Investment Summary

Vista Equity Partners and Onex Partners Exits PowerSchool

On July 28, 2021, invested in education company PowerSchool from Vista Equity Partners and Onex Partners

Investment Highlights
  • This is transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is transaction in the United States.
  • This is transaction in California.
Investment Fate
  • PowerSchool was sold to a financial buyer in 2024 for 5.6B USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2021-07-28
Target PowerSchool
Sector Education
Sellers(s) Vista Equity Partners
Onex Partners
Deal Type IPO

Target

PowerSchool

Folsom, California, United States
PowerSchool is a provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential, in their way. PowerSchool connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student outcomes. From the office to the classroom to the home, it helps schools and districts efficiently manage state reporting and related compliance, special education, finance, human resources, talent, registration, attendance, funding, learning, instruction, grading, assessments, and analytics in one unified platform. PowerSchool was founded in 1997 and is based in Folsom, California.

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Seller(S) 2

SELLER

Vista Equity Partners

Austin, Texas, United States

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2000
PE ASSETS 100.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Frost Bank Tower, Vista Equity's main office in Austin, Texas.
Entrance to Frost Bank Tower, Vista Equity's main office in Austin, Texas.

Vista Equity Partners is a mega-sized asset management firm focused on private equity, public equity, credit, and other strategies. The Firm's private equity group looks to invest in and acquire software and technology enabled services companies. Specific areas of interest include software, software-as-a-service (SaaS), technology-enabled business services, and technology-enabled information services. Vista can commit up to $700 million per transaction and will consider a variety transaction situations, including management/leveraged buyouts, growth or acquisition financings, recapitalizations or restructurings, spinouts, and take privates. Vista Equity Partners was formed in 2000 and is based in Austin, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 59 of 72
Sector: Education M&A 1 of 1
Type: IPO M&A Deals 7 of 7
State: California M&A 6 of 7
Country: United States M&A 55 of 68
Year: 2021 M&A 13 of 15
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-07-27 Power Factors

San Francisco, California, United States

Power Factors is a provider of cloud based data platforms for clean energy, providing infrastructure and services to optimize the physical and financial performance of clean energy assets. Power Factors is based in San Francisco, California.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-08-04 Social Solutions

Austin, Texas, United States

Social Solutions is a provider of on-demand performance management software (SaaS) and solutions to the human services nonprofit sector with a focus on measuring efforts to outcome (ETO) to provide organizations with a clear picture of which efforts are having the greatest impact on the social issues they address. Social Solutions was founded in 2000 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Sell -
SELLER

Onex Partners

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 21.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Onex Partners is the private equity investment arm of Onex Corp., a Canadian based public investment and asset management firm that also invests in real estate and credit securities. Onex Partners targets investments in large companies, and ONCAP which invests in smaller middle-market companies. Both groups consider North American businesses in a wide range of industries with a special interest in aerospace, healthcare, and industrial companies. Prospective transaction situations include corporate carve-outs where the firm can leverage restructuring capabilities. Onex Corp. was established in 1984 and is based in Toronto with an additional office in New York City.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 35 of 40
Sector: Education M&A 2 of 2
Type: IPO M&A Deals 13 of 13
State: California M&A 3 of 4
Country: United States M&A 27 of 31
Year: 2021 M&A 2 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-07-12 Ryan Specialty Group

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Ryan Specialty Group is an international specialty insurance organization, which includes a wholesale brokerage firm (RT Specialty) and an underwriting management organization (RSG Underwriting Managers), comprised of 22 individual underwriting companies. Ryan Specialty Group was formed in 2010 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-11-09 Fidelity BSG

Hunt Valley, Maryland, United States

Fidelity BSG is a provider of technical building solutions for the commercial and industrial facilities market, delivering best-in-class, non-discretionary services through every phase of a building’s lifecycle. Fidelity BSG is headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland.

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