News from Summit and Our Portfolio

On the latest episode of GrowthCap’s Growth Investor Podcast, Summit Partners CEO and Managing Director Peter Chung discusses the evolution of the growth equity industry, Summit’s 40-year focus on growth investing and the changes he’s seen in the tech sector over his career.

Peter joined Summit Partners in 1994 and focuses primarily on the technology sector. During his tenure, he has invested in more than 30 companies, including 18 currently or formerly publicly traded companies. He has served as the firm’s CEO since 2015.

GrowthCap recognized Summit Partners as a Top Private Equity Firm and a Top Growth Equity Firm in 2024.

Listen to the full podcast on iTunes, YouTube or Spotify.

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Awardee selections are based on GrowthCap’s evaluation of each firm’s leadership, the composition of the overall organization, functional capabilities, unique competitive advantages, and investment judgement, among other factors. Information on firms was received through GrowthCap’s online submissions portal, nomination forms, direct communications as well as through our additional research. To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit GrowthCap’s website.

The awards referenced herein reflect the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. Summit Partners submitted a nomination, and once selected, paid a publishing and copyright fee to promote this award. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the party conferring the award referenced herein. The podcast reference herein was published by GrowthCap on November 14, 2024.

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We’re honored to be named to Inc.’s 2024 List of Founder-Friendly Investors. The list recognizes firms with a commitment to supporting founder-led businesses and helping them thrive.

For over 40 years, Summit has had the privilege of collaborating with hundreds of executives and management teams – partnering with more than 90 founder-led companies in the last five years alone. This experience has fostered a deep appreciation for the courage and vision required to start a business, and the tenacity and talent needed to grow it profitably. We are proud to support these growth journeys – and we look forward to many more.

Read more about a few of the founders we’ve supported and the companies they’ve built in Stories from the Climb – a series dedicated to celebrating and sharing the challenges of building a growth company.

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^{Award selections are determined based on Inc.’s evaluation of each nominated private equity, venture capital and debt firm’s ability to remain actively involved with the businesses they invest in and earn the trust of the entrepreneurs they support to help drive growth. To compile the list, Inc. spoke directly with entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity, venture capital and debt firms. Entrepreneurs filled out a questionnaire about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their portfolio companies have grown during these partnerships.}

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Boston, MA; Nantes, FR; London, UK; Dusseldorf, DE – Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) company, announces the appointment of Romain Fouache as its new CEO, effective November 4, 2024. Fouache brings 22 years of experience in high-growth software businesses, previously serving as COO and CRO at Dataiku, the leading platform for everyday AI. His appointment marks a pivotal moment for Akeneo, aligning with the company’s accelerated global expansion and commitment to delivering innovative, AI-driven product solutions that engage consumers worldwide.

With a compounded growth rate of over 35% in the past four years, Akeneo has established itself as a leader in the Product Information Management (PIM) market and is the fastest-growing solution in the US, with over 100% growth in the region in just two years. Fouache’s expertise will further drive this momentum, as he focuses on growing Akeneo’s North American footprint and expanding the use of AI to help brands and retailers streamline product experiences across all sales channels.

“I’m honored to join Akeneo as it leads the market into a new era of PX, powered by AI and designed to guide consumers to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere,” said Fouache. “My mission is clear: to scale Akeneo’s operations, accelerate our growth, and deliver greater value to our customers worldwide.”

Fred de Gombert, the co-founder and current CEO, will remain actively involved as President and member of the Board of Directors. He expressed his confidence in Fouache’s leadership: “After 12 amazing years as Akeneo’s CEO, I am deeply proud of everything we have accomplished. I’m confident that Romain is the right leader to take Akeneo forward. In 2024, our platform will generate more than 4 billion unique product experiences, a testament to the value we deliver to our customers. I believe Romain will build on this momentum to drive our mission forward.”

In a rapidly changing retail landscape, more and more businesses are realizing the material benefits of investing in a single source of truth for product and product-related information. Akeneo is well-poised to support their needs and accelerate their business objectives, leading the PIM market in AI-driven product experiences.  Under Fouache’s leadership, Akeneo remains dedicated to providing the software, education, and engaged community that businesses rely on to increase sales, reduce returns, and streamline their internal operations.

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About Akeneo
Akeneo is the product experience (PX) company and global leader in Product Information Management (PIM); creating a world where every product interaction is an experience
that guides consumers and professionals to the best purchase, anytime, anywhere. Akeneo empowers business leaders with software, education, and an engaged community all focused on the practice of product experience management.

Leading global brands, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, including Chico’s, CarParts.com, TaylorMade Golf, Rail Europe, Kering, and more trust Akeneo to scale and customize their omnichannel commerce initiatives. Using Akeneo’s intelligent Product Cloud, companies can create elevated product experiences with user-friendly and AI-powered product data enrichment, management, syndication, and supplier data onboarding; as well as a comprehensive app marketplace and partner network to meet business and buyer needs. For more information: www.akeneo.com

Latest flagship fund will continue the firm’s longstanding focus on investing in profitable growth businesses

BOSTON, MA; MENLO PARK, CA; NEW YORK, NY; LONDON, UK –  Summit Partners, a global growth equity investment firm, today announced the closing of its latest flagship U.S. growth equity fund. Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund XII (“Summit XII”) launched fundraising in late April 2024 and held its closing after approximately five months with $9.5 billion in capital. Consistent with the firm’s prior funds, the general partner will be the single largest investor in Summit XII.

“We are deeply grateful for the longstanding support of our existing limited partners and are pleased to welcome several new investors,” said Peter Chung, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Partners. “With the closing of our latest flagship fund, we will continue to execute our growth equity investing strategy. This strategy, which we believe is both timeless and time-tested, is grounded in our foundational belief that profitable growth is the most reliable source of superior risk-adjusted returns through market and economic cycles. We look forward to serving our limited partners and our portfolio companies as the partner of choice for category-leading growth companies in the technology, healthcare, and growth products and services sectors.”

Today, Summit’s global team includes more than 100 investment professionals with deep domain knowledge within key growth sectors, including technology, healthcare, financial technology and services, business services and consumer. The team works collaboratively across offices in the U.S. and Europe, leveraging four decades of industry experience to partner with executives and management teams and help support the profitable growth of the businesses they lead. As active board members and through the Peak Performance Group, the firm’s dedicated value enhancement team, Summit offers strategic resources designed specifically to provide expertise in areas the firm believes are critical to promoting long-term, profitable growth, including revenue optimization, digital marketing, human capital strategy, capital markets, and technology and data science.

In 2024, Summit Partners celebrated 40 years of growth investing. With this new fund, the firm will execute the strategy it pioneered in 1984, even as the team continues to innovate and refine its approach to supporting the growth of the businesses with which it partners. Summit XII will target majority and minority investments of $75 to $500 million primarily in profitable, category-leading growth companies. With this new capital, Summit is now managing more than $46 billion in assets across its fund complex.

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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 see www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

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Darktrace, a global leader in cybersecurity AI, today announced the completion of its acquisition by Thoma Bravo for $5.3 billion. The recommended cash acquisition was announced on 26 April 2024 and the Scheme of Arrangement has now become effective.

Founded in 2013 by mathematicians and cyber experts from governmental intelligence backgrounds, Darktrace was a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning concepts to address the insidious – and increasingly complex – problem of cyberattacks. Building on our long history of investing in the cyber security market, Summit Partners led the company’s Series B round in 2015 and followed with further investments in 2016, 2017 and 2020. In 2021, Summit supported Darktrace through their IPO on the London Stock Exchange and continued to serve on the company’s Board of Directors.

Over the course of Summit’s nine-year partnership with the Darktrace team, we have been proactive supporters of the company’s mission, reinforcing product development and international expansion, and leveraging Summit’s network and deep experience in the security space. Darktrace has grown to become  a global leader in cybersecurity, and today the company employs over 2,300 people around the world and protects over 9,400 customers globally from advanced cyber threats. The Darktrace ActiveAI Security Platform™ provides a full lifecycle approach to cyber resilience that can autonomously spot and respond to known and unknown in progress threats within seconds across the entire organization, including cloud, apps, email, endpoint, network and operational technology.  

This acquisition marks a significant milestone in Darktrace's journey in revolutionizing cybersecurity, and we look forward to seeing the company’s next phase of evolution and growth.

Read more about the transaction here.

Three members of Summit’s global Technology team – Michael Medici, Len Ferrington and Andrew Collins – were named to GrowthCap’s “Top Software Investors of 2024” list. In determining this year’s list, GrowthCap evaluated each investor based on overall career, breadth of investing experience, capability for scaling companies, recent investments made and exited, as well as character, among other factors.

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Michael Medici joined Summit in 2005 and has since led or played a significant role in 19 Summit investments, representing more than $1.0 billion in invested capital, including more than $545 million in the last five years alone. He has invested in and partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the technology landscape, building deep sector expertise within several software subsectors, including e-commerce enablement, marketing automation, infrastructure and DevOps, industrial technology and supply chain.

Michael’s current board directorships include Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO), MacStadium, Later (formerly known as Mavrck) and Sifted. His prior investments and directorships include Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA, later acquired by Cisco), Accedian Networks (acquired by Bridge Growth Partners), Anesthetix (acquired by TeamHealth), Clarabridge (acquired by Qualtrics), Diagnostic Hybrids (acquired by Quidel Corporation), Fermentas International (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), Hiperos (acquired by Opus Global), Logi Analytics (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners), Mi9 Retail (acquired by General Atlantic), and Telerik (acquired by Progress Software).

Len Ferrington joined Summit in 2006 and has since led or played a significant role in investing more than $1.8 billion across 14 Summit portfolio companies. Over the course of his career, Len has invested in and partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the technology landscape, building deep expertise across numerous technology subsectors including robotics and automation, application software, and solutions enhancing education, talent and overall workforce productivity.

Len’s current board directorships include Keeper Security, Ruffalo Noel Levitz, StackAdapt and Ylopo, and he is active in the firm’s investment in QAD. Len’s board and investment experience includes Access Information Management (acquired by Berkshire Partners), Aeryon Labs (acquired by FLIR Systems), Ascentis (acquired by UKG), Heald College (acquired by Corinthian Colleges), Redzone (acquired by QAD), Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR), Teaching Strategies (acquired by KKR), Trident University International (acquired by Perdoceo Education Corporation) and Ubiquiti (NYSE: UI, formerly Ubiquiti Networks).

Andrew Collins joined Summit in 2008 and has since led or played a significant role in over 20 investments, representing over $1.65 billion in capital, including more than $700 million in the last two years alone. Over his 16+ year tenure at Summit, Andy has developed deep sector expertise across various technology subsectors, including infrastructure software, cybersecurity, IT operations software, and vertical market software.

Andy’s current investment and board experience includes Jamf (NASDAQ: JAMF), NinjaOne, Podium Corporation, Recharge, and Red Canary. His prior experience includes InfoArmor (acquired by Allstate Corporation), NetWitness (acquired by EMC Corporation), Reverb.com (acquired by Etsy), RiskIQ (acquired by Microsoft), Uber (NYSE: UBER), Ubiquiti (NYSE: UI, formerly Ubiquiti Networks), Wildfire Interactive (acquired by Google) and Winshuttle (acquired by Symphony Technology Group).

Read more about Michael, Len, Andrew and their fellow honorees at GrowthCap.

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Cambridge, MA – HyperLight Corporation, a leading provider of thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), today announced a US$37 million Series B investment led by Summit Partners. The round includes participation from existing investors Xora Innovation, a deep tech venture fund backed by Temasek, and Foothill Ventures. Peter Chung, Managing Director and CEO of Summit Partners, will join HyperLight’s Board of Directors.

The continuing need for more bandwidth and greater power efficiency, accelerated by AI, is driving the industry’s transition to next-generation photonics technology. Current PICs have performance limitations due to their material properties and have become bottlenecks for high-performance optical communication. HyperLight’s TFLN PICs deliver unmatched bandwidth and energy efficiency well-aligned with the current and future needs of AI/data center infrastructure, telecommunications optical networks, and high-performance computing. Since the company’s founding in 2018, HyperLight has delivered industrial-scale TFLN PICs with a trusted supply chain. This new financing allows the company to accelerate product development and meet rapidly growing customer demand.

“We believe TFLN will be the photonics platform of the future and identified HyperLight as an emerging category leader,” said Peter Chung of Summit Partners. “The HyperLight team has established an impressive track record of pioneering innovation and strong execution. In a short time, the company has evolved this critical technology into market-ready products with a production-ready supply chain. We look forward to supporting the HyperLight team and working alongside the company’s current investors as they pursue their vision to build a category-defining company in photonics.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Summit Partners as a new investor given their capabilities and deep experience in photonics, including investments in E-TEK Dynamics, Finisar, MACOM and Acacia Communications,” said Mian Zhang, President and CEO of HyperLight Corporation. “This financing round, supported by investors with demonstrated experience in the photonics industry, will enhance our ability to serve the current and future needs of our customers as a trusted innovation partner. We are ready to serve the industry with high-speed and energy-efficient photonic IC solutions designed to enable the network of the future.”

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About HyperLight Corporation
HyperLight delivers high-performance photonic ICs and cutting-edge photonics solutions. Founded in 2018 in Cambridge, MA, USA, HyperLight has been at the forefront of industrializing TFLN technology. The company designs, manufactures, and markets PICs based on its proprietary production grade TFLN platform, serving customers worldwide across optical communications, industrial equipment, and emerging photonics markets.  HyperLight is dedicated to providing its customers with the highest performance and competitive total cost of ownership at scale. For more information, please visit https://hyperlightcorp.com/, or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Notable investments in the communications technology sector include Acacia Communications, Arista Networks (NASDAQ: ANET), Ditech Networks, E-TEK Dynamics, Finisar, Hittite Microwave, MACOM (NASDAQ: MTSI), PowerWave Technologies, Sirenza Microdevices and Ubiquiti (NYSE: UI). 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.

