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Company Overview of Summit Partners

Company Overview

Summit Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in later stage, mezzanine debt, growth capital, middle market, recapitalizations, shareholder liquidity, management buyouts, acquisition financing, spin-off transactions, and divestitures. It invests across all industry categories with a focus on education, software, communications technology and services, semiconductors and electronics, gaming, leisure, Internet and information services, energy, media and entertainment, business services, financial technology and services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial products, consumer products, and other growth industries. The firm prefers to invest in private companies ...

Detailed Description

222 Berkeley Street

18th Floor

Boston, MA 02116

United States

Founded in 1984

Phone:

617-824-1000

Fax:

617-824-1100

www.summitpartners.com

Key Executives for Summit Partners

Founding Managing Director
Age: 66
Founding Managing Director
Age: 50
Founding Managing Director
Managing Director
Managing Director
Age: 53
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012.

Summit Partners Key Developments

Summit Partners To Sell Stake In Krishidhan Seeds

Summit Partners is seeking to sell its investment in Krishidhan Seeds Limited (KSL). The promoters of KSL are expected to buy back Summit's stake of 24.9% in KSL for INR 1.55 billion to 1.6 billion.

Summit Partners Opens India Office

Summit Partners announced that it has established a new office in Mumbai. Summit is opening the office to increase investment activity in India and to support its North American and European-based portfolio companies with their expansion efforts the region. The office is being managed by Amit Chaturvedy, Director-India, and joining him are Associates Gaurav Prakash and Miloni Shah. Summit Partners will apply the same investment strategy that Summit Partners has successfully executed since 1984 to focus on high-growth businesses run by strong management teams.

Summit Partners Closes Two Equity Funds with Combined $3.22 Billion of Commitments

Summit Partners announced the final closing of two equity funds with combined commitments of $3.22 billion. This brings Summit Partners' total amount available for investment in rapidly growing companies across North America, Europe and Asia to more than $9 billion. Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund VIII is a $2.7 billion fund formed to invest primarily in profitable, growing companies. It will target equity commitments of more than $45 million. Summit Partners Venture Capital Fund III is a $520 million fund formed to invest in private emerging growth companies. It will target equity investments of up to $45 million. Summit Partners' funds can invest in conjunction with the firm's subordinated debt fund to meet each company's unique financing needs.

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