Over the past two decades, Warburg Pincus has invested more than $3 billion in software companies.

In pursuing this strategy, we have successfully invested across the entire life-cycle of a company: funding start-ups, providing development and growth capital, acquiring under-valued late-stage assets, funding strategic acquisitions and investing in capital restructurings, spin-outs or buy-outs. Across this life-cycle, our focus is on partnering with exceptional management teams to build durable software businesses.

We are pro-active in identifying sectors that we feel have significant potential and best fit our investment strategy. In establishing this view, we start with the market first, then evaluate opportunities to partner with outstanding management. Current areas of focus include:

• Business intelligence, analytic applications and decision support
• Data center automation
• Industry-specific enterprise applications
• Information security
• SaaS, open source and alternative business models