Francisco Partners

Francisco Partners is a private equity firm specializing in mature or maturing technology and technology-related companies. The firm will invest its capital across a variety of situations including: divisional spinouts, acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic minority investments in public and private companies, fallen angels, management buyouts, growth equity financing, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, and restructurings. The firm focuses on communications, hardware, information technology services and software, outsourcing and transaction processing services, semiconductors and capital equipment, electronic product distributors, electronics components and manufacturing, business process outsourcing (BPO), security, application and infrastructure software, and communications service providers. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values ranging from $30 million to more than $2 billion. The firm will make equity investments ranging from less than $25 million to over $500 million. It typically acquires a majority or controlling stake in its portfolio companies. The firm was founded in 1999 and is based in Menlo Park, California and has an additional office in London.