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Top 18 Private investment firms based in Houston, United States
RevenueBase identified 31 private investment firms headquartered in Houston, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 290 professional contacts across them, including 131 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers private investment firms headquartered in Houston, 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 18 largest private investment firms based in Houston, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1982, The Sterling Group, is a private equity investment firm that targets controlling interests in basic manufacturing, industrial services and distribution companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2006, Platform Partners LLC is a Houston-based private investment firm that partners with founders and executives of companies with enterprise values typically between…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Yellowstone Capital Partners, LLC is based in Houston and New York.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “JDH Capital is a private investment firm based in Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Genesis Park uses operational expertise, discipline and patience to build value for portfolio companies and investors, regardless of prevailing market conditions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A Houston-based Private Equity Firm providing access to opportunistic investments in Real Estate, Energy and other alternative asset classes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Small Ventures USA, LP (SMV) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded by William O.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Texas Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm with expertise in structured finance, capital markets and technology.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Albatross Capital Partners is a private investment firm with offices in both Orange County, CA and Houston, TX.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Woodward is an investment management firm focused on generating superior returns for our partners through the long-term ownership of high-quality enterprises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Colton Capital Partners, LLC is a family owned investment company based in Houston that invests in small and middle market private companies across a variety of industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2009, Brock Capital Group ("BCG") is a family office / private equity investment firm based in Houston, Texas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Crosstimbers Capital Group is a Houston-based principal investment firm, focused on providing growth equity to entrepreneur-owned companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Encore Capital is a startup private equity firm holding a diversified portfolio of real estate investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Quadrex Capital Partners is a private investment firm which manages a diversified portfolio of assets across various sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1995, AmeriFinancial is a private investment, venture capital and advisory firm that has specialized exclusively in early stage and emerging growth companies since…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Reppert Capital Partners, Llc is a company based out of Memorial Dr, Suite 510, Houston, Texas, United States.” 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 investment 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 investment firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of private investment firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name private investment 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 investment firms based in Houston, 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 Houston, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Houston, over 31 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 investment 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 Houston, United States whose own description of what they do matches “private investment 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 investment 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 investment firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Houston 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, 131 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 investment firms by metro in the United States
- Private investment firms in New York239
- Private investment firms in San Francisco62
- Private investment firms in Chicago61
- Private investment firms in Dallas49
- Private investment firms in Los Angeles48
- Private investment firms in Boston38
- Private investment firms in Miami33
- Private investment firms in Austin31
- Private investment firms in Houston31
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 investment 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 investment firms are there based in Houston, United States?
RevenueBase identified 31 private investment firms headquartered in Houston, 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?
The Sterling Group, headquartered in Houston, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most private investment firms?
New York leads with 239 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (62) and Chicago (61).
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 131 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 31 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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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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