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Top 25 Private equity search funds based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 163 private equity search funds headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,827 professional contacts across them, including 702 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (485 companies); San Francisco has 163.
This list covers private equity search funds 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 29, 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 search funds based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WI Harper Group is a pioneering venture capital firm with over three decades of experience investing in transformative companies that shape the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VMG is a leading investment firm that backs branded consumer product, service, and technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For half a century, ATEL Capital Group has financed the companies transforming our economy-deploying capital to more than businesses globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Village Global, early-stage capital is just the beginning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Northgate Capital, founded in manages $5bn in venture capital and private equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pinegrove is a venture investment platform designed to deliver tailored solutions for fund managers, founders, and limited partners in the venture capital ecosystem.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2016, Banneker is dedicated to empowering management teams on their journey to build exceptional software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Emergence Capital invests in people who change the way the world works.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are Spark Capital, investors in products we love by creators we admire, including Affirm, Anthropic, Carta, Cruise, Discord, Oculus, Plaid, Postmates, Slack, Twitter, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “True Wind is an investment firm that helps technology businesses transform industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Marque Ventures, we invest in entrepreneurs building the future of American defense, manufacturing, and deep tech innovation by holistically supporting portfolio companies with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Think Investments (“Think”) is an investment firm founded in 2013 by Shashin Shah and headquartered in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founders Circle is a growth stage venture firm that “invests in people,'' wholly committed to those who are leading today's fastest growing companies and navigating the unique…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a thesis-driven, early growth investor for exceptional entrepreneurs building enterprise software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ponte Partners is an investment management firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, which collaborates with institutional and private investors, fund managers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lumia is an early-growth stage investment firm partnering with forward-thinking US and European technology innovators expanding internationally for breakout growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Spotlight Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in software and technology-enabled services companies headquartered in the United…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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 search funds. 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 search funds.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private equity search funds, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private equity search funds. 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 search funds based in San Francisco, United States at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 163 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 search funds, 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 search funds”. 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 search funds), 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 search funds, 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, 702 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 29, 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 search funds by metro in the United States
- Private equity search funds in New York485
- Private equity search funds in Chicago185
- Private equity search funds in Los Angeles146
- Private equity search funds in Dallas136
- Private equity search funds in Boston107
- Private equity search funds in Austin99
- Private equity search funds in Houston99
- Private equity search funds in Atlanta84
- Private equity search funds in Miami81
- Private equity search funds in Denver57
- Private equity search funds in Charlotte37
- Private equity search funds in Palo Alto37
- Private equity search funds in Menlo Park34
- Private equity search funds in San Diego34
- Private equity search funds in Washington30
- Private equity search funds in Birmingham28
- Private equity search funds in Minneapolis28
- Private equity search funds in Newport Beach28
- Private equity search funds in Philadelphia27
- Private equity search funds in Scottsdale27
- Private equity search funds in Seattle27
- Private equity search funds in Nashville25
- Private equity search funds in Salt Lake City25
- Private equity search funds in Tampa25
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 search funds, 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 search funds are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 163 private equity search funds 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?
Headline, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most private equity search funds?
New York leads the United States with 485 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (185) and San Francisco (163).
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 702 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 163 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 29, 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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