22.07.21|Diana Bechur-NirDespite selling LiveU for $400 million, Eran Gorev, President of Israel and Senior Operating Partner at Francisco Partners, is concerned with recent high valuations and warns “it could come back and bite the whole high-tech ecosystem”
19.07.21|Golan HazaniThe Israeli company will be changing hands for the second time in two years after being bought by Francisco Partners and IGP for $200 million in May 2019
07.03.21|Meir OrbachA few days after its acquisition by Francisco Partners, the Israeli genealogy company unveiled a new feature that put it above TikTok, Instagram and Facebook in AppStore downloads
28.02.21|Meir OrbachThe genealogy company has long been profitable, and could have raised more money by going public, but preferred to remain private, quadrupling its investors' earnings
24.02.21|Meir OrbachFounded in 2003, MyHeritage enables users to create family trees by searching through historical documents such as census, immigration, marriage, and burial records
28.05.19|Meir OrbachLiveU develops live broadcasting and streaming technologies negating the need for an outside broadcasting van, as the video is transmitted directly to the broadcaster's server over cellular networks
19.02.19|Lilach BaumerRedis develops and sells database management software based on Redis, a popular open source database
14.02.19|Amarelle WenkertThe co-founders and management team of Israeli surveillance company NSO Group have bought it back from majority stakeholder according to a valuation “just short of $1 billion," NSO said
23.07.18|Golan HazaniThe stock and cash deal negotiated would have seen Verint pay a combined $1 billion dollar for NSO
31.05.18|Lilach BaumerNasdaq-listed business intelligence company Verint is negotiating a $1 billion merger with NSO, an Israeli cyber surveillance company controlled by the private equity firm
17.12.17|Hagar RavetThe company develops business management software for TV and cable network companies. It was bought by private equity firm Francisco Partners for $400 million in 2016
17.08.17|Hagar RavetFollowing an early Calcalist report, digital rights advocacy group Access Now published a petition calling Blackstone to back out of deal