Summit Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

456

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

393

Rounds per year

11.40

Lead investments

107

Follow on index

0.14

Exits

231

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareManufacturing

Summary

In 1984 was created Summit Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the Summit Partners, startups are often financed by Rocket Internet, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kinnevik AB, Rocket Internet, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Kinnevik AB, TEV | Tengelmann Ventures, Rocket Internet.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Summit Partners works on 31 percentage points more the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 50 - 100 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The top activity for fund was in 2013. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The typical startup value when the investment from Summit Partners is more than 1 billion dollars.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, E-Commerce. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Uber, Infor, Avast. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund.

The fund was created by E. Roe Stamps, Gregory Avis, Stephen Woodsum. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
HealthcareBiotech/Life SciencesConsumer/RetailFintechManufacturing Show 2 more
Stage focus
Generalist
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
10M — 500M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 1400000000
Fund raised date
2023-02-13

Analytics

Total investments
456
Lead investments
107
Exits
231
Rounds per year
11.40
Follow on index
0.14
Investments by industry
  • Software (152)
  • Health Care (71)
  • Information Technology (66)
  • Enterprise Software (52)
  • SaaS (49)
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Investments by region
  • United States (362)
  • France (7)
  • Germany (16)
  • Canada (12)
  • Belgium (4)
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Peak activity year
2013
Number of Unicorns
18
Number of Decacorns
21
Number of Minotaurs
9

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
24
Avg. valuation at time of investment
465M
Group Appearance index
0.30
Avg. company exit year
17
Avg. multiplicator
4.15
Strategy success index
0.90

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Celcoin 18 Jun 2024 Internet, Software, Payments, Mobile Apps, Service Industry Late Stage Venture 125M São Paulo, Barueri, Brazil
ProGlove 09 Sep 2019 Automotive, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Industrial, Wearables Early Stage Venture 40M Munich, Bavaria, Germany

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