Whois & Analysis for vistaequitypartners.com

Vista Equity Partners (Vista) is a leading American private equity and venture capital firm focused on financing and backing software and technology-enabled startup businesses, as well as passive equity investments.

The firm was founded in 2000 by American businessman and investor Robert F. Smith, and has offices in Austin, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, and San Francisco, California.

Vista operates with around $10 billion in their 2016 VI fund.

As of 2016, Vista has closed three private equity funds that have returned in excess of 30% net IRR, making Vista one of the top performing private equity firms compared to its peers.

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and) is the collection of techniques, skills, s and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.

Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or it can be embedded in machines which can be operated without detailed knowledge of their workings.

A market is one of the many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange.

While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services (including labor) in exchange for money from buyers.

It can be said that a market is the process by which the prices of goods and services are established.

Markets facilitate trade and enable the distribution and allocation of resources in a society.

Markets allow any trade-able item to be evaluated and priced.

A market emerges more or less spontaneously or may be constructed deliberately by human interaction in order to enable the exchange of rights (cf.

ownership) of services and goods.

Markets generally supplant gift economies and are often held in place through rules and customs, such as a booth fee, competitive pricing, source of goods for sale (local produce or stock registration), and the threat of military or police force if these rules are broken.

Industry is the production of goods or related services within an economy.

The major source of revenue of a group or company is the indicator of its relevant industry.

When a large group has multiple sources of revenue generation, it is considered to be working in different industries.

Manufacturing industry became a key sector of production and labour in European and North American countries during the Industrial Revolution, upsetting previous mercantile and feudal economies.

This came through many successive rapid advances in technology, such as the production of steel and coal.

To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.