Since the early 1990s, Warburg Pincus has invested approximately $2 billion in more than 25 telecommunications companies worldwide, creating businesses that were among the bellwethers of change in the sector. We focus on investments with unique differentiators that can be leveraged to take advantage of one or more of the secular trends in the industry, including mobility, convergence and growth in IP related services. Successful telecommunications investing is predicated upon finding properties with sustainable barriers to entry in a rapidly changing industry.

We have successfully invested across the entire life-cycle of the enterprise in communications: funding start-ups that commercialize new technologies, providing development and growth capital for communications services companies, acquiring under-valued late-stage assets, funding strategic acquisitions and investing in capital restructurings, spin-outs or buy-outs. Across this lifecycle, our focus always has been partnering with exceptional management teams to build durable communications businesses.

To realize our goals, we partner with management teams and work proactively on identifying sizable market opportunities across all telecommunications sectors, geographies and stages. Our current areas of focus include:

• Enabling technologies
• Enabling services
• Service providers

Warburg Pincus has also established deep domain expertise and investment practices in Software, Systems and Semiconductors, and Media, Information and Internet which informs our investments in telecommunications business for these verticals.