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Top 25 Private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 5, 2026 121 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 121 private equity firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,299 professional contacts across them, including 1,307 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers private equity 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, 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

121Companies

2,299Contacts tracked

1,307Verified emails

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The 25 largest private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 121 private equity firms 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 private equity firms: 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	Hellman & FriedmanStrong 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
2	Gryphon InvestorsPartial 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
3	FTV CapitalPartial 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
4	Golden Gate CapitalStrong 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
5	Turn River CapitalStrong 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
6	JH PartnersStrong 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
7	Vector Capital ManagementStrong 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
8	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
9	Genstar CapitalStrong 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
10	TOP Tier Capital PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	61
	“Top Tier Capital Partners is a venture capital specialist managing niche-focused funds of funds, secondaries and co-investment strategies.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
11	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
12	Northgate CapitalStrong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	49
	“Northgate Capital, founded in manages $5bn in venture capital and private equity.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
13	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
14	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
15	Main Post PartnersStrong 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
16	Calera CapitalPartial 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
17	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
18	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
19	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
20	Housatonic PartnersStrong 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
21	Carrick Capital PartnersIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	25
	“Carrick Capital Partners is the first stop for entrepreneurs and business owners who are seeking unmatched expertise to help their businesses scale.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
22	Think InvestmentsIndirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	21
	“Think Investments (“Think”) is an investment firm founded in 2013 by Shashin Shah and headquartered in San Francisco.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
23	Valeas Capital PartnersStrong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	18
	“Valeas Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based growth-buyout private equity firm focused on partnering with founders and CEOs.” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
24	Castle Crow & CompanyStrong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	16
	“Castle Crow is a merchant banking group specializing in buyside private equity investments and now has affiliated deal team professionals in five North American locations…” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026
25	Luminate CapitalStrong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	15
	“Private equity firm focused on making control investments in application software” Source: company website · checked Sep 5, 2026

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Private equity firms 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 121 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 private equity firms, 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 “private equity firms”. 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 private equity 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 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, 1,307 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.
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.

Private equity firms by metro in the United States

Private equity firms in New York644
Private equity firms in Chicago222
Private equity firms in Dallas173
Private equity firms in Los Angeles161
Private equity firms in Boston128
Private equity firms in San Francisco121
Private equity firms in Houston118
Private equity firms in Austin114
Private equity firms in Miami100
Private equity firms in Atlanta83
Private equity firms in Denver66
Private equity firms in Charlotte52
Private equity firms in Greenwich45
Private equity firms in San Diego37
Private equity firms in Washington36
Private equity firms in Tampa34
Private equity firms in Cleveland32
Private equity firms in Minneapolis32
Private equity firms in Nashville32
Private equity firms in Birmingham31
Private equity firms in Newport Beach28
Private equity firms in Seattle28
Private equity firms in Philadelphia27
Private equity firms in Salt Lake City25

Frequently asked

How many private equity firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 121 private equity 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?

Hellman & Friedman, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most private equity firms?

New York leads with 644 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (222) and Dallas (173).

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 1,307 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 121 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.