Total assets $10 billion CEO Dipanjan Deb (Sep 2005–) COO Tom Ludwig | Industry Private Equity Founded 1999 Chief investment officer David Golob Co president Ezra Perlman, Deep Shah | |
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Key people Dipanjan Deb, CEO, David Golob, CIO, Ezra Perlman, Co-President, Deep Shah, Co-President, Tom Ludwig, COO, Andrew Kowal, Chris Adams, Ben Ball, Peter Christodoulo, Neil Garfinkel, Keith Geeslin, Petri Oksanen, Matt Spetzler Number of employees 35 investment professionals Website www.franciscopartners.com Founders Dipanjan Deb, Sanford Robertson, Neil Garfinkel, Benjamin Ball, David Stanton | ||
Francisco Partners is an American private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. Francisco Partners Management LLC was founded in August 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains an additional office in London. Since inception, the firm has raised approximately $10 billion in committed capital across four funds and has built an investment portfolio including over 70 companies.
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History
Francisco was founded in 1999 as the emergence of dedicated technology buyout firms began. The founders of the firm came from a group of private equity firms including TPG Capital, together with the founder of technology-focused investment bank Robertson Stephens.
Investments
Francisco Partners specializes in financing divisional buyouts, "take privates" of public companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, growth equity financing, recapitalizations, and restructurings. It prefers to invest in mature or maturing technology and technology-related companies. The firm invests in software, internet, healthcare technology, communications, hardware and technology services. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $2 billion. The firm makes equity investments ranging from less than $25 million to over $500 million. It typically acquires a majority or controlling stake in its portfolio companies, but will be a minority investor with board of director representation.
Francisco Partners has more than 30 active portfolio companies. Francisco has acquired former venture capital-backed companies as well as many divisions of large conglomerates and IT companies worldwide.
Francisco Partners have invested in or purchased the following companies: