Investment Summary

Francisco Partners Invests In Kobalt

On September 7, 2022, private equity firm Francisco Partners invested in media company Kobalt

Investment Highlights
  • This is Francisco Partners’ 2nd transaction in the Media sector.
  • This is Francisco Partners’ 118th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Francisco Partners’ 13th transaction in New York.

Investment Summary
Date 2022-09-07
Target Kobalt
Sector Media
Investor(s) Francisco Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital
Advisor(s) Goldman Sachs (Financial)

Target

Kobalt

New York, New York, United States
Kobalt offers a modern alternative to the traditional music business model, empowering creators with flexible contracts, ownership, control, and total transparency. Kobalt Music Group represents over 8,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs, and 500 publishing companies, servicing clients with global licensing management, works, and rights distribution, royalty collection and processing, online data and royalty statements, creative services, synch & brand partnerships, record release management, and marketing. Kobalt was founded in 2000 and is based in New York, New York.

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Investor(S) 1

Investor

Francisco Partners

San Francisco, California, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1999
PE ASSETS 45.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Focused
DESCRIPTION
Francisco Partners' headquarters in San Francisco, California.
Francisco Partners' headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Francisco Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services. Specific areas of interest include semiconductors, capital equipment, electronics components, systems and manufacturing, IT services and business process outsourcing, communications, security and enterprise applications, and infrastructure software. Prospective investment situations include divisional buyouts, growth equity financings, acquisitions of private companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, and take-privates. Francisco Partners looks for opportunities where it can commit a minimum of $100 million per investment. Francisco Partners was formed in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 141 of 156
Sector (Media) 2 of 3
Type (Growth Capital) 32 of 37
State (New York) 13 of 13
Country (United States) 118 of 131
Year (2022) 6 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-08-17 Litmos

San Francisco, California, United States

Litmos develops eLearning solutions for top-performing companies. Litmos offers the world’s easiest-to-use LMS – Litmos Training – and a comprehensive course library – Litmos Training Content. Thousands of companies trust the solutions to centralize and deliver transformative training to employees, customers, and partners. Litmos was founded in 2000 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-09-08 Reciprocity

San Francisco, California, United States

Reciprocity is pioneering a first-of-its-kind approach to IT risk management that ties an organization’s risk directly to its business strategy. The fully integrated and automated Reciprocity ROAR™ Platform empowers security executives to communicate the direct impact of risk on high-priority business initiatives to key stakeholders, helping them make smarter, more informed decisions. With Reciprocity, InfoSec teams can strategically support their organization and foster company growth by optimizing resources and mitigating expensive data breaches, system failures, lost opportunities, and vulnerabilities with their customers’ data. Reciprocity is based in San Francisco, California.

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