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Top 25 Private equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 80 private equity recruiting firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 904 professional contacts across them, including 391 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (489 companies); San Francisco has 80.
This list covers private equity recruiting 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 14, 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 private equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 273 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Riviera Partners is a global executive recruiting firm specializing in Technology, Engineering, Product and Design leadership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Do you need to hire exceptional talent?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Today's economic climate requires talented professionals to drive and support critical business decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat VC-backed entrepreneur who's personally done the founder journey twice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Innovations is a leading West Coast Recruiting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Valeas Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based growth-buyout private equity firm focused on partnering with founders and CEOs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Buyside recruiting expertise from Associate through Partner level” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “L Capital partners with top-tier private equity firms and provides executive-led diligence and advisory services across the entire deal lifecycle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hunter SF brings over three decades of combined experience to recruiting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nosal Partners is now NGS Global.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1969 Pathways Personnel uses its strong nation wide network of legal and corporate professionals built from our stable and continuous presence in the employment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GROUPE INSEARCH, INC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Loring Group is a retained executive search firm led by former industry executives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We turn the world upside down to find exceptional talent for Venture Capital and Growth Equity funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bold new companies are developing innovative business models, creating cultures and building brands that change the way we live, eat, play and work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Transforming Leadership, Empowering Growth Guild Talent is a boutique executive search firm specializing in leadership hiring for venture and private equity-backed startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eighty6 Group represents a new approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blueprint Search Partners is a human capital resources firm dedicated to finding the best global talent to meet the unique needs of our clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Boutique executive search firm that connects organizations and investors with the brightest leaders in private equity, technology and education (EdTech, Higher Education…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The new workforce is anything but traditional… so why use the traditional search firm?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based in San Francisco and founded in 2001, Denning & Company is a leading boutique private equity advisory firm which provides consulting and fund raising services to both…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Specialized Sales & Marketing Recruiting Solutions & Executive Search.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Brennan Group is a high-caliber recruiting firm focused on high-growth enterprise software (SaaS) and technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 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: private equity recruiting 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 private equity recruiting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity recruiting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity recruiting 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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Private equity recruiting firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 14, 2026Companies by employee count
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 80 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 recruiting 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 “private equity recruiting 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 private equity recruiting 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 private equity recruiting 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, 391 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 14, 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 recruiting firms by metro in the United States
- Private equity recruiting firms in New York489
- Private equity recruiting firms in Chicago158
- Private equity recruiting firms in Atlanta124
- Private equity recruiting firms in Los Angeles120
- Private equity recruiting firms in Dallas117
- Private equity recruiting firms in Houston92
- Private equity recruiting firms in Boston77
- Private equity recruiting firms in Miami68
- Private equity recruiting firms in Austin64
- Private equity recruiting firms in Charlotte58
- Private equity recruiting firms in Denver54
- Private equity recruiting firms in San Diego41
- Private equity recruiting firms in Phoenix35
- Private equity recruiting firms in Tampa34
- Private equity recruiting firms in Nashville31
- Private equity recruiting firms in Pittsburgh31
- Private equity recruiting firms in Washington29
- Private equity recruiting firms in Minneapolis28
- Private equity recruiting firms in Orlando28
- Private equity recruiting firms in Raleigh28
- Private equity recruiting firms in Scottsdale28
- Private equity recruiting firms in Cleveland27
- Private equity recruiting firms in Irvine27
- Private equity recruiting firms in Philadelphia26
- Private equity recruiting firms in Seattle25
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 private equity recruiting 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 private equity recruiting firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 80 private equity recruiting 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?
Riviera Partners, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most private equity recruiting firms?
New York leads the United States with 489 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (158) and Atlanta (124). San Francisco has 80.
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 391 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 80 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 14, 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.
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