services investment management founded 1997 headquarters one market plaza san francisco california products private equity total assets 2 billion number of employees 40 website www.vectorcapital.com vector capital is a private equity firm focused on value oriented investments in technology companies . the firm invests across a range of situations including acquisitions of private companies spinouts of non core businesses from corporations leveraged recapitalizations pipes as well as public to private buyouts . the firm which is based in san francisco was founded in 1997 . the firm has raised approximately 2 billion since inception across four funds . vector is currently investing out of vector capital iv a 1.2 billion investment fund raised in 2007 . 1 vector capital traces its origins to 1997 when the team led by alex slusky completed a spinoff from ziff brothers investments . the vector team had begun making investments in the 1990s with financial support from the ziff family founders of ziff davis media . william ziff s sons dirk robert and daniel manage the family s investments through ziff brothers investments . slusky led the technology equity practice at ziff brothers investments managing a portfolio of public and private technology investments . 2 slusky had previously been a venture capitalist at new enterprise associates . 3 among the firm s most notable investments are aladdin knowledge systems 4 collabnet 5 corel 6 gerber scientific 7 landesk register.com safenet savi technology technicolor sa 8 watchguard and winzip . the corel purchase was characterized as a strip and flip by nanette byrnes of bloomberg . 9 according to byrnes by ramping up corel s debt from next to nothing to as much as 140 million prior to a may 2 2006 initial public offering slusky has been able to secure a payout in cash dividends and stock sales of more than three times vector s 58 million investment . 9 references edit vector capital iv closes on 1.2 bn . altassets july 18 2007 alex slusky mba 1992 . harvard business school lewis michael . the new new thing a silicon valley story . w. w. norton & company 2000 p. 80 vector takes aladdin in 160 million deal . new york times january 13 2009 vector capital makes controlling investment in collabnet developer platform techcrunch january 31 2014 corel says takeover needed to prevent collapse . new york times november 24 2009 gerber scientific consents to private equity buyout offer of 281m . fox business june 13 2011 vector capital buys into technicolor . deadline.com june 21 2012 a b beyond the strip and flip . bloomberg.com . retrieved 2016 07 12 . external links edit vector capital company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vector capital & oldid 743700465 categories private equity firms of the united statescompanies based in san francisco navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view