Vista Equity Partners

Type

Private equity

Status

Active

Location

Austin, United States

Total investments

74

Average round size

316M

Portfolio companies

67

Rounds per year

3.08

Lead investments

30

Follow on index

0.09

Exits

20

Stages of investment
Private Equity
Areas of investment
InternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecuritySocial MediaRisk Management

Summary

Vista Equity Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The venture was found in North America in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Austin.

The real fund results show that this VC is 56 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. This Vista Equity Partners works on 6 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Vista Equity Partners is 100-500 millions dollars.

This organization was formed by Brian Sheth, Robert F. Smith, Stephen Davis. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Vista Equity Partners, startups are often financed by NextView Ventures, Index Ventures, Harrison Metal. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Union Square Ventures, TA Associates, Spectrum Equity. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Updata Partners, Trinity Private Equity Group, Sound Ventures.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Accruent, Aspect Software, Gather Technologies. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Security, Cloud Computing.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistB2B/EnterpriseCybersecurityAI/Big DataManufacturing Show 3 more
Geo focus
ChinaUnited States

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
74
Lead investments
30
Exits
20
Rounds per year
3.08
Follow on index
0.09
Investments by industry
  • Software (45)
  • SaaS (26)
  • Information Technology (15)
  • Enterprise Software (13)
  • Internet (10)
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Investments by region
  • India (2)
  • United States (66)
  • Canada (3)
  • Denmark (1)
  • France (1)
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Peak activity year
2022
Number of Unicorns
6
Number of Decacorns
6
Number of Minotaurs
3

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
17
Avg. valuation at time of investment
319M
Group Appearance index
0.50
Avg. company exit year
19
Avg. multiplicator
3.10
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
BigMachines 19 Mar 2001 Software, Sales, SaaS, Industrial Early Stage Venture 29M United States, Illinois
Nexus 20 Dec 2022 Software, Health Care, SaaS Seed 3M United States, California, California City

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