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Majority investment will help enable eClinical to advance the future of digital trials via continued enhancements to its leading AI-powered data products and biometrics services

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BOSTON – eClinical Solutions LLC, a global provider of digital clinical software and services, today announced that GI Partners, a private investment firm, has made a majority investment in the company. This affirms eClinical Solutions’ position as a trusted partner for large, mid-size, and emerging life science organizations looking to accelerate research and drive tomorrow’s therapeutic breakthroughs amid growing trial complexity. Additionally, this agreement demonstrates GI Partners’ commitment to investing in growth-oriented businesses that drive innovation in mission-critical sectors like the life sciences. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Headquartered in the Boston metropolitan area, one of the nation’s leading pharma and biotech innovation hubs, eClinical Solutions has been creating technology to help solve the market’s growing clinical data challenges since its founding in 2012. The company’s elluminate Clinical Data Cloud® SaaS platform is designed to optimize data flows, accelerate cycle times and increase productivity to future proof clinical trials for clients. Recognized as a leader in the data infrastructure and analytics category, eClinical works with 16 of the Top 50 biopharmaceutical companies, helping them unlock the value of their data with a modern infrastructure.

“When we founded eClinical over a decade ago, clinical data volume and complexity were beginning to escalate rapidly. To improve trial efficiency and help pharmaceutical companies keep up with the mounting pressure to shorten timelines, we had a vision to create frictionless data flows enabled by cloud and digital platforms,” said Raj Indupuri, co-founder and CEO of eClinical Solutions, who will continue to lead the company along with the current management team. “A lot has changed over the years, but our mission hasn’t. We are helping our clients get treatments to patients faster by providing them with a data infrastructure and analytics foundation that powers critical efficiencies across the R&D lifecycle. GI’s support will help fuel the next phase of our company’s journey, as we look to deepen our product roadmap, extend embedded AI capabilities, and help drive future-ready trials.”

“We’re incredibly proud of the organization we’ve built and are excited to partner with GI Partners as we embark on this next chapter of growth,” added Bob Arnesen, co-founder and president of eClinical. “GI’s track record in scaling biopharmaceutical technology businesses and their deep understanding of our market will ensure we can execute our strategy of reliably delivering value to our clients and partners."

“Raj, Bob and their team have built an exceptional business and an industry-leading platform empowering faster, informed decision-making in clinical trials,” said Dave Kreter, managing director at GI Partners. “As data management and analytics needs within life sciences have continued to evolve, it has become apparent that trial digitization is critical for successful therapeutic and patient outcomes. We feel eClinical is well positioned for long-term growth by continuing to drive biopharma innovation for the customers they serve.”

Summit Partners, an investor in eClinical since 2020, will continue to hold a minority position in the company. eClinical’s founders will also retain a significant equity stake alongside GI Partners.

“We’ve been honored to be a part of the eClinical growth story over the last several years, as the company has scaled both in size and impact,” said Mark deLaar, a managing director at Summit Partners. “It’s a pleasure to welcome GI Partners, and we look forward to working together to support the company’s continued development of innovative solutions that empower eClinical customers worldwide.”

Guggenheim Securities, LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to eClinical Solutions. Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, and Choate Hall & Stewart LLP served as legal counsel to eClinical Solutions. Leerink Partners and J.P. Morgan served as financial advisors and Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal advisors to GI Partners.

The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

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About eClinical Solutions LLC
eClinical Solutions’ industry-leading data & analytics platform, elluminate®, and biometrics services experts help biopharma researchers at large, mid-size, and emerging life sciences organizations manage trial complexity in less time and with fewer resources. Clients get accurate and timely data insights for better decision-making – enabling them to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, easily scale, and develop tomorrow’s breakthroughs with today’s resources. eClinical is a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a global workforce and winner of the 2024 Top Workplaces USA and Culture Excellence Awards and Great Place To Work® India Certification™. Learn more at www.eclinicalsol.com and follow eClinical Solutions on LinkedIn.

About GI Partners
Founded in 2001, GI Partners is a private investment firm with over 170 employees and offices in San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Chicago, Greenwich, Scottsdale, and London. The firm has raised more than $43 billion in capital and invests on behalf of leading institutional investors around the world through its private equity, real estate, and data infrastructure strategies. The private equity strategy invests primarily in companies in the healthcare, services, and software sectors. The real estate strategy focuses primarily on technology and life sciences properties as well as other specialized types of real estate. The data infrastructure strategy invests primarily in hard asset infrastructure businesses underpinning the digital economy. For more information, please visit www.gipartners.com.

Miami, FL – Halborn, a leader in blockchain solutions, today announced Jacques Boschung has been named Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Boschung succeeds co-founder Rob Behnke, who will transition to the role of Executive Chairman and President. In this new role, Mr. Behnke will continue to support Halborn as the company navigates new opportunities and challenges in the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape. Co-founder Steven Walbroehl will stay on as CTO, leading Halborn's service delivery and innovation while ensuring technical leadership continuity.

Mr. Boschung brings extensive experience in leading large technology organizations through periods of significant growth. Most recently, he served as CEO of Kudelski Security, a cybersecurity service provider where he led the expansion of the company on both sides of the Atlantic. Previously, Mr. Boschung was President and General Manager of Inovalon Payer, a portfolio of cloud-based SaaS solutions serving the U.S. health insurance industry. Earlier in his career, he held several leadership roles at Dell Technologies, where he spent 14 years, including Senior Vice President responsible for Dell Technologies Global Alliances and for the Telco partnerships within the EMEA regions.

"I am thrilled to join Halborn at such a pivotal moment in the company's journey," said Mr. Boschung. "Halborn is focused on enabling the next digital transformation of financial services, which is more relevant than ever, as the company positions itself to be a key facilitator of DLT integration in the industry. We aim to deliver exceptional value to our clients, helping them transform their operations and seize new market opportunities in the digital age."

This leadership expansion builds on Halborn’s momentum and positions the company for further growth. Since raising its $90 million Series A funding round in July 2022, Halborn has enabled hundreds of top blockchain initiatives to succeed in the market. Under Mr. Behnke’s leadership, Halborn has grown profitably since inception, securing notable clients such as Solana Foundation, Circle, BNY Mellon, and other Fortune 100 financial services companies.

“It has been an honor to lead and build Halborn, together with our team, over the last five years,” said Mr. Behnke. “As Halborn’s customers continue to shift towards enterprise adoption of Digital Ledger Technology and AI, we believe we hold an enviable and unique position in the market. We couldn't be more excited about the future of Halborn.”

"We are thrilled to welcome Jacques as Halborn's next CEO and look forward to working closely with him as the company continues to pursue its ambitious goals," said Matt Hamilton, a Managing Director at Summit Partners and member of the Halborn Board of Directors. "We are grateful for Rob’s service, vision, and leadership, and we look forward to his continued guidance as he transitions to the role of Executive Chairman."

About Halborn
Halborn is a leader in blockchain solutions, founded in 2019 by renowned ethical hacker Steven Walbroehl and serial entrepreneur Rob Behnke, dedicated to enabling the next digital transformation of financial services. Halborn collaborates with fortune 500’s and leading Web3 organizations, offering comprehensive solutions that empower the integration of distributed ledger technology, positioning them to thrive in the digital age.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

Summit Partners was named to GrowthCap’s list of the Top Private Equity Firms of 2024. In evaluating each firm, GrowthCap focused on the qualities that help a firm to consistently and repeatedly create value for the portfolio companies they invest in. Specifically, they evaluated each firm’s firm leadership, the composition of the overall organization, functional capabilities, unique competitive advantages, and investment judgement, among other factors

For over 40 years, the Summit team has focused on partnering with and powering the growth of great people and great companies. We are grateful for the partnership of the visionary CEOs, dedicated teams and the dynamic companies we have the privilege to support.

To view the full list visit of winners, visit GrowthCap's website.

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^{This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. Summit Partners submitted a nomination, and once selected, paid a publishing and copyright fee to promote this award. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the party conferring the award referenced herein. Published by GrowthCap on August 20, 2024.}

Combined portfolio expands global supply chain execution solutions, delivering increased flexibility, scalability and resiliency to customers.

HAMBURG, Germany, MINNEAPOLIS and CARY, N.C. –  Körber Supply Chain Software, a joint venture between Körber AG and KKR, and leader in end-to-end supply chain software solutions, signed a binding agreement to acquire MercuryGate International Inc., a leading provider of transportation management systems (TMS). MercuryGate is known for its strong capabilities in multimodal optimization and execution, as well as its expertise and capabilities in driving rapid implementation and time to value. The acquisition is a strategic move that extends Körber Supply Chain Software's capabilities in delivering a comprehensive, innovative, adaptable and scalable supply chain execution portfolio. Summit Partners invested in MercuryGate in 2018.

The complexities of global supply chains continue to grow, and the need for flexibility and resiliency has never been greater. Operators demand ever-increasing adaptability and scalability in supply chain execution solutions to innovate and expand. By extending its portfolio of solutions across all supply chain execution operations, Körber Supply Chain Software will become a leader in managing the movement of goods from procurement to receipt and fulfillment to the end consumer, reducing planning silos, accelerating resolution of issues, and improving customer and business outcomes. Bringing Körber Supply Chain Software and MercuryGate together will enable customers to benefit from:

• Solutions that connect across inbound and outbound supply chain activities, improving cost efficiencies and customer experiences by optimizing placement, usage, and routing of goods.
• A resilient and reliable supply chain platform with visibility across inventory pools, enabling customers to identify growth opportunities as well as predict and rapidly respond to potential disruptions.
• Simulation capabilities to evaluate future supply chain strategies and understand ROI across their local and global business.

"Our customers navigate dynamic, volatile supply chain environments under increasingly high expectations for order fulfillment," said Ed Auriemma, CEO of Körber Supply Chain Software. "With the acquisition of MercuryGate, Körber Supply Chain Software is poised to offer an unparalleled combination of advanced technology and deep industry expertise to create innovative processes to help businesses manage these challenges."

The acquisition of MercuryGate will establish a critical pillar of Körber's ambition to create a unified supply chain execution suite that can offer real-time optimization and collaboration across the supply chain. Customers will benefit from integrated processes across functions, faster and more accurate decision-making and the ability to mitigate risks and disruptions more effectively.

Stephan Seifert, Chief Executive Officer of Körber, said: "This acquisition illustrates our power to execute our ambitious growth strategy, substantially extends our existing supply chain software portfolio, and is a significant milestone to becoming our customers' first choice regardless of their challenge. Furthermore, it is proof, that our trustful strategic cooperation with KKR results in additional value for our customers."

"The addition of MercuryGate's multimodal, SaaS-based TMS to Körber's supply chain software business will create a comprehensive, value-driving, supply chain offering for global industry leaders," commented Joe Juliano, CEO of MercuryGate. "The combined company is positioned to deliver the broadest and deepest set of supply chain execution software solutions available worldwide."

Peter Rottier, a Managing Director at Summit Partners, which first partnered with MercuryGate in 2018, added, "We believed that global supply chains and growing customer demand for shorter order-to-delivery times would support increased adoption of solutions like MercuryGate's that are designed to help shippers and logistics providers mitigate the costs and complexity associated with transportation. It's been exciting to work alongside the MercuryGate team as they executed against this vision."

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

For more details about this acquisition, please visit Körber Supply Chain Software's blog.

Source: MercuryGate

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About Körber Supply Chain Software
Körber Supply Chain Software is the partner of choice for organizations that require comprehensive and intelligent supply chain execution software solutions that can adapt and scale to their requirements. Körber Supply Chain Software delivers comprehensive solutions for its customers, offering greater efficiency and transparency from order management through global end-to-end inventory flow within the most complex global supply chain operations. Körber Supply Chain Software GmbH is a joint venture of Körber AG, a leading international technology group and KKR, a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management, capital markets and insurance solutions. Find out more on https://www.koerber-supplychain-software.com/.

About Körber
We are Körber – an international technology group with more than 12,000 employees at over 100 locations worldwide and a common goal: We turn entrepreneurial thinking into customer success and shape the technological change. In the Business Areas Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, and Technologies, we offer products, solutions and services that inspire. We act fast to customer needs, we execute ideas seamlessly, and with our innovations we create added value for our customers. In doing so, we are increasingly building on ecosystems that solve the challenges of today and tomorrow. Körber AG is the holding company of the Körber Group: http://www.koerber.com/en

About MercuryGate
MercuryGate's Smart Transportation™ suite provides powerful transportation and logistics management solutions proven to be a competitive advantage for today's most successful shippers, 3PLs, brokers, and carriers. The comprehensive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product suite natively supports all transportation modes and segments, generating value for its users through improved cost, productivity, and efficiency using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and connected technologies to adapt and automate transportation management functions. Smart Transportation makes shipping intelligent, simple, sustainable, and transformative for customers. Learn more about MercuryGate at https://mercurygate.com/.

About KKR
KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR's insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group. References to KKR's investments may include the activities of its sponsored funds and insurance subsidiaries. For additional information about KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR), please visit KKR's website at www.kkr.com. For additional information about Global Atlantic Financial Group, please visit Global Atlantic Financial Group's website at https://www.globalatlantic.com/.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

London – Global growth equity investor Summit Partners is delighted to welcome Dr. David Krajicek to the firm’s Executive-in-Residence (“EIR”) program. In this role, Dr. Krajicek will work closely with Summit’s Growth Products & Services team to identify new investment opportunities and advise growth-stage companies within the data and analytics sector.

Dr. Krajicek is an experienced operator who has built and led data and analytics companies for more than 25 years. Most recently, he served as CEO of JATO, an automotive data company, where he led meaningful value creation initiatives centered around technology enhancement, new product launches and improved go-to-market. Dr. Krajicek joined JATO following a 14-year tenure with GfK, a global market research and analytics company where he held several executive roles, leading teams of several thousand people and managing a nearly $1 billion P&L. In 2017, GfK was acquired in a take-private transaction valued at $1.5 billion. As part of GfK’s global management board, Dr. Krajicek was named CEO of the company’s research division, leading it through its transformation and sale to Ipsos. Prior to GfK, Dr. Krajicek spent nearly a decade at ARBOR, a U.S.-based data-led market research firm. During his tenure at ARBOR, the business underwent transformative growth, scaling 30-fold and ultimately resulting in an acquisition by GfK. Dr. Krajicek holds a BA in cognitive psychology from UC San Diego and an MA and PhD in cognitive psychology from Claremont Graduate University.

“We are confident that David’s deep understanding of data and analytics companies and his extensive operating experience will both serve to support Summit’s efforts in identifying and partnering with leading growth companies in this dynamic sector,” said Chris Bon, Principal at Summit Partners. “We are thrilled to welcome David to our EIR program, and we look forward to sharing his skillset and experience with the entrepreneurs and executives with whom we partner.”

