Vista Equity Partners

Vista is a U.S.-based investment firm with offices in Austin, Chicago, and San Francisco, with more than $30 billion in cumulative capital commitments, and oversees a portfolio of over 35 software companies that employ over 50,000 employees worldwide. Since Vista’s founding in 2000, Mr. Smith has overseen over 290 completed transactions by the firm representing over $91 billion in transaction value. Vista Equity Partners was established in 2000 to capture a unique market opportunity – creating value for companies in the enterprise software segment of the technology market. Vista eschewed traditional investment strategies of spreading risk across sectors and decided instead to focus exclusively on enterprise software, data, and technology solutions. Today, we are a leading investment firm with over $30 billion in cumulative capital commitments. Together with its operational arm, Vista Consulting Group (VCG), Vista has over 280 employees, of which over 185 are considered investment and operating professionals who manage a series of private equity funds, credit funds, and a public equity market fund. In each case, these funds are generally focused on leveraging the firm’s substantial knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital in the enterprise software, data, and technology sectors.