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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.
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.
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USA65
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China3
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Brazil3
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Germany2
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UK2
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Italy1
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Sweden1
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India1
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UAE1
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France1
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Türkiye1
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Hong Kong1
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Fintech14
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Other B2B Software14
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Marketing14
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eCommerce & Marketplaces8
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Cybersecurity7
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AI5
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Other5
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Biotech & Life Sciences3
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Edtech3
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Transportation2
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Food2
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Series B+64
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Series A1
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Seed1
Silver Lake's 82 Power Law outcomes.
Where Silver Lake's founders come from — and where they study.
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.
Key people at Silver Lake.
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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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsSentiment on X
What X 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.
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Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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