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Top Private equity companies

Companies that have taken private-equity capital or large secondaries.

Ranked by current headcount across Private equity companies. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Tata Consultancy Services· Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    • Private equity
    • 700.1k employees
    • Founded 1968
  2. 2
    Burger King· Miami, Florida, United States
    • Private equity
    • 128.4k employees
    • Founded 1954
  3. 3
    airtel· Gurugram, Haryana, India
    • Private equity
    • 105.1k employees
    • Founded 2010
  4. 4
    Allied Universal· Irvine, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 101.6k employees
    • Founded 1957
  5. 5
    Fidelity Investments· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Secondary
    • 85.1k employees
    • Founded 1946
  6. 6
    The Wendy's Company· Dublin, Ohio, United States
    • Private equity
    • 72.5k employees
    • Founded 1969
  7. 7
    • Private equity
    • 71.3k employees
    • Founded 2006
  8. 8
    Sutherland· Pittsford, New York, United States
    • Secondary
    • 64.5k employees
    • Founded 1986
  9. 9
    France Travail· Paris, Île-de-France, France
    • Private equity
    • 50.5k employees
  10. 10
    ByteDance· China
    • Secondary
    • 47k employees
    • Founded 2012
  11. 11
    Family Dollar· Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
    • Private equity
    • 46.8k employees
    • Founded 1959
  12. 12
    noon· Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    • Private equity
    • 46.3k employees
    • Founded 2016
  13. 13
    TELUS Digital· Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Private equity
    • 42.2k employees
    • Founded 2005
  14. 14
    UST· Aliso Viejo, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 39.6k employees
    • Founded 1999
  15. 15
    TELUS· Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Private equity
    • 37.4k employees
    • Founded 1990
  16. 16
    Little Caesars Pizza· Detroit, Michigan, United States
    • Private equity
    • 36.3k employees
    • Founded 1959
  17. 17
    Major League Baseball (MLB)· New York, New York, United States
    • Secondary
    • 35.6k employees
    • Founded 2000
  18. 18
    Dairy Queen· Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
    • Private equity
    • 35.2k employees
    • Founded 1940
  19. 19
    GlobalLogic· Santa Clara, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 34.8k employees
    • Founded 2000
  20. 20
    Dasa· São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Private equity
    • 32k employees
    • Founded 2001
  21. 21
    PW (PhysicsWallah)· Sadar, Uttar Pradesh, India
    • Secondary
    • 31.8k employees
    • Founded 2016
  22. 22
    Papa Johns· Atlanta, Georgia, United States
    • Secondary
    • 29.1k employees
    • Founded 1984
  23. 23
    Denny's· Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
    • Private equity
    • 26.4k employees
    • Founded 1953
  24. 24
    AUDI AG· Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
    • Private equity
    • 25.8k employees
    • Founded 1998
  25. 25
    repsol· Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
    • Private equity
    • 25.6k employees
    • Founded 2011

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Refolk pulled the largest companies whose latest disclosed funding round is Private equity from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 10 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

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