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Top 25 Competitive research companies based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 393 competitive research companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,880 professional contacts across them, including 1,600 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers competitive research companies headquartered in the 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 21, 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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The 25 largest competitive research companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 393 competitive research companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to competitive research 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
1Indirect evidenceStamford, CT, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 20261,001-5,000636 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Crisil Coalition Greenwich is a leading provider of strategic benchmarking, analytics and insights to the financial services industry, and specializes in providing unique…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500574 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Market Research Future (MRFR) is one of the most trusted firms for syndicated research services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3Partial evidenceWilmington, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000508 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Driven by innovation and value addition approach, Allied Market Research is instrumental in market research and business consulting across various industry verticals since its…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4Partial evidenceNew York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500356 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Contify is a market and competitive intelligence (M & CI) software that helps companies discover what’s changing in their competitive landscape.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5Partial evidenceAnnapolis, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500350 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Deep Water Point & Associates is composed of industry veterans and government experts who dedicate their expertise to maximize our clients’ competitive edge.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6Partial evidenceNewark, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000325 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Celebrating a decade of excellence, Future Market Insights (FMI) has been at the forefront of providing customized, syndicated market research and comprehensive consulting…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7Partial evidenceWilmington, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500325 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Transparency Market Research Pvt.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8Partial evidenceWashington Dc, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-500319 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Verified Market Research (VMR) boasts the most extensive library of B2B niche market insights, with over 323,742 cutting-edge reports as of Q3 2023, reflecting a robust growth…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9Indirect evidenceDover, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200246 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“QL2 provides a real-time view of competitor assortments and pricing positions compared to your own to drive repricing efforts and promotional strategies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10Indirect evidenceNew York, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026501-1,000243 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Mergermarket blends market-leading human insights, advanced machine learning and 30+ years of Dealogic data to deliver the earliest possible signals of potential M&A…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11Partial evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200240 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Your trusted custom research and data analysts.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12Partial evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200191 contacts →

Partial evidence

Research Nester is a global consulting firm that works with the most aspirational facilitators to define the future market strategies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13Indirect evidenceMason, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200164 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Spherical Insights & Consulting is the company behind one of the world’s leading market data intelligence, and content marketing services portals.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14Partial evidenceRedding, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-200107 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We are the trusted research partners for leading businesses around the world, providing market intelligence focused towards building revenue transformation strategies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15Partial evidenceDover, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202611-5095 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Polaris Market Research is a global market research and consulting company.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20082 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“MarketResearch.com is a leading provider of global market intelligence products and services.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17Partial evidenceBoston, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20077 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Next Move Strategy Consulting is a premier market research and management consulting firm that has been committed to provide strategically analysed well documented latest research…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18Indirect evidenceWashington, DC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20071 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“FrontierView (Part of FiscalNote) uniquely combines world-class strategic market intelligence and analyst advisory services through data, insights, and analytical tools, to power…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19Indirect evidenceNorth Bethesda, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20070 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Freedonia Group, celebrating our 40th anniversary in 2025, is a premier international business intelligence and analysis firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20Indirect evidenceReading, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20070 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“PharmaForce International is a business intelligence firm with decades of experience in analyzing the sales, marketing and medical affairs activities of leading pharmaceutical and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21Indirect evidenceNew York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20069 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“10EQS is a strategic intelligence firm built for business leaders facing high-stakes decisions in increasingly complex markets.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22Partial evidenceHarrisburg, NC, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20067 contacts →

Partial evidence

“MarketInsightsReports provides syndicated market research reports to industries, organizations or even individuals with an aim of helping them in their decision making process.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23Partial evidenceRockville, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50057 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Fact.MR is a fast-growing market research firm.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24Partial evidenceLanham, MD, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 202651-20052 contacts →

Partial evidence

“WBA Research delivers strategic insights that help our clients grow their business.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25Strong evidenceRenton, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026201-50051 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At Pacific Market Research, we leverage market research to help our clients better understand their competitive landscape, evaluate their options, and make business decisions with…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

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Competitive research companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026
20.3%Verified-email coverage
20.1Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
13.0%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
174
11-50
122
51-200
65
201-500
23
501-1,000
7
1,001-5,000
2

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 393 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 competitive research 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “competitive research 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 competitive research 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 competitive research companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 1,600 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 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Competitive research companies by metro

  • Competitive research companies in New York51

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 competitive research 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 competitive research companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 393 competitive research companies headquartered in the 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?

Crisil Coalition Greenwich, headquartered in Stamford, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most competitive research companies?

New York leads with 51 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (12) and Los Angeles (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 1,600 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 393 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 21, 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.