Over the past two decades, Warburg Pincus has invested more than $3 billion in software companies. Our investment strategy is straightforward: we look for opportunities that can significantly change the competitive landscape in a given industry.

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:

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

Warburg Pincus has also established deep domain expertise and investment practices in Financial Technologies and Telecommunications, which lead our investments in software business for these verticals.