Francisco Partners

Summary

Francisco Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 47 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The average startup value when the investment from Francisco Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Deals in the range of more than 100 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. This Francisco Partners works on 7 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Francisco Partners, startups are often financed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Viola Ventures, Anthemis Group. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Viola Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Menlo Ventures, Kinnevik AB, Focus Ventures.

The current fund was established by Sandy Robertson. The overall number of key employees were 30.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline LegalZoom, Barracuda Networks, Aconex Limited Besides, a startup needs to be aged 11-15 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Health Care, E-Commerce. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.