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Top 25 Merger and acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Merger and acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026 71 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 71 merger and acquisition firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,188 professional contacts across them, including 405 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers merger and acquisition 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 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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1,188Contacts tracked

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The 25 largest merger and acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 71 merger and acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to merger and acquisition 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	GCA	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	501-1,000	454 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “GCA Advisors, LLC is the US business of GCA, a global investment bank that provides strategic M&A, capital markets and private funds advisory services to growth companies and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2	Qatalyst Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	116 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Qatalyst Partners is a global, independent investment bank that provides high impact strategic and financial advice to senior management and boards of established and emerging…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3	North Point Mergers And Acquisitions	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	97 contacts →
	Strong evidence “North Point is a leading independent investment bank focused on providing financial advice on mergers and acquisitions and raising institutional capital to meet the growth…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4	Comcap	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	61 contacts →
	Strong evidence “ComCap was founded in 2012 to provide financial and strategic advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, and financings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5	Atlas Technology Group LLC	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	52 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Atlas Technology Group is a technology-focused investment bank with particular expertise in providing sell-side M&A advisory services to global software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6	Newport LLC	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	51-200	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Newport is a national strategic advisory firm that helps founders, owners and CEOs of growth stage companies grow and improve the value of their businesses, often in support of a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7	Peak Technology Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	38 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Peak Technology Partners is an independent investment bank that provides strategic and financial advice to high-growth technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8	CDS	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CDS is now part of CrossCountry Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9	Growthpoint Technology Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Strong evidence “GrowthPoint Technology Partners is a global investment bank specializing in mergers & acquisitions and capital advisory for mid-market technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10	Nfluence Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	22 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Founded in 2011 and rebranded as Nfluence Partners in 2018, Nfluence Partners is a boutique Investment Bank focused on advising companies at the intersection of technology and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11	Teknos Associates	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Teknos Associates is a respected valuation and advisory services firm focused exclusively on technology related companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12	Ikona Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We serve as a most trusted advisor to founders, management, investors, and boards of global AI, SaaS, and TeS businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13	Enliven Advisory	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our team of strategic advisors provides the real-world expertise companies need to thrive in a competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14	Double Black Capital	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Double Black Capital (“DBC”) is a first-of-its-kind growth & strategic advisory.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15	Builder Advisor Group	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Builder Advisor Group provides mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and debt restructuring services to the residential real estate industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16	Inverness Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	11-50	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Inverness Advisors is a strategic advisor to middle-market and growth stage companies in the technology, media, healthcare and services sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17	Focus Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Focus Advisors is the collision industry’s leading M&A advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18	Palmares Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Palmares Advisors is a boutique technology investment banking firm comprised of former senior operating executives who bring operating experience and insight along with a buyer’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19	Avid Capital Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Avid Capital Advisors is a leading, worldwide investment bank that provides top-tier strategic and financial guidance to senior management and boards of established and growing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
20	Sierra Pacific Partners	Strong evidence	San Francisco, NV, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Sierra Pacific Partners is a boutique investment bank offering mergers and acquisitions and other advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
21	Intelligent Capital	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Intelligent Capital, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
22	Handmade Ventures	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “UPDATE in the era of COVD-19.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
23	Catapult Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Catapult Advisors is an investment bank and M&A advisory firm serving the software and internet sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
24	Aspect Consumer Partners	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Aspect Consumer Partners is a boutique M&A, strategic and corporate finance advisory firm focused on the consumer industry, including food & beverage, ingredients, wineries and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
25	CH Consulting Advisors	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 20, 2026	1-10	4 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Headquartered in San Francisco, CH Consulting Advisors brings deep analytics, extensive industry experience and a flexible approach to our clients.” 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: merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of merger and acquisition firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name merger and acquisition 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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Merger and acquisition firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026

34.1%Verified-email coverage

16.7Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

690.1%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

501-1,000

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 71 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 merger and acquisition 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 “merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition 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, 405 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.

Merger and acquisition firms by metro in the United States

Merger and acquisition firms in New York490
Merger and acquisition firms in Chicago161
Merger and acquisition firms in Los Angeles130
Merger and acquisition firms in Atlanta129
Merger and acquisition firms in Houston116
Merger and acquisition firms in Dallas103
Merger and acquisition firms in Boston79
Merger and acquisition firms in Miami78
Merger and acquisition firms in San Francisco71
Merger and acquisition firms in Denver67
Merger and acquisition firms in Austin60
Merger and acquisition firms in Charlotte56
Merger and acquisition firms in Washington46
Merger and acquisition firms in San Diego45
Merger and acquisition firms in Minneapolis41
Merger and acquisition firms in Tampa39
Merger and acquisition firms in Irvine34
Merger and acquisition firms in Phoenix34
Merger and acquisition firms in Scottsdale33
Merger and acquisition firms in Newport Beach32
Merger and acquisition firms in Raleigh28
Merger and acquisition firms in Philadelphia27
Merger and acquisition firms in Seattle27
Merger and acquisition firms in Boca Raton26
Merger and acquisition firms in Cleveland25
Merger and acquisition firms in New York City25

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 merger and acquisition 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 merger and acquisition firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 71 merger and acquisition 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?

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

Which city has the most merger and acquisition firms?

New York leads with 490 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (161) and Los Angeles (130).

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 405 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 71 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.

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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.