Francisco Partners

Francisco Partners
Private
Industry Private Equity
Founded 1999
Founders David Stanton, Dipanjan Deb, Benjamin Ball, Neil Garfinkel, Sanford R. "Sandy" Robertson
Headquarters Letterman Digital Arts Center
San Francisco, California, United States
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
Total assets $10 billion
Number of employees
35 investment professionals
Website www.franciscopartners.com

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.[1]

History

Francisco was founded in 1999 as the emergence of dedicated technology buyout firms began.[2] 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.[3]

Francisco Partners have invested in or purchased the following companies:[4]

Company NameStatus
aconexExited
ADERANTExited
AdvancedMD SoftwareExited
AesyntExited
AKQAExited
Allston TradingCurrent
AMI SemiconductorExited
API HealthcareExited
AttachmateExited
AttentiExited
AvalonCurrent
AvangateCurrent
Barracuda NetworksCurrent
BettermentCurrent
Blue CoatExited
City IndexCurrent
C-MAC MicroTechnologyExited
Dell Software[5]Current
CorsairCurrent
CrossMatchCurrent
CoverMyMedsCurrent
DextrysCurrent
ClickSoftware Technologies[6]Current
EFJohnsonExited
efrontExited
Ex Libris GroupExited
Foundation 9 EntertainmentExited
FrontRange SolutionsExited
Grass ValleyExited
GXSExited
HealthlandCurrent
HypercomExited
ichor systemsCurrent
K2Current
KewillCurrent
LegerityExited
LumataCurrent
LYNX Medical SystemsExited
masternautExited
Metaswitch NetworksCurrent
Metrologic InstrumentsExited
MinicomExited
Mitel NetworksCurrent
NexTech EMR & PMCurrent
NextTraqExited
NPTestExited
NSO GroupCurrent[7]
NumonyxExited
OfficeTigerExited
PayLeaseCurrent
paymetricCurrent
Plex SystemsCurrent
PrimaveraExited
ProsperCurrent
QuadramedExited
QuantrosCurrent
RedPrairieExited
Smart FocusCurrent
SMART Modular TechnologiesExited
Source PhotonicsCurrent
Specific MediaExited
Therapeutic Research CenterCurrent
T-SystemCurrent
Ultra Clean TechnologyExited
VendavoCurrent
WatchGuardCurrent
WebtrendsCurrent
XcelleNetExited

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