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Top 25 Management buyout firms based in Houston, United States

Name: Management buyout firms based in Houston, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 141 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 141 management buyout firms headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,321 professional contacts across them, including 666 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers management buyout firms headquartered in Houston, 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 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 20, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest management buyout firms based in Houston, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 141 management buyout firms based in Houston, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to management buyout 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	Lime Rock Resources	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	144 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Formed in 2005, Lime Rock Resources acquires, operates, and improves lower-risk oil and gas properties in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	Main Street Capital Corporation	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	131 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Main Street Capital (NYSE: MAIN) is a leading provider of long-term, flexible capital solutions to established lower middle market companies, supporting American businesses that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	The Sterling Group	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	120 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1982, The Sterling Group, is a private equity investment firm that targets controlling interests in basic manufacturing, industrial services and distribution companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	Stellus Capital Management, LLC	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	109 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Stellus Capital Management is a leading private credit manager focused on the North American lower middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	SCF Partners	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1989, SCF Partners (“SCF”) provides equity capital and strategic growth assistance to build leading energy service and equipment companies that operate throughout the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	EIV Capital, LLC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2009, EIV Capital is a Houston-based private equity firm specializing in providing growth equity to the North American energy industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	Trek ONE Capital	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	n/a	40 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Trek One Capital is a family office backed private investment firm focused on lower and middle market acquisitions and strategic investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	The Capstreet Group	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 1990, Capstreet invests in lower middle market business services companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	Platform Partners LLC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2006, Platform Partners LLC is a Houston-based private investment firm that partners with founders and executives of companies with enterprise values typically between…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Interra Capital Group	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Interra Capital is a boutique private equity and financial advisory firm headquartered in Houston, Texas with a primary focus on commercial real estate investments and secondary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	21 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC is based in Houston and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	JDH Capital Company	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “JDH Capital is a private investment firm based in Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Broadvail Capital Partners	Partial evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Partial evidence “BroadVail Capital Partners is a private equity firm that partners with best-in-class management teams to build institutional real estate investment platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	Lilium Group LLC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Lilium Group LLC (“Lilium”) is a Houston-based private equity fund manager focused on middle market investments in the transportation and industrials sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Genesis Park	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in Genesis Park uses operational expertise, discipline and patience to build value for portfolio companies and investors, regardless of prevailing market conditions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Post OAK Energy Capital	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Post Oak Energy Capital is a Houston-based private equity firm primarily focused on making domestic investments in the upstream, midstream and oilfield services sectors of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Amberjack Capital Partners	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We empower companies to unearth their potential, build lasting value and break apart from the crowd.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Dauntless Capital Partners	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Dauntless Capital Partners invests in businesses across select industries where strategic capital and operational excellence can drive exceptional growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Tulcan	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2005, Tulcan is a Houston-based family operating investment partnership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Jumana Capital	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Jumana is a private investment firm specializing in partnerships with entrepreneur lead companies that are looking to transform into enduring businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Thesis Capital Partners	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	11 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Thesis Capital is an investment partnership that enables visionary entrepreneurs, operators, and family-owned businesses to become industry leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Bluestem Equity, LLC	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	10 contacts →
	Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	Bayou City Energy	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	9 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bayou City Energy (BCE) is a private equity firm founded in 2015 to focus on making investments in the North American upstream oil and gas sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	LDR Partners LP	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “LDR Partners LP ("LDR") is a Houston-based private equity firm focused on control investments in lower middle-market industrial manufacturing businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	Cibolo Energy Partners	Indirect evidence	Houston, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Cibolo Energy Partners is a Houston, TX-based firm focused on investment opportunities in "lower, middle-market" oil and gas companies in North America.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: management buyout 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 management buyout firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of management buyout firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name management buyout 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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Management buyout firms based in Houston, United States at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

50.4%Verified-email coverage

9.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

456.7%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 20, 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 Houston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Houston, over 141 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 management buyout 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 Houston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “management buyout 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 management buyout 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 management buyout firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Houston 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, 666 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.

Management buyout firms by metro in the United States

Management buyout firms in New York644
Management buyout firms in Chicago247
Management buyout firms in Dallas203
Management buyout firms in Los Angeles154
Management buyout firms in Houston141
Management buyout firms in Austin134
Management buyout firms in Boston132
Management buyout firms in San Francisco117
Management buyout firms in Miami111
Management buyout firms in Atlanta93
Management buyout firms in Denver74
Management buyout firms in Charlotte58
Management buyout firms in Greenwich42
Management buyout firms in Nashville40
Management buyout firms in San Diego39
Management buyout firms in Tampa39
Management buyout firms in Washington38
Management buyout firms in Philadelphia36
Management buyout firms in Cleveland34
Management buyout firms in Newport Beach34
Management buyout firms in Birmingham33
Management buyout firms in Minneapolis32
Management buyout firms in Salt Lake City30
Management buyout firms in Beverly Hills27
Management buyout firms in Boca Raton26
Management buyout firms in Scottsdale25
Management buyout firms in Seattle25

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 management buyout 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 management buyout firms are there based in Houston, United States?

RevenueBase identified 141 management buyout firms headquartered in Houston, 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?

Lime Rock Resources, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most management buyout firms?

New York leads with 644 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (247) and Dallas (203).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

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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.

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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.