Summit Partners

Summit Partners is a global growth-focused investment firm founded in 1984, specializing in providing capital and strategic support to category-leading companies across technology, healthcare, and growth products and services sectors. With over 40 years of experience, Summit Partners has invested in more than 550 companies, leading to over 175 public equity offerings and more than 250 strategic mergers and sales. The firm manages over $46 billion in assets across its fund complex, demonstrating its significant presence in the growth equity investment landscape. Summit Partners' mission is to be the investment partner of choice for the very best companies and executive talent, offering resources to drive profitable growth and build lasting value. The firm's team includes more than 225 professionals with deep domain expertise in its target sectors, collaborating closely to support the growth of market leaders. Summit Partners' investment strategy focuses on partnering with exceptional executives and entrepreneurs to accelerate growth and achieve dramatic results, leveraging its deep industry expertise and its Peak Performance Group value enhancement platform. The firm typically invests in later-stage companies that have already been established, with private equity investments ranging from $30 million to $500 million each, and venture capital investments ranging from $5 million to $30 million each. Summit Partners' portfolio includes companies operating across three primary sectors: technology, healthcare & life sciences, and growth products & services, which includes consumer, financial technology and services, business services, and industrial technology sectors. Notable investments made by Summit Partners include Uber, McAfee, Avast, Infor, Flow Traders, Doctrine, and LifeStance Health. The firm's approach to responsible investing is focused on three key areas: effective corporate governance, proactive risk management, and a commitment to human capital development, believing that these practices lead to stronger, more productive growth of its business and portfolio companies. Summit Partners maintains five offices with locations in Boston, Menlo Park, New York, London, and Luxembourg, and is powered by an exceptional team with deep domain expertise in its target sectors. The firm's guiding principles include a commitment to growth, integrity, performance, leadership, entrepreneurship, human capital development, teamwork, toughness and tenacity, and service, aiming to create a performance-driven environment purpose-built to generate the best ideas, fuel innovation, and power the professional growth of a diverse employee base both within Summit and across its portfolio companies.