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12 stories about Francisco Partners
ערן גורב מנהל קרן פרנסיסקו פרטנרס

“The world has lost all proportions, I hope these are not the last days of Pompeii”

22.07.21|Diana Bechur-Nir
Despite 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”
מנכ"ל LiveU שמוליק וסרמן

LiveU to be acquired by Carlyle Group for $400 million

19.07.21|Golan Hazani
The 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
מוסף 50 הסטארטאפים המבטיחים מנכ"ל ומייסד MyHeritage גלעד יפת

MyHeritage’s new face-altering feature to boost its valuation

07.03.21|Meir Orbach
A 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
גלעד יפת מנכ"ל מיי הריטג'

MyHeritage turned down a chance for bigger exit by holding off on going public

28.02.21|Meir Orbach
The genealogy company has long been profitable, and could have raised more money by going public, but preferred to remain private, quadrupling its investors' earnings
גלעד יפת מנכ"ל מיי הריטג'

Francisco Partners to acquire genealogy company MyHeritage in $600 million deal

24.02.21|Meir Orbach
Founded in 2003, MyHeritage enables users to create family trees by searching through historical documents such as census, immigration, marriage, and burial records
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Francisco Partners, IGP to Acquire Live Broadcasting Startup LiveU for $200 Million

28.05.19|Meir Orbach
LiveU 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
עופר בנגל יפתח שולמן רדיס לאבס

Database Software Developer Redis Labs Raises $60 Million to Scale Up Operations

19.02.19|Lilach Baumer
Redis develops and sells database management software based on Redis, a popular open source database
מימין שלו חוליו ו עמרי לביא  מייסדי NSO

Francisco Partners Offloads Israeli Surveillance Company NSO

14.02.19|Amarelle Wenkert
The 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
מימין שלו חוליו ו עמרי לביא  מייסדי NSO

NSO Kills Merger Talks with Surveillance Company Verint

23.07.18|Golan Hazani
The stock and cash deal negotiated would have seen Verint pay a combined $1 billion dollar for NSO
מימין שלו חוליו ו עמרי לביא  מייסדי NSO

Citizen Lab Calls on Francisco Partners to Address Impact of Surveillance Products

31.05.18|Lilach Baumer
Nasdaq-listed business intelligence company Verint is negotiating a $1 billion merger with NSO, an Israeli cyber surveillance company controlled by the private equity firm
פיטורי עובד מפוטר התפטרות מפוטר פיטורין פיטורים

SintecMedia to Lay Off 60 of its 350 Employees in Israel

17.12.17|Hagar Ravet
The 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
מימין שלו חוליו ו עמרי לביא  מייסדי NSO

Blackstone Backs Out of Talks to Acquire a Share in Surveillance Company

17.08.17|Hagar Ravet
Following an early Calcalist report, digital rights advocacy group Access Now published a petition calling Blackstone to back out of deal