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Top 25 Private equity research providers based in the United Kingdom

Name: Private equity research providers based in the United Kingdom
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 5, 2026 148 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 148 private equity research providers headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,856 professional contacts across them, including 4,219 with verified work emails and 829 with mobile numbers. London is the largest hub.

This list covers private equity research providers headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 5, 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 5, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

148Companies

10,856Contacts tracked

4,219Verified emails

829Mobile numbers

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The 25 largest private equity research providers based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 148 private equity research providers based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 5, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to private equity research providers: 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	Acuity Knowledge Partners	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	5,001-10,000	5,009 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Acuity Knowledge Partners (Acuity) is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and technology solutions to the financial services sector, including asset managers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
2	PEI	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	501-1,000	913 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “PEI gives you the decisive edge – verified data, award-winning expertise and privileged access to the people that matter, all in one place.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
3	With Intelligence	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	501-1,000	673 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With Intelligence is part of S&P Global, delivering end-to-end coverage across the alternatives marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
4	Preqin	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	1,001-5,000	464 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Preqin empowers financial professionals who invest in or allocate to private markets with essential data and insight to make confident decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
5	Coller Capital	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	201-500	376 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Coller Capital, founded in 1990, is one of the world's leading investors in the secondary market for private assets – and widely acknowledged as an innovator in secondaries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
6	Silverlight Research Expert Network	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	129 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Silverlight Research is a Global Expert Network connecting Top Professionals with Senior Industry Experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
7	Peptalks	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	54 contacts →
	Strong evidence “PepTalks is the leading training provider and membership community for private equity backed CEOs, CFOs and management teams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
8	Actum Group	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	40 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We deliver complete and actionable insights for your value creation agenda.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
9	Plimsoll Publishing Limited	Indirect evidence	Stockton On Tees, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are experts in the field of company and industry financial analysis.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
10	Phoenix Equity Partners	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We focus on supporting founder-entrepreneurs, their teams, and their cultures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
11	Dealsplus	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Strong evidence “For too long, private equity funds have relied on spreadsheets, scattered documents, and disjointed data to track complex investment and ownership structures.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
12	Globaldata TS Lombard	Indirect evidence	City Of London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	34 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “TS Lombard is now part of GlobalData PLC for more information please read INFORM YOUR STRATEGY TS Lombard can help inform and shape your firm’s investment strategy through our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
13	CBPE	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Strong evidence “We are a private equity firm that puts strong relationships with management at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
14	Alphaskill	Strong evidence	West End, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	32 contacts →
	Strong evidence “AlphaSkill is a specialized Private Equity Advisory & Executive Search Firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
15	Filament Syfter	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The data backbone for Private Markets, enabling PE firms to integrate, interrogate and enrich their proprietary market intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
16	Skill Capital	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Skill Capital works with world-class executives and large-cap private equity investors including buyout, pension funds and sovereign wealth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
17	Hardman & CO	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hardman & Co has a long established reputation for high quality and independent research on small and mid cap quoted companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
18	Colmore	Strong evidence	Birmingham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Private equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
19	Global Fund Media LTD	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Launched in 2002, the Hedgeweek® & Private Equity Wire® publications provide news and insights into the Hedge Fund and Private Equity markets worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
20	Substantive Research LTD	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At Substantive Research we provide transparency and analytics in investment research and market data to unlock value and drive outperformance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
21	Clark Group	Strong evidence	Poole, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	51-200	17 contacts →
	Strong evidence “The Clark Group is a private equity firm led by entrepreneur and investor, Steven J Clark.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
22	Equity Development	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Equity Development is a leading provider of independent equity research in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
23	Quest Fund Placement Limited	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Quest Fund Placement focuses on mid market private equity and private debt fund placement for fund managers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
24	Progressive	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Equity Research \| Investor Engagement \| Advisory Services Analyst founded and analyst led, we provide bespoke research, investor engagement and advisory services to quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 2026
25	Equitywatch EQW LTD	Strong evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 5, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Strong evidence “EquityWatch is an independently-owned research boutique, providing share-ownership analysis throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 5, 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: private equity research providers. 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 research providers.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of private equity research providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name private equity research providers. 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 research providers based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 5, 2026

38.9%Verified-email coverage

7.6%Mobile-number coverage

73.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

73.6%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 5, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

Email last verified

3,4450–30

70431–60

361–90

090–180

67180+

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 research providers, 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “private equity research providers”. 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 research providers), 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 research providers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 4,219 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 research providers by metro

Private equity research providers in London109

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 research providers, 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 research providers are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 148 private equity research providers headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?

Acuity Knowledge Partners, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most private equity research providers?

London leads with 109 headquartered companies, followed by Birmingham (5) and City Of London (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 4,219 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 148 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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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.