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Top 25 Tech-focused private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States

RevenueBase identified 375 tech-focused private equity firms headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,034 professional contacts across them, including 3,333 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers tech-focused 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 6, 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 6, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
375Companies
7,034Contacts tracked
3,333Verified emails
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The 25 largest tech-focused private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 375 tech-focused private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to tech-focused private equity 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.
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1Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500335 contacts →

“Financial Technology Partners ("FT Partners") is the only investment banking firm focused exclusively on the financial technology ("FinTech") sector.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200278 contacts →

“Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that invests in software and services businesses.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200220 contacts →

“Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the most experienced private equity investment firms operating today.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200215 contacts →

“Francisco Partners is a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology and technology-enabled businesses.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200211 contacts →

“Gryphon Investors is a leading middle-market private investment firm focused on building and growing profitable, market-leading companies in the Business Services, Consumer…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200173 contacts →

“BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200166 contacts →

“Headline is a venture capital firm with teams on the ground in 8 cities around the world.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026n/a154 contacts →

“Evergreen is a private-equity backed holding company focused on acquiring services and software companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-50136 contacts →

“Contrary is a talent and research-driven investment firm.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200135 contacts →

“FTV Capital is a growth equity investment firm that has raised over $10.2 billion to invest in high-growth companies offering a range of innovative solutions in financial…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Strong evidenceSan Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200126 contacts →

“Golden Gate Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity investment firm with approximately $20 billion in cumulative committed capital.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-50118 contacts →

“FFL Partners is a leading middle-market private equity firm that has been investing in high-quality companies since 1997.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-50116 contacts →

“Nexus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that supports extraordinary founders in building product-first companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200106 contacts →

“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: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200105 contacts →

“Human Capital is a multi-stage venture capital firm.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-50104 contacts →

“Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200103 contacts →

“We support innovative Tech Founders through our global network of top decision makers in corporate development, strategy, strategic business development, and M&A.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-50100 contacts →

“WI Harper Group is a pioneering venture capital firm with over three decades of experience investing in transformative companies that shape the future.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20096 contacts →

“Percheron Capital is the largest private equity firm focused on essential services – the businesses that keep America running.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5096 contacts →

“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: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20089 contacts →

“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: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5087 contacts →

“SignalFire is the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20085 contacts →

“Dragoneer is a growth-oriented investment firm with over $35 billion in assets under management.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5084 contacts →

“Genstar Capital is a leading middle-market private equity firm, investing in high quality companies for over 30 years.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5076 contacts →

“From seed through growth, Salesforce Ventures provides the most enterprising founders with the patient capital, coveted community, and unique access to the resources they need to…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Tech-focused private equity firms based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
47.4%Verified-email coverage
18.8Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
239.7%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
247
11-50
103
51-200
20
201-500
3
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
1

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than this city, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for San Francisco, over 375 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 tech-focused 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 “tech-focused 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 tech-focused 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 tech-focused 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, 3,333 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 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Tech-focused 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 tech-focused 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 tech-focused private equity firms are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 375 tech-focused 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?

Financial Technology Partners FT Partners, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most tech-focused private equity firms?

New York leads with 899 headquartered companies, followed by San Francisco (375) and Chicago (259).

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 3,333 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 375 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 6, 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.