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Top 25 Private investment firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 62 private investment firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,137 professional contacts across them, including 1,181 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers private investment 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 investment firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 802 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sixth Street is a global investment firm with over $135 billion in assets under management and committed capital.* The firm uses its long-term flexible capital, data-enabled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with approximately $20 billion in cumulative committed capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “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: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dragoneer is a growth-oriented investment firm with over $35 billion in assets under management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Genstar Capital is a leading middle-market private equity firm, investing in high quality companies for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Industry Ventures has pioneered flexible capital solutions over the past 25+ years across the life cycle of venture – from seed- and early-stage investing to late-stage…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Top Tier Capital Partners is a venture capital specialist managing niche-focused funds of funds, secondaries and co-investment strategies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Northgate Capital, founded in manages $5bn in venture capital and private equity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Meritage Group LP is a fundamentally oriented investment firm backed by evergreen, flexible capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Think Investments (“Think”) is an investment firm founded in 2013 by Shashin Shah and headquartered in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sansome Partners is a San Francisco based investment firm with offices in Seattle and Boston that makes long-term, direct investments in high-quality businesses and assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Heron Finance provides individual investors, RIAs, and family offices with diversified private market investing portfolios.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MarketX Ventures helps investors gain access to high quality early to Pre-IPO companies globally via direct investments and thematic portfolios in a simple and efficient manner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Lavelle Capital is a private investment firm advising a select group of high-net-worth individuals and family offices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bloom Venture Partners specializes in secondaries, primaries, and co-investment opportunities in the private markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Get access to the kinds of investments typically available only to the ultra-wealthy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2015, L Capital is a specialty private equity firm that invests alongside the world’s leading buyout and growth equity funds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Venture Firm” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kilonova Capital ("KC") is a San Francisco based asset manager that invests in special situation financings and buyouts of proven, private technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 14, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “StreetEdge Capital, LP is an investment firm focusing on direct private equity and private equity fund investments.” 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 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 62 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 San Francisco, 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 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, 1,181 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 San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 62 private investment 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?
Sixth Street, headquartered in San Francisco, 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 1,181 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 62 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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