Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Pe companies based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 53 pe companies headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 436 professional contacts across them, including 182 with verified work emails. Milan is the largest hub.
This list covers pe companies headquartered in Italy, 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 21, 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 pe companies based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FSI is the largest country-focused Private Equity fund manager in Europe with approximately €3 bn AuM.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Directed to Growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aksìa Group is an Italian private equity player, specialized in SMEs, that actively manages and develops the companies it acquires, providing them with finance, strategy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Charme Capital Partners is a European mid-market private equity fund, supporting management teams and shareholders to achieve transformational change, growth and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Riello Investimenti SGR è una società indipendente di gestione del risparmio attiva da oltre 20 anni nel settore degli Investimenti Alternativi, nella gestione di fondi di private…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HAT SGR is the leading Italian private equity firm, based in Milan and London, specializing in the technology and innovation sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mutares Italy è stata fondata nel 2017 e fa capo alla società di investimento Mutares SE & Co KGaA quotata alla borsa di Francoforte.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alkemia Capital is an independent asset management firm dedicated to identifying and nurturing value through strategic investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2005, Progressio SGR is an independent Private Equity firm dedicated to fueling the growth of Italian SMEs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alto Partners, founded by Stefano Scarpis and Raffaele de Courten, is an independent GP based in Milano, controlled by the management team.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ibla Capital is an independent investment company, targeting Private Equity investments in small and medium-sized businesses headquartered in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First Capital S.p.A.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mittel è una investment holding con una storia che affonda le radici nel 1885.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Augens Capital is a private equity investment firm founded in 2014 by experienced professionals with significant backgrounds in leading global financial institutions (Vestar…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VERTEQ Capital is a Milan-based private equity holding company investing its own capital alongside professional and institutional co-investors, focusing on expansion and buy-out…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Assietta Private Equity SGR is an independent management company whose mission is to raise and manage closed-end Private Equity funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Milano Capital combines Principal Investing and Strategic Advisory and operates alongside leading Italian and international Private Equity investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITACA Equity è un progetto che nasce da TIP - Tamburi Investment Partners S.p.A.(“TIP”–MI) e da Sergio Iasi, Angelo Catapano e Massimo Lucchini, tre partner di elevato profilo che…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovest, fondata nel 1993, è una holding di partecipazioni specializzata in operazioni di private equity e distressed equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Innovazione costante e passione che uniscono capitali e sviluppo costruttivo di impresa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Siamo un gruppo di imprenditori e investitori privati e cerchiamo una singola azienda di piccole-medie dimensioni da acquisire e gestire attivamente con un’ottica di lungo termine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aegida Investments is the management company of Aegida Club Deal, a group of high net worth private investors who wants to share their mutual experiences, networks and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eagle Capital Ventures è una società di investimenti e di servizi con l’obiettivo di sostenere le imprese nella loro fase di crescita e di sviluppo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “New Wave Capital is a private investment company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: pe companies. 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 pe companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of pe companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name pe companies. 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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Pe companies based in Italy at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 53 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 pe companies, 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 Italy whose own description of what they do matches “pe companies”. 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 pe companies), 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 pe companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Italy 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, 182 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 21, 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 pe companies, 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 pe companies are there based in Italy?
RevenueBase identified 53 pe companies headquartered in Italy 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?
FSI, headquartered in Milano, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most pe companies?
Milan leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Milano (14) and Roma (3).
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 182 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 53 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 21, 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.