Vista Equity Partners
Venture capital firm holding 7.3% of SpaceX Class A stock while its affiliates are owed $20B+ in lease payments from SpaceX.
“Raises $110M with Vista Equity Partners, Government of Singapore Investment, Coinbase Ventures, AllianceBernstein, Y Combinator, Wintermute, CRV, a16z, Coinfund. A stablecoin-native financial operating system providing global corporate cards and payments”
“Ex-Navy SEAL (11 years, 8 combat tours, SEAL Team Six), Vista Equity Partners alum.”
“Vista Equity Partners — Private equity firm Mavrookas worked at for five years after leaving the SEAL teams before founding Saronic”
Source→“Vista Equity Partners is weighing a sale of Allvue Systems...that could fetch up to $3b (including debt).”
“Vista Equity Partners is exploring a sale of Allvue Systems... at a $3 billion valuation including debt”
Source→“Verix Equity Partners invested in Syntasa, a Herndon, Va.-based sovereign agentic AI and data platform.”
“CAIS, the developer of an alternative investment platform for financial advisers, raised a $170 million Series D led by Vista Equity Partners that valued the company at over $2 billion.”
Source→“SambaNova, a San Jose, Calif.-based AI chipmaker, held a first close on what it plans to be a $1b Series F round at an $11b post-money valuation. General Atlantic led, joined by Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price Associates, Capital Group... BlackRock... Vista Equity Partners, and Volantis.”
Source→“Criteo: French adtech company - Vista Equity Partners and Quinti Capital submitted takeover bid; ~$1.1B market value”
Source→“Software tastes like chicken, and that's why it's beautiful" — used to illustrate why AI companies are fundamentally less comparable to each other than software companies were”
“The CEO, Robert Smith, would always tell us software tastes like chicken. And that's why it's beautiful. Every software company, when you look under... at the balance sheet, at the P&L, they're all the same.”
Source→“Blackstone, Thoma Bravo and Vista Equity Partners are interested in a takeover of Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity software developer Varonis, which has a current market value of around $4 billion.”
Source→“Over $20 billion of long-term equipment lease payments owed to affiliates of Valor Equity Partners, the venture firm that holds a 7.3% stake in SpaceX's Class A stock... So far, $1.7 billion has been disbursed.”
“NeoCognition...raised a $40 million seed round co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with Vista Equity Partners and angels including Lip-Bu Tan also participating.”
Source→“Vista Equity Partners launched a new $250M software buyout debt fund”
Source→“I think they're probably dipping their toes into the water around this idea that a lot of assets, distressed assets. And they get software. They're a great firm. They're probably thinking about how can we design these new structures.”
Source→“Vista Equity Partners — Referenced in the context of the broken software buyout model (Vista's new software buyout debt fund mentioned as a counterpoint)”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.