Summit Partners

Private Equity And Venture Capital
For Growth Companies

Case Studies

Company Industry Highlights
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Semiconductors and Electronics
Summit’s financing and advice helped AlphaSmart expand its computer companion product line, explore new markets, and double revenues.

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Summit helped American Dental Partners bring financial discipline and economies of scale to the fragmented market of group dental practices.

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Summit’s strategic guidance helped Anesthetix become one of the fastest-growing anesthesia management companies in the U.S.

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Summit Partners’ investment in Aurora Diagnostics gave two-time entrepreneur Jim New the capital required to build a second laboratory diagnostics company.

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Summit Partners provided resources and strategic advice to help EMED regain lost ground and achieve new growth in its safety signage business.

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Summit Partners’ investment strengthened B&W Loudspeakers’ balance sheet to increase its competitive advantage globally.

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Clontech Healthcare & Life Sciences
Summit’s capital, network, and strategic advice helped Clontech accelerate its growth and launch new lines of molecular biological research products.

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Summit Partners’ financing and hands-off, strategic support enabled Commnet to drive its wholesale wireless service growth and expand into new markets.

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Summit Partners’ strategic support helped DHI manage its rapid growth and focus on product lines and technologies with the most market potential.

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Industrial
Summit Partners provided resources and strategic advice to help EMED regain lost ground and achieve new growth in its safety signage business.

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Summit Partners’ financing and strategic advice helped E-TEK Dynamics expand its fiber optics business through new product offerings and acquisition growth.

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Summit Partners helped Fermentas formulate its strategic direction to become one of the fastest-growing molecular biology companies in the world.

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Energy
Financial Technology & Services
Since Summit's investment, FleetCor's revenues have grown 600% as a result of organic growth, product and service innovation, and more than 40 acquisitions.

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Summit’s strategic support helped Heald College expand its programs, locations and management team, leading to dramatic growth and a successful acquisition.

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Internet & New Media
Summit Partners helped Jamba! expand its mobile content footprint from within Germany to across Europe, while offering a global perspective on exit opportunities.

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Financing from Summit Partners accelerated the growth of Keystone RV’s recreational vehicle products and enabled management ownership.

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Summit Partners provided the capital and strategic advice that helped Lincare, a home medical care provider, evolve into a leading public company.

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Semiconductors and Electronics
Summit Partners’ strategic advice helped M-Audio manage and further the growth of its digital audio business, while establishing sophisticated financial controls.

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Software
Summit Partners provided the capital needed to implement McAfee’s visionary network security product suite strategy.

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Summit provided capital and strategic advice to help MDVIP become the U.S. leader in personalized preventive healthcare.

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Summit Partners helped NetCom Systems, a network performance–testing company, build a board, finalize a strategy, and expand into new markets.

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Summit Partners helped NightHawk Radiology manage rapid growth in its core tele-radiology business and prepare for an eventual IPO.

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Summit helped OPNET Technologies, a network management software provider, recruit talent, build a board, and prepare for a successful IPO.

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Internet & New Media
Summit helped optionsXpress, an online stock and options brokerage, build an infrastructure for growth and prepare for a successful IPO.

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Financing from Summit Partners helped Pediatrix Medical Group expand into a leading management organization for neonatal and perinatal physicians.

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Summit Partners helped the Physicians Formula management team transform their cosmetics business from a successful subsidiary to a fast-growing independent company.

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Software
Summit Partners helped RightNow Technologies establish a vital presence in Europe, sell more software domestically, and become the standard CRM platform across all industries.

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Summit’s financing helped SafeBoot accelerate its growth in the encryption software market, while allowing the company to retire early shareholders.

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Summit Partners helped Splash Technology evolve from a profitable image-processing subsidiary into a successful independent company.

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Summit helped maximize the value of anti-virus software provider Sybari Software to shareholders and potential acquirers. While pursuing an IPO, Sybari received an acquisition offer from Microsoft.

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Industrial
Summit Partners provided the capital and resources to help Triton expand its automated teller machine product line into growth markets worldwide.

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Software
Summit Partners helped Unica, a leader in direct marketing software, hire seasoned managers, build a Board, and gain the interest of investment banks.

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Internet & New Media
Summit’s investment is helping vente-privee.com accelerate its growth, bringing Internet-based, members-only sales of high-end fashions to new European markets.

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Internet & New Media
Summit’s financing fueled Web Reservations International’s growth acquisition strategy, broadening the online travel company’s focus from hostels to 5-star hotels.

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Software
Summit Partners helped on-demand web analytics provider WebSideStory recruit management talent and transform its business, leading to a successful IPO.

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