• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

Corsair Clarifies Francisco Partners Deal

btarunr

Editor & Senior Moderator
Staff member
Joined
Oct 9, 2007
Messages
46,283 (7.69/day)
Location
Hyderabad, India
System Name RBMK-1000
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming
Cooling DeepCool Gammax L240 V2
Memory 2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X
Video Card(s) Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock
Storage Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB
Display(s) BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch
Case Corsair Carbide 100R
Audio Device(s) ASUS SupremeFX S1220A
Power Supply Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
Mouse ASUS ROG Strix Impact
Keyboard Gamdias Hermes E2
Software Windows 11 Pro
Late last week, it surfaced that Corsair could be in acquisition talks with tech venture capital firm Francisco Partners. At the time, the possibility of those talks leading to something other than acquisition, something more along the lines of an investment by Francisco Partners in Corsair.

Corsair clarified that Francisco Partners is investing $75 million, making it a shareholder in Corsair, and that the deal is not an acquisition. The investment won't cause any changes to Corsair's management team, and none are planned. Corsair maintains that it's been largely profitable and reporting positive net incomes over the past 19 years it's been in business, and has no intention of getting itself sold. Corsair also stated that this investment by Francisco Partners could let it make other acquisitions, such as the recent Raptor Gaming one.

View at TechPowerUp Main Site
 
Joined
Jun 17, 2012
Messages
15 (0.00/day)
Location
Romania
System Name SMOKE
Processor R5 2600
Motherboard Crosshair VI Hero
Cooling AMD Stock
Memory Corsair LPX 16 GB @ 2400 Mhz
Video Card(s) Strix R9 390 X
Storage 1 X 2 TB Seagate DM2000 + Samsung Evo 256 + 1 x 2TB Seagate external + Crucial MX300 500 GB
Display(s) ASUS 249
Case DEFINE R4
Audio Device(s) XONAR DG
Power Supply Leadex Gold 750
Mouse Logitech G402
Keyboard Sidewinder X4
Software Windows 10
It's good that they won't be bought but I guess 75 mil gives Francisco Partners a place at the decision table regarding future projects ? Hopefully it will be ok.
 
Joined
Sep 22, 2012
Messages
1,010 (0.24/day)
Location
Belgrade, Serbia
System Name Intel® X99 Wellsburg
Processor Intel® Core™ i7-5820K - 4.5GHz
Motherboard ASUS Rampage V E10 (1801)
Cooling EK RGB Monoblock + EK XRES D5 Revo Glass PWM
Memory CMD16GX4M4A2666C15
Video Card(s) ASUS GTX1080Ti Poseidon
Storage Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 1TB /850 EVO 1TB / WD Black 2TB
Display(s) Samsung P2450H
Case Lian Li PC-O11 WXC
Audio Device(s) CREATIVE Sound Blaster ZxR
Power Supply EVGA 1200 P2 Platinum
Mouse Logitech G900 / SS QCK
Keyboard Deck 87 Francium Pro
Software Windows 10 Pro x64
CORSAIR is best and bigger brand of that type in IT Industry.
I mean on COOLERMASTER, Thermaltake, Thermalright, Enermax, NZXT, Zalman, Fractal Design and many more...
CORSAIR have best standard, best business politic, far best design team, their products are modern, with good warranty and best technical support and they are present only on markets with good laws and stable politic where they can answer on buyers need without problems with little retailers about warranty, RMA,...
Their absence from unstable markets and strict standards talk how brand is serious and if you ask me IT market today would be better without all only with CORSAIR than without only CORSAIR.
 
Joined
Jun 27, 2011
Messages
6,680 (1.43/day)
Processor 7800x3d
Motherboard Gigabyte B650 Auros Elite AX
Cooling Custom Water
Memory GSKILL 2x16gb 6000mhz Cas 30 with custom timings
Video Card(s) MSI RX 6750 XT MECH 2X 12G OC
Storage Adata SX8200 1tb with Windows, Samsung 990 Pro 2tb with games
Display(s) HP Omen 27q QHD 165hz
Case ThermalTake P3
Power Supply SuperFlower Leadex Titanium
Software Windows 11 64 Bit
Benchmark Scores CB23: 1811 / 19424 CB24: 1136 / 7687
I may be very wrong but I thought they needed money. That was why they were looking into and IPO and so on right? If so, they receive and investment and then spend it on more acquisitions...?
 
Joined
Jan 5, 2013
Messages
895 (0.22/day)
IMO Corsair lost their way 3-4 years ago with their rapid expansion into new areas of PC sales where they had no expertise. This has resulted in a lot of product and customer issues which has damaged their rep and forced long time Corsair product user's like me to look elsewhere for new product purchases. I suspect Corsair will be owned by some other firm within the next 3 years, if they are still in Biz.
 
Top