“Summit's commitment to driving growth in the data and analytics sector aligns well with my passion for fostering innovation and success in this space,” said Dr. Krajicek. “I look forward to contributing to the firm’s ongoing efforts and helping growth-stage companies achieve their full potential."

With a focus on investing in category-leading growth businesses across key sectors, Summit has partnered with numerous data and analytics companies, providing support on product and technology initiatives, geographic expansion and other strategic initiatives to help drive meaningful growth.

Summit’s EIR program is an established element of the firm’s growth-oriented investing strategy. Since its inception, the program has facilitated collaboration between seasoned industry executives and Summit’s investment professionals, working to identify sector-specific opportunities in which EIRs may support companies in an ongoing capacity through board or executive leadership roles.

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About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

Investment led by Summit Partners and Silversmith Capital supports company's mission to redefine financial services for healthcare professionals‍

New York, NY -- Earned Wealth ("Earned"), a tech-enabled financial services firm focused exclusively on the needs of medical professionals, today announced a $200 million capital commitment led by growth equity investors Summit Partners and Silversmith Capital Partners with participation from existing investors Juxtapose, Hudson Structured Capital Management, and Breyer Capital. The capital will support expansion of the company’s platform and offerings through product innovation and strategic acquisitions. In conjunction with the investment, Earned announced the acquisition of Thomas Doll, a leading provider of financial services to medical professionals and practices. Today, Earned serves more than 3,000 clients, with over $2 billion in assets under management.

Earned’s mission is to redefine financial services for healthcare professionals through creating the first tech-enabled, integrated personal financial management platform offering wealth, tax, career advisory, insurance, and other services designed for the complex needs of doctors. Using a medical professional’s career journey as a lens, Earned combines deep prognostic technology with a comprehensive set of financial services provided by fiduciary advisors who deeply understand the unique challenges doctors face. With an exclusive focus on medical professionals, Earned advisors are well equipped to guide decisions ranging from medical school loan repayment schedules and private practice buy-ins to medical group malpractice insurance coverage and optimal tax strategies during a practice sale. Earned’s evidence-based approach can proactively and continuously help optimize financial decision-making across nearly every aspect of their clients’ financial lives.

“From the beginning, we’ve been firmly focused on building the premier go-to destination for doctors who are seeking to optimize their financial well-being, delivering tailored solutions and services that allow them to focus on what they do best,” said John Clendening, Founder and CEO of Earned. “Today’s announcement represents a critical step on our journey to further transform financial outcomes for these heroes of our society. With the addition of Thomas Doll, we broaden our capabilities and expand into serving medical practices, a key lever of income and wealth for many of our clients. With the support of Summit and Silversmith, and the benefit of their deep experience in the healthcare and financial services sectors, we are positioned to accelerate our M&A strategy, drive growth, further invest in our technology and team and solidify Earned’s industry leadership position.”

“Doctors face distinct — and often complex — financial circumstances and opportunities throughout their careers, from residency through retirement. The Earned platform is purpose-built to provide holistic solutions to help optimize for the needs of healthcare professionals,” said Darren Black, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who has joined Earned’s Board of Directors. “We are excited by the scalability of the Earned platform and the team’s comprehensive, evidenced-based approach. John and his team bring an impressive combination of client-centricity, expertise, and execution, and we look forward to supporting Earned in their growth and expansion nationwide.”  

“Medical professionals have long been underserved by today’s highly fragmented wealth management industry. With a singular focus on the needs of healthcare professionals, Earned has quickly become one of the most trusted financial services organizations serving doctors,” said Jeff Crisan, a Managing Partner at Silversmith, who has also joined the Earned Board of Directors. “The acquisition of Thomas Doll extends the offerings of the Earned platform even further, adding in-house tax planning and retirement programs for doctors. We look forward to working with John and his team as they continue to both build and acquire leading financial solutions to serve our healthcare industry.”

The Thomas Doll acquisition will help accelerate the combined company’s growth and expand the breadth of financial services offerings. Thomas Doll clients will benefit from Earned’s comprehensive wealth management approach, trusted fiduciary advisors, and proprietary tech platform.

“Thomas Doll checks all our boxes in terms of the kinds of firms we are seeking to acquire: a strong focus on healthcare professionals, terrific client service, a desire to accelerate growth, and complete alignment on vision and mission. I’m excited to welcome Thomas Doll’s clients, employees, and leadership to the Earned family,” said Clendening. “I have great respect for the organization that Thomas Doll has built over the past sixty years, and I am confident that our shared values and complementary services will help unlock a new chapter of growth together.”

“Together, we share a commitment to serving the needs of healthcare professionals and a belief that a broad range of tailored services will help us improve their overall financial health,” said Barry Oliver, a Senior Advisor with Thomas Doll. “I am personally thrilled about this partnership, and I am confident that our future together is bright.”

Thomas Doll has re-branded to Thomas Doll, An Earned Wealth Company. Clients can continue to access Thomas Doll’s services via the Thomas Doll website www.thomasdoll.com. Prospective clients can access services from both companies via the Earned website www.earnedwealth.com.

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About Earned Wealth
Earned Wealth is the first comprehensive, tech-enabled financial services firm exclusively for healthcare professionals and medical practices. The company uses a doctor's unique career journey — from residency to buying into private practice to retirement — as a lens for the company's data-driven recommendations. Earned's centralized, tech-forward approach maximizes doctors' wealth cohesively and seamlessly, helping doctors earn more, invest smarter, and reduce risk. Because Earned understands the ins and outs of a doctor's career, clients benefit from specially trained Certified Financial Planners™ and technology that plans and adjusts for changes throughout a doctor's working life. Earned also provides medical practice solutions including tax, accounting, payroll, retirement plan solutions.  Earned Wealth is a brand name under Earned Wealth Holdings. Wealth management services are offered through Earned, an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. To learn more about Earned, visit www.earnedwealth.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries, including financial technology & services and business services. Notable Summit investments in healthcare and financial services include ABILITY Network, Focus Financial Partners, InnovaCare, LifeStance Health, Paradigm Outcomes and RWA Wealth Partners. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About Silversmith Capital
Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management. Silversmith’s mission is to partner with and support the best entrepreneurs in growing, profitable technology and healthcare companies. Representative healthcare investments include Iodine Software, LifeStance Health, Market Access Transformation, MediQuant, Nordic Consulting, Panalgo and Upperline Health. For more information, including a full list of portfolio investments, visit www.silversmith.com or follow the firm on LinkedIn.

About Thomas Doll
Thomas Doll provides physicians and dentists with full-circle financial care, including wealth management, retirement planning, tax planning and consulting services, including payroll expertise, practice creation, succession consulting, and personal consulting. Through integrated financial planning, Thomas Doll helps healthcare professionals enjoy long-term success in business and in life. The Walnut Creek, California-based firm, was founded in 1963 and provides wealth management services through an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission .  For more information about Thomas Doll, please visit www.thomasdoll.com.

Lausanne, Switzerland – Revizto, a leader in collaboration solutions for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operation (AECO) industry, today announced a minority investment from global growth equity investor Summit Partners. The partnership, which comes in the form of a secondary investment, will focus on supporting Revizto’s team expansion, product development, and continued global growth.  

Revizto launched its software in 2012 with a vision to transform the AECO industry by providing an unparalleled Integrated Collaboration Platform designed to help customers effortlessly turn every project into reality. The company delivers a user-friendly, cloud-based platform purpose-built to enable architects, engineers, contractors and owners to collaborate in a 3D and 2D environment. The platform is designed to be accessible to all project team members, regardless of their technical skills or location – whether in-office, on-site, or on any device. By providing a single source of truth for construction collaboration, Revizto empowers project stakeholders to speed up project delivery, reduce rework, and cut costs. Today, Revizto serves over 260,000 users across more than 2,500 customers worldwide, including leading global firms such as AECOM, Jacobs, McCarthy Building Companies, Mortenson, Consigli, John Holland, Lendlease, Arup, and Red Sea Global.

“I am thrilled to announce that Summit Partners has joined us in our mission of revolutionizing collaboration by empowering project teams to build better together,” said Arman Gukasyan, Founder and CEO of Revizto. “In Summit, we have found a partner who shares our commitment and excitement for digitizing the AECO industry, as well as an alignment with our team’s DNA and people-centric company culture. While we didn’t need funding, we are confident that this partnership will help propel Revizto forward, providing perspective and resources that will allow us to accelerate development and market expansion, while maintaining a focus on delivering high-quality user-centric solutions.”

This partnership comes at a time of strong momentum, growth and innovation for Revizto. The company’s latest product releases – including the launch of their groundbreaking Phone App and built-in Clash Automation, Augmented Reality (AR), and QR code generation functionality – underscore Revizto’s commitment to deliver leading technological advancements in the AECO sector. These innovations are designed to enhance user experience and project outcomes by enabling real-time collaboration and decision-making. Additionally, Revizto was recently honored with Switzerland’s Best Managed Companies award, recognizing the company’s overall business performance and management practices, further validating its dedication to excellence in the industry.

“As the number and complexity of construction and infrastructure projects increases globally, we believe the AECO industry is ripe for digitalization. With an innovative platform – differentiated by its use of gaming technology, mobile accessibility and user-centric features – Revizto has seen enthusiastic user adoption across 80,000 projects worldwide, driving impressive, profitable growth for the past several years,” said Antony Clavel, a Managing Director with Summit Partners who has joined the Revizto Board of Directors. “We truly believe Revizto is becoming the industry standard among the largest and most respected construction and engineering firms around the world, and we are excited to be a part of the company's future as they continue to deliver solutions needed to push the industry forward.”

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About Revizto
Revizto, a Swiss-based company, launched coordination software for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction & Operation (AECO) industry in 2012 and quickly became the fastest-growing Integrated Collaboration Platform. Using gaming technology and cloud solutions, Revizto provides a collaboration platform for 3D and 2D workflows that enables users to work and communicate with all project stakeholders in a unified single environment. The platform is utilized globally for real-time coordination, automated clash detection, and issue tracking throughout the lifecycle of a building or infrastructure project.

Revizto empowers teams to drive accountability, improve timelines and maximize cost-savings by connecting contributors from across platforms, model types and teams, from in-office, on-site, and any device. As a result, thousands of firms around the world are using Revizto to make better decisions and minimize rework.

For more information about Revizto, please visit www.revizto.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

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We are pleased to announce that Medical Review Institute of America ("MRIoA" or the "Company"), a leading provider of outsourced utilization management and clinical review solutions to payers, has received a strategic growth investment from Parthenon Capital. As part of the transaction, MRIoA management and existing investor Summit Partners will both retain significant equity ownership in the business.

MRIoA is a leading provider of tech-enabled clinical review services for healthcare organizations designed to help patients receive the right care at the right time and in the right place. The Company provides independent clinical and utilization reviews, evidence-based clinical opinions and appropriate utilization analytics for many of the largest health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, third party administrators, government entities and self-insured employers in the United States.

Summit Partners invested in MRIoA in 2017 and has provided active support as the Company executed on several key growth initiatives over the course of our partnership. Today – with one of the largest, most extensive review networks and industry-leading turnaround times – MRIoA completes 1.9 million clinical reviews each year, helping clients to streamline decisions with data-driven insights and navigate a dynamic healthcare system.

MRIoA is a leader in what we view as a critically important market, and we believe the Company is well positioned for further growth. We look forward to partnering with Parthenon Capital to support MRIoA’s continued impact, improving the value equation and serving constituents across the U.S. healthcare system.

BOSTON –– Global growth equity investor Summit Partners is delighted to welcome Morgan Buehler Zanotti to the firm’s Executive-in-Residence (“EIR”) program. In this role, Morgan will work closely with Summit’s Growth Products & Services team to identify new investment opportunities and advise growth-stage companies within the functional foods and health and wellness sectors.

Morgan brings more than a decade of experience building, leading and supporting brands in the functional food and beverage categories. In 2014, Morgan co-founded Primal Kitchen, a bootstrapped, better-for-you condiment and supplement brand that has grown to offer more than 70 products sold across 16,000 retail outlets. As President, Morgan helped drive robust growth resulting in a sale to Kraft Heinz. Post-acquisition, Morgan transitioned to a senior executive role at Kraft Heinz, serving as divisional president of Primal Kitchen for four years. Here, she focused on scaling Primal Kitchen into new categories and channels, with the company nearly quadrupling retail sales and meaningfully increasing household penetration. Morgan was subsequently named Kraft’s Vice President of New Ventures, where she spearheaded corporate development and M&A strategy in the health and wellness category.

Prior to Primal Kitchen, Morgan led the marketing efforts at KeVita, a pioneering Kombucha brand, which was later acquired by Pepsi in 2016. Morgan launched her focus on the consumer foods industry at Culver Brand Design where she worked with numerous marquee brands including Stacy’s Pita Chips, Tostitos, Lays, Cheetos, Ruffles, Cracker Jack, Pepsi and Taco Bell.

“Our team was drawn to Morgan’s diverse set of experiences in the functional foods category, from scaling rapidly growing, bootstrapped businesses to strategic executive roles at a Fortune 500 company. Morgan brings a distinct skill set, network and perspective that we believe will benefit growth companies in an important and expanding area of the health and wellness sector,” said Julianne Hummelberg, a Vice President at Summit Partners. “We enthusiastically welcome Morgan as an EIR, and we look forward to working with her in supporting other entrepreneurs and executives in the category.”

“The impact of food on health and wellness has long been a passion of mine,” said Morgan. “I am impressed by the proactive approach the Summit team takes to supporting growth-stage companies and look forward to working alongside the Summit team to identify, support and scale breakout brands that help people live healthier, more active lives.”

Summit has been active in the consumer and healthcare sectors for nearly four decades. Since the firm’s founding in 1984, Summit has partnered with more than 80 consumer companies.

Summit’s EIR program is an established element of the firm’s growth-oriented investing strategy. Since its inception, the program has facilitated collaboration between seasoned industry executives and Summit’s investment professionals, working to identify sector-specific opportunities in which EIRs may support companies in an ongoing capacity through board or executive leadership roles.

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About Summit Partners

Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. A complete list of Summit investments can be found here. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

Summit’s Sophia Popova was named to GrowthCap's list of “Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing of 2024.” Awardees were selected based on demonstrated success in leadership roles, breadth of experience and longevity in the field among other factors.  

