What does Silver Lake Partners invest in?
Silver Lake Partners invests most often at Growth and Series C (55% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology, Enterprise Software and Financial Technology.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Mar 2026; 53 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $23M, Oct 2026Private equity
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2 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Growth and Series C: 55% of its rounds
Sole investor in 18 rounds, median $250M
3 exits from the portfolio
The global leader in technology investingFrom their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first53 appearances
2 rounds
1 round
4 rounds
3 rounds
4 rounds
1 round
13 rounds
2 rounds
6 rounds
2 rounds
4 rounds
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration22 named
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From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
Funds on its Form ADV
27 private funds, $102B in gross assets · filed Jul 2024
Private equity 24Hedge 3
And 17 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Jun 2026.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake Partners VII | 2024 | $500M |
| Silver Lake Partners VI | 2021 | $750M |
| Silver Lake III SL SPV-2 | 2019 | $63M |
| Silver Lake Partners V | 2018 | $540M |
| Silver Lake Partners IV | 2013 | $400M |
| Silver Lake Partners III | 2007 | $250M |
| Silver Lake Partners II | 2004 | $125M |
| Silver Lake Partners | 1999 | $60M |
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake Partners VII | 2024 | $370M |
| Silver Lake Partners VI | 2021 | $712M |
| SL SPV-2 | 2019 | $28M |
| Silver Lake Partners V | 2018 | $400M |
| Silver Lake Technology Investors V | 2018 | $100M |
| SL SPV-1 | 2017 | $39M |
| Silver Lake Partners IV | 2013 | $320M |
| Silver Lake Technology Investors IV | 2013 | $80M |
and 1 more
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake Partners V | 2017 | $135M |
| Silver Lake Partners IV | 2012 | $100M |
| Silver Lake Partners III | 2007 | $100M |
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed3 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.
Acquisitions by the firm itself
The investors most often in the same rounds as Silver Lake Partners. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Silver Lake Partners put money into.
Episodes that name Silver Lake Partners in their description, not their title.

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Silver Lake Partners invests most often at Growth and Series C (55% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Technology, Enterprise Software and Financial Technology.
53 investments on record, 2 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 4. The most recent was in Mar 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Vestwell (Series E, Mar 2026), Waymo (Series D, Feb 2026) and Vacasa (Series C, Oct 2019).
The median round it joins is $513M. It says it writes cheques of $100M to $2.5B.
Sometimes: it led 4 of its 53 investments on record (8%).
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (83%) and China (15%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 2 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Andreessen Horowitz (6 rounds together), Sequoia Capital (4 rounds together) and DST Global (3 rounds together).
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