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Top 21 Lower middle market private equity firms based in Santa Monica, United States

RevenueBase identified 32 lower middle market private equity firms headquartered in Santa Monica, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 624 professional contacts across them, including 242 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers lower middle market private equity firms headquartered in Santa Monica, 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, how directly it supports the match, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 4, 2026.

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The 21 largest lower middle market private equity firms based in Santa Monica, United States

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Top 21 of 32 lower middle market private equity firms based in Santa Monica, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 4, 2026. Evidence rates how directly each company's own description names lower middle market private equity firms: strong (names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on its full profile rather than the summary shown). Click a count to unlock that company's people.
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Clearlake Capital GroupIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202651-200266

“Clearlake Capital is a leading global alternative asset manager founded in 2006 with over $185 billion of assets under management.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
2
Anthos CapitalIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 2026n/a174

“Anthos, founded in 2007, invests in emerging consumer and technology companies that drive innovation and shape the future.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
3Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202611-5040

“Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP) is a leading private equity firm, partnering with founders and management teams to build market leaders in healthcare.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
4Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202651-20017

“Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC (“TCP”) is a leading alternative investment management firm founded in (its predecessor entity commenced operations in 1996) with a proven track…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
5Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-1015

“Founded in 2018, Emerald Lake Capital Management is a middle market private equity firm.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
6
Handson Global ManagementIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202611-5013

“HGM manages several global buyout funds and has investments in business process services, big data mining, natural resources and waste to energy sectors.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
7
GGP FundsIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202611-5012

“GGP Funds is an alternative investment firm seeking to deploy capital opportunistically across emerging and disruptive industries and asset classes.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
8
Bison CapitalStrong evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202611-5011

“Bison Capital invests in leading middle-market businesses that have significant opportunities for value creation and strong, entrepreneurial management teams, which are able to…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
9Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202611-5011

“Ocean Avenue Capital Partners is a lower-middle market private equity firm, based in Santa Monica, CA with over $1.9b of assets under management.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
10
Fusion Capital PartnersStrong evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-107

“Founded by a group of six investment professionals that average a decade of working together, Fusion Capital Partners is a Los Angeles based private equity firm pursuing…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
11
West Edge PartnersStrong evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-105

“West Edge Partners is a private equity firm focused on investing in business and consumer services, distribution and light manufacturing businesses in the lower middle market.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
12
Cobalt CapitalIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-105

“Multi-stage investment firm helping build the next generation of consumer, technology, content and lifestyle businesses.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
13
TAU Capital GroupPartial evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-105

“Tau Capital Group is a global investment firm that is focused on acquiring corporate divestitures and privately held companies at inflection points in their lifecycle”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
14
Carbon CapitalIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-105

“We believe the best companies take a lifetime to build, so we invest on the same horizon.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
15
Fluential Partners LLCStrong evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-104

“Fluential Partners is a boutique investment bank advising middle-market companies on sell-side M&A, debt refinancing, and growth equity financing.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
16
Olympia PartnersIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-104

“At Olympia Partners, we’re driven by a simple goal: to acquire and thoughtfully manage a single great business.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
17
Grade Water & Power LLCIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 202611-502

“We seek to invest with strong operating partners, seasoned executives, and high-quality financial investors to structure transactions and manage long-lived assets.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
18
Nobel InvestmentsIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-102

“Nobel Investments is inspired by Alfred Nobel’s philosophy of continuous innovation, quality work, positive impact and mindset toward building lasting businesses.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
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C9 Partners, LLCPartial evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-102

“C9 Partners, LLC is a private investment firm focused on making investments in US-based businesses at intersection of financial services, specialty finance, and healthcare…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
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Tylt VenturesIndirect evidence
Santa Monica, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-101

“TYLT Ventures looks to enable capable operators in their journeys for continued growth through venture investing or debt lending.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026
21Santa Monica, United StatesHQ checked Sep 4, 20261-101

“Investor in Financial Services”

Source: company website · checked Sep 4, 2026

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Lower middle market private equity firms based in Santa Monica, United States at a glance

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Santa Monica, over 32 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 private equity firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and evidence 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 SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in Santa Monica, United States whose own description of what they do matches “lower middle market private equity firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among lower middle market private equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Santa Monica 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 an evidence 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, 242 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 4, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
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Lower middle market private equity firms by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

How many lower middle market private equity firms are there based in Santa Monica, United States?

RevenueBase identified 32 lower middle market private equity firms headquartered in Santa Monica, 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?

Clearlake Capital Group, headquartered in Santa Monica, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most lower middle market private equity firms?

New York leads with 933 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (321) and Dallas (286).

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 242 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 32 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 4, 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 SmartSearch, 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.