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Summit Partners

Summit Partners takes minority stakes in growing companies, usually without full control, from Boston, MA, USA. It states a focus on software & internet and healthcare & life sciences.

Capital raised$52bnacross 85 SEC-filed vehicles
Most recent fund2025filing since 2013
HeadquartersBoston, MA, USA
Stated fund size$44B+ AUM

Stated investment criteria

What Summit Partners says it buys

Read from Summit Partners’s own website in August 2026. This is what the firm says it buys, not what anyone has recorded it buying, and figures are shown in the currency the firm itself used - nothing here is converted. Every line links to the page it was read from.

Transaction typesGrowth1
Founded19841

A stated mandate is a firm’s description of itself and was true of the page on the day it was read; firms widen and narrow what they will look at without updating the site. Summit Partners states that it will take either a controlling or a minority stake. Nothing here is a commitment by Summit Partners to consider any particular business, and nothing on this page is represented as being for sale.

SEC filings

What Summit Partners has raised

From this firm's own Form D filings. A fund files one within fifteen days of its first sale, under penalty of perjury, which makes these the hardest numbers on the page.

Vehicles filed85
Total capital raised$52bn
Largest single vehicle$7.8bn
Filing history2013 to 2025
Smallest accepted commitment$1m
Filed fromMASSACHUSETTS

Form D covers US-domiciled vehicles raised from accredited investors. It will not capture a fund raised outside the United States, separately managed accounts, or capital deployed off balance sheet, so treat these as a floor rather than a total.

Regulatory record

How Summit Partners is registered

From this firm's Form ADV, the annual filing every registered and exempt investment adviser makes to the SEC.

Adviser statusSEC registered
Regulatory assets under management$42bn
Employees218
Private funds advised87 · $42bn gross
SEC adviser numberCRD 135271

Recorded transactions

Buying and selling

Deals in which Summit Partners is named as buyer or seller in the transaction archive. 13 recorded exits, most recently in 2021.

CompanySideCounterpartyYearConsideration
FuzeSold8x82021$250m
Reverb.com LLCSoldEtsy2019$275m
Aeryon LabsSoldFLIR Systems2019$200m
Full House ResortsSoldAffinity Gaming2018$133m
InfoArmorSoldAllstate2018$525m
TSheets.com LLCSoldIntuit2017$340m
TeleSign Corp.SoldBICS SA2017$230m
Grand Design Recreational Vehicle Co.SoldWinnebago Industries2016$500m
Welltec InternationalSoldExor2016$116m
360 Treasury Systems AG (dba 360T Group)SoldDeutsche Boerse2015$817m
MultifondsSoldTemenos2015$265m
Solid State Equipment LLCSoldVeeco Instruments2014$150m

Compiled from a transaction archive of 10,204 recorded deals. Most private transactions are never disclosed, so this is a sample of a firm’s activity rather than a complete record of it.

Valuation context

Transaction values in Software & Internet

What companies have actually sold for in software & internet, across 2,672 recorded transactions.

Median consideration$80m
Middle 50%$20m-$250m
Revenue multiple2.2×
EBITDA multiple10.9×

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