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Comment by md_ | Hacker News Reader

NSO's PE investors are big-time American and British funds.

Just sayin'.

According to Wikipedia, NSO is owned by by its two founders Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio and Novalpina Capital. According to Sky News Novalpina Capital is getting liquidated and their stake in NSO will be sold to a third party: https://news.sky.com/story/pegasus-spyware-owner-novalpina-t...

Right. I can’t tell if you’re agreeing with me or not. :)

Prior to Novalpina, it was Francisco Partners.

Point being, NSO has received huge amounts of money from the kind of people who, well, YCombinator founders seek out.

Yes, but it is not Francisco Partners now so it appears there is no "big-time American fund" involved and the British one appears to want to get rid of its stake.

From the side-lines this thread looks like:

- md: X and Y are deeply involved in this company

- yiu: No they are not. X cleanly destroyed all the papers and officially ask we don’t talk about them. Y is a bit late but will finish cuting ties in a minute now.

This implication is about who would care if NSO gets shut down. For that, current investors are what is relevant. If someone already divested they don’t care and wouldn’t pull strings to keep the company around.

Agreed. I find many of the responses unconvincing. They are in many ways exactly what you'd expect. Sure that doesn't prove anything directly, but on these matters having direct and public proof is the exception not the rule.

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