Summit Partners Named a Top Private Equity Innovator by BluWave

Summit Partners has been recognized as a BluWave 2026 Top Private Equity Innovators Award winner. This annual list honors the top 2% of private equity firms that differentially embrace proactive due diligence, value creation, modern private equity firm operations and corporate citizenship practices.

Awardees were selected by a cross-functional committee that assessed private equity firms in consultation with a broad universe of limited partners, investment bankers, industry thought leaders and service providers in the private equity ecosystem. As part of their selection process, the committee evaluated more than 6,000 private equity firms and utilized more than 75 different factors, incorporating more than 400,000 data points.

For more than 40 years, Summit Partners has focused on investing in category-defining companies across technology, healthcare, financial services, business services and other growth sectors. We combine deep sector expertise with innovative, hands-on operational resources designed to help growth-stage companies scale profitably and build enduring market leadership.

For further information on the award, including the selection process, selection criteria and recipients, please visit BlueWave’s website.

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About Summit Partners
Summit Partners is a leading growth-focused investment firm. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and, since the firm’s founding in 1984, has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. These companies have completed more than 175 public equity offerings, and more than 250 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and seeks to invest in category-leading, profitable growth companies worldwide. For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About BluWave
BluWave is the execution and value creation resources platform of the private equity industry. Trusted by hundreds of PE firms and thousands of their portfolio companies, BluWave connects the exact-fit third-party resources business builders need to assess, create, and grow value. The company combines proprietary AI technology, data-driven insights, and a concierge-grade experience to help PE firms and their portfolio companies execute with speed, precision, and confidence. For more information about BluWave, visit BluWave.net.

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*BluWave, LP has not received investment capital from and holds no ownership interest in the PE firms recognized under the Top Private Equity Innovator awards program. BluWave received no compensation from any of the PE firms in connection with this awards program. However, BluWave may otherwise provide services to the PE firms and/or their portfolio companies, but BluWave confirms that its assessment of the PE firms was independent of any such service arrangements. Top 2% in the PE industry is based on BluWave’s review of the more than 6,000 PE firms in the U.S. and Canada from which the PE firms were selected as award recipients.

This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. The 2026 Top PE Innovator Award issued by BluWave on March 4, 2026, was based on the time period of January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. The 2026 Top Private Equity Innovators Award recognizes firms based on a multi-factor evaluation of innovation across due diligence practices, value creation, firm operations and corporate citizenship. Selections are made through an independent review process incorporating both qualitative and quantitative data points, with specific weighting and methodology determined by the BlueWave, LP. Summit Partners did not submit a nomination to be considered for this award and did not pay a fee to promote this award. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the foregoing.