Kenneth Hao
Chairman and a Managing Partner @ Silver Lake
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Kenneth Hao is a post-ipo equity investor at Silver Lake in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Analytics and Enterprise Software. Kenneth Yeh-Kang Hao is based out of San Francisco Bay Area, California and is the Chairman and a Managing Partner of Silver Lake. Kenneth previously worked at Hambrecht & Quist as a Managing Director. Kenneth Yeh-Kang Hao attended the Harvard College.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 70%
Last updated:
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Industries Kenneth Hao invests in
Stages Kenneth Hao invests in
Countries Kenneth Hao invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Analytics 3 (30%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (30%)
- Information Technology 3 (30%)
- Cyber Security 2 (20%)
- Productivity Tools 2 (20%)
Stage
- Post-IPO Equity 3 (30%)
- Private Equity 2 (20%)
- Seed 1 (10%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
- Series E 1 (10%)
Country
- United States 6 (60%)
- China 2 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $225M / Series F / Jan 19, 2022 | ||
| Splunk is a cloud-first software company that provides operational intelligence software that monitors, reports, and analyzes real-time machine data for security, IT, and business. It offers a range of solutions, including advanced threat detection, incident management, cloud monitoring, security monitoring, serving manufacturing, retail, andfinancial services.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $1B / Post-IPO Equity / Jun 22, 2021 | ||
| Clari is a connected revenue operations platform that uses automation and AI to unlock all the activity data captured in key business systems such as marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, conversations, and more.Clari automatically aligns that data to accounts and opportunities, to deliver visibility, forecasting,and apply predictive insights, which results in more insight, less guesswork, and more predictable revenue. Clari helps companies by changing their revenue operations to be more connected, efficient, and predictable. Clari's platform is used by hundreds of sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B companies such as Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta to control pipelines, audit deals and accounts, forecast the business, and reduce churn. | $150M / Series E / Mar 03, 2021 | ||
| TAL Education Group is a Chinese education and technology company specializing in K-12, english learning, and STEAM. | $3.3B / Post-IPO Equity / Dec 28, 2020 | ||
| ServiceMax is the global leader in Service Execution Management, a software category that includes both Field Service Management and Asset Service Management. ServiceMax provides a cloud-based software platform that improves the productivity of complex, equipment-centric service execution for OEMs, operators, and 3rd-party service providers.Enterprise companies across the globe have turned to ServiceMax to help them keep the world running while reaping the benefits of increased revenue, higher productivity, improved customer experience, secure enterprise communication, greater safety, and better compliance. | $80M / Private Equity / Feb 24, 2020 | ||
| ServiceMax is the global leader in Service Execution Management, a software category that includes both Field Service Management and Asset Service Management. ServiceMax provides a cloud-based software platform that improves the productivity of complex, equipment-centric service execution for OEMs, operators, and 3rd-party service providers.Enterprise companies across the globe have turned to ServiceMax to help them keep the world running while reaping the benefits of increased revenue, higher productivity, improved customer experience, secure enterprise communication, greater safety, and better compliance. | Private Equity / Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.The high-performance computing cloud platform delivers intelligent computing for digital R&D and enables more than 300 customers from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises to accelerate design cycles and time tomarket. Rescale gives research scientists and engineers the ability to run their simulation and artificial intelligence workloads on the cloud provider of their choice, using specialized hardware architectures and software templates optimized for their use cases, without any set-up or maintenance. Investors such as Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners, SineWave Ventures, Data Collective, ITV Ventures, Jump Capital, and M12 (formerly Microsoft Ventures), as well as Mitsubishi UFJ Capital, Quiet Capital, Streamlined Ventures, Translink Capital, Two Roads Group, Y Combinator, Hitachi Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, NVIDIA, Republic Labs, and Samsung Catalyst Fund backs Rescale.In 2011, Joris Poort and Adam McKenzie headquartered the company in San Francisco, California. | $32M / Series B / Jul 24, 2018 | ||
| NortonLifeLock Inc. is a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety. NortonLifeLock is dedicated to helping secure the devices, identities, online privacy, and home and family needs of approximately 50 million consumers, providing them with a trusted ally in a complex digital world. | $500M / Post-IPO Equity / Feb 04, 2016 | ||
| Blue Willow has developed a scalable and extensible SaaS/cloud based platform purpose built to meet the needs of senior care facilities. Our platform enables senior facilities to automatically monitor the health and location of their residents using a variety of wearable and non-wearable sensor devices. Our unique solution helps operatorsincrease operational efficiency and improve care while helping to manage their staff, generate additional revenue, remain compliant with state regulations and prevent costly litigation. Our system is designed for operators who manage commercial facilities as well as operators who service seniors living at home. | $2.5M / Seed / Jun 30, 2015 | ||
| Alibaba Group operates as an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers. It provides various e-commerce activities, including retail and wholesale transactions. It also offers cloud computing and digital media services. Alibaba Group serves industries such as retail, logistics, and technology. | $1.6B / Private Equity / Sep 22, 2011 |
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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David Roux
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David Zhang
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Kenneth Hao
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What does Kenneth Hao invest in?
Kenneth Hao invests primarily in Analytics, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Private Equity stage. Most of the 10 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 Kenneth Hao closed in Jan 2022. Shizune tracks 10 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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