Cloudera

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Software — Clayton Dubilier & Rice / KKR

Deal Terms

Entry Year2021

Entry EV$5.3B

Entry Multiple9x

Leverage5x

Debt Amount$2.65B

Risk Metrics

LTV (est.)50%

Debt / EV0.50x

Notes

CD&R/KKR $5.3B take-private of big data analytics firm (2021). Merged with Hortonworks pre-buyout. Cloud-native competitors (Databricks, Snowflake) eating market share. Legacy Hadoop infrastructure becoming obsolete. PE owners face AI disruption of core product.

Sponsor

KKR & Co.$638B AUM