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Top 25 Business services private equity companies based in South Africa

RevenueBase identified 138 business services private equity companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 565 professional contacts across them, including 193 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.

This list covers business services private equity companies headquartered in South Africa, 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 27, 2026.

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.

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138Companies
565Contacts tracked
193Verified emails
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The 25 largest business services private equity companies based in South Africa

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 138 business services private equity companies based in South Africa, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 27, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to business services private equity companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-1028 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Established in 2003, Medu Capital is a professional investment management company with a focus on private equity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
2Strong evidenceBellville, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5028 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Marathon is a Consulting and Financial Services firm, that specialises in business consulting, private equity investments, wealth management and short term insurance.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
3Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Step Advisory is a boutique management consulting firm focused on fuelling business growth.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
4Indirect evidenceIllovo, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Deal Leaders International (DLI) is a boutique M&A and advisory firm specialising in helping business owners and executives, with a business EBITDA between R20 million and R300…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
5Indirect evidenceStellenbosch, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PSG Capital is a well-established corporate finance house.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
6Strong evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5017 contacts →

Strong evidence

“RMB Corvest is a private equity company and is a member of the FirstRand Group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
7Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Nodus is an independent investment banking business specialising in mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs and private equity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
8Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We help the brave succeed.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
9Strong evidenceKempton Park, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202651-20010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Welcome to IFSA Private Equity – pioneers of prosperity.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
10Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“DB & Associates is a strategy and operations consulting firm that helps businesses improve shareholder return.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
11Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-109 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Financial services company providing investment management in the private equity, structured finance and property areas as well as corporate advisory services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
12Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Valeo Capital is a boutique advisory firm that provides independent expert advice on the full spectrum of corporate finance services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
13Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-108 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Vuna Partners is a South African private equity investor focused on medium sized businesses across a range of sectors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
14Indirect evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-507 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Phoenix aims to empower institutions and individual clients to conserve, develop and leverage their financial resources through effective access to relevant knowledge and skills…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
15Partial evidenceDurban, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-506 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Multiply Group is a private investment company that provides longer term strategic capital to business owners through a partnership focused approach.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
16Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“SAAD Investment Holdings (SAAD) was established in 2006 as the investment arm of the Tree of Life group.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
17Strong evidenceJohannesburg, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-106 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Scientia Holdings Property Fund (Pty) Ltd is a proudly South African private equity fund manager established in 2019, with operations officially commencing in 2020.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
18Strong evidenceNewlands, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-505 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Athena Capital is an established private equity company that has the experience to deliver positive returns for innovation-led businesses.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-105 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Intaba Capital is a women-led investment and advisory firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
20Partial evidenceSandton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-105 contacts →

Partial evidence

“SummerPlace Equity Partners is a black female owned fund manager based in Johannesburg, South Africa.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
21Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-105 contacts →

Strong evidence

“The Lone Bull Group is a South African private equity and venture capital funding firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
22Strong evidenceBryanston, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-505 contacts →

Strong evidence

“DBF Capital Partners is a Mauritius based Investment Holding company focusing on private equity specically sector-agnostic principal investing.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
23Indirect evidenceMilnerton, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 202611-504 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
24Indirect evidenceBellville, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-104 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ordian is an investment and advisory business focused on thoughtful capital allocation, long-term value creation and disciplined analytical thinking.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026
25Strong evidenceCape Town, South AfricaHQ checked Sep 27, 20261-104 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Twofold Capital is a private equity investment and advisory business focused on building, growing, and investing in enduring businesses for the long-term.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026

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Business services private equity companies based in South Africa at a glance

As of Sep 27, 2026
34.2%Verified-email coverage
4.1Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
38.4%Largest-city concentration · Johannesburg
Sep 27, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
97
11-50
33
51-200
4
201-500
4

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 138 companies.

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 business services private equity 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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “business services private equity 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 business services private equity 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 business services private equity companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
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, 193 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 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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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 business services private equity 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 business services private equity companies are there based in South Africa?

RevenueBase identified 138 business services private equity companies headquartered in South Africa 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?

Medu Capital, headquartered in Johannesburg, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most business services private equity companies?

Johannesburg leads with 53 headquartered companies, followed by Cape Town (24) and Sandton (11).

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 193 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 138 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 27, 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.