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Top 25 Life sciences private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States

RevenueBase identified 72 life sciences private equity firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 959 professional contacts across them, including 336 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (197 companies); San Francisco has 72.

This list covers life sciences private equity 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
72Companies
959Contacts tracked
336Verified emails
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The 25 largest life sciences private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 72 life sciences private equity 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 life sciences private equity 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.
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1Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-200211 contacts →

Partial 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 28, 2026
2Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-50118 contacts →

Strong 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 28, 2026
3Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5061 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Versant Ventures is a leading healthcare investment firm committed to helping exceptional entrepreneurs build the next generation of great companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026n/a45 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“IndieBio is now known as SOSV NY and SOSV SF.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5043 contacts →

Strong evidence

“5AM was founded in 2002 and pursues investments in advanced life science innovations, and seeks to be diversified across the biopharmaceutical therapeutics, and platform…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5035 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Martis Capital is a middle-market private equity fund focused exclusively on the North American healthcare industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5025 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Column Group (TCG) is a science-driven venture capital firm that makes significant financial and operational commitments to build early stage drug discovery companies based on…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1024 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Investing in companies that, through science and technology, cultivate joy to improve the way we live.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5023 contacts →

Partial evidence

“PFM Health Sciences is a San Francisco-based Healthcare investment manager.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202651-20021 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Paul Capital was formed in 1991 as a pioneer in the private equity secondary market, providing creative liquidity for limited partnerships and portfolios of direct investments.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1018 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Illumina Ventures is an independently managed firm focused on early-stage companies that are pioneering new applications of genomics and enabling precision medicine.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“AN Venture Partners is a venture capital fund investing in biotech.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Health Velocity Capital invests in growth-stage healthcare software and services companies.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“JAZZ invests in companies that unlock human potential.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5014 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Headquartered in Silicon Valley, H7 BioCapital is a venture capital firm dedicated to life science investment and Licensing & Strategic Partnership in the pharmaceutical industry.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Tribeca Companies builds, acquires, and scales ventures in regulated industries including healthcare, life sciences, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital therapeutics.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1012 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Alix Ventures: Driving Patient Impact - Supporting early stage Life Science startups engineering biology to drive radical advances in human health Born from our collective…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18Partial evidenceSan Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1010 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Biotech, tech-bio, deep tech, hard tech, chem tech… whatever you call this frontier of science and technology, we've been here for over a decade.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-1010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“McKesson Ventures helps innovators build and scale businesses that support an easier to navigate, more effective and efficient health care delivery system for key stakeholders on…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 202611-5010 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Telegraph Hill Partners is a venture capital and growth equity firm dedicated to helping life science, medical device and healthcare companies achieve their growth objectives.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Axial partners with great founders and inventors.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“We invest in remarkable entrepreneurs working at the intersection of healthcare and technology.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“BABEL Ventures is leading the charge in early-stage consumer biotech investments.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Bison Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage frontier technology companies focused on creating healthier people and a healthier planet.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 20261-106 contacts →

Strong evidence

“INITIATE funds and co-creates transformational companies - We focus on bold ideas at the intersection of healthcare, life sciences and technology - We are entrepreneurs and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

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Life sciences private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026
35.0%Verified-email coverage
13.3Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
51
11-50
17
51-200
3
501-1,000
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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 72 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 life sciences private equity 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 “life sciences private equity 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 life sciences private equity 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 life sciences private equity 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, 336 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.

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 life sciences private equity 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 life sciences private equity firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 72 life sciences private equity 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?

Gryphon Investors, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most life sciences private equity firms?

New York leads the United States with 197 headquartered companies, followed by Boston (101) and San Francisco (72).

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 336 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 72 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.