432 M&A advisory firms, investment banks and business brokers across 30 cities and 8 industries. Every entry was verified against the firm's own website. Where a firm does not publish a deal range, this says so rather than estimating one.
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Showing 12 of 432 firms in San Francisco.
| # | Firm | Market | Deal size | Sectors | Location | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Team (BTI Group)States it is the largest business brokerage firm in the West, operating since 1981 | San Francisco | Companies with revenues up to roughly $100M | General practice across manufacturing, distribution, service and retail businesses | San Francisco, with offices in San Jose, Pleasant Hill, Sacramento, Los Angeles and Reno | |
| 2 | Corporate Finance AssociatesStates it has served middle market business owners since 1956 across more than 100 industries | San Francisco | Middle market privately held companies | Industrials, healthcare, technology, distribution, business services | San Francisco, California, one of 34 offices worldwide | |
| 3 | Exit Strategies GroupCalifornia M&A adviser offering business valuation and exit planning alongside transaction work | San Francisco | Lower middle market privately held companies | Manufacturing, distribution, business services, with a valuation practice alongside | San Francisco Bay Area, with a Portland office | |
| 4 | First Choice Business Brokers SF BayCovers San Francisco, Silicon Valley, North Bay, Tri-Valley, Monterey and Santa Cruz from one team | San Francisco | Main Street through the middle market | General practice, franchise resales, retail and service businesses | San Francisco, with Bay Area offices coordinated from Sunnyvale | |
| 5 | FT PartnersStates it is the only investment bank focused exclusively on financial technology | San Francisco | Mid to large cap financial technology transactions | Payments, banking technology, lending, wealth technology, insurtech | San Francisco, with offices in New York, Miami and London | |
| 6 | Liberty Business AdvisorsPublishes its fee approach and a seller walkthrough openly on its site | San Francisco | Roughly $50,000 to $2M | Retail, food and beverage, personal services, investment property | Walnut Creek, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area | |
| 7 | M&A Business AdvisorsFull service brokerage and M&A advisory with offices across California and Nevada | San Francisco | Main Street through the lower middle market | General practice across California and Nevada | San Francisco, Napa and Sonoma, with offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Jose, Sacramento and Reno | |
| 8 | Mission Peak BrokersStates over $400 million in businesses sold, with a stated focus on gas station and liquor store transactions | San Francisco | Main Street | Gas stations, liquor stores, retail, SBA-financed transactions | Northern California, with Southern California coverage | |
| 9 | Nfluence PartnersBoutique bank positioned at the intersection of technology, media and telecom | San Francisco | Middle market technology transactions | Technology, media and telecom, mergers, acquisitions and capital formation | San Francisco, California | |
| 10 | Qatalyst PartnersGlobal independent investment bank providing strategic and financial advice to technology leaders | San Francisco | Large cap technology transactions | Software, internet, semiconductors, technology hardware | San Francisco, California, operating globally | |
| 11 | Sunbelt Business Brokers of San FranciscoLocal office of a network that markets itself as selling more businesses than anyone in the world | San Francisco | Main Street under $1M, plus a separate over $1M practice | Retail, hospitality, service businesses, light industrial | San Francisco, California | |
| 12 | Vista Point AdvisorsStates it works exclusively on the sell-side for founder-led companies, with no buy-side mandates | San Francisco | Lower middle market founder-led technology companies | Software, artificial intelligence, internet businesses | San Francisco, California |
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