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Top 25 Buyout consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 57 buyout consulting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 402 professional contacts across them, including 137 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (392 companies); San Francisco has 57.
This list covers buyout consulting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States, 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.
The 25 largest buyout consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ComCap was founded in 2012 to provide financial and strategic advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, and financings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlas Technology Group is a technology-focused investment bank with particular expertise in providing sell-side M&A advisory services to global software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CDS is now part of CrossCountry Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L Capital partners with top-tier private equity firms and provides executive-led diligence and advisory services across the entire deal lifecycle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Builder Advisor Group provides mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and debt restructuring services to the residential real estate industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vaquero Capital is an investment banking and advisory firm that is focused on serving entrepreneurs and investors in rapidly growing businesses that have exceptional profit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inverness Advisors is a strategic advisor to middle-market and growth stage companies in the technology, media, healthcare and services sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Focus Advisors is the collision industry’s leading M&A advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sierra Pacific Partners is a boutique investment bank offering mergers and acquisitions and other advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in San Francisco and founded in 2001, Denning & Company is a leading boutique private equity advisory firm which provides consulting and fund raising services to both…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Intelligent Capital, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Catapult Advisors is an investment bank and M&A advisory firm serving the software and internet sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aspect Consumer Partners is a boutique M&A, strategic and corporate finance advisory firm focused on the consumer industry, including food & beverage, ingredients, wineries and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Capital Clarity merged with Carlsquare in April 2023.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Have you considered an exit strategy for your business in case of unexpected circumstances?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Benjamin Maurice is a leading boutique strategy consulting firm serving top private equity investors and corporate clients worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arete Ventures is an institutional advisory firm working at the intersection of capital, technology, and transformation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Viant Group is a boutique investment bank providing merger and acquisition and capital raising services to emerging, high-growth companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are entrepreneurs with depth and breadth of experience in starting, building and leading companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “syn·e·sis \ˈsi-nə-səs\ Noun; Definition: understanding, intelligence, to bring together Synesis Advisors specializes in the purchase and sale of privately held businesses that are…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GTK Partners is an investment bank located in San Francisco, California, with offices and personnel, in Los Angeles and Geneva.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Equistone Partners™ provides advisory and consulting services, financial management and valuation in the field of investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Excelerate Global provides strategy, commercial value creation, and due diligence services to investors and their portfolio companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Navigating the sale of your company is a journey that begins in advance of the transaction itself.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a full service real estate advisory firm specializing on diligence, valuation, debt/subordinate debt and alternative financing structures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 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: buyout consulting 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 buyout consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of buyout consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name buyout consulting 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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Buyout consulting firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 57 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 buyout consulting 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “buyout consulting 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 buyout consulting 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 buyout consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside San Francisco 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, 137 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
- 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.
Buyout consulting firms by metro in the United States
- Buyout consulting firms in New York392
- Buyout consulting firms in Chicago135
- Buyout consulting firms in Los Angeles100
- Buyout consulting firms in Atlanta93
- Buyout consulting firms in Dallas92
- Buyout consulting firms in Houston88
- Buyout consulting firms in Boston66
- Buyout consulting firms in Miami64
- Buyout consulting firms in Denver52
- Buyout consulting firms in Austin48
- Buyout consulting firms in Charlotte47
- Buyout consulting firms in San Diego39
- Buyout consulting firms in Washington35
- Buyout consulting firms in Newport Beach34
- Buyout consulting firms in Tampa28
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 buyout consulting 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 buyout consulting firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 57 buyout consulting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States 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?
Comcap, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most buyout consulting firms?
New York leads the United States with 392 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (135) and Los Angeles (100). San Francisco has 57.
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 137 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 57 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.
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