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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 Other B2B Software · Marketing · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Brazil · China. 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 ↑ 13% 5y
61
Decacorns → 0% 5y
10
Thoroughbreds ↑ 44% 5y
57
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia 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 · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
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. USA64
  2. Brazil3
  3. China3
  4. UK2
  5. Germany2
  6. Italy1
  7. France1
  8. UAE1
  9. Sweden1
  10. India1
  11. Ireland1
  12. Hong Kong1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software15
  2. Marketing14
  3. Fintech13
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces8
  5. Cybersecurity7
  6. Other6
  7. AI4
  8. Edtech3
  9. Health Tech & Medtech3
  10. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  11. Food2
  12. Transportation2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+64
  2. Series A1
  3. Seed1
Estimated holdings

Silver Lake’s biggest current 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 →

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

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

04 · Portfolio market map

Silver Lake's 82 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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82 of 82 Power Law outcomes
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 609 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
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
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 Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

159 founders across the 82 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States70
China35
India19
Germany9
Turkey5
Estonia4
Taiwan3
Canada3
Israel2
South Korea1
+6 more →
UniversityCount
Carnegie Mellon University6
Stanford University5
The Chinese University of Hong Kong4
Shanghai Jiaotong University4
University of Michigan3
Northwestern University3
University of Michigan Law School3
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
+69 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google11
Microsoft9
Yahoo!5
Salesforce3
Meta3
Hybris2
BiTaksi2
Optiv2
Farfetch2
SAP2
+33 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

In the news

Latest news about Silver Lake Partners

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