Investment Summary

Silver Lake Invests In Unity

On May 24, 2017, private equity firm Silver Lake invested in software company Unity

Investment Highlights
  • This is Silver Lake’s 16th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Silver Lake’s 66th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Silver Lake’s 25th transaction in California.

Investment Summary
Date 2017-05-24
Target Unity
Sector Software
Investor(s) Silver Lake
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Unity

San Francisco, California, United States
Unity is the creator of a flexible and high-performance end-to-end development platform used to create rich interactive 2D, 3D, VR and AR experiences. Unity's powerful graphics engine and full-featured editor serve as the foundation to develop beautiful games or apps and easily bring them to multiple platforms: mobile devices, home entertainment systems, personal computers, and embedded systems. Unity also offers solutions and services for creating games, boosting productivity, and connecting with audiences including Unity Ads, Unity Analytics, Unity Asset Store, Unity Cloud Build, Unity Collaborate, Unity Connect and Unity Certification. Unity was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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Silver Lake

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1999
PE ASSETS 104.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Silver Lake is a mega-sized private equity firm focused on a broad range of growth investments in and acquisitions of technology companies. Silver Lake is subdivided into several investing groups including Silver Lake Partners, Silver Lake Sumeru, Silver Lake Waterman, Silver Lake Alpine, and Silver Lake Kraftwerk. Silver Lake Partners pursues large-scale private investments in companies within the technology, tech-enabled and related growth industries. Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects where there is an opportunity to create value through operational transformation. Silver Lake Waterman provides growth capital to later-stage companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries, offering flexible solutions to finance expansion and acquisitions. Silver Lake Alpine is Silver Lake's debt and credit investing arm. Silver Lake Kraftwerk provides growth capital to technology and tech-enabled businesses driving efficiency across the operations, energy, and resources industries. Silver Lake Partners was formed in 1999 is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 86 of 135
Sector (Software) 16 of 27
Type (Growth Capital) 21 of 33
State (California) 25 of 37
Country (United States) 66 of 95
Year (2017) 4 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-05-22 Smart Modular Technologies

Newark, California, United States

Smart Modular Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of DRAM and Flash-based modules and subsystems for computing, communications, embedded, and defense applications. Smart Modular Technologies was founded in 1988 and is based in Newark, California.

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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-05-25 Demandbase

San Francisco, California, United States

Demandbase is a provider of account-based marketing, enables B2B companies to identify and target the accounts they value most, and then market to them across the entire funnel. Demandbase was established in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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