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Top 25 Roll-up strategy private equity firms based in Chicago, United States
RevenueBase identified 43 roll-up strategy private equity firms headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 557 professional contacts across them, including 324 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (113 companies); Chicago follows with 43.
This list covers roll-up strategy private equity firms headquartered in Chicago, 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 roll-up strategy private equity firms based in Chicago, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Equity Group Investments (EGI) is the private investment firm founded by Sam Zell in 1968.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Green Courte Partners, LLC is a high energy, fast-paced private equity real estate investment firm focused on building industry-leading companies within niche real estate sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tyree & D'Angelo Partners ("TDP") is a private equity investment firm that focuses on control investments in the lower middle market (companies with $1-5M of EBITDA).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CIVC Partners is a private equity firm, based in Chicago, focused on middle market buyout, recapitalization, and growth equity investments in industry sectors where our firm can…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Based in Chicago, May River Capital is a private equity investment firm founded by three partners seeking to help lower middle-market, high-caliber industrial businesses grow and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Kinzie Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Prairie Capital is a private equity firm focused on guiding high-potential, founder-owned companies on the journey to becoming scalable platforms prepared for accelerated growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Benford Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations of lower middle market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Center Rock is a Midwest-based private equity firm focused on building leading industrial companies in the lower middle market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sun Haven Partners is dedicated to identifying, acquiring, and operating one exceptional business with a long-term vision.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Periscope Equity is a Chicago-based private equity firm that partners with founder-owned, business services companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Geneva Glen Capital (“GGC”) is a Chicago-based private equity firm that invests in lower middle-market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Longshore Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on control buyouts of growing services companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Juno Investments LLC ("Juno"), is private firm based in New York and Chicago.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SE Capital Partners, LLC is the exclusive direct private equity arm of a multi-billion dollar single family office looking to deploy at least $400 million of equity capital over…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At LUZ Capital Partners, we specialize in acquiring and operating private companies, preserving their legacy while driving growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Veteran-owned private equity firm growing and transforming mission-critical investments into larger, more capable strategic assets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Private Investments team of PSP Partners makes direct investments in established businesses as PSP Capital.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Expedition Capital Partners ("ECP") is a private equity investment firm focused on partnering with experienced operators to acquire and grow businesses in the middle and lower…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ansvar, n: responsibility (the state of being responsible).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lincoln Hill Holdings is a privately-held investment firm based in Chicago, IL formed to search for, acquire, and manage a private business with strong growth prospects.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At KNORI Capital, our mission is to identify, acquire, and manage a single exceptional business in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WE INVEST IN HIGH-POTENTIAL COMPANIES.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saint Elizabeth Capital is a private equity firm that specializes in acquiring, managing, and developing small to middle-market businesses throughout the country.” 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: roll-up strategy private equity 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 roll-up strategy private equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of roll-up strategy private equity firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name roll-up strategy private equity 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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Roll-up strategy private equity firms based in Chicago, 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 Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 43 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 roll-up strategy private equity 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 Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “roll-up strategy private equity 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 roll-up strategy private equity 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 roll-up strategy private equity firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago 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, 324 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.
Roll-up strategy private equity firms by metro in the United States
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 roll-up strategy private equity 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 roll-up strategy private equity firms are there based in Chicago, United States?
RevenueBase identified 43 roll-up strategy private equity firms headquartered in Chicago, 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?
Equity Group Investments, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most roll-up strategy private equity firms?
New York leads the United States with 113 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (43) and Los Angeles (34).
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 324 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 43 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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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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