Industries › PE & M&A Advisory › San Jose
If you sell to San Jose companies, your market is 50,322 business locations across 2 counties, and 2,905 of them have 50–499 employees. Sapper turns that list into booked meetings, phone first.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional services | 8,761 | 167,029 | 434 | 46 | −37 |
| Information | 1,913 | 179,740 | 315 | 70 | +4 |
| Health care | 6,467 | 131,515 | 256 | 17 | +164 |
| Manufacturing | 2,056 | 97,357 | 229 | 32 | −38 |
| Construction | 4,177 | 52,914 | 166 | 11 | +76 |
| Wholesale trade | 2,131 | 78,075 | 158 | 25 | −56 |
Where to start: Start with professional services: 434 of its 8,761 San Jose locations have 50–499 employees. The fastest-growing of these sectors was health care, +164 locations in a year.
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara, CA | 49,154 | 2,268 | 6,360 | 8,686 |
| San Benito, CA | 1,168 | 48 | 107 | 75 |
Where the market sits: Santa Clara County and San Benito County hold 100.0% of the metro’s business locations across 2 counties. Santa Clara County has 49,154 locations in total.
The metro has 799 securities, commodities and investment locations. That is a lot of outreach competing for the same attention, so the first message has to be specific.
What wins: a sector-specific opener. A professional services buyer should hear a problem from their own work in the first sentence.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For deal sourcing, we build the list around the size band, industries and geography in your thesis. Public counts do not show ownership, so you set the criteria and approve every account. In San Jose, a first pass could start with the 434 mid-size professional services locations and the 315 in information. How appointment setting works →
The 2-county San Jose metro has 50,322 business locations. 2,905 have 50–499 employees and 245 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in professional services (434), followed by information (315).
Titles to test first include general and operations managers. The metro has 17,230 of them, plus 7,970 financial managers. The final titles depend on what you sell, and you approve the list before anyone calls.
Nearby markets: PE & M&A Advisory in Santa Cruz (26 mi), PE & M&A Advisory in San Francisco (42 mi) and PE & M&A Advisory in Stockton (54 mi).
If your buyers are San Jose contractors or home-service companies, Abstrakt’s San Jose page covers that market.
