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Top 25 Manufacturing private equity firms based in London, United Kingdom

Name: Manufacturing private equity firms based in London, United Kingdom
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 147 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 147 manufacturing private equity firms headquartered in London, United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,313 professional contacts across them, including 989 with verified work emails. Across the United Kingdom, London is the largest hub for this category.

This list covers manufacturing private equity firms headquartered in London, 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 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

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The 25 largest manufacturing private equity firms based in London, United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 147 manufacturing private equity firms based in London, United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to manufacturing 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.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Privet Capital LLP	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	n/a	469 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We identify the hidden value in companies that are often in challenging or complex situations, but have a strong core offering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	Oakley Capital	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	250 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded over 20 years ago, Oakley Capital was established to be the partner of choice for exceptional founders and entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	Inflexion	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	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 28, 2026
4	Tigbourne Capital LTD	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	116 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Tigbourne Capital is a distinguished private equity firm founded in 2011, headquartered in the UK and boasting a robust footprint across the USA, Europe, and the Arabian Gulf.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Terra Firma	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	109 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Terra Firma drives value creation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Livingbridge	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	98 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Livingbridge is a leading mid-market private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	MML Capital Partners	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	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 28, 2026
8	Exponent	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	40 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Exponent is a leading European private equity firm based in London and Dublin focused on investing in established and high-quality founder, family and corporate-owned companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	Phoenix Equity Partners	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We focus on supporting founder-entrepreneurs, their teams, and their cultures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	JRJ Group	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Partial evidence “JRJ is a partner-led global private investment firm, founded in 2009.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	Freshstream	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Freshstream was launched in September 2015.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	CBPE	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are a private equity firm that puts strong relationships with management at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Klar Partners	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Strong evidence “KLAR Partners is an independent, mid-market private equity firm focused on the business services and industrial technology sectors, investing primarily in the Nordic, Benelux and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	Expedition Growth Capital	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	31 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Expedition is a software & AI specialist growth equity firm, with offices in London and Boston.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Bluegem Capital Partners	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Bluegem is a European specialist private equity firm investing in real-economy, non-discretionary consumer sectors through B2B and B2B2C entry points, primarily manufacturing and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	Skill Capital	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Skill Capital works with world-class executives and large-cap private equity investors including buyout, pension funds and sovereign wealth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	Rcapital	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Rcapital provides private investment, commercial expertise and hands-on support to transform and grow businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Volpi Capital	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Volpi Capital is a specialist private equity investor, founded in January 2016, investing in ambitious businesses that are rapidly growing by disrupting traditional B2B value…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Ansor LLP	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Ansor is an entrepreneurial private equity firm that develops market leading businesses through the acquisition and combination of profitable SMEs in fragmented, growing sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Upliift	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Upliift partners with founders of European B2B software companies with €1-25m in revenue considering a full or partial exit in a way that’s right for them and their business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	DA Vinci Capital	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	25 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Da Vinci Capital Management focuses on growth capital in the Technology sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	Twenty20 Capital	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	19 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “PEOPLE POWERED PERFORMANCE We believe in intuitive, ambitious and innovative leaders who have a vision for making good companies great!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Quantum Pacific	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “The Quantum Pacific Group is an international assemblage of growth-oriented businesses with interests across a broad range of industries and geographies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Agathos Management LLP	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Agathos is a London-based firm that invests in UK SMEs valued up to £25m in support of MBOs, growth capital and other funding requirements.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Horizon Capital	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	17 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We invest in growing technology and business services companies.” 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: manufacturing private 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 manufacturing private equity firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of manufacturing private equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name manufacturing private 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.

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Manufacturing private equity firms based in London, United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

42.8%Verified-email coverage

15.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

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Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United Kingdom list rather than for London, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for London, over 147 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 manufacturing 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 London, United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “manufacturing 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 manufacturing 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 manufacturing private equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside London 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, 989 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 manufacturing 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 manufacturing private equity firms are there based in London, United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 147 manufacturing private equity firms headquartered in London, 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?

Privet Capital LLP, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United Kingdom has the most manufacturing private equity firms?

London leads the United Kingdom with 147 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (5) and Birmingham (4).

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 989 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 147 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.