Egon Durban
Founder @ Silver Lake
Menlo Park, United States
Egon Durban is a private equity investor at Silver Lake in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Durban, 42, is a Managing Partner and Managing Director of Silver Lake, a global private equity firm. Durban joined Silver Lake in 1999 as a founding principal and is based in the firm’s Menlo Park office. He has previously worked in the firm’s New York office, as well as the London office, which he launched and managed from 2005 to 2010.Durban has been a member of the Boards of Directors of Dell Inc. and Denali Holding Inc. since the closing of Dell Inc.’s going private transaction in October 2013. Durban serves on the Board of Directors of Intelsat S.A. and is Chairman of the Board of Directors of WME Entertainment. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Skype, was the Chairman of its operating committee, served on the supervisory board and operating committee of NXP B.V., and served on the Board of Directors of MultiPlan Inc. Durban currently serves on the Board of Directors of Tipping Point, a poverty-fighting organization that identifies and funds leading non-profit programs in the Bay Area to assist individuals and families in need.Prior to Silver Lake, Durban worked in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division. While at Morgan Stanley, Durban organized and led a joint initiative between the Corporate Finance Technology Group and the Mergers and Acquisitions Financial Sponsors Group to analyze and present investment opportunities in the technology industry. Previously, Durban worked in Morgan Stanley’s Corporate Finance Technology and Equity Capital Markets groups. Durban graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Finance.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
Last updated:
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Industries Egon Durban invests in
Stages Egon Durban invests in
Countries Egon Durban invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (12%)
- Information Technology 4 (12%)
- Mobile 3 (9%)
- E-Commerce 3 (9%)
- SaaS 2 (6%)
Stage
- Private Equity 9 (27%)
- Series A 4 (12%)
- Series B 4 (12%)
- Series C 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 3 (9%)
Country
- United States 17 (52%)
- India 2 (6%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| CardVault manufactuers grading collectibles and cards for buying, selling, trading. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| Las Vegas Raiders is a professional football team in the National Football League. It specializes in the fields of sports, professional services, and American Football. It was founded in 1960 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. | May 19, 2026 | ||
| Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California. | $16B / Series D / Feb 02, 2026 | ||
| Waymo stands for a new way forward in mobility. it is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.Waymo improves transportation by building software and sensor technology developed in Google’s labs since 2009. In October 2015, they achieved the world’s first fully self-drivingtrip on public roads, in a car without a steering wheel or pedals. They refine Waymo technology through one billion miles of simulation testing each year, and the cars have self-driven over two million miles on public roads across four U.S. cities.It was founded in 2009 and is located in Mountain View, California. | $5.6B / Series C / Jul 23, 2024 | ||
| Somewear is a satellite communications solution designed for the increasingly digital world. Somewear is building a satellite-powered platform to keep people safe. Somewear gives any remote operative a reliable line to safety and keeps organizations compliant at a fraction of the traditional cost with a combination of compact satellite hotspots andsoftware designed for low-bandwidth applications.It was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $13.7M / Series A / Sep 22, 2022 | ||
| Klarna is an eCommerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers.The platform gives customers the freedom to choose how and when to pay. They also offer direct payments, pay after delivery options, and installment plans. Klarna is a regulated bank known for its “buy now, pay later” model that offers shoppers interest-free financing onretail purchases over a period of installments.Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth, and Victor Jacobsson. | $800M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 11, 2022 | ||
| Genies is a mobile app company that allows users to clone themselves. Through their Avatar Agency, consumer product, and SDK, Genies has set the foundation for swift, widespread adaptation of avatars in society, business, and culture. With over a million clothing and facial options provided, users can create their Genie to represent themselfhowever they’d like.Genies was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Venice, California, United States. | $150M / Series C / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house. | $200M / Series C / Feb 08, 2022 | ||
| Compound is a wealth management platform that provides users with a comprehensive financial picture of their liquid and illiquid assets, such as cash, securities, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and venture investments. In addition, for exchanges that are not already partner platforms, the company uses off-the-shelf integrations, and it manuallytracks users' assets if they are held in particularly complex structures. For its tax filing service, Compound partners with platforms and provides the service in-house through a tax firm the company owns. | $25M / Series B / Jan 27, 2022 | ||
| Integrity Marketing Group provides product design, proven marketing systems, and profitability into today’s top-selling products. They bring together the needs of insurance companies and major distribution channels by providing product design, proven marketing systems, and profitability into today’s top-selling products. Their expertise in thesenior market allows us to partner with some of the largest insurance carriers in the nation. They strive to continually bring value to our business partners by designing proprietary products, offering exclusive marketing systems and having a proven track record of successful new products. | $1.2B / Private Equity / Dec 09, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Silver Lake
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 that seek to use their capital and expertise to build and extend their market leadership. seeks to formulate its investments to enable growth and frequently employsconservative 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 technology, technology-enabled businesses, 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.
Silver Lake Contacts
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Ajay Shah
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Bryce Lee
Managing Director, Head of Business Development and Co-Head of Fundraising and Investor Relations
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Christian Lucas
Managing Director
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David Roux
Co-Founder & Senior Director
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David Zhang
Director
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What does Egon Durban invest in?
Egon Durban invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Mobile startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Egon Durban closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 33 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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