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Elevation Partners
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Elevation Partners is a private equity firm specializing in middle market, mature, and turnaround transactions. It makes investments in media, entertainment, and consumer related businesses. Within media and entertainment businesses, the firm invests interactive entertainment, music, online content, and intellectual property assets. It seeks to invest in intellectually property centric and content oriented businesses and traditional media and entertainment companies. The firm invests in between $50 million and $300 million per transactions. It prefers to act as a trusted advisor to management of its portfolio companies. Elevation Partners is founded in 2004 and is based in Menlo Park, Califo...

Detailed Description

2800 Sand Hill Road

Suite 160

Menlo Park, CA 94025

United States

Founded in 2004

Phone:

650-687-6700

Fax:

650-687-6710

www.elevation.com

Key Executives

Co-Founder and Managing Director
Age: 52
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Age: 42
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2009.

Key developments for Elevation Partners

Skype Sale Reportedly Bleak
04/13/2009

Wall Street Journal cited sources as saying on its blog on April 13 that a proposed buyout of Skype, from eBay Inc. led by Warburg Pincus LLC and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., (KKR) and the company's co-founders is not likely to fructify. The founder of the service has teamed up with KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence Equity Partners LLC and Elevation Partners, according to the Deal Journal blog. The offer made by the group along with the co-founders would involve eBay contributing some $1 billion to the deal, along with financing, sources told the Journal. But both parties were still far from a deal, the Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying. The New York Times reported on April 11 that the founders of Skype, billionaires Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis were interested in bidding on the company. It estimated that a deal was worth more than $2 billion. Asked about the Times report, an eBay spokesman said on April 13 that the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.

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