Transformational Capital for Technology Companies

Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses.

Our objective is to generate superior investment returns by partnering with the management teams facing strategic or operational inflection points and using differentiated experience, insight and resources to build value for shareholders, employees and customers.

We pursue a variety of investment types including:

Divisional Buyouts
Acquisitions or "Take Privates" of Public Companies
Acquisitions of Private Companies
Growth Equity Investments and Strategic Minority Investments
Sponsored Mergers and Acquisitions

We provide transformational capital, working in close concert with management to reposition, recapitalize or otherwise rejuvenate companies, with an intense focus on corporate strategy, financial strategy, and recruiting and team building.

We are active across a broad range of technology sectors, including semiconductors, and capital equipment, electronics components, systems and manufacturing, IT services and business process outsourcing (BPO), communications, security and enterprise application and infrastructure software.

With approximately $7 billion of capital raised to date and a team of 29 investment professionals worldwide, we have the wherewithal and flexibility to pursue investments transaction values ranging from $25 million to over $500 million.