Sophia Popova is a Partner on our Technology Team. She joined the firm in 2017 as a Vice President and was promoted to Partner in January 2023. Over the course of her tenure, Sophia has partnered with leading growth companies and talented executives across several technology subsectors including cybersecurity, marketing technology and HR software. She has played an active role in eight Summit investments, representing more than $1.6 billion in invested capital. Her current board and investment experience includes Invicti Security, Klaviyo (2023 IPO, NYSE: KVYO), Later (formerly Mavrck), Vensure Employer Services (formerly PrismHR), Sifted, StackAdapt and Ylopo.

Read more about Sophia and her fellow honorees at GrowthCap.

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^{This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners.  Summit Partners submitted a nomination, and once selected, paid a publishing and copyright fee to promote this award. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the party conferring the award referenced herein. Published by GrowthCap on June 18, 2024.}

Global growth equity firm partners with Celcoin to support its continued expansion and commitment to expanding financial access for Brazilian consumers

São Paulo, Brazil - Celcoin, a leading company in the Banking as a Service (BaaS) financial technology market, today announced a US$125 million investment led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners. Summit has a long history of partnering with market-leading fintech companies, including EngageSmart (NYSE: ESMT), Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) and Calypso Technology. Existing investor Innova Capital is also participating in the round, along with experienced financial technology executive John Coughlin, a former senior executive with Corpay. The new funding will support Celcoin’s expansion plans as the company works to continue delivering new and innovative products to strengthen its leadership position in the BaaS and embedded finance market.

Founded in 2016, Celcoin provides financial infrastructure services and solutions for banks, fintechs, and enterprise companies. Focused in three key verticals – payments, banking, and lending – Celcoin’s offerings are designed to enable personalized embedded finance solutions for companies across any segment and stage of development. With over 400 customers in the financial industry and more than 5,000 non-financial companies, Celcoin combines market-leading technology, product innovation, and best-in-class security to support customers in building financial offerings that serve the needs of their end-consumers.

Brazilian financial technology is among the most advanced in the world. In recent years, the Central Bank of Brazil has introduced groundbreaking innovations, including the instant payment system Pix, which was launched in October 2020. Pix transaction volume skyrocketed from zero to 5 billion monthly transactions in just four years. In 2021, the Central Bank introduced Open Banking, and over 22 million customers have already consented to share their data between participating financial institutions. Celcoin has become the leading provider of Open Banking solutions for licensed institutions.

“Celcoin's technology allows banks, fintechs and non-financial companies to introduce their own financial products and embed financial services directly into their ecosystems. We see this as the future of the financial sector, and we are excited to be part of this transformation,” says Celcoin CEO, Marcelo França. “With this funding, we plan to accelerate our investments in technology and innovation as well as evaluate both organic and M&A-driven growth opportunities.”

“Over the last several years, we’ve worked to identify technology companies that we believe are supporting economic development in Brazil through financial empowerment of the Brazilian consumer,” commented Alberto Reyes, an investor with Summit Partners. “We believe we have found such a company in Celcoin, and we are confident that our investment will continue to bolster this mission.”

This financing comes at a time of strong momentum for Celcoin, with the company recording US$63 million in annual recurring revenue in the first quarter of 2024 – a 140% increase compared to the same period last year. Celcoin processes over 200 million Pix transactions monthly, underscoring the robustness and reliability of their platform. In addition to the ongoing development of in-house products, Celcoin has successfully completed four strategic acquisitions since 2022: Galax Pay, specializing in billing and sub-acquiring solutions; Flow Finance, which provides credit infrastructure; Finansystech, a leading Open Finance startup; and most recently, Reg+, a regtech solution dedicated to supporting regulatory compliance.

“It is truly a privilege to partner with the impressive team at Celcoin during this phase of exciting innovation and expansion,” said John Coughlin, an Executive-in-Residence at Summit Partners who will join the Celcoin Board of Directors. “We have been impressed by the scalability of their platform and speed of new product innovation. We look forward to supporting Celcoin as the company continues to expand in Brazil and throughout Latin America.”

Christopher J. Dean, a Managing Director at Summit Partners, and angel investor Michael Esrubilsky will join Coughlin on the company’s Board.

Innova Capital, which invested in Celcoin’s two most recent funding rounds, also participated in this financing. “Celcoin provides a technological infrastructure that allows its clients to take advantage of some of the greatest tailwinds in the payments landscape in Brazil, such as bancarization, emergence of instant payment methods, and Banking as a Service. We are excited to continue to support the Celcoin team, and work alongside Summit Partners and the other shareholders,” said Marcel Vitor Santos, Managing Director of Innova Capital and Celcoin Board Member.

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About Celcoin
Celcoin was founded in 2016 as a Banking as a Service technology provider for business customers. Celcoin provides banking, credit and payments solutions and has more than 6,000 business customers connected to its platform. Celcoin is a B Corp certified company with a distinct focus on building products that make a significant social impact by expanding financial access for all Brazilian consumers. Find out more: https://www.celcoin.com.br/

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a growth-focused investor that seeks to establish partnerships with category-leading businesses and executives, providing the capital and resources to accelerate their growth. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, financial services and other growth industries. A complete list of Summit investments can be found here. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please visit summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

• CluePoints is a cloud-based software platform for Risk-Based Quality Management (“RBQM”) and data quality oversight in clinical trials, designed to enable safer and more efficient processes and improving data integrity and risk compliance
• As scientific breakthroughs and advancements in technology and data are accelerating healthcare innovation, the markets for RBQM and Integrated Data Review software are expected to experience strong growth
• In this highly thematic investment at the intersection of pharma, software and AI, EQT will apply its expertise investing in healthcare and throughout the tech value-chain to help CluePoints cement its leading global position
• Summit Partners, an investor in CluePoints since 2020, and Clinimetrics SA, a co-founder of CluePoints, will retain minority stakes with participation in this funding round
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CluePoints today announced that the EQT Healthcare Growth Strategy and the EQT Growth Fund have agreed to acquire a majority stake in CluePoints (the “Company”), with meaningful reinvestment from the management team and existing shareholders Summit Partners and Clinimetrics SA, which was also a co-founder of the Company.

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belgium, CluePoints is a premier software provider for RBQM and data quality oversight in clinical trials. Applying advanced statistics and machine learning, and harnessing over 10 years of clinical trials knowledge, CluePoints’ proprietary algorithms help drive positive outcomes for pharmaceutical and biotech companies, contract research organizations and other customers. The Company offers an end-to-end value proposition from initial risk identification to ongoing tracking and monitoring of issues and discrepancies throughout the drug development process. With more than 9,500 platform users, CluePoints has helped de-risk more than 1,600 studies and has detected over 142,000 issues for its customers, which include many of the top 20 largest pharma companies.

CluePoints received a growth investment from Summit Partners in 2020, and over the course of the last several years, the Company has generated significant growth, building a robust go-to-market function, launching new products and diversifying into new markets.

This new investment comes at a time when CluePoints is seeing accelerating growth, underpinned by increasing adoption of RBQM software across virtually all clinical trial phases. The industry is experiencing momentum due to growing research & development spend, increasing data complexity in clinical trials and a focus on patient safety and data quality driven partly by regulatory scrutiny.

Investing in CluePoints is aligned with the objectives of EQT Healthcare Growth to support companies with their mission to deliver positive healthcare outcomes, and of EQT Growth to invest in the next generation of technology leaders. EQT will apply its 30-year track record of investing in healthcare, experience of investing in software and AI, its in-house digital team and global network of Industrial Advisors to help CluePoints cement its leading global position in RBQM and data analytics for clinical trials.

Andy Cooper, CEO of CluePoints, said: “We are delighted that EQT has chosen to partner with CluePoints. EQT is a market-leading investor in both SaaS (Software as a Service) and medical research industries. This combination makes EQT an ideal partner for CluePoints which is a market leader for SaaS-based clinical data analytics. We are grateful for Summit’s active support over the last four years. Their depth of industry knowledge and operational resources have been instrumental in our growth trajectory. Both EQT and Summit share our passion for and commitment to leveraging innovative advanced statistics and machine learning solutions to eliminate manual, error-prone activities in the clinical trial process.”

Dr Mark Braganza, Partner in the EQT Healthcare Growth Advisory Team, commented: “We are excited to be partnering with CluePoints and its dynamic leadership team to help it scale and reach its full potential. The Company’s ambition is a perfect match with ours to help enable the development of medical research to deliver more effective, efficient and accessible healthcare.”

Kirk Lepke, Partner in the EQT Growth Advisory Team, said: “CluePoints is a prime example of how data, machine-learning and AI can be leveraged to improve real world outcomes – in this case pharmaceutical drug development. The entire EQT platform is behind this investment and ready to support the Company with its continued expansion in RBQM and into growing, adjacent markets.”

Thomas Tarnowski, a Managing Director at Summit Partners, said: “We’ve been proud to work alongside the entire CluePoints team during a period of meaningful growth and expansion, supporting the acceleration of product development efforts and entry into new markets.” Jono Pagden, a Principal at Summit, continued: “We are excited to continue our support of the Company and to partner with management and EQT during this next phase of growth.”

CluePoints and Summit Partners were advised by Jefferies International (M&A), White & Case (legal),Deloitte (financial, tax) and LEK (commercial).

The transaction is subject to customary conditions and approvals. It is expected to close in Q3 2024.

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About CluePoints
CluePoints is the premier Risk-Based Quality Management (RBQM) and Data Quality Oversight Software provider. CluePoints is leveraging the potential of artificial intelligence using advanced statistics and machine learning to determine the quality, accuracy, and integrity of clinical trial data both during and after study conduct. Aligned with guidance from the FDA, EMA, and ICH E6 (R2), CluePoints is deployed to support central and on-site monitoring, medical review, quality risk management and to drive a holistic Risk-Based strategy in all trials. Coupled with thought leadership and consulting expertise to aid pre-study risk assessment, identification of risk controls and solution implementation, you now have everything you need to adhere with global regulatory guidance. The result is positive clinical development outcomes, increased operational efficiency, lower costs and reduced regulatory submission risk as part of the industry paradigm shift to RBQM. More info: www.cluepoints.com

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About EQT
EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 242 billion in total assets under management (EUR 132 billion in fee-generating assets under management), within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence and market leadership. More info: www.eqtgroup.com Follow EQT on LinkedIn, X, YouTube and Instagram.

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Direct mail market leader announces first major equity transaction and plans to build out owned channel marketing platform

GREENVILLE, S.C. — PostPilot, the fastest-growing direct-mail marketing company in the U.S., today announced a strategic investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners, with participation from Klaviyo founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen. The funding will be used to accelerate hiring, further expand internationally and continue development of PostPilot’s proprietary direct mail targeting and execution capabilities.

“PostPilot has helped thousands of ecommerce and omnichannel brands across nearly every category unlock the power of direct mail,” said co-CEO Drew Sanocki, who founded the company with co-CEO Michael Epstein in 2018. “This strategic investment allows us to innovate even faster and accelerate our mission to help brands grow at a time of increasing online competition and consumer privacy. We’ve proven that direct mail works, and we’re building on that success every day.”

PostPilot believes that brands must leverage a mix of marketing channels to drive revenue and build strong customer relationships. By facilitating thoughtful, personalized customer communication, PostPilot helps enable brands to market at scale, unimpeded by ad networks and other intermediaries. Powered by an innovative, data-driven direct mail platform, PostPilot campaigns target the full customer funnel, from retention to retargeting to prospecting, offering AI-powered targeting features designed to enhance customer interactions and boost campaign performance.

Top brands—including ecommerce leaders Dr. Squatch, Hexclad, and Good American—rely on PostPilot to help drive sales, acquire higher lifetime value customers and diversify their marketing.

“At a time when media mix diversity is increasingly critical, PostPilot has built a leading self-serve programmatic direct mail platform used by brands and agencies around the world to help acquire and retain customers,” said Melanie Whelan, a Managing Director with Summit Partners and former CEO of SoulCycle.

“We have been particularly impressed by Drew and Michael’s deep understanding of the customer and their ability to develop innovative solutions designed to address the challenges that omnichannel and digitally native brands face today. We first learned of PostPilot following enthusiastic reviews from several consumer companies, and we look forward to partnering with this impressive team during this next phase of growth,” added Julianne Hummelberg, Vice President with Summit Partners who has joined the PostPilot board of directors.

PostPilot has native integrations with the ecommerce solutions DTC brands use most. The company’s frictionless interface lets brands of all sizes leverage their existing customer data across Shopify, Klaviyo, Attentive, Recharge and other key platforms.

Andrew Bialecki, founder and CEO of Klaviyo, added: “Ed and I have watched PostPilot grow from afar. Like Klaviyo, they are fanatical about helping B2C businesses transform data at scale into smarter, personalized experiences. We are excited to back a company that shares our mission to help brands succeed through deeper customer relationships built across every interaction.”

This funding – the company’s first major equity transaction -- comes at a time of strong momentum and expansion for PostPilot. Over the last year, the company opened new production facilities in the U.S. and U.K. and has launched several innovative products – including SiteMatch for website retargeting, ShopDrops to support in-store retail sales and lookalike audiences for prospecting. In addition, PostPilot was named to the 2023 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

PostPilot has remained profitable even as the company has continued its rapid growth trajectory, generating revenue growth of over 200% in 2023 alone.

“Summit Partners has a long history of partnering with category-leading companies, including Klaviyo, Brooklinen, and Solo Brands,” said Michael Epstein, founder and co-CEO of PostPilot. “The Summit team has a deep understanding of the PostPilot technology and the opportunity ahead, and we are thrilled to work together to unlock new growth channels for consumer brands around the world.”

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AboutPostPilot
PostPilot is the fastest-growing direct-mail marketing company in the U.S. according to the 2023 Inc. 5000 ranking. Created by omnichannel marketers for omnichannel marketers, PostPilot makes it easy for brands to acquire and retain customers with smart, AI-driven postcard and catalog campaigns. For more information, please visit postpilot.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. A complete list of Summit investments can be found here. For more information, please see summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

Summit Partners leads investment to accelerate company’s international expansion and support continued product leadership in the OMS category
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TOULOUSE, FRANCE and LONDON, UK – OneStock SAS, a leading provider of Order Management Systems (OMS), today announced a $72 million investment from global growth equity investor Summit Partners.

