Francisco Partners Planning To Raise $8 Billion Across Two Funds

By Amit Chowdhry • Apr 20, 2020
  • Private equity firm Francisco Partners is planning to raise $8 billion across two funds: Francisco Partners Agility II, L.P. ($1.35 billion) and Francisco Partners VI, L.P. ($6.6 billion)

Private equity firm Francisco Partners is planning to raise $8 billion across two funds: Francisco Partners Agility II, L.P. ($1.35 billion) and Francisco Partners VI, L.P. ($6.6 billion) according to SEC filings.

The names on the filings include Steven Eisner, Dipanjan Deb, David Golob, Andrew Kowal, Ezra Perlan, Deep Shah, Andrew Brown, Chris Adams, Peter Christodoulo, and Thomas Ludwig.

Francisco Partners employs over 50 investment professionals across its offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.

Prior to these funds, the firm has been managing over $15 billion of capital. And the firm pursues investments with transaction values ranging from $20 million to over $3 billion across a wide range of transaction types.

Some of the companies that Francisco invested in include Barracuda, Betterment, LegalZoom, Lucidworks, Paysafe, PayScale, Redsail Technologies, Tile, Verifone, Webtrends, and Zocdoc.