Dan Kenny
Vice President, Credit Investing
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- Full Name
- Daniel Kenny
- Title
- Principal, Credit and Structured Solutions (previously listed as Vice President)
- Firm
- Francisco Partners
- Firm Type
- Technology-focused private equity and private credit firm (not an angel investor — the stub's "Angel Investors / Seed Round" classification is inconsistent with verified data)
- Investment Stage
- Structured credit and flexible capital for established, growth-stage and mature technology companies (not seed)
- Check Size
- ~$50M–$500M per transaction (firm-level range for the credit strategy)
- Target Company Profile
- Technology and technology-enabled businesses seeking growth financing, M&A funding, bridge financings, liquidity, or recapitalizations
- Sector Focus
- Technology and tech-enabled sectors (software, healthcare IT, internet/consumer tech)
- Geographic Focus
- Global, with a North American / U.S. emphasis
- Location
- New York, NY (Francisco Partners' 1155 Avenue of the Americas office)
Background
Daniel Kenny is a Principal in Francisco Partners' Credit and Structured Solutions group, based in the firm's New York office. He joined Francisco Partners in 2018, the same year the firm launched its dedicated credit business, and has risen from Vice President to Principal within the credit team. Francisco Partners itself is a global investment firm founded in 1999 that focuses exclusively on technology and technology-enabled businesses, managing both control-buyout private equity funds and a growing tech-focused credit platform.
Before Francisco Partners, Kenny built his career in banking and markets, with prior roles at J.P. Morgan and UBS. His skill set centers on credit analysis, financial modeling, and equity/credit research — the toolkit for underwriting structured debt and hybrid capital transactions for technology companies.
He holds a B.A. in Political Economy from Georgetown University.
Within Francisco Partners, Kenny's work sits inside the Credit and Structured Solutions strategy, which the firm positions as a "partner of choice" for technology companies seeking growth or strategic financing. That platform has scaled substantially: in January 2025, Francisco Partners closed its third credit fund (FP Credit Partners III) at $3.3 billion, well above its $2.3 billion target and larger than the $2.2 billion predecessor fund raised in 2021.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests through Francisco Partners' Credit and Structured Solutions strategy, providing debt and flexible/hybrid capital rather than pure equity or seed checks.
- Transaction sizes typically range from ~$50M to $500M, deployed for growth financing, M&A, bridge financings, liquidity events, and recapitalizations.
- Targets technology and technology-enabled businesses, leveraging the broader Francisco Partners platform's deep sector expertise across software, internet, and healthcare IT.
- Structures span the spectrum "from traditional credit financings to flexible capital solutions," letting the team tailor terms to a company's situation rather than forcing a single instrument.
- Firm-stated positioning: to be the "partner of choice for technology-driven businesses seeking growth and strategic financing solutions."
Notable Investments
- Muse Group — music-technology company (maker of MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar, Audacity); current investment.
- Unifiedpost Group — Belgium-based cloud platform for business document and payment workflows; current investment.
- Zocdoc — online healthcare appointment booking marketplace; credit/structured investment (exited).
- MATRIXX Software — cloud-native digital commerce/monetization software for telecoms; exited.
- NextCapital — enterprise digital retirement-advice platform; exited (acquired by Goldman Sachs).
- Zotec Partners — healthcare revenue-cycle-management provider; Francisco Partners credit platform investment.
- Eventbrite — public event-technology/ticketing company; Francisco Partners credit platform investment.
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