OneStock was founded in 2015 by CEO, Romulus Grigoras, and CTO, Benoit Baccot, to help retailers and brands navigate the increasing complexity of the omnichannel landscape and enhance overall customer experience. The company’s cloud-native solution provides a centralised platform designed to manage end-to-end order fulfillment and visibility and empower retailers to offer a seamless ‘buy anywhere, deliver anywhere, return anywhere’ experience to customers.

"Since the beginning, OneStock has been dedicated to creating smarter and more sustainable shopping experiences, and our partnership with Summit marks a thrilling new chapter in our journey, reaffirming our long-term commitment to innovation and growth in the retail technology space,” commented Mr. Grigoras. “With Summit's support and the benefit of their deep experience in the retail technology sector, we're poised to accelerate our growth even further. Our clear ambition is to emerge as the number one global leader in the OMS category.”

Offering a highly compelling customer ROI and a feature-rich, user-centric solution, OneStock has experienced robust, profitable growth in recent years, achieving a 2.5-fold increase in recurring revenue since 2021. The company has seen widespread adoption amongst major enterprise customers across diverse verticals, ranging from luxury goods to car parts, pet food to furniture, and from traditional B2C retailers to franchiser networks and B2B commerce. Today, more than 100 international retailers and brands across 25 countries leverage OneStock, with the platform facilitating over €2.5 billion in orders annually. OneStock customers include Yves Rocher, WHSmith, Intersport, ManoMano, and S.Oliver.

“With the proliferation of online and offline sales channels and consumers’ ever-increasing expectations for instant product availability and fulfillment, we believe a modern OMS has become a critical part of the retail supply chain. In our view, OneStock has developed the most intuitive, scalable and differentiated cloud-native OMS solutions, purpose-built to help brands and retailers to plan better, grow faster, sell more and waste less,” comments Steffan Peyer, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who will join the OneStock Board of Directors.

This new funding will be used to fuel OneStock’s continued international expansion, particularly into the U.S. market, and to help accelerate the company’s vision for a retail landscape where order management is seamless and easy. OneStock is a proud Adobe Gold Partner, one of the select few MACH-certified OMS providers in the MACH Alliance, and the first OMS with an official integration with Shopify. The company aims to become the easiest-to-integrate OMS in the market by expanding its partner relationships, by extending the comprehensive range of integrations offered in the OneStock Extensions Portal and by soon opening its platform to external agencies and customers seeking to develop additional extensions for particular use cases and verticals. In addition, the company plans to accelerate product development in a number of areas, including B2B, AI and circular economy initiatives.

“OneStock is known in the retail market for having an impressive track record of innovation, including what we believe are pioneering features such as gamification as part of its Ship from Store product, its advanced Business Intelligence Suite, and one of the most sophisticated Delivery Promise solutions in the industry,” said Nik Ohri, a Vice President at Summit Partners who will also join the OneStock Board of Directors.

“We are thrilled to partner with this highly experienced team, and we look forward to working with Romulus and Benoit to help accelerate their vision and expand the reach of OneStock’s impact globally.”

Mr. Grigoras added: “I want to extend my heartfelt thanks to the entire OneStock team and all of our partners and customers, whose hard work and collaboration have been instrumental in helping OneStock achieve this fantastic milestone. We remain committed to supporting the success of our customers as we continue to shape the future of retail!”

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About OneStock
OneStock is Europe’s market-leading distributed order management system provider. We help retailers unlock their full omnichannel potential and power some of the world’s most convenient shopping experiences. Our cloud-native SaaS solution improves operational efficiency, increases online revenue and enhances customer experience.

A single view of inventory across all stock locations enables our clients to maximise sales opportunities, enhance fulfilment options, optimise order orchestration, create new omnichannel capabilities, seamlessly manage returns and analyse business performance. OneStock is a proud member of the MACH Alliance and provides best-of-breed solutions for many brands, including: Pets at Home, Jigsaw, Hackett, The Perfume Shop, Dune and Moss. For more information, visit onestock-retail.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Notable investments in the retail technology and marketing technology sectors include RELEX, Akeneo, Klaviyo, Optimove, Later and Mi9 Retail. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Summit’s Ross Stern was named to GrowthCap's list of “Top 25 Healthcare Investors of 2024.” Awardees were selected based on their demonstrated expertise across a variety of healthcare subsectors as well as their strategic and operational contributions to the companies with whom they partner.  

Ross Stern is a Managing Director at Summit Partners and a member of the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Ross joined Summit in 2009, and over the course of the last fifteen years, he has invested in and partnered with numerous high-growth companies and talented executives across the healthcare landscape. He has built deep expertise across the healthcare services and life sciences sectors and is an active, engaged board member at several Summit portfolio companies. His board and investment experience includes Abode Healthcare (acquired by BrightSpring Health Services), DMG Practice Management Solutions (acquired by Ares Management), Fortis Life Sciences, Hallmark Health Care Solutions, My Dentist (acquired by Heartland Dental), Paradigm Outcomes, PharmScript, Sound Physicians, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, U.S. Renal Care and VaxCare.

Read more about Ross and his fellow honorees at GrowthCap.

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San Antonio, TX – LumaBridge, a clinical research organization (CRO) dedicated to discovering, developing, and testing emerging biotechnologies related to cancer therapies, today announced the appointment of Todd Lehman as Chief Executive Officer, President and member of the Board of Directors.  

Todd joined LumaBridge in April 2023 to head the company’s business development organization, and he quickly made a significant impact as a member of the executive team in driving business growth and process improvements. He brings over 20 years of clinical operations and commercial experience across multiple therapeutic areas, with a particular emphasis on oncology and ophthalmology. Prior to joining LumaBridge, Todd held various leadership roles in operations and portfolio management with a focus on the biotech customer at PPD, a Thermo Fisher Scientific company. Todd began his career in clinical research at Rx Development Resources, the CRO division of Sirion Therapeutics. Todd holds an M.S. in biomedical engineering and a B.S. in chemical engineering, from the University of South Florida.

“Since joining LumaBridge last year, Todd's contributions have been invaluable, and I am confident that he will be an effective leader for our next phase of growth,” said Dr. George Peoples, LumaBridge Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. “He brings a wealth of experience that benefits both sponsors and patients, and I look forward to collaborating with Todd as we continue to scale our clinical trial capabilities.”

“It's been an honor to be a part of the LumaBridge team during such an exciting stage of the company’s growth,” said Todd Lehman. “I am inspired by our customers’ ongoing efforts to bring innovative solutions to oncology patients, and I look forward to continue working with the team to further advance our capabilities and services as customer demands evolve.”

About LumaBridge
‍LumaBridge is a specialty clinical research organization (CRO) focused on creating innovative clinical trial solutions for biopharma companies. Founded in 2014 as Cancer Insight, the company offers customized clinical trial guidance, strategic partnership, and personalized attention to each sponsor, accelerating the development of potential therapies.

LumaBridge builds on the success and experience of a seasoned team, led by Dr. George Peoples, to support drug development, accelerating therapies to patients and guiding biopharma companies through clinical and regulatory pathways. As part of their comprehensive CRO services, LumaBridge offers consultation on trial design and clinical development strategy.

For more information, visit lumabridge.com.

Partnership to advance GRESB’s continued leadership in global ESG benchmarking to support transition to sustainable real assets

Existing shareholder Summit Partners to retain minority stake in GRESB

New York, NY and Amsterdam, Netherlands – GRESB, a leading global provider of sustainability standards and benchmarks for real assets, today announced a majority investment from General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, through the firm’s BeyondNetZero climate growth fund. General Atlantic will acquire its stake from existing shareholder Summit Partners, which will retain a minority position in GRESB following close of the transaction. GRESB intends to partner with General Atlantic to support its next phase of growth through strategic expansion and product innovation and to accelerate impact across financial markets.

Founded in 2009, GRESB provides sustainability standards, benchmarks, and actionable insights for real assets. General Atlantic’s majority investment and partnership are a testament to the alignment of vision and shared values between the two organizations. With this investment, GRESB will remain an independent Benefit Corporation, expanding its support to a global community of real asset investors, managers, and partners. The affiliated not-for-profit GRESB Foundation will continue to provide industry-led strategic direction and governance over the GRESB Standards. The GRESB management team will reinvest into the company and continue its ongoing work driving GRESB’s growth and impact. General Atlantic’s investment aims to allow GRESB to expand its work on transition finance, fixed income, the REAL Solutions family of services, and more.

Sebastien Roussotte, Chief Executive Officer, GRESB, commented, “GRESB looks forward to contributing to BeyondNetZero’s vision for climate action powered by technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This vision underpins GRESB’s industry-led approach to creating global standards that increase market transparency and accelerate the clean energy transition.”

Rhea Hamilton, Managing Director at General Atlantic’s BeyondNetZero, said, “GRESB has established itself as the industry standard for benchmarking across real assets. With buildings and real estate accounting for 40 percent of global greenhouse emissions, data is key to unlocking the opportunity to deliver net-zero, resilient assets. We believe GRESB’s management of asset-level data and compelling value proposition deepen the Company’s position as an enabler of decarbonization for investors and asset managers. We share GRESB’s conviction in accelerating the global transition to sustainable real assets and look forward to partnering with the Company’s mission-driven team.”

Tom Hussey, Principal at General Atlantic, continued, “GRESB delivers standardization and comparability across the real assets ecosystem, encouraging all participants to measure and improve ESG credentials. We believe that the Company is backed by long-term tailwinds as decarbonization and ESG benchmarking become core metrics for LP portfolios. We intend to leverage General Atlantic’s expertise at the intersection of innovative data, technology, and climate solutions to support GRESB in its continued expansion and product development.”

“We have been proud to work alongside Sebastien and the entire GRESB team to support the company’s significant growth and expansion over the last four years,” said Johannes Grefe, Managing Director at Summit Partners. “We believe GRESB’s commitment to providing industry leading ESG data and benchmarking solutions will continue to play a pivotal role in driving sustainable investment practices worldwide,” added Chris Bon, Principal at Summit Partners.

GRESB benchmarks and insights are generated from data self-reported through annual assessments for standing real estate investments, real estate projects in development, infrastructure funds, and infrastructure assets ­– both operational and in various stages of development. Each year, GRESB publishes global aggregated benchmark data that highlights the state and continued progress of ESG in the industry. The GRESB Standards, upon which its benchmarks are based, evolve over time based on input from industry representatives who sit on and work with the GRESB Foundation. This ensures that assessments are guided by what investors and the industry consider to be material issues and that scores reflect evolving sustainability expectations.

Through its assessments, benchmarks, and related products, GRESB enables investors to make more informed decisions; empowers companies, managers, and asset operators to improve their sustainability rating through ESG insights and best practices; and encourages the wider real assets industry to embrace and promote ESG transparency and collective action.

The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals. Moelis & Company served as financial advisor to Summit Partners, and Milbank served as legal advisor. Weil Gotshal and De Brauw acted as legal advisors to General Atlantic.
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About GRESB
GRESB is a mission-driven, industry-led organization providing standardized and validated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data to financial markets. Established in 2009, GRESB has become the leading benchmark for sustainable real estate and infrastructure investments across the world, used by 150 institutional and financial investors to inform decision-making. The annual GRESB benchmarks include more than 2,000 real estate portfolios and funds as well as more than 170 infrastructure funds and nearly 700 infrastructure assets, collectively representing USD 8.8 trillion in gross asset value.

About General Atlantic and BeyondNetZero
General Atlantic is a leading global growth investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 500 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980 to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and deliver lasting impact, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses around the world. BeyondNetZero is the climate growth fund of General Atlantic that invests in growth companies delivering innovative climate solutions that have the potential to meet and exceed net-zero emissions targets, with a focus on decarbonization, energy efficiency, resource conservation and emissions management. General Atlantic has approximately $83 billion in assets under management inclusive of all products as of December 31, 2023, and more than 280 investment professionals. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit: www.generalatlantic.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

The leading Influencer Marketing and Social Media Management Company also announces Appiah’s new role as head of influencer engagement.

BOSTON, MASS. - Later, a social media management and influencer marketing leader, launches Beyond Influence, a podcast designed for creators and influencers, marketers, and social media enthusiasts. Hosted by Kwame Appiah and Later CEO Scott Sutton, the podcast aims to remove barriers to a successful creator career; provide a roadmap for meaningful relationships between brands, consumers, and creators; and unpack the experience from the top creators, influencers and brand voices who know the industry best. The first episode airs on Tuesday, April 16.

“We saw a pervasive gap in how influencer marketing is often discussed versus its meaningful contributions to awareness, revenue, and community-building,” said Sutton. “Through the conversations, we have on Beyond Influence, we want to change the narrative around influencers and creators and elevate discussions about the creator ecosystem to benefit everyone - brands, consumers, creators, and influencers.”

Joining Sutton on the podcast is well-known creator Kwame Appiah, newly named head of influencer and creator engagement at Later. Appiah is a long-time creator on TikTok and Instagram and previously held roles of increasing responsibility in business development at companies including Common Room, Builder.io, and ZoomInfo. Appiah rose to prominence on the Netflix show, Love Is Blind.

“Kwame brings unique experience to our team,” continued Sutton. “His technology acumen and business background combined with experience building and monetizing an audience make him the ideal person to lead influencer engagement at Later. In this role, Kwame will be a bridge between content creators and brands to help achieve our goals toward richer, deeper partnerships.”

The first episode airs on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, and will feature a conversation between Scott and Kwame. Episodes will be released every two weeks, and future shows will include guests such as Tessa Barton, Marshall Glaze, Chelsea Griffin, Carla Marie and Jason Tartick, among others.

“We are in a time when everyone with a phone can be a creator,” said Appiah. “Additionally, more and more generations are leveraging platforms to earn an income and the creator economy is not slowing down. A leading financial services company predicted the creator economy would be valued at more than $70 billion in 2024 and some studies anticipate marketers will spend nearly $6 billion on influencer marketing this year. We want to increase opportunities for current and potential creators and influencers to collaborate and learn alongside brands through meaningful conversations. Beyond Influence is just the start.”

Watch the Beyond Influence trailer on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.

