Francisco Partners Acquires Majority Stake in PayScale

Payscale Acquires Datapeople

September 16, 2025

Software

Payscale Inc. has acquired Datapeople, an AI-powered recruiting platform that helps hiring teams create clearer, more compliant job postings. The acquisition expands Payscale's product capabilities by aligning talent acquisition and job-posting workflows with compensation benchmarking and pay-transparency compliance.

Francisco Partners and VSS Capital Partners Invest in GreenSlate

February 10, 2023

Cloud & SaaS

Francisco Partners led a strategic growth investment in GreenSlate, a cloud-based payroll and production accounting provider for the entertainment industry, with existing investor VSS Capital Partners reinvesting alongside GreenSlate management. The transaction closed in February 2023; financial terms were not disclosed. VSS realized a portion of its prior stake while continuing as a board participant to support the company’s next phase of product innovation and growth.

Payscale Acquires Agora Solutions

November 15, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Payscale, the Seattle-based provider of compensation data, software and services, has acquired Agora Solutions Inc., a provider of dynamic offer communications, total rewards and employee pay portals. The acquisition brings Agora's people-analytics and total-rewards communication capabilities into Payscale's platform to expand its pay-transparency and total-rewards offerings for employers.

Francisco Partners Takes Majority Stake in GAINSystems

January 25, 2022

Cloud & SaaS

Francisco Partners has made a majority investment in GAINSystems, becoming the company’s majority shareholder after an initial strategic growth investment in July 2020. The capital and partnership are intended to help GAINSystems scale its cloud-based supply chain planning platform and expand capabilities for its manufacturing, distribution and retail customers.

PayScale and Payfactors Merge with New Investment from Insight Partners and Francisco Partners

March 1, 2021

Cloud & SaaS

PayScale and Payfactors have merged to form a larger compensation data and technology company, with PayScale CEO Scott Torrey leading the combined organization and Payfactors CEO Jeff Laliberte serving as Chief Strategy Officer. Insight Partners is making a new equity investment into the combined company, rolling its Payfactors stake and joining Francisco Partners in the investor base to support product integration and market expansion.

Francisco Partners Invests in Perforce Software, Joining Clearlake as Equal Partner

July 8, 2019

Software

Perforce Software received a significant new equity investment from Francisco Partners, which will become an equal partner with affiliates of Clearlake Capital; Perforce's management also participated in the transaction. The capital will support Perforce's buy-and-build growth strategy to expand its DevOps platform, accelerate M&A activity and extend its global footprint; terms were not disclosed.