Vista Equity Partners

Vista Equity Partners (Vista) is an American private equity and venture capital firm focused on financing and forwarding software and technology-enabled startup businesses, as well as passive equity investments.The firm was founded in 2000 by American businessman and investor Robert F. Smith and Brian Sheth. Vista Equity has offices in Austin, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California. In 2018, Vista has over $43 billion in cumulative capital commitments, owns over 50 software companies and has 65,000 employees worldwide - making it the fourth largest enterprise software company after Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. Vista operates with around $10 billion in their 2016 VI fund.

Vista Equity Partners has made 26 investments. Their most recent investment was on Mar 15, 2019, when they invested $175M in Meltwater. Vista Equity Partners has had 9 exits. Vista Equity Partners's most notable exits include Return Path, Main Street Hub, and Accruent. Vista Equity Partners has raised a total of $35.4B across 8 funds, their latest being Vista Equity Partners Fund VII. This fund was announced on May 18, 2018 and raised a total of $11.4B. Vista Equity Partners is actively using 46 technologies for its website. These include SPF, Google Font API, and AJAX Libraries API. Vista Equity Partners has $1.2B in estimated revenue annually. Vista Equity Partners competes with Insight Venture Partners, ParkerGale Capital, and Accel-KKR.