Silver Lake

About

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in technology companies.

Menlo Park,California,United States
101 - 250
http://www.silverlake.com

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Secondary Market
Last Funding Money Raised: $2B
Industries: Finance,Financial Services,FinTech,Information Technology,Venture Capital
Founded date: Jan 1, 1999
Number Of Employee: 101 - 250
Operating Status: Active
Legal Name: Silver Lake Management, L.L.C.
Also Known As: Yínhu Ziben,银湖资本
Investor Type: PE

Sub-Organizations: Silver Lake Sumeru

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies.

They are partners to world-class management teams who seek to use their capital and expertise to build and extend their market leadership. seeks to formulate its investments to enable growth and frequently employs conservative capital structures designed to drive aggressive investment in new initiatives, innovation, and business expansion.

Their core investment thesis is that the technology industries represent an extraordinary yet under-exploited target for large-scale private investments. The firm also seeks to cultivate proprietary or specialized investment opportunities not typically available to generalist investors. It devotes its full scope of talent and intellectual capital to the singular mission of investing in the world’s leading technology, technology-enabled, and related growth businesses.

Silver Lake was established in 1999 by David Roux, Glenn Hutchins, Jim Davidson, and Roger McNamee and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

3

$2.04B

Silver Lake has raised a total of $2.04B in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 6, 2021 from a Private Equity（PE） round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Jul 6, 2021	Private Equity（PE）	$40M	1	Ikhlas Capital	—	Detail
Sep 30, 2020	Secondary Market	$2B	2	Dyal Capital Partners Mubadala	—	Detail
Jul 12, 2016	Private Equity（PE）	—	1	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

124

70

Silver Lake has made 124 investments. Their most recent investment was on Dec 6, 2022, when Fanatics raised $700M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Dec 6, 2022 Fanatics	Private Equity（PE）	$700M	eSports	—
Oct 19, 2022 MaxAB	Series B	$40M	B2B	—
Sep 15, 2022 Rephrase.ai	Series A	$10.60M	Animation	—
Jul 11, 2022 Klarna	Series Unknown	$800M	E-Commerce	—
Jun 14, 2022 Shadowbox Studios	Private Equity（PE）	$500M	Art	Yes

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

3

Silver Lake is funded by 3 investors. Ikhlas Capital and Dyal Capital Partners are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Ikhlas Capital	Yes	Private Equity（PE）
Dyal Capital Partners	Yes	Secondary Market
Mubadala	Yes	Secondary Market

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

92

Silver Lake has 92 current employee profiles, including Employee Alex Li

Employee

Executive

Executive

Employee

Executive

Exits

Silver Lake has had 50 exits. Silver Lake most notable exits include Xoriant , ServiceMax

Date	Company Name	Exit Type	Industry
Jan 5, 2023	Xoriant	M&A	Apps	Detail
Nov 17, 2022	ServiceMax	M&A	Cloud Infrastructure	Detail
May 5, 2022	Kareo	M&A	Cloud Computing	Detail
Dec 30, 2021	SenseTime	IPO	Artificial Intelligence	Detail
Dec 7, 2021	Vacasa	IPO	Property Management	Detail

Acquisition

Silver Lake has acquired 13 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Sabre Corporation on Dec 12, 2006. They acquired Sabre Corporation for $5B.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Dec 12, 2006 Sabre Corporation	Business Intelligence	lbo	$ 5B	Detail
Jun 29, 2015 Cast & Crew	Accounting	acquisition	—	Detail
Apr 20, 2016 CEGID	Construction	lbo	—	Detail
Jan 4, 2018 Weld North	Education	acquisition	—	Detail
Dec 13, 2018 GE Digital	Analytics	acquisition	—	Detail