Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026

Top 25 Technology executive search based in San Francisco, United States

RevenueBase identified 93 technology executive search headquartered in San Francisco, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,007 professional contacts across them, including 407 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.

This list covers technology executive search 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
93Companies
1,007Contacts tracked
407Verified emails
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The 25 largest technology executive search based in San Francisco, United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 93 technology executive search 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 technology executive search: 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.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500273 contacts →

“Riviera Partners is a global executive recruiting firm specializing in Technology, Engineering, Product and Design leadership.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-50075 contacts →

“Do you need to hire exceptional talent?”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-20053 contacts →

“SPMB is the #1 executive search firm serving the technology market and one of the largest independent retained search firms in the country.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5053 contacts →

“We build world-class executive and technical teams for companies catalyzing a decarbonized economy.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5033 contacts →

“The Cole Group is the world's top sales and marketing search firm, serving clients like OpenAI, Cursor, Lovable, Clay, Kalshi, Vercel, Lambda, Vanta, Cribl, Figma, Doordash…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5028 contacts →

“Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat VC-backed entrepreneur who's personally done the founder journey twice.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1018 contacts →

“PeopleConnect is a full-service executive search firm specializing in the high tech, clean tech, and scientific industries.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5016 contacts →

“Nosal Partners is now NGS Global.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5014 contacts →

“GROUPE INSEARCH, INC.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5013 contacts →

“The Loring Group is a retained executive search firm led by former industry executives.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1012 contacts →

“Aperture is a go-to-market focused executive search firm practicing leadership hiring as a craft-where trust is built through deep understanding and every search is an act of…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5011 contacts →

“Impact Search is an executive search firm based in San Francisco focused on engineering, product and design leadership for venture backed software companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-1011 contacts →

“Building Great Companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-5010 contacts →

“3FORTY3 is the go-to retained executive search firm for Marketing, Sales and Board leadership roles for venture backed, growth stage technology companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-508 contacts →

“Transforming Leadership, Empowering Growth Guild Talent is a boutique executive search firm specializing in leadership hiring for venture and private equity-backed startups.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-108 contacts →

“Factor Talent was founded on a simple premise: serve others first.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-108 contacts →

“Eighty6 Group represents a new approach.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-108 contacts →

“Hitch Partners is a retained executive search firm that specializes in all things Information Security, with additional expertise in Business Technology, Cloud Infrastructure…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-106 contacts →

“Boutique executive search firm that connects organizations and investors with the brightest leaders in private equity, technology and education (EdTech, Higher Education…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Partial evidenceSan Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-106 contacts →

“Brennan Group is a high-caliber recruiting firm focused on high-growth enterprise software (SaaS) and technology companies.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-105 contacts →

“Founded in 2018, Intersection is the leading executive search firm for the new financial system.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Indirect evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-504 contacts →

“NuPeople is a forward-thinking recruiting agency that connects visionary talent with companies poised for growth.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Strong evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202611-504 contacts →

“TALENT ACQUISITION & EXECUTIVE SEARCH Whitemore James Black provides high level executive search and consultant services to a wide range of clients including many of the world's…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →

“We’ve partnered with stellar executives and top investors to help them find, recruit and land top talent for over 18 years.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Strong evidenceSan Francisco, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261-104 contacts →

“Patch & Associates is an executive search and recruiting firm which specializes in public relations, corporate communications and marketing search, including digital marketing…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Technology executive search based in San Francisco, United States at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
40.4%Verified-email coverage
10.8Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
362.4%Largest-city concentration · New York
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
64
11-50
23
51-200
2
201-500
4

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 93 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 technology executive search, 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 “technology executive search”. 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 technology executive search), 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 technology executive search, 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, 407 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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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 technology executive search, 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 technology executive search are there based in San Francisco, United States?

RevenueBase identified 93 technology executive search 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?

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

Which city has the most technology executive search?

New York leads with 337 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (121) and San Francisco (93).

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 407 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 93 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.