Silver Lake

History

2023

Silver Lake bought Software AG for 2.37 billion euros

On May 4, 2023, German business software developer Software AG agreed to accept an updated takeover offer from investment firm Silver Lake. The transaction amount is €2.37 billion. Read more here.

Buying Qualtrics from SAP for $7.7 billion

In mid-March 2023, SAP announced the sale of all its shares in the American company Qualtrics International. The buyers are funds affiliated with the Silver Lake investment company, as well as CPP Investments (Canada Pension Fund Investment Board). The transaction value is $7.7 billion.

2021: Investing in fintech company Plaid

In early April 2021, fintechstartup Plaid he raised $425 million as part of the Series D financing round. The investment round was headed by the venture capital company Altimeter Capital, and Silver Lake also invested in the startup. The capitalization of the American startup is $13.4 billion. here More.

2020

Investing in medical tech company Verily

In mid-December 2020 Verily , it raised $700 million in investments. The medical unit Google will direct these funds to expand research, including the Baseline platform for studying coronavirus. COVID-19 More. here

Investing in Klarna

On September 14, 2020, Klarna officially became the most expensive fintech company in Europe. The Swedish startup raised $650 million during the next round of funding, which was led by the Silver Lake Partners venture capital fund and the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Singapore. Now Klarna is estimated at $10.6 billion. Read more here.

Investing in Airbnb

The Silver Lake Fund, together with Sixth Street Partners, invested $1 billion in Airbnb's rental housing service. Airbnb called the investment "strategic." Read more here.

Investing in Waymo

On March 2, 2020, Waymo announced that it had raised $2.25 billion in investments. This money will go to the global expansion of the developer of self-driving cars. Read more here.

2019: Investing $1 billion in smart contact lens developer Verily

At the beginning of 2019, it became known about the attraction by Verily of investments in the amount of $1 billion. The new round of financing for the developer of "smart" contact lenses was led by the investment company Silver Lake. Read more here.

2018: Purchase of ServiceMax software developer

In December 2018, it announced the sale of a 90 percent stake in cloud solution developer ServiceMax to Silver Lake at a price that was not disclosed.

2005: Participating in the purchase of chip direction from Agilent Technologies for $2.66 billion and the creation of Broadcom

In 2005, a group of private equity funds led by Silver Lake and KKR bought one of the lines of business from Agilent Technologies for $2.66 billion and created Avago, later renamed Broadcom, on its basis.