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About Later
Later is a leading social and influencer marketing solution and link in bio tool. With over eight million users and enterprise clients, Later helps marketers create high-performing social content and collaborate with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI across all major social platforms. Visit the Later Newsroom for shareable assets, logos, and more.

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Denver, CO — Netgain, a leading software provider for finance and accounting teams, today announced a $35 million minority investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners. The funding will be used to fuel product development, team expansion and support Netgain’s overall commitment to helping accountants gain time back in their day by automating routine tasks.

Netgain was founded in 2018 with a mission to modernize the Office of the CFO. The company’s founders, Nathan Smart and Adam Riches, began their careers as auditors, controllers and finance managers, experiencing firsthand the technical and time-consuming challenges that accounting and finance professionals face.  

Netgain’s NetSuite-native software solutions help to simplify and automate key accounting processes, including those related to lease accounting, fixed asset management, advanced revenue recognition, month -end close, loan management and improved financial workflow—all without requiring the user to leave their system of record.

“From our earliest days, we’ve been on a mission to build enjoyable, intuitive and complete accounting and finance solutions that simplify, standardize and automate a company’s key financial processes—exactly where these processes belong—natively within their NetSuite ERP ,” said Nathan Smart, President and Co-founder of Netgain. “Rather than manually manipulating and reconciling against external systems and spreadsheets, accountants can now confidently rely on financial data from a single source of truth, enabling more focus on driving enterprise value with improved analysis and insights.”

The accounting industry is facing a significant talent exit, with declining enrollments at accounting programs and a record number of retirements. This workforce shortage further exacerbates the widespread experience of burnout for accounting and finance teams that are managing long working hours and increasing regulatory oversite with dated technology. Netgain helps address these challenges with solutions designed to not only save time for accounting teams, but also deliver transparency and visibility into the financial situation of the business so accounting and finance teams can drive impactful business decisions.

"We believe there’s significant opportunity for innovation in the Office of the CFO. Today, many accounting and finance teams are still working with multiple tools and brute-forcing solutions in spreadsheets—drastically limiting the efficiency and effectiveness of these teams. Our investment in Netgain underscores our confidence in the company’s ability to deliver modern, integrated solutions that will help the Office of the CFO undergo efficient technological transformation and drive economic growth for their organizations," stated Greg Goldfarb, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who has joined the company’s Board of Directors.

“Netgain has experienced impressive growth over the last several years—growing annualized recurring revenue by 80 percent from 2022 to 2023 and new customer logos by 400 percent in the past 24 months. Netgain now has over 1,600 customers with high retention. We look forward to working with Nathan, Adam, and the entire team to continue building on this momentum,” added Goldfarb.

This funding announcement comes on the heels of the news that Netgain has acquired SuperSync, SCS Cloud’s NetSuite application business, in order to better serve the needs of finance and accounting professionals in need of greater integrations and fulfillment capabilities.

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About Netgain
Netgain is transforming the accounting practices of companies around the world. With each passing quarter, we continue to develop and enhance tools that not only meet the evolving needs of the finance sector but also set new standards for operational excellence to streamline lease accounting, fixed asset management, loan management, closing the books and more within NetSuite. Learn more at netgain.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or follow on LinkedIn.

BOSTON, MA; MENLO PARK, CA; NEW YORK, NY; and LONDON, UK – Summit Partners, a leading alternative investment firm, today announced the promotion of three professionals and the addition of one new Principal across the firm’s global offices. Yoon Lee has been promoted to Partner, and Hanyin Cheng and Cody Lee have been promoted to Principal. In addition, Ryan McDonald has joined the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences team as a Principal.

“We are very pleased to recognize the performance of these three colleagues with well-earned promotions,” said Peter Chung, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Partners. “Each of these colleagues represent well the culture and values of our firm, and has demonstrated incredible commitment to our portfolio companies and our limited partners. Our firm is defined by our strategy, team and culture. We continue to invest in the professional growth of our team and the addition of outstanding new talent to improve the execution of our strategy.”

Yoon Lee has been promoted to Partner. Yoon joined Summit’s London office as the Director of Investor Relations in 2017 and was promoted to the Head of International Investor Relations in 2020. Prior to Summit, Yoon worked at MVision Private Equity Advisers and Citi Investment Banking. Yoon holds a BA in French literature and political science, magna cum laude, from Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, an MA in translation methodology from Ecole Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs in Paris and an MSc in management from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris.

Hanyin Cheng has been promoted to Principal. Hanyin joined Summit’s Boston office as an Associate in 2014 and is a member of the Technology team. His investment experience includes Fuze (acquired by 8x8), Keeper Security, QAD, Redzone (acquired by QAD), StackAdapt and Vensure Employer Services (formerly PrismHR). Prior to Summit, Hanyin worked on the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group at UBS Investment Bank. Hanyin holds a BA in computer science and economics from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Cody Lee has been promoted to Principal. Cody joined Summit’s Menlo Park office as a Vice President in 2019. As a member of Summit’s Peak Performance Group, Cody works with management teams to help identify and execute growth strategies designed to build long-term value. Most frequently, he collaborates with portfolio companies to help them develop and optimize their marketing programs. Prior to Summit, Cody was a partner at Lever & Dial, an investment and advisory firm dedicated to helping growth companies scale with world-class marketing. Previously, he was Head of Digital Marketing at an integrated creative agency and production company, and he was a foundational member of the paid advertising team at Software Advice (acquired by Gartner). Cody holds a BA, summa cum laude, in English and creative writing from The George Washington University.

In addition, Ryan McDonald joins the firm as a Principal on the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Ryan is based in Menlo Park and was previously with Norwest Venture Partners, where he spent more than a decade investing in high-growth healthcare technology and services companies. Earlier in his career, Ryan held roles in the leveraged finance groups at both Bank of America and Stifel Nicolaus and served as the President and co-founder of a dietary supplement company. Ryan holds a BS in business management, with a concentration in economics, from Babson College.

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About Summit Partners

Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

BOSTON, MA; MENLO PARK, CA; NEW YORK, NY; and LONDON, UK – Summit Partners, a leading alternative investment firm, today announced the promotion of three professionals and the addition of one new Principal across the firm’s global offices. Yoon Lee has been promoted to Partner, and Hanyin Cheng and Cody Lee have been promoted to Principal. In addition, Ryan McDonald has joined the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences team as a Principal.

“We are very pleased to recognize the performance of these three colleagues with well-earned promotions,” said Peter Chung, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Partners. “Each of these colleagues represent well the culture and values of our firm, and has demonstrated incredible commitment to our portfolio companies and our limited partners. Our firm is defined by our strategy, team and culture. We continue to invest in the professional growth of our team and the addition of outstanding new talent to improve the execution of our strategy.”

Yoon Lee has been promoted to Partner. Yoon joined Summit’s London office as the Director of Investor Relations in 2017 and was promoted to the Head of International Investor Relations in 2020. Prior to Summit, Yoon worked at MVision Private Equity Advisers and Citi Investment Banking. Yoon holds a BA in French literature and political science, magna cum laude, from Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, an MA in translation methodology from Ecole Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs in Paris and an MSc in management from Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris.

Hanyin Cheng has been promoted to Principal. Hanyin joined Summit’s Boston office as an Associate in 2014 and is a member of the Technology team. His investment experience includes Fuze (acquired by 8x8), Keeper Security, QAD, Redzone (acquired by QAD), StackAdapt and Vensure Employer Services (formerly PrismHR). Prior to Summit, Hanyin worked on the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group at UBS Investment Bank. Hanyin holds a BA in computer science and economics from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Cody Lee has been promoted to Principal. Cody joined Summit’s Menlo Park office as a Vice President in 2019. As a member of Summit’s Peak Performance Group, Cody works with management teams to help identify and execute growth strategies designed to build long-term value. Most frequently, he collaborates with portfolio companies to help them develop and optimize their marketing programs. Prior to Summit, Cody was a partner at Lever & Dial, an investment and advisory firm dedicated to helping growth companies scale with world-class marketing. Previously, he was Head of Digital Marketing at an integrated creative agency and production company, and he was a foundational member of the paid advertising team at Software Advice (acquired by Gartner). Cody holds a BA, summa cum laude, in English and creative writing from The George Washington University.

In addition, Ryan McDonald joins the firm as a Principal on the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Ryan is based in Menlo Park and was previously with Norwest Venture Partners, where he spent more than a decade investing in high-growth healthcare technology and services companies. Earlier in his career, Ryan held roles in the leveraged finance groups at both Bank of America and Stifel Nicolaus and served as the President and co-founder of a dietary supplement company. Ryan holds a BS in business management, with a concentration in economics, from Babson College.

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About Summit Partners

Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Denver, CO — Netgain, a leader in providing NetSuite-native modern accounting solutions, has officially announced the acquisition of SuperSync, SCS Cloud's NetSuite applications business. This partnership enables Netgain to provide a unique breadth of support to the office of the CFO, helping finance and accounting professionals to streamline processes, consolidate technology and save valuable time.

SuperSync is a provider of innovative cloud synchronization solutions designed to streamline data management and enhance productivity for NetSuite users. The SuperSync suite of products stands out for its affordability and effectiveness in solving niche NetSuite challenges. SuperSync applications include NetSuite integrations for e-commerce, 3PL and fulfillment, CRM platforms, and Outlook — as well as procurement, punchout and approvals.

This strategic technology acquisition allows Netgain to accelerate its vision of empowering accounting and finance professionals to reclaim the hours they are spending in Excel and brute-forcing solutions, and instead reallocate that time to focus on strategic initiatives that make a positive business impact.

Adam Riches, CEO and co-founder of Netgain emphasized the significance of this partnership in reshaping the landscape of accounting, "Netgain's acquisition of SuperSync marks a critical step in our mission to modernize the accounting industry, bringing ease and efficiency to everyday tasks. We are transforming business processes into reliable, accurate automated solutions so accountants can have confidence in the numbers and eliminate second-guessing and errors that stem from manual processes."

Thiago Batista, IT Director at Gorjana, a SuperSync customer noted, "Before SyperSync for Shopify by SCS Cloud, we were struggling to keep up with our inventory synchronization, and our financial reconciliation was a nightmare. With over 127,000 SKUs, we needed something more robust than our current provider could offer. SyperSync revolutionized our process by syncing every 2 hours, ensuring our inventory was always current. Thanks to SuperSync, we resolved a massive reconciliation issue from a $4M deposit, seamlessly matching every transaction in NetSuite. And the cost savings? Extraordinary!"

"Together, Netgain and SuperSync operate with a shared vision to provide unparalleled expertise and support for the CFO's office, enabling businesses to thrive in an increasingly complex financial landscape," remarked Derek Hitchman, founder and CEO of SCS Cloud. Following Netgain's acquisition of the SuperSync application product line, SCS Cloud will continue providing its award-winning implementation and consulting services for its customers.

To learn more about how Netgain is modernizing accounting within NetSuite by streamlining complex processes through automations and technology integrations, visit netgain.tech.

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About Netgain
Netgain is transforming the accounting practices of companies around the world. With each passing quarter, we continue to develop and enhance tools that not only meet the evolving needs of the finance sector but also set new standards for operational excellence to streamline lease accounting, fixed asset management, loan management, closing the books and more within NetSuite.

Trusted by the best and brightest, join companies such as PWC, Deloitte, EY, Goodwill and Reddit in this financial revolution where efficiency, accuracy, and strategic foresight converge to create a brighter future for accountants everywhere. Learn more at netgain.tech or follow us on LinkedIn.

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About SuperSync
SuperSync offers innovative cloud synchronization solutions to streamline data management and enhance productivity for NetSuite. With a focus on reliability, security, and user-friendly interfaces, SuperSync empowers businesses to effortlessly sync and consolidate dozens of data sources to a single, accurate view within NetSuite. Learn more at supersync.cloud.

This announcement is directed at accounting professionals and finance executives who stand to benefit most from this groundbreaking merger in the cloud accounting space.

Source: Netgain

Portsmouth, NH – Insurcomm, Inc. (“the Company” or “Insurcomm”), a rapidly growing provider of commercial and residential restoration services, today announced a majority growth investment from Summit Partners. Summit’s investment will support Insurcomm’s national expansion strategy as the Company continues its mission to deliver the highest quality service to commercial clients, residential customers, and municipalities navigating property loss events.

Insurcomm stands as one of the fastest-growing restoration services providers in the United States, propelled by a unique operating model and supported by a winning culture. The Company offers a comprehensive range of property damage restoration services, including fire and water damage cleanup, mold remediation, asbestos and biohazard removal, as well as reconstruction services to customers nationally. Serving as a single point of contact, Insurcomm supports its clients every step of the way through the complexities of property loss.  

“When disaster strikes, our mission is to serve our clients with a deep sense of professionalism and dignity, ensuring timely and end-to-end solutions,” said Doug Indelicato, CEO of Insurcomm. “Partnering with Summit will help Insurcomm enter a new and expanded era of growth, allowing us to scale our impact and drive value for property owners and insurers. Together, we aim to set new standards in the restoration market, with a focus on partnering with like-minded operators who share our mission, and further cementing Insurcomm’s position as an industry leader."

Summit’s investment comes at a time of strategic inflection for Insurcomm, as the Company seeks to scale its team, expand its operations, and acquire other providers who share a culture of excellence. Insurcomm has experienced accelerated growth over the past five years through the expansion of its geographic coverage and securing General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) status for emergency response for all federal government agencies. Insurcomm has extensive experience across thousands of loss events, ranging from day-to-day emergency responses to major catastrophic events. The Insurcomm team has built deep and trusted relationships with property owners and insurers, fueling strong growth in market share.

“Against the backdrop of a highly fragmented restoration market with secular tailwinds, Insurcomm has developed an impressive delivery model that has helped the Company to grow rapidly and profitably,” said Matt Hamilton, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who has joined the Company’s Board of Directors. “We are thrilled to join forces with Doug and the entire Insurcomm team and to support the Company’s expansion plan.”

“We believe Insurcomm’s strong organic growth is a testament to the culture of excellence that the Company has created and their commitment to serving all stakeholders in property loss events,” added Andy Lee, Vice President at Summit Partners who has also joined the Company’s Board of Directors.

Harris Williams served as financial advisor to Summit Partners, and Latham & Watkins served as legal advisor.

