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Top 25 SaaS acquisition firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 435 SaaS acquisition firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 8,556 professional contacts across them, including 4,118 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers SaaS acquisition firms headquartered in the 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 SaaS acquisition firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vista Equity Partners (Vista) is a leading global technology investor specializing in software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 719 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Renren Inc.(NYSE: RENN) changed its name to Moatable, Inc, which was effective on June 22, 2023.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 513 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PSG is a growth equity firm that partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to help them navigate transformational growth, capitalize on strategic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Thoma Bravo is the world’s largest software-focused investment firm, with more than $172 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 292 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “York IE® is an investment and operating firm that combines a family of funds with a hands-on operating platform to build and back software companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that invests in software and services businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 245 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software businesses, their employees, and customers to preserve the legacy of founders, while helping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accel-KKR is a technology-focused investment firm with $23 billion in capital commitments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Teamshares is a tech-enabled acquiror of high-quality businesses, intending to be a permanent home for businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1992, JMI Equity has focused on investing in exceptional software and AI-driven companies from scaling stages through later growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marlin Equity Partners is a global investment firm with nearly $10 billion in capital commitments specializing in the software, technology and services sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “K1 is a leading investment firm focusing on high-growth enterprise software companies globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 118 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2008, Serent Capital partners with bootstrapped founders of B2B software and tech-enabled services companies to build category-defining businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cordance is a software company that acquires and accelerates the growth of vertically-focused, B2B SaaS companies by investing in their products, processes and people, for the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Turn/River Capital is a private equity firm that applies a proprietary growth engineering strategy to investing, partnering with software businesses to accelerate growth and build…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “saas.group is a conglomerate of independent SaaS businesses founded by experienced industry veterans with proven entrepreneurial, investing, and product backgrounds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lead Edge Capital is a $9 billion growth equity firm backing software, internet, and tech-enabled businesses around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “STG is a private equity firm focused on funding innovative software and software-enabled tech services leaders in the mid-market.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Acquco is an institutionally-backed acquisition company located in New York City.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PartnerOne acquires and grows enterprise software companies for the long term.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Five Elms is a growth investor in software businesses that users love, providing capital and resources to help companies accelerate growth and further cement their role as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1994, Spectrum Equity is a leading growth equity firm with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mainsail Partners is a growth equity firm investing in bootstrapped B2B software and AI-enabled companies to help them grow into market leaders.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Embrace acquires and invests in niche software that provides industry-specific solutions.” 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: SaaS acquisition 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 SaaS acquisition firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of SaaS acquisition firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name SaaS acquisition 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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SaaS acquisition firms based in the United States at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 435 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 SaaS acquisition 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “SaaS acquisition 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 SaaS acquisition 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 SaaS acquisition firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 4,118 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.
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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 SaaS acquisition 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 SaaS acquisition firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 435 SaaS acquisition firms headquartered in the 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?
Vista Equity Partners, headquartered in Austin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most SaaS acquisition firms?
New York leads with 68 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (37) and Austin (27).
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 4,118 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 435 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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