Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Lower middle market equity firms based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 669 lower middle market equity firms headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 7,971 professional contacts across them, including 4,275 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers lower middle market equity firms headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 20, 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 lower middle market equity firms based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 553 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bridgepoint Group is one of the world's leading mid-market investors, specialising in private equity, infrastructure, credit, secondaries and private wealth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 536 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over 40 years, LDC has been the trusted investment partner for ambitious management teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 337 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “3i is a leading international investment company with two complementary businesses, Private Equity and Infrastructure, specialising in core investment markets in northern Europe…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EPIC Investment Partners is an independent investment, administration and advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BGF is the most active and influential investor in small and mid-sized businesses in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Investindustrial is a leading European investment firm, founded in 1990, with €17 billion of raised fund capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Inflexion is a leading European mid-market private equity firm with €20bn under management investing in high growth, entrepreneurial businesses with ambitious management teams and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vitruvian Partners is an international investment firm that supports the most ambitious and talented entrepreneurs and higher growth companies to achieve their goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TH Global Capital is an award-winning global investment banking firm specializing in sector-focused investment banking and growth advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maven Capital Partners is a leading private equity and alternative asset manager.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EMK Capital is a growth-focused private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Livingbridge is a leading mid-market private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bregal is a global investment platform that partners with and builds exceptional private markets teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MML is an international mid-market private equity investor focused on investing alongside strong management teams and working in partnership with them to deliver their bold…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “YFM Equity Partners are specialist, independently owned, private equity investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Tenzing, we're not just investors; we're partners on a mission.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ECI is a leading private equity investor, focussed on offering collaborative support to management teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We see private equity as a force for good.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2013, Perwyn is an investor in the UK and Europe specialising in buyout and growth capital investments, with c.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2011, Metric Capital Partners is a leading European private capital investor headquartered in London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SEP is a specialist growth equity firm investing in enterprise technology companies across the UK and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alchemy Partners, together with Alchemy Special Opportunities LLP, specialises in investing in distressed and undervalued or underperforming businesses and other special…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We invest in rapidly growing European internet, mobile and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Historically operating across Benelux, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, Equistone aligns as a strategic partner alongside management teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: lower middle market equity 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 lower middle market equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of lower middle market equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name lower middle market equity 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.
Showing 25 of 669 lower middle market equity firms based in the United Kingdom
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 4,275 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Lower middle market equity firms based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 669 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 lower middle market 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “lower middle market 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 lower middle market 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 lower middle market equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 4,275 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 20, 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.
Lower middle market equity firms by metro
- Lower middle market equity firms in London448
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 lower middle market 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 lower middle market equity firms are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 669 lower middle market equity firms headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
Bridgepoint Group, headquartered in West End, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most lower middle market equity firms?
London leads with 448 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (19) and Birmingham (10).
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 4,275 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 669 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 20, 2026.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 669 lower middle market equity firms based in the United Kingdom. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Lower middle market equity firms by geography
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Calgary, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Montreal, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Toronto, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Vancouver, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Berlin, Germany
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Hamburg, Germany
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Munich, Germany
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Atlanta, United States
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Austin, United States
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Birmingham, United States
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Boston, United States
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Charlotte, United States
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.
More company lists
- All company lists
- Lists by location
- Lists A-Z
- New lists
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Calgary, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Montreal, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Toronto, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Vancouver, Canada
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Berlin, Germany
- Lower middle market equity firms based in Hamburg, Germany