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Top 25 Platform acquisition companies based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Platform acquisition companies based in San Francisco, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 5, 2026 149 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 149 platform acquisition companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,847 professional contacts across them, including 1,554 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers platform acquisition companies 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, how directly it supports the match, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 5, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase SmartSearch, 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 Match evidence on every row Refreshed Sep 5, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest platform acquisition companies based in San Francisco, United States

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Top 25 of 149 platform acquisition companies based in San Francisco, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 5, 2026. Evidence rates how directly each company's own description names platform acquisition companies: 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.
#	Company	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Alpine InvestorsIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	278
	“Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that invests in software and services businesses.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
2	Hellman & FriedmanIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	220
	“Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the most experienced private equity investment firms operating today.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
3	Gryphon InvestorsIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	211
	“Gryphon Investors is a leading middle-market private investment firm focused on building and growing profitable, market-leading companies in the Business Services, Consumer…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
4	FTV CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	135
	“FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
5	Golden Gate CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	126
	“Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with approximately $20 billion in cumulative committed capital.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
6	FFL PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	118
	“FFL Partners is a leading middle-market private equity firm that has been investing in high-quality companies since 1997.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
7	Turn River CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	106
	“Turn/River Capital is a private equity firm that applies a proprietary growth engineering strategy to investing, partnering with software businesses to accelerate growth and build…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
8	Percheron CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	96
	“Percheron Capital is the largest private equity firm focused on essential services – the businesses that keep America running.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
9	JH PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	96
	“JH Partners, LLC ("JH Partners" or "JHP") is a San Francisco-based private equity firm focused on building sustainable, long-term equity value in consumer and marketing-driven…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
10	Vector Capital ManagementIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	89
	“Vector Capital is a leading, San Francisco-based global private equity and credit investment firm focused on transformative investments in technology and technology-enabled…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
11	Dragoneer Investment GroupIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	85
	“Dragoneer is a growth-oriented investment firm with over $35 billion in assets under management.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
12	Genstar CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	84
	“Genstar Capital is a leading middle-market private equity firm, investing in high quality companies for over 30 years.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
13	VMG PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	61
	“VMG is a leading investment firm that backs branded consumer product, service, and technology companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
14	Meritage Group LPIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	47
	“Meritage Group LP is a fundamentally oriented investment firm backed by evergreen, flexible capital.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
15	Banneker PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	44
	“Founded in 2016, Banneker is dedicated to empowering management teams on their journey to build exceptional software companies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
16	ArchitectIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	44
	“Architect Capital is a San Francisco-based multi-strategy investment firm specialized in building novel financial infrastructure.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
17	Martis CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	35
	“Martis Capital is a middle-market private equity fund focused exclusively on the North American healthcare industry.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
18	Main Post PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	33
	“Main Post Partners is a private equity investment firm focused on investing $50 – $250+ million in high-growth companies across the consumer value chain.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
19	Calera CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	33
	“Founded in 1991, Calera Capital has invested over $5 billion of equity capital in the middle market, predominantly in founder, family, and management-owned businesses across a…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
20	True WindIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	32
	“True Wind is an investment firm that helps technology businesses transform industries.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
21	Industrial Growth PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	30
	“IGP is a San Francisco-based specialist private investment partnership focused exclusively on acquiring middle-market industrial businesses.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
22	BAY GroveIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	29
	“Bay Grove was formed in late 2007 by Kevin Marchetti and Adam Forste and joined in 2011 by Dave Brandes.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
23	Knox LaneIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	28
	“Knox Lane is a San Francisco-based middle-market investment firm, comprised of investors and operators from blue-chip backgrounds that have a long history of working together…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
24	Swander Pace CapitalIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	28
	“Swander Pace Capital (“SPC”) is a private equity firm focused on investing in family- and founder-owned consumer staples businesses.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
25	Housatonic PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	28
	“Housatonic Partners is a private equity firm investing in high growth, recurring revenue service companies operating in a number of industries including healthcare, software, and…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026

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Platform acquisition companies based in San Francisco, 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 San Francisco, over 149 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 platform acquisition companies, 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “platform acquisition companies”. 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 platform acquisition companies, 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 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, 1,554 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 5, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
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Platform acquisition companies by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

How many platform acquisition companies are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 149 platform acquisition companies 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?

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

Which city has the most platform acquisition companies?

New York leads with 883 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (297) and Dallas (288).

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 1,554 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 149 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 5, 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.