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About Insurcomm, Inc.
With a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Insurcomm was created in 1996 by founder Neil Robbins. Headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, Insurcomm started with two employees to provide construction services for insurance-related losses. Today, Insurcomm has almost 100 employees and provides end-to-end solutions for insurance-related property losses. In addition to servicing day-to-day emergencies, Insurcomm also has a National Large Loss team, which responds to complicated large loss projects throughout the U.S. For more information, please see www.insurcomm.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Summit Partners was named to GrowthCap’s list of the Top Growth Equity Firms of 2023. This year’s list is comprised of 40 firms representing various market segments and sectors. GrowthCap evaluated each firm’s unique capabilities, sector expertise, investment judgment, demonstrated value creation, senior partner composition, talent retention, firm evolution, and firm momentum, among other attributes.

For nearly 40 years, the Summit team has focused on partnering with and powering the growth of great people and great companies. We are grateful for the partnership of the visionary CEOs, dedicated teams and the dynamic companies we have the privilege to support.

To view the full list visit of winners, visit www.growthcapadvisory.com.

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^{‍Awardee selections are based on GrowthCap’s evaluation of each firm’s unique capabilities, sector expertise, investment judgment, demonstrated value creation, senior partner composition, talent retention, firm evolution, and firm momentum, among other attributes. Information on firms was received through GrowthCap’s online submissions portal, nomination forms, direct communications as well as through our additional research. To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit GrowthCap’s website.}

^{This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. Summit Partners submitted a nomination, and once selected, paid a publishing and copyright fee to promote this award. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the party conferring the award referenced herein. Published by GrowthCap on February 28, 2024.}

BluWave, the Business Builders’ Network that connects the private equity industry with specialized service providers, independent consultants and executive talent, today announced Summit Partners as a 2024 Top PE Innovator Award winner*.

BluWave’s third annual Top Private Equity Innovator Awards recognize the top 2% of private equity firms that differentially embrace proactive due diligence, value creation, modern private equity firm operations and corporate citizenship practices.

The Top Private Equity Innovator awardees were selected by a cross-functional committee that assessed candidates 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 5,000 private equity firms and utilized more than 75 different factors, incorporating more than 400,000 data points.

The Top Private Equity Innovator Awards are distinctive in that they involve no financial obligations from any participants and the selection process is independent of any customer relationships. For further information on the BluWave 2024 Top Private Equity Innovator Awards, including the selection process, selection criteria and recipients, please visit bluwave.net/awards.

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About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. The Summit Partners’ strategy is grounded in a foundational believe that profitable growth is the most reliable path to building a durable business and creating long-term value. For four decades, the Summit team has focused on partnering with and powering the growth of great people and great companies. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.

About BluWave
BluWave is the Business Builders’ Network for private equity-grade service provider needs. The company’s platform combines AI, technology and data with concierge-like consultative support to expertly connect businesses with proven providers across due diligence, value creation and prep for sale. The BluWave Vetted™ network is an invite-only ecosystem of top-tier service-providing groups and individuals. Based in Nashville, Tenn., BluWave ranks as one of America’s fastest-growing companies and today serves hundreds of leading private equity firms and their thousands of portfolio companies.

Visit BluWave.net to learn more.

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*BluWave, LP has not received investment capital from and holds no ownership interest in the PE firms evaluated or recognized under the PE Innovator awards program. BluWave received no compensation from any of the PE firms in connection with this awards program. BluWave, however, may otherwise provide services to the PE firms and/or 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 5,000 PE firms in the U.S. and Canada, from which the 82 private equity firms were selected as award recipients.

Award selections are determined based on BluWave, LP’s evaluation of each nominee’s due diligence, value creation, firm operations and corporate citizenship practices. To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit BluWave’s website.  Summit Partners did not have a role in the nomination/submission process for this award. This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the foregoing.

Summit Partners is delighted to welcome Bob Thornton as the newest addition to the firm’s Executive-in-Residence (“EIR”) program. In this role, Bob will work closely with Summit’s Growth Products & Services team to identify new investment opportunities with a specific focus on building a comprehensive wealth management platform in collaboration with leading wirehouse teams serving the high-net-worth customer.

For more on Bob’s background and this partnership with Summit, please listen to his conversation with the Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors here.

Previously, Bob served as President of the Private Wealth Management business of First Republic Bank, where he led the growth of that business from approximately $10 billion in assets to more than $250 billion.  In his role with First Republic, Bob placed a premium on supporting the investment advisor as “wealth manager” to meet clients’ full wealth management needs. Along with his team, Bob developed a series of high-value programs including integrated planning resources, a white glove insurance product and an internal referral construct that contributed to significant growth in the client and asset base of the wealth managers at First Republic. During his tenure, he and his colleagues were able to recruit over 150 high caliber financial advisors from across the industry.

Prior to joining First Republic, Bob had a successful twenty-year career in investment banking, principally focused on mergers & acquisitions and financings. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, followed by leadership roles at both Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank.

Bob holds a B.A. in Political Science from Duke University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Summit has been active in the payments, financial technology and business services sectors for nearly four decades. Since the firm’s founding in 1984, Summit has partnered with more than 125 companies across the financial technology and services, and business and information services sectors.

Summit’s EIR program is an established element of the firm’s growth-oriented investing strategy. Since its inception, the program has facilitated collaboration between seasoned industry executives and Summit’s investment professionals, working to identify sector-specific opportunities in which EIRs may support companies in an ongoing capacity through board or executive leadership roles.

For more on Bob’s background and this partnership with Summit, please listen to his conversation with the Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors here.

Enables seamless data compliance and on-demand data access to support critical secondary use cases

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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Perforce Software (“Perforce”), a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle that is backed by Francisco Partners and Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Delphix (or the “Company”). Delphix’s industry-leading Data Management software platform enables scalable automation, governance, and compliance of enterprise data throughout the application lifecycle. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

“The addition of Delphix to our portfolio adds critical data management capabilities that help enterprise organizations realize an automated and accelerated DevOps pipeline,” said Jim Cassens, CEO of Perforce. “In addition to data automation and compliance, we are also excited to provide our customers with the operational efficiencies and reduced costs afforded by the Delphix platform through lower storage expenditures and footprint. We look forward to working with the Delphix team to continue delivering data management innovation to our customers.”

Many enterprise organizations today consider data to be one of their most important assets. The ability to harness, mine and analyze data generated daily is critical to making thoughtful decisions and creating competitive advantages. Delphix supports customers as they look to scale data usage for analytics and testing purposes, while releasing applications up to 200% faster. The Company’s capabilities in data virtualization and data masking allow organizations to more easily spin up, refresh, and tear down private and public cloud-based data environments, enhancing application delivery pipelines.

“We founded Delphix over 15 years ago to help companies automate data and accelerate digital transformation. Today, we enable data governance, compliance, and automation across the multicloud for many of the world’s biggest brands,” said Jedidiah Yueh, CEO of Delphix. “As part of Perforce, we will be positioned to continue innovating and help more customers realize the strategic power of our data platform.”

The addition of Delphix builds on Perforce’s existing infrastructure automation offering through acceleration of on-demand delivery, self-service test environments, and continuous testing offerings to deliver Shift Left testing with accurate, compliant, and timely test data. With this acquisition,  Perforce continues to demonstrate its commitment to provide  customers with scaled DevOps solutions that help solve the world’s largest enterprises’ automation challenges.

“This strategic acquisition positions Perforce to harness the growing demand for enterprise- scale data management in testing, AI modeling, and analytics,” said Evan Daar, Partner at Francisco Partners, and Sean Courtney, Senior Vice President at Clearlake. “The addition of Delphix further enhances the capabilities Perforce can offer to its valued customers, and we look forward to catalyzing this opportunity to drive continued momentum for the platform.”

The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2024. Centerview Partners acted as exclusive financial adviser to Delphix in connection with the transaction.


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About Delphix
Delphix is a leading vendor of test data management software. Delphix’s solutions allow companies to automate data security measures, rapidly deploy test data to developers, and shorten application development cycles. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 companies have transformed their application development with Delphix. To learn more about Delphix and its product offering, visit www.delphix.com

About Perforce
Perforce powers innovation at scale. Perforce solutions future-proof competitive advantage by driving quality, security, compliance, collaboration, and speed – across the technology lifecycle. We bring deep domain and vertical expertise to every customer, so nothing stands in the way of success. Privately held and funded by Clearlake and Francisco Partners, our global footprint spans more than 80 countries and includes over 75% of the Fortune 100. Perforce is trusted by the world’s leading brands to deliver solutions to even the toughest challenges. Accelerate technology delivery, with no shortcuts. Get the Power of Perforce.

About Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners is a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology and technology-enabled businesses. Since its launch nearly 25 years ago, Francisco Partners has invested in more than 400 technology companies, making it one of the most active and longstanding investors in the technology industry. With approximately $45 billion in capital raised to date, the firm invests in opportunities where its deep sectoral knowledge and operational expertise can help companies realize their full potential. For more information on Francisco Partners, please visit www.franciscopartners.com.

About Clearlake
Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are technology, industrials, and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $75 billion of assets under management, and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK, Dublin, Ireland, and Singapore. More information is available at www.clearlake.com

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Source: Perforce Software

Newly formed company looks to close significant gaps in intermediate mental health care services across the Southern half of the United States.

DALLAS — Connections Wellness Group (CWG), a growing provider of behavioral and mental health services in Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, announced today that it has merged with Integrated Addiction Care and Vertava Health of Tennessee. The newly formed platform company, Blended Health, is focused on expanding access to care for adolescents and adults struggling with acute mental health challenges with primary emphasis on group services consisting of partial hospitalization programs (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP).

As of its launch, Blended Health is operating eighteen clinics across Texas and Tennessee with plans to add more locations in 2024. Blended Health employs over 400 team members, including more than 300 medical psychiatrists, psychiatric physician assistants, advanced psychiatric nurse practitioners, as well as licensed clinical therapists offering onsite and virtual treatment options in medication management, group and individual therapy. Blended Health will continue to operate in Texas under the consumer-facing brand, Connections Wellness Group, and will begin converting all of its Tennessee locations to the Connections Wellness Group brand in February.

Blended Health is founded and led by CEO Matt Morgan and sponsored by Summit Partners, a growth equity investor with extensive and long-standing experience in the healthcare sector. As part of the merger, CWG founder and former CEO Awstin Gregg has transitioned out of this role and begins serving as an advisor. Morgan will lead a newly formed executive team to support the growth of Blended Health.

“It is an exciting time to launch our company and continue increasing access to expert care and high-quality outcomes provided by our medical and clinical providers,” said Morgan. “We are focused on connecting people to what matters in mental health by providing PHP and IOP services to adolescents and adults in a unique and profound way. Our vision is to create a healthy society empowered through positive mental health. The care Blended Health provides will change lives. The impact we have on their lives today will shape the health of our communities tomorrow.”

Blended Health strives to be a leader in the outpatient behavioral and mental health provider space. The company is committed to expanding access and care, primarily through their partial hospitalization programs (PHP) and intensive outpatient programs (IOP), while providing a strong continuity of care through their employed medical and therapy providers.

CWG specializes in creating continuous care for individuals experiencing mental challenges. The localized IOP and PHP programs provide access for people in need and can help avoid and prevent crisis situations as well as reduce the medical costs incurred by local hospital emergency rooms. This will allow for a more intensive therapy option from traditional mental health care and a local step down from inpatient care. Programs are offered during both the day and evening to accommodate schedules.

There is a growing behavioral health crisis in the U.S., exasperated by a shortage of mental health providers relative to growing demand. Currently, many Americans experiencing mental health challenges seeking treatment wait up to three months to receive treatment, and fewer than 50% of adults and 70% of adolescents experiencing mental challenges receive treatment.

Blended Health’s mission is to expand access to outpatient behavioral healthcare services for adolescents and adults struggling with acute mental health challenges by providing a strong continuity of care that includes convenient, innovative, and high touch individual and group services.

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About Blended Health
Blended Health is a behavioral healthcare company backed by Summit Partners, growth-focused alternative investment firm managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Blended Health operates eighteen outpatient clinics across Texas and Tennessee, with the mission of expanding access to outpatient behavioral healthcare services for adolescents and adults struggling with acute mental health challenges by providing a strong continuity of care that includes convenient, innovative, and high touch individual and group services.

HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK - Hallmark Health Care Solutions (“Hallmark” or “the Company”), a healthcare technology company specializing in workforce management solutions, today announced that Bruce Cerullo has been named Chief Executive Officer. Co-Founder Isaac Ullatil, who has served as Chief Executive Officer for the past 13 years, will transition to the role of Strategic Advisor.

Mr. Cerullo brings more than 35 years as an investor and operator in the healthcare industry, having served in multiple executive leadership and board positions throughout his career, including serving as Chairman and CEO at both Nordic Global and Vitalize Consulting Solutions (VCS). He was most recently an Advisory Partner at Summit Partners and previously spent nearly two decades as an Operating Partner at SV Health Investors.

“I am honored to join the Hallmark team at this exciting moment in our growth journey,” said Mr. Cerullo. “I look forward to helping to build on the Company’s momentum as we continue to help healthcare organizations nationwide address their most critical workforce challenges with innovative solutions that pair smart technology with highly effective strategies delivered by a deeply experienced team.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Bruce as Hallmark’s next CEO,” said Ross Stern, Summit Managing Director and Board Director at Hallmark. “Bruce is a high caliber leader with deep healthcare workforce experience and an impressive track record building category-leading healthcare companies. We are excited to have him lead the next phase of Hallmark’s growth.”

Hallmark provides innovative workforce management solutions designed to bring transparency, efficiency and savings to healthcare organizations. The company’s SaaS platform is the industry’s only vendor neutral enterprise solution and today is used by more than 85 healthcare organizations and more than 750 staffing agency partners across the United States. Mr. Cerullo joins Hallmark at an exciting time, following a <a href= https://www.summitpartners.com/news/hallmark-health-care-solutions-announces-significant-growth-investment-led-by-summit-partners target="blank"> significant growth investment from Summit Partners</a>, as the Company deepens its commitment to product innovation and customer success.

“It has been a true honor to lead and build Hallmark,“ said Mr. Ullatil. “Today, I am as confident as I have ever been about Hallmark’s ability to deliver tangible value for our customers while empowering them to focus more on their core purpose of lifesaving patient care. I’m excited to transition to my new role where I can focus my attention on supporting key strategic initiatives and developing new solutions to serve our clients. I believe Bruce is the right CEO to lead Hallmark through this next phase of growth.”

