# Francisco Partners

> Francisco Partners is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 118 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 118
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 70%
- Fund size: $14B
- Last fund: Jul 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/francisco-partners/about/
- Website: https://www.franciscopartners.com/

Francisco Partners is a global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology and technology-enabled businesses. With $7 billion of capital under management, Francisco Partners is one of the world's largest technology-focused private equity funds. The firm was founded to pursue structured investments in technology companiesundergoing strategic, technological, and operational inflection points. Francisco Partners targets control investments in private companies, with transaction values ranging from $30 million to $2 billion. The principals of Francisco Partners have invested in excess of $3 billion of equity capital in over 50 technology companies.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 39 | 33% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 19% |
| Health Care | 16 | 14% |
| SaaS | 11 | 9% |
| Medical | 7 | 6% |

143 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Private Equity | 48 | 41% |
| Funding Round | 16 | 14% |
| Series C | 5 | 4% |
| Debt Financing | 5 | 4% |
| Series B | 4 | 3% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 72 | 61% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Australia | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alan Ni | Principal | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alan-ni |
| Andrew Kowal | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-kowal |
| Ashley Evans | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ashley-evans-71dc |
| Chris Adams | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-adams-2 |
| Ezra Perlman | Co-President | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ezra-perlman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ActivTrak | ActivTrak helps companies unlock productivity potential. Our award-winning workforce analytics and productivity management software provides expert insights that empower people, optimize processes, and maximize technology. Additionally, with data sourced from more than 9,000 customers and over 450,000 users, ActivTrak’s Workforce Productivity Labis a global center for ground-breaking research and expertise that helps companies embrace and embody the future of work. Based in Austin, Texas, ActivTrak is backed by Sapphire Ventures and Elsewhere Partners, and is led by a seasoned team of software industry veterans. To learn more visit: https://activtrak.com/. |  | Private Equity | Nov 12, 2025 |  |
| Office Ally | Office Ally is a healthcare technology company that offers cloud-based solutions to healthcare providers, independent physician associations (IPAs) and health plans.Office Ally’s platform supports both the management of care and facilitates payments between providers, health plans and patients.Office Ally’s platform is paired with aclearinghouse that enables the secure exchange of healthcare information including claims, remits, and eligibility information between covered entities and across the healthcare market. |  | Private Equity | Apr 07, 2025 |  |
| Verifone | VeriFone is a California-based company that designs, markets, and services electronic payment solutions for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. Its product portfolio is comprised of contactless and countertop systems as well as electronic cash register and payment devices, PIN pads, POS systems, indoor and outdoor unattended paymentsolutions, wireless handheld payment devices, and point-of-sale receipt printers.The company also provides software solutions for card acceptance, mobile payments, security and encryption, POS integration, value-added and prepaid services, issuing and acquiring, estate management, petroleum and convenience, and device-driven technologies as well as development tools. It provides media solutions such as digital network, taxi tops and wraps, and mobile or SMS solutions through sales representatives in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco.VeriFone’s devices and systems process various payments, including signature- and PIN-based debit cards, credit cards, contactless or radio frequency identification cards, smart cards, prepaid gift and other stored-value cards, electronic bill payment, check authorization and conversion, signature capture and electronic benefits transfers, and EBT. It serves financial institutions, payment processors, petroleum companies, retailers, government organizations, and healthcare companies as well as independent sales organizations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific Rim, and North America.Verifone was founded in 1981 and is based in San Jose, California. | $235M | Private Equity | Apr 01, 2025 |  |
| Evite | Evite.com is an online personal party planning service. When party hosts log onto Evite.com they have access to a plethora of tools to help them during every step of the event planning process. This includes a checklist tool to keep track of party tasks, a budget estimator, customizable invitations, a drink calculator, eCards for after partythank-yous, and a "My Notebook" section to save ideas and other notes. Evite also helps hosts by offering party theme ideas, recipes, a wine-pairing chart and more.The site has more than 15 million registered users and it facilitates more than 16 million invitations to more than 450,000 events each month. Evite was initially acquired by Ticketmaster in 2001, which was then acquired by IAC (NASDAQ: IACI) in 2003. On December 2, 2010, Evite was acquired by Liberty Media in an exchange from IAC. |  | Private Equity | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Evite | Evite.com is an online personal party planning service. When party hosts log onto Evite.com they have access to a plethora of tools to help them during every step of the event planning process. This includes a checklist tool to keep track of party tasks, a budget estimator, customizable invitations, a drink calculator, eCards for after partythank-yous, and a "My Notebook" section to save ideas and other notes. Evite also helps hosts by offering party theme ideas, recipes, a wine-pairing chart and more.The site has more than 15 million registered users and it facilitates more than 16 million invitations to more than 450,000 events each month. Evite was initially acquired by Ticketmaster in 2001, which was then acquired by IAC (NASDAQ: IACI) in 2003. On December 2, 2010, Evite was acquired by Liberty Media in an exchange from IAC. |  | Private Equity | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| BlackDuck | Black Duck secures and manages open source software worldwide, eliminating open source security vulnerabilities and license compliance pain. With the rapid, widespread adoption of open-source software, Black Duck is a key component of Synopsys’ Software Integrity Platform, the most comprehensive solution for integrating security into the SDLC andsoftware supply chain.Black Duck was established in 2002 and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, United States. |  | Private Equity | Oct 01, 2024 |  |
| RedSail Technologies | RedSail Technologies is healthcare, pharmacy, and governmental software solutions provider company. |  | Private Equity | Jun 13, 2024 |  |
| Property Finder | PropertyFinder owns and operates real estate portals across Dubai. Available in both English and Arabic, its websites provide visitors with search facilities covering residential and commercial properties for rent or for sale, real estate news, home advice, and buying and selling guides.PropertyFinder provides its users with the tools to helpconsumers find the properties that fit their needs. It works with brokers to list properties in one convenient site, and make it easier to see all of the information about those properties while browsing from its users’ desktop or on the move. | $90M | Debt Financing | May 14, 2024 |  |
| Muse Group | The world's most popular software and communities for musicians |  | Private Equity | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Muse Group | The world's most popular software and communities for musicians |  | Private Equity | Dec 04, 2023 |  |

10 of 118 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TA Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ta-associates) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Menlo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/menlo-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Pamlico Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pamlico-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Francisco Partners invest in?

Francisco Partners invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Health Care startups, most often at Private Equity and Funding Round stage. Most of the 118 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Francisco Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Francisco Partners?

The team at Francisco Partners includes Alan Ni (Principal), Andrew Kowal (Partner) and Ashley Evans (Partner), among 23 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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