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Top 25 Buyout firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 134 buyout firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,656 professional contacts across them, including 1,464 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers buyout 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 19, 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 firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that invests in software and services businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the most experienced private equity investment firms operating today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with approximately $20 billion in cumulative committed capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FFL Partners is a leading middle-market private equity firm that has been investing in high-quality companies since 1997.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turn/River Capital is a private equity firm that applies a proprietary growth engineering strategy to investing, partnering with software businesses to accelerate growth and build…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Percheron Capital is the largest private equity firm focused on essential services – the businesses that keep America running.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “JH Partners, LLC ("JH Partners" or "JHP") is a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on building sustainable, long-term equity value in consumer and marketing-driven…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vector Capital is a leading, San Francisco-based global private equity and credit investment firm focused on transformative investments in technology and technology-enabled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dragoneer is a growth-oriented investment firm with over $35 billion in assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Genstar Capital is a leading middle-market private equity firm, investing in high quality companies for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For half a century, ATEL Capital Group has financed the companies transforming our economy-deploying capital to more than businesses globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Meritage Group LP is a fundamentally oriented investment firm backed by evergreen, flexible capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2016, Banneker is dedicated to empowering management teams on their journey to build exceptional software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Martis Capital is a middle-market private equity fund focused exclusively on the North American healthcare industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Main Post Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on investing $50 – $250+ million in high-growth companies across the consumer value chain.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1991, Calera Capital has invested over $5 billion of equity capital in the middle market, predominantly in founder, family, and management-owned businesses across a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “True Wind is an investment firm that helps technology businesses transform industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “IGP is a San Francisco-based specialist private investment partnership focused exclusively on acquiring middle-market industrial businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bay Grove was formed in late 2007 by Kevin Marchetti and Adam Forste and joined in 2011 by Dave Brandes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Knox Lane is a San Francisco-based middle-market investment firm, comprised of investors and operators from blue-chip backgrounds that have a long history of working together…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Swander Pace Capital (“SPC”) is a private equity firm focused on investing in family- and founder-owned consumer staples businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Housatonic Partners is a private equity firm investing in high growth, recurring revenue service companies operating in a number of industries including healthcare, software, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Carrick Capital Partners is the first stop for entrepreneurs and business owners who are seeking unmatched expertise to help their businesses scale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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 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 firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of buyout firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name buyout 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 firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 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 134 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 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 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 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 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, 1,464 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 19, 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 firms by metro in the United States
- Buyout firms in New York809
- Buyout firms in Chicago281
- Buyout firms in Dallas252
- Buyout firms in Los Angeles181
- Buyout firms in Houston165
- Buyout firms in Boston155
- Buyout firms in Miami152
- Buyout firms in Austin148
- Buyout firms in San Francisco134
- Buyout firms in Atlanta112
- Buyout firms in Denver84
- Buyout firms in Charlotte67
- Buyout firms in Greenwich56
- Buyout firms in Tampa44
- Buyout firms in San Diego43
- Buyout firms in Washington43
- Buyout firms in Nashville42
- Buyout firms in Newport Beach41
- Buyout firms in Birmingham39
- Buyout firms in Philadelphia39
- Buyout firms in Minneapolis37
- Buyout firms in Salt Lake City37
- Buyout firms in Seattle37
- Buyout firms in Cleveland35
- Buyout firms in Boca Raton31
- Buyout firms in Beverly Hills30
- Buyout firms in West Palm Beach30
- Buyout firms in Scottsdale28
- Buyout firms in New York City27
- Buyout firms in Phoenix25
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 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 firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 134 buyout 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?
Alpine Investors, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most buyout firms?
New York leads with 809 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (281) and Dallas (252).
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 1,464 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 134 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 19, 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.