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About Hallmark Health Care Solutions
Hallmark Health Care Solutions offers a fully integrated SaaS platform for healthcare workforce management.  Our platform streamlines the sourcing and deployment of contingent clinical labor and automates the provider lifecycle from contracting to compensation – all with exceptional effectiveness, transparency, and cost savings.  Partnered with our advanced strategies and deep expertise, Hallmark’s leading-edge technology solutions empower healthcare organizations to thrive. For more information visit: www.hallmarkhcs.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or  Follow on LinkedIn.

About Enhanced Healthcare Partners
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP) is a leading private equity firm that specializes in partnering with transformative, middle-market healthcare businesses. EHP provides the flexible capital, operational support, and strategic guidance necessary to support the continued success of growth-oriented businesses. Representative investments include Hallmark Health Care Solutions, Vytalize Health, PAI, SCA Pharma, and West Dermatology. For more information, visit: www.enhancedhealthcare.com.

Dublin, OH – CollisionRight (“the Company”), a leading consolidator of automotive collision repair shops in the United States, today announced a majority investment from Summit Partners, a leading growth equity investment firm. The new capital will help support CollisionRight’s growth plan, which is focused on acquiring and operating high-quality, customer-friendly collision repair shops across the Central United States and Mid-Atlantic regions. CollisionRight Founder and CEO Rich Harrison will retain significant equity ownership in the business by investing alongside Summit, as will several other members of the Company’s senior management team.  

Founded in 2020, CollisionRight has acquired 89 collision repair shops in the past three and a half years, establishing the Company as one of the leading consolidators and providers of collision repair services in the United States. The Company and its skilled repair technicians aim to provide high-quality, reliable repairs for consumers, using modern technology, paint, and parts, and to be an equally reliable partner to the Company’s insurance carrier partners who pay for the overwhelming majority of repairs undertaken by CollisionRight.

“Partnering with Summit will help CollisionRight enter a new and expanded era of growth,” said CEO Rich Harrison. “Summit’s growth focus and commitment to operational excellence align with our desire to continue to partner with the country’s best shop operators and provide the driving public with timely and high-quality repairs. Our goal is to create an industry leader that will set the standard for growth, excellence and customer service. We are confident that partnering with Summit will help us to achieve that goal,” he added.

“CollisionRight has quickly established itself as a market leader in the collision repair industry, and we are excited to help Rich and his team extend this leadership position,” said John Carroll, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who will join Rich Harrison on the Company’s Board of Directors.

“The collision repair industry remains highly fragmented, large and, in our view, very attractive,” added Robert Grady, an Advisory Partner at Summit who will also join the Company’s Board of Directors. “We look forward to working closely with the CollisionRight team to capitalize on this opportunity and enhance the Company’s position as a growing, high-quality, customer-focused company.”

The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

About CollisionRight
CollisionRight is a leading provider of automotive collision repair services through a network of 89 facilities across nine states including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia. CollisionRight differentiates itself through a passion for quality repair work, backed by heavy investment in state-of-the-art equipment, facilities, technician training and auto manufacturer certifications. CollisionRight shops repair over 90,000 cars per year and maintain over 100 direct repair programs with insurance carriers.  The Company maintains strong relationships with insurance carriers, who generate approximately 90% of the Company’s sales. The Company is based in Dublin, Ohio.  For more information, please visit www.CollisionRight.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and growth products and services. Summit maintains offices Boston, Menlo Park, London, New York, and Luxembourg, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

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BOSTON – EngageSmart, Inc. (“EngageSmart” or “the Company”), a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition by an affiliate of Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, for $23.00 per share in cash, valuing the Company at approximately $4.0 billion. With the completion of the acquisition, EngageSmart’s common stock ceased trading and the company is no longer listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

“Completing our transaction with Vista marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for EngageSmart as a privately held company,” said Bob Bennett, EngageSmart CEO. “I’m confident that our customers and EngageSmart will benefit from the deep expertise of Vista and continued partnership with General Atlantic, two software and technology investors that are eager to help us build on our momentum to provide even more powerful, innovative and seamless solutions. I’d like to recognize the dedication and focus of our employees throughout this process. Our team delivers for customers every day and there is no doubt that they will continue to help customers provide the highest adopting digital engagement software, with integrated payments, to their clients.”

“EngageSmart’s success is based upon the Company’s demonstrated track record of innovation and product leadership,” said Michael Fosnaugh, Co-Head of Vista’s Flagship Fund and Senior Managing Director. “With our transaction now complete, we are eager to leverage our resources and value creation expertise to support the Company’s next phase of growth. We look forward to partnering with their team to build on EngageSmart’s strong momentum and bolster its position as a leader in the vertical software and payments space.”

“Vista seeks to partner with innovative founders and executives leading exceptional enterprise software companies,” said Jeff Wilson, Managing Director at Vista. “We share Bob’s vision and the EngageSmart team’s commitment to their customers who provide critical services for our communities.”

EngageSmart stockholders voted to approve the transaction at the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders on January 23, 2024.

Advisors

Evercore is acting as financial advisor to the Special Committee, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal counsel to the Special Committee.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is acting as exclusive financial advisor to EngageSmart.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is acting as legal counsel to General Atlantic.

BofA Securities and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC are serving as financial advisors to Vista, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel to Vista.

About EngageSmart

EngageSmart is a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions. At EngageSmart, our mission is to simplify customer and client engagement to allow our customers to focus resources on initiatives that improve their businesses and better serve their communities. EngageSmart offers single instance, multi-tenant, true Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) vertical solutions, including SimplePractice, InvoiceCloud, and DonorDrive, that are designed to simplify our customers’ engagement with their clients by driving digital adoption and self-service. As of September 30, 2023, EngageSmart serves 116,200 customers in the SMB Solutions segment and 3,400 customers in the Enterprise Solutions segment across several core verticals: Health & Wellness, Government, Utilities, Financial Services, and Giving. For more information, visit www.engagesmart.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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Source: EngageSmart

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The two industry-leading tech companies will now operate as a singular brand, named Later, with a shared mission to build the world’s first Social Revenue Platform™

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BOSTON — Today marks a significant milestone in the social marketing space as two industry leaders, Later and Mavrck, officially become one brand, with a new logo and mission.

Mavrck, an award-winning influencer marketing solution, acquired Later, a leading social media management platform and link in bio tool, in April 2022.

Under the united banner of Later, their three flagship products are:

● Later Social™: a social media scheduling and management tool for all major social platforms.

● Later Influence™: an enterprise-level influencer marketing solution.

● Later Link in Bio: a fully customizable link in bio tool that helps drive traffic and revenue from Instagram & TikTok.

“Together, we now serve more than eight million users and enterprise clients,” said Lyle Stevens, CEO, Later. “And the two companies are united by a shared passion: to enable people to make a living with their creativity through our first-ever Social Revenue Platform.” The unified platform is actively in development with a vision to seamlessly integrate the finest features of social media management, influencer marketing, and link in bio tools onto a singular platform. This all-in-one destination aims to empower brands, marketers, and creators to effortlessly reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.

“Innovation is core to our ethos, and our team is committed to pioneering the next wave of solutions in the social marketing era. As we unify our product lines, we'll release a series of new integrated experiences, tools, and services that maximize how brands and influencers drive predictable performance through social,” said Justin Withers, Chief Product Officer, Later.

As part of the brand unification, Later also unveils new branding that signifies a step forward in our journey to enrich the experiences of our customers.

"Our rebrand is more than a visual change; it reaffirms our dedication to nurturing and empowering our community and customers," said Sarah Bugeja, VP of Marketing, Later. "We aim for Later to be your success partner, providing innovative solutions for marketers and creators to achieve their social marketing and revenue goals effectively."

Now unified under the Later banner, all employees will continue to operate remotely and from hub cities in Boston, MA, Toronto, ON, and Vancouver, BC.

"Uniting under the Later brand gives us a clear focus on delivering value to our customers and the creators we collaborate with. We're thrilled to collaboratively shape the future of social media marketing with them,” added Lyle Stevens, CEO, Later.

To learn more about Later, go to www.later.com

About Later
Later is the world’s first Social Revenue Platform. With over 8M users and enterprise clients, Later helps marketers create high-performing social content and collaborate with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.

As a trusted partner and go-to resource for social media advice, Later will help you create an engaged community for reliable performance and repeatable growth.

Learn more: www.later.com

Please visit our Later Newsroom for shareable assets, logos and more.

Lakeland, FL - DocuSketch, a leading provider of process optimization solutions for the North American property restoration industry, proudly announces a minority growth investment from Summit Partners. The new capital will help DocuSketch support customers and partners, and accelerate R&D investments including integrating advanced AI applications into its product portfolio. DocuSketch management will retain majority ownership in the business.

Launched in 2019, DocuSketch offers a comprehensive, all-in-one solution purpose-built for the property restoration industry, featuring 360° documentation, automated scoping, sketching solutions, and estimating services. Today, the company’s solutions are used by over 20,000 restoration professionals and insurance adjusters in North America. Current customers include North America's largest restoration contractors like ATI Restoration, Paul Davis Restoration and ServiceMaster; insurance carriers; as well as a large base of independent restoration companies.

Ralf von Grafenstein, Founder & CEO of DocuSketch, expressed his enthusiasm for the transformative impact he believes the funding will have on the restoration industry: "We are on a mission to radically transform restoration businesses with the most efficient and easy-to-use process optimization software. At a time when we are experiencing a higher frequency and severity of extreme weather events, DocuSketch aims to streamline the claims process and shortens response times, benefiting the businesses and homeowners impacted by these catastrophic events."

Martin Merta, Managing Partner with DocuSketch added, "When a loss event occurs, speed and accuracy of damage assessment are paramount. DocuSketch’s solutions are designed to deliver on both of those needs, helping automate time-consuming and error-prone documentation processes and serving as a gateway to engage with reliable, expert services wherever and whenever needed. Our solutions have resonated with the market, and we believe Summit Partners’ investment and deep resources will help us execute on our extensive product roadmap to further empower restoration professionals."

DocuSketch currently processes more than 40,000 insurance claims each month, and, to-date, has helped streamline more than 750,000 restoration projects. Recently, the company introduced an innovative subscription service for insurance-compliant estimates, and with this funding, DocuSketch is poised to unveil further digital solutions aimed at increasing transparency, eliminating bureaucracy, and promoting trust in the claims process.

“Digital transformation in the home and commercial real estate markets has been a key focus area for Summit for several years, and we are thrilled to partner with the DocuSketch team as they work to modernize and automate critical processes in the property restoration industry,” added Colin Mistele, Managing Director at Summit Partners who has joined the DocuSketch Board of Directors. “With a deeply experienced team who understands the challenges and nuances of the customer and solutions that are designed specifically to meet those needs, we believe DocuSketch is truly driving impact in the market.”

About DocuSketch
‍Having successfully streamlined and processed over 750,000 insurance claims within the restoration industry, DocuSketch stands as one of the industry's largest and most rapidly expanding software vendors. We take immense pride in serving a user base exceeding 20,000 restoration professionals, which includes the trust of 8 out of 10 of the largest restoration businesses. They confidently rely on our intuitive all-in-one product suite including advanced features such as 3D imagery, technology-enhanced sketching and scoping, and a proven service to generate insurance-compliant claims. DocuSketch’s investors including Liquid Partners will continue to support DocuSketch in the company's next phase of growth.

Join us at DocuSketch as we continue to lead the way in transforming the restoration industry through innovation and efficiency. Find more information or book a product demo here: https://docusketch.com

Explore a career opportunity with DocuSketch by viewing our open job positions: https://docusketch.com/careers

About Summit Partners
‍Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

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Summit’s Sophia Popova was named to GrowthCap's list of “Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors of 2023.” Awardees were selected based on the depth of their deal experience, ability to help the companies they invest in, collaborative work style, and progression towards firm and industry leadership roles, among other attributes.

Sophia Popova is a Partner on our Technology Team. She joined the firm in 2017 as a Vice President and was promoted to Partner in January 2023. Over the course of her tenure, Sophia has distinguished herself as a smart and thoughtful technology investor. She has played an active role in eight Summit investments, representing more than $1.6 billion in invested capital. Her current board and investment experience includes Invicti Security, Klaviyo (completed IPO in 2023, NYSE: KVYO), Markforged (completed IPO in 2021, NYSE: MKFG), Mavrck, Vensure Employer Services (formerly PrismHR), Sifted, StackAdapt and Ylopo.

Read more about Sophia and her fellow honorees at GrowthCap.

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As 2023 comes to a close, we are proud to share the milestones and moments that defined the year for the companies and teams with whom we partner. We look forward to continuing to work alongside the strong leaders across our portfolio and supporting the growth of these businesses in the year ahead.

View Summit's 2023 Year in Review.

Watzinger, CrowdStrike Chairman, and Nir, Former ZoomInfo Chief Marketing and Product Officer, also invest in NinjaOne
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Austin, TX — NinjaOne, a leading IT management platform for IT departments and managed services providers, today announced the appointments of Hila Nir and Gerhard Watzinger to its Board of Directors. Nir is a marketing and product legend who took ZoomInfo public and made it a household name for every B2B marketer as the company went from $10 million to $1+ billion in revenue under her leadership. Watzinger has decades of enterprise software and cybersecurity leadership, including steering CrowdStrike through its IPO and architecting one of the largest security acquisitions in history at McAfee. Nir and Watzinger also invested in NinjaOne, underscoring the trust, commitment, and belief they have in the company.

“NinjaOne is a remarkable growth company with a disruptive product that delivers business value from the CIO to the system administrator,” said Watzinger. “The company is more than just a product platform; it embodies a vision for how IT departments should be evolving. Work faster and easier. Reduce risk simply. And do it with customer success being the only goal that matters.”

“NinjaOne is relentlessly focused on making its customers and partners successful, and this is why they may have the best growth story of any SaaS company I’ve been part of,” said Nir. “The passion, integrity, and opportunity at NinjaOne are an ideal fit for my experience, and I’m excited to be working with the leadership, marketing, and product teams to fuel the next wave of customer success, innovation, and growth.”

Modern organizations are run on endpoints, but there is a meteoric rise in the complexity and number of endpoints on the market. In order to manage endpoints in an efficient manner that reduces security risks, IT teams are