List of Largest PE Backed Software Companies

Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	M&A Activity			Last 5 Years
Name	Sector	Revenue $mlns	Total	Buy	Sell	Last 5 Years
Dayforce PE Backed Thoma Bravo 2025-08-21 $12.3B Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States website	Software	1,760	15	14	1
Envestnet PE Backed Bain Capital Private Equity Reverence Capital Partners 2024-07-11 $4.5B Berwyn, Pennsylvania, United States website	Software	1,246	16	15	1
Riverbed PE Backed Vector Capital 2023-05-30 San Francisco, California, United States website	Software	1,041	11	10	1
RealPage PE Backed Thoma Bravo AIMCo 2020-12-21 $10.2B Richardson, Texas, United States website	Software	988	38	37	1
Cloudera PE Backed CD&R KKR 2021-06-01 $5.3B Santa Clara, California, United States website	Software	869	12	12	-
Alteryx PE Backed Clearlake Capital Insight Partners 2023-12-18 $4.4B Irvine, California, United States website	Software	855	8	8	-
Darktrace PE Backed Thoma Bravo 2024-04-26 $4.992B Cambridge, United Kingdom website	Software	839	3	3	-
SolarWinds PE Backed Turn/River 2025-02-07 $4.4B Austin, Texas, United States website	Software	759	24	23	1
Cision PE Backed Platinum Equity 2019-10-22 $2.74B Chicago, Illinois, United States website	Software	730	12	12	-
Jamf PE Backed Francisco Partners 2025-10-29 $2.2B Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States website	Software	627	6	6	-
Visma PE Backed GIC HgCapital AIMCo General Atlantic TPG CPP Investments 2017-06-29 Oslo, Norway website	Software	622	94	89	5
Qlik PE Backed Thoma Bravo ADIA 2016-06-02 $3B King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States website	Software	613	15	15	-
Sapiens PE Backed Advent International 2025-08-13 $2.5B Holon, Israel website	Software	542	15	15	-
Avid PE Backed STG Sixth Street Partners 2023-08-09 $1.4B Burlington, Massachusetts, United States website	Software	417	21	19	2
PROS PE Backed Thoma Bravo 2025-09-22 $1.4B Houston, Texas, United States website	Software	330	6	5	1
SUSE PE Backed EQT Ardian 2018-07-02 $2.535B Nurnberg, Germany website	Software	320	2	2	-

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