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Top 25 Growth equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Growth equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 247 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 247 growth equity recruiting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,580 professional contacts across them, including 959 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (956 companies); San Francisco has 247.

This list covers growth equity recruiting 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 28, 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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2,580Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest growth equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 247 growth equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to growth equity recruiting firms: 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Riviera Partners	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	273 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Riviera Partners is a global executive recruiting firm specializing in Technology, Engineering, Product and Design leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	FTV Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	135 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
3	Turn River Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	106 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
4	JH Partners	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	96 contacts →
	Partial 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 28, 2026
5	Betts Recruiting	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	95 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Betts Recruiting has curated North America's leading go-to-market talent network, empowering the most innovative companies to scale efficiently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Genstar Capital	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	84 contacts →
	Partial 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 28, 2026
7	Scion Staffing	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	75 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Do you need to hire exceptional talent?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	80twenty	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	58 contacts →
	Partial evidence “80Twenty exists to find and place exceptional growth talent, advancing the ambitions of our company partners and the dreams of the talent we champion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Spmb Executive Search	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	53 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “SPMB is the #1 executive search firm serving the technology market and one of the largest independent retained search firms in the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	3 Bridge Networks	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	51 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Today's economic climate requires talented professionals to drive and support critical business decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Andiamo Group Talent Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Placing talent in Sales, Marketing, Product and Engineering, Andiamo!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	Princeville Capital	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	35 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Princeville Capital is a global growth-equity firm that backs technology companies reshaping industry economics through artificial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	The Cole Group	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Cole Group is the world's top sales and marketing search firm, serving clients like OpenAI, Cursor, Lovable, Clay, Kalshi, Vercel, Lambda, Vanta, Cribl, Figma, Doordash…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Candidate Labs	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat VC-backed entrepreneur who's personally done the founder journey twice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Housatonic Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Strong 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 28, 2026
16	Carrick Capital Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	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 28, 2026
17	Innovations PSI	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	25 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Innovations is a leading West Coast Recruiting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	RAYA	Partial evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	23 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Raya is an advisory & recruiting boutique firm focused on AI, engineering, product, and marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Growth By Design Talent	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Growth by Design Talent partners with venture backed technology companies to build exceptional talent strategies and recruiting functions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Valeas Capital Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Valeas Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based growth-buyout private equity firm focused on partnering with founders and CEOs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	L Capital Search & Advisory	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Partial 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 28, 2026
22	Hunter SF	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hunter SF brings over three decades of combined experience to recruiting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Nosal Partners NOW NGS Global	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Nosal Partners is now NGS Global.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Pathways Personnel	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1969 Pathways Personnel uses its strong nation wide network of legal and corporate professionals built from our stable and continuous presence in the employment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Groupe Insearch	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “GROUPE INSEARCH, INC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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: growth equity recruiting 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 growth equity recruiting firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of growth equity recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name growth equity recruiting 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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Growth equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

37.2%Verified-email coverage

10.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

182

11-50

51-200

201-500

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 247 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 growth equity recruiting 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 “growth equity recruiting 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 growth equity recruiting 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 growth equity recruiting 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, 959 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 28, 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.

Growth equity recruiting firms by metro in the United States

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 growth equity recruiting 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 growth equity recruiting firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 247 growth equity recruiting 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?

Riviera Partners, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most growth equity recruiting firms?

New York leads the United States with 956 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (342) and Los Angeles (315). San Francisco has 247.

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 959 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 247 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 28, 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.