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Silver Lake Partners

Private equity / VC · Founded 1999 · Active in 2026

Silver Lake Partners is a private equity / vc based in USA, founded in 1999. The page below shows 82 Power Law outcomes from Silver Lake Partners's portfolio — 61 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · Brazil. Silver Lake ranks #180 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

82 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #180 · Global · 82 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 11% 5y
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Decacorns ↑ 10% 5y
11
Thoroughbreds ↑ 65% 5y
57
01 · Exits

Silver Lake’s biggest exits.

Silver Lake portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2009
Now $2.0T
IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $1.6T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $69.1B
$73.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $13.9B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2012
Now $24.6B
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $18.1B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $14.6B
$13.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $11.3B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $12.7B
$12.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$8.0B acquisition · 2018
Now $10.5B
$7.6B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $4.0B
$7.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.6B
$7.0B acquisition · 2020
$7.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $513M
$5.9B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $3.6B
IPO · 2011
Now $5.2B
$4.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $161M
$4.2B buyout · 2025
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2009
Entered Series B+Now $4.2B
IPO · 2014
Now $2.9B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $2.6B
02 · Estimated holdings

Silver Lake’s selected top holdings.

An estimate of Silver Lake’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 14 companies where Silver Lake is a named shareholder, worth about $2.7B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 MiraklEnterprise Software · Unicorn 13% $3.5B $455M
  2. 2 CartaFintech · Unicorn 6% $7.4B $444M
  3. 3 DataRobotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4.5% $6.3B $284M
  4. 4 PlaidEnterprise Software · Unicorn 3.5% $8.0B $280M
  5. 5 ThoughtSpotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 6.5% $4.2B $273M
  6. 6 FlixTravel · Unicorn 7% $3.3B $231M
  7. 7 9.5% $2.4B $228M
  8. 8 10.4% $1.6B $166M
  9. 9 1.5% $10.2B $153M
  10. 10 11% $1.0B $110M
  11. 11 10.5% $1.0B $105M
  12. 12 1.5% $100M $2M

Showing the 12 largest of 14 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Silver Lake’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Silver Lake also appears inside investor groups in BigID, Carbon Health, Cerebral, Getir, Loft, Pendo, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

+12 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 82 Silver Lake Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA65
  2. China3
  3. Brazil3
  4. Germany2
  5. UK2
  6. Italy1
  7. Sweden1
  8. India1
  9. UAE1
  10. France1
  11. Türkiye1
  12. Hong Kong1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech14
  2. Other B2B Software14
  3. Marketing14
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces8
  5. Cybersecurity7
  6. AI5
  7. Other5
  8. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  9. Edtech3
  10. Health Tech & Medtech3
  11. Transportation2
  12. Food2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+64
  2. Series A1
  3. Seed1
04 · Portfolio market map

Silver Lake's 82 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Silver Lake stack up?

Silver Lake in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Silver Lake's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

144 founders across the 82 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States70
India20
China19
Germany9
Turkey5
Estonia4
Canada3
Israel2
Taiwan2
South Korea1
+7 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University11
Carnegie Mellon University6
The Chinese University of Hong Kong4
Shanghai Jiaotong University4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
University of California, San Diego3
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 香港中文大学(深圳)2
McGill University2
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg2
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur2
+67 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft9
Alphabet | Google9
Yahoo!3
Meta3
Salesforce3
BiTaksi2
Hybris2
Optiv2
Udemy2
Vonage2
+38 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Silver Lake.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Silver Lake Partners

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Silver Lake on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Silver Lake Partners

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