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Top 25 Leveraged buyout recruiting companies based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Leveraged buyout recruiting companies based in San Francisco, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 69 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 69 leveraged buyout recruiting companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 729 professional contacts across them, including 350 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (472 companies); San Francisco has 69.

This list covers leveraged buyout recruiting companies 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

69Companies

729Contacts tracked

350Verified emails

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The 25 largest leveraged buyout recruiting companies based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 69 leveraged buyout recruiting companies 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 leveraged buyout recruiting 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.
#	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	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
3	Knox Lane	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	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 28, 2026
4	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
5	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
6	Gold Coast Search Partners	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Buyside recruiting expertise from Associate through Partner level” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	L Capital Search & Advisory	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	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 28, 2026
8	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
9	Castle Crow & Company	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Castle Crow is a merchant banking group specializing in buyside private equity investments and now has affiliated deal team professionals in five North American locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	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
11	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
12	The Loring Group	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Loring Group is a retained executive search firm led by former industry executives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Scenic Advisement	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Scenic Advisement is the leading investment bank focused on secondary and primary capital raises for leading private companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Shine Talent	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bold new companies are developing innovative business models, creating cultures and building brands that change the way we live, eat, play and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Guild Talent	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Transforming Leadership, Empowering Growth Guild Talent is a boutique executive search firm specializing in leadership hiring for venture and private equity-backed startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Eighty6 Group	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Eighty6 Group represents a new approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Hard Fork Capital Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Hard Fork Capital Partners is a merchant bank built for consequential transactions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Knowledge Leaders	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Boutique executive search firm that connects organizations and investors with the brightest leaders in private equity, technology and education (EdTech, Higher Education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Evolve Talent Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The new workforce is anything but traditional… so why use the traditional search firm?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Denning & Company	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect 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 28, 2026
21	Brennan Group, INC	Partial evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Brennan Group is a high-caliber recruiting firm focused on high-growth enterprise software (SaaS) and technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Searchwright, INC	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “FINANCIAL SERVICES, FINANCE, ACCOUNTING AND OTHER TALENTED PROFESSIONALS Direct-Hire Search (executive to administrative) Interim Search (short and long-term / project / temporary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Catapult Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	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 28, 2026
24	Lighthouse Legal Search	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are a local executive legal recruitment firm with a global reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	ONE North Talent Group	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “One North Talent Group is an executive search firm focused solely on helping companies find great people and talent leaders.” 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: leveraged buyout recruiting companies. 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 leveraged buyout recruiting companies.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of leveraged buyout recruiting companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name leveraged buyout recruiting companies. 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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Leveraged buyout recruiting companies based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

48.0%Verified-email coverage

10.6Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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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 69 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 leveraged buyout recruiting 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “leveraged buyout recruiting 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 leveraged buyout recruiting 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 leveraged buyout recruiting companies, 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, 350 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.

Leveraged buyout recruiting companies 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 leveraged buyout recruiting 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 leveraged buyout recruiting companies are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 69 leveraged buyout recruiting companies 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 leveraged buyout recruiting companies?

New York leads the United States with 472 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (158) and Atlanta (105). San Francisco has 69.

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 350 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 69 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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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.