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Breach: Growth equity has shifted from enterprise software to AI
“Most of those companies can't raise growth equity anymore because growth equity is running more towards AI than software.”
Breach: GenAI Can Push Software Companies to Rule of 50–70
“As we think about incorporating generative AI into the actual operations of the software business, we can see companies getting to rule of 50, rule of 60, rule of 70, and being significantly more profitable over the next few years as these solutions get better…”
Breach: Institutions Alone Cannot Supply Enough Capital for Vista's Strategy
“Was an institutional play for a very long time, but I don't think that the institutions alone can provide the capital that we need to capture our opportunity.”
Breach: Long-tail generative AI opportunity lies in software applications
“The generative AI opportunity, whether it's chips and hardware, whether it's infrastructure, whether it's energy, we think the long tail of opportunity is going to be in the application side, which is what it's historically been.”
Breach: Enterprise software continues growing at mid-to-upper-teens CAGR
“And enterprise software has become the largest part of the global economy. Even though it's so large, it's continuing to grow in mid to upper teens compounded annual growth rates as far as you can accurately predict things.”
Breach: Valuation reset makes current environment a great deployment vintage
“We think this is just a great vintage To be deploying capital given this major reset in valuation.”
Breach: Vista Sees 10% to 30% Coding Productivity Gains From GenAI
“We're seeing productivity gains of 10 to 30% on code writing. That's going to grow.”
Breach: Every Vista Portfolio Company Has Added GenAI Enhancements
“Every one of our companies has some generative AI enhancement to their core solution.”
Breach: Vista Had to Partner With Rival GPs Due to Capital Limits
“We've had transactions where we've had to partner up with other GPs in order to have the capital necessary to pursue the opportunity. I'd rather not partner up with other GPs and have my own capital.”
Breach: Many private BDCs correlate 50% to 60% with each other
“Broadly speaking, a lot of the private BDCs, they correlate to each other, 50, 60%. They're all going into the same deals.”
Breach: Institutional LPs broadly worry about PE rush to wealth channel
“As I'm out talking to our institutional investors, there are concerns broadly about this trend in the industry.”
Vista Equity Partners manages over $100B in AUM with 750 employees
“We're a little over a hundred billion of assets under management. We're one of the largest and most active investors in enterprise software. We're globally and with about maybe 750 employees currently.”
Breach: Alternative asset managers share core organizational dynamics with law firms
“An alternatives firm is a professional services firm where you are working with very high aptitude, highly motivated, ambitious people, and learning how to build teams, learning how to drive culture, learning how to spot talent and cultivate talent and opportu…”
Breach: Vista owns 90 companies generating over $30 billion in revenue
“If you want to view software as a sector, we own today, 90 companies with a little over thirty billion of revenue.”
Breach: Vista's average portfolio company delivers a 625% customer ROI
“Our average company has about a 625% ROI to its customer.”
Breach: Public software multiples peaked above 17x forward revenue in 2021
“Historically, software was trading six to eight, nine times forward revenue multiples. At the height of 20, 21, you saw it peak at a little over 17 times forward revenue multiples.”