commitments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gryphon Investors is a leading middle-market private investment firm focused on building and growing profitable, market-leading companies in the Business Services, Consumer…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 195 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lumine Group acquires, strengthens, and grows companies in the communications and media software industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 154 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Evergreen is a private-equity backed holding company focused on acquiring services and software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1992, JMI Equity has focused on investing in exceptional software and AI-driven companies from scaling stages through later growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with nearly $10 billion in capital commitments specializing in the software, technology and services sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vesta Software Group is a global organisation dedicated to helping vertical market software companies thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence 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: software 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 software acquisition firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of software acquisition firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name software 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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Software 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 software 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 software acquisition firms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “software 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 software 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 software 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, 7,799 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.
Software acquisition firms by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Software acquisition firms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Software acquisition firms based in the United States595
- Software acquisition firms based in the United Kingdom68
- Software acquisition firms based in Canada67
- Software acquisition firms based in Germany41
Cities
- Software acquisition firms based in New York, United States84
- Software acquisition firms based in London, United Kingdom44
- Software acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States39
- Software acquisition firms based in Boston, United States33
- Software acquisition firms based in Austin, United States31
- Software acquisition firms based in Chicago, United States26
- Software acquisition firms based in Los Angeles, 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 software 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 software acquisition firms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,245 software 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?
TA Associates, headquartered in Boston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most software acquisition firms?
The United States leads with 595 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (68) and Canada (67). Every software acquisition firms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most software acquisition firms?
New York leads with 84 headquartered companies, followed by London (46) and San Francisco (39).
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 7,799 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,245 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.