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Top 25 Research and advisory firms based in San Francisco, United States

Name: Research and advisory firms based in San Francisco, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 130 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 130 research and advisory firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,407 professional contacts across them, including 1,080 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers research and advisory 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 21, 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 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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The 25 largest research and advisory firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 130 research and advisory firms based in San Francisco, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research and advisory firms: 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	Cornerstone Research	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	1,248 contacts →
	Partial evidence “At Cornerstone Research, we attribute our success to a unique combination of resources: a creative and energetic staff, cutting-edge technology and research, and our work with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2	Grand View Research, INC	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	501-1,000	539 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Grand View Research is an end-to-end market research technology and consulting business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	Comcap	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	61 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ComCap was founded in 2012 to provide financial and strategic advisory services on mergers and acquisitions, corporate divestitures, and financings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4	The Blueshirt Group	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	60 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Blueshirt Group has earned its reputation as a leader in investor relations (IR), IPO advisory, financial communications, financial media relations and crisis management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Kite Scouting	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “KITE Scouting helps you better locate partners, investments and acquisitions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6	RAYA	Partial evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	23 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Raya is an advisory & recruiting boutique firm focused on AI, engineering, product, and marketing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Radiant Insights	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Radiant insights is a market research and consulting company that provides syndicated research reports, customized research reports, and consulting services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	Teknos Associates	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Teknos Associates is a respected valuation and advisory services firm focused exclusively on technology related companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	Pistil Data	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	18 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Market Intelligence for Growing Industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	Beta HAT	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	16 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Beta Hat is a market research and strategy consultancy focused on supporting go-to-market strategy for the gaming, online media, and emerging technology verticals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	Enliven Advisory	Partial evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	15 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Our team of strategic advisors provides the real-world expertise companies need to thrive in a competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12	Peerless Insights	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Peerless Insights is a fast-growing, boutique custom research agency based in San Francisco with a mission to help our clients advance their products and strategic planning by…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	Builder Advisor Group	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Builder Advisor Group provides mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, and debt restructuring services to the residential real estate industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14	T4	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “T4 is a boutique strategy consulting firm that helps companies understand their market, competition, and customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	Logica Research	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	9 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Logica Research is a custom marketing research firm specializing in the financial services industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	Emqq Global	Strong evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	8 contacts →
	Strong evidence “EMQQ Global is an index, advisory, and research company wholly focused on helping investors capture the unique opportunities of fast-growing #Internet and #Ecommerce companies in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	Focus Advisors	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	8 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Focus Advisors is the collision industry’s leading M&A advisory firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	The Cantellus Group	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Cantellus Group is a boutique advisory firm guiding clients on frontier technology strategies, governance, and oversight.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	Blueshift Research	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Blueshift Research is a new fundamental market research approach for investors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	HKMC	Partial evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	7 contacts →
	Partial evidence “HKMC is a global advisory firm leveraging 40+ years of the Partners' prior experience building, scaling, exiting, and investing in technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21	David Binder Research	Partial evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	6 contacts →
	Partial evidence “For over 25 years, David Binder Research has provided research and insight to political, government, and private sector clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Digitgaps	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	6 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “digitGaps is a California based global market intelligence company preferred by Fortune Global 500 and a partner of choice by Forbes Global and Global RepTrak 100.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	Speevr, INC	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Finance technology and media company” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	Aqute Intelligence	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Aqute delivers competitive intelligence and competitor analysis to some of the world's leading companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25	Altthink	Indirect evidence	San Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	1-10	5 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “ALTthink is a boutique consulting firm focused on strategy and innovation based in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 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: research and advisory 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 research and advisory firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of research and advisory firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name research and advisory 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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Research and advisory firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

44.9%Verified-email coverage

18.5Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

665.4%Largest-city concentration · New York

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

11-50

51-200

501-1,000

10001+

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 130 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 research and advisory 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 “research and advisory 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 research and advisory 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 research and advisory 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, 1,080 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 21, 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.

Research and advisory firms by metro in the United States

Research and advisory firms in New York865
Research and advisory firms in Washington376
Research and advisory firms in Chicago196
Research and advisory firms in Los Angeles171
Research and advisory firms in Boston159
Research and advisory firms in Atlanta148
Research and advisory firms in San Francisco130
Research and advisory firms in Miami115
Research and advisory firms in Austin112
Research and advisory firms in Dallas101
Research and advisory firms in Houston95
Research and advisory firms in Seattle77
Research and advisory firms in Arlington76
Research and advisory firms in San Diego68
Research and advisory firms in Denver67
Research and advisory firms in New York City61
Research and advisory firms in Minneapolis60
Research and advisory firms in Charlotte59
Research and advisory firms in Philadelphia47
Research and advisory firms in Alexandria46
Research and advisory firms in Phoenix44
Research and advisory firms in Las Vegas42
Research and advisory firms in Orlando41
Research and advisory firms in Portland41
Research and advisory firms in Tampa37
Research and advisory firms in Irvine35
Research and advisory firms in Wilmington35
Research and advisory firms in San Jose33
Research and advisory firms in Pittsburgh32
Research and advisory firms in Columbus31
Research and advisory firms in Raleigh30
Research and advisory firms in Cincinnati29
Research and advisory firms in Mclean29
Research and advisory firms in Nashville29
Research and advisory firms in Boca Raton28
Research and advisory firms in San Antonio28
Research and advisory firms in Bethesda27
Research and advisory firms in Cambridge26
Research and advisory firms in Reston26
Research and advisory firms in Princeton25
Research and advisory firms in Richmond25

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 research and advisory 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 research and advisory firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 130 research and advisory 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?

Cornerstone Research, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most research and advisory firms?

New York leads with 865 headquartered companies, followed by Washington (376) and Chicago (196).

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 1,080 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 130 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 21, 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.