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Top 24 Secondary market private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States
RevenueBase identified 36 secondary market private equity firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 595 professional contacts across them, including 305 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (176 companies); San Francisco has 36.
This list covers secondary market private equity 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 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 24 largest secondary market private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1991, Calera Capital has invested over $5 billion of equity capital in the middle market, predominantly in founder, family, and management-owned businesses across a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Housatonic Partners is a private equity firm investing in high growth, recurring revenue service companies operating in a number of industries including healthcare, software, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Paul Capital was formed in 1991 as a pioneer in the private equity secondary market, providing creative liquidity for limited partnerships and portfolios of direct investments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Castle Crow is a merchant banking group specializing in buyside private equity investments and now has affiliated deal team professionals in five North American locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Saints is a leading direct secondary firm that acquires illiquid assets from banks, corporations, hedge funds, individuals and private equity firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bloom Venture Partners specializes in secondaries, primaries, and co-investment opportunities in the private markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Facilitators of Private Market Equity Transactions” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “3Spoke Capital (“3SPOKE”) is a private investment firm that provides structured secondary solutions to private market investors holding late-stage venture and growth equity…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Get access to the kinds of investments typically available only to the ultra-wealthy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Catapult Capital LLC is a private equity firm that focuses on small to middle-market transactions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1994, and based in San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR, Hanover Partners is a private equity firm dedicated to investing in, acquiring, and partnering with the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sleeping Bear Capital is a founder-first private equity firm that seeks to acquire controlling interests in business unit spinouts and venture-backed technology, e-commerce and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Vopne Capital is a San Francisco-based private investment firm focused on acquisitions, recapitalizations and equity financings of lower middle market companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Secondary Market Transactions and Private Placements” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HighGear is a leading venture capital secondary firm providing liquidity to entrepreneurs, shareholders, limited partners and venture capital firms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stratim Capital presents liquidity alternatives to investors in privately held companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Novirian Capital is a leading private equity firm focused on the Secondary Direct market for privately-owned technology companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Maven Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on the search fund asset class.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kiva Capital Partners is a private investment vehicle, seeking to acquire and manage a small- to medium-sized business between $10M and $80M in enterprise value, allowing for a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ClearPoint Investment Partners is a private equity firm that focuses exclusively in lower middle-market business services and financial processing companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence 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: secondary market 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 secondary market private equity firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of secondary market 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 secondary market 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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Secondary market private equity firms based in San Francisco, 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 San Francisco, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 36 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 secondary market 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 San Francisco, United States whose own description of what they do matches “secondary market 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 secondary market 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 secondary market private equity 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, 305 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.
Secondary market private equity firms by metro in the United States
- Secondary market private equity firms in New York176
- Secondary market private equity firms in Chicago64
- Secondary market private equity firms in Dallas52
- Secondary market private equity firms in Los Angeles46
- Secondary market private equity firms in Boston40
- Secondary market private equity firms in Miami30
- Secondary market private equity firms in Austin27
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 secondary market 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 secondary market private equity firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?
RevenueBase identified 36 secondary market private equity 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?
JH Partners, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city in the United States has the most secondary market private equity firms?
New York leads the United States with 176 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (64) and Dallas (52). San Francisco has 36.
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 305 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 36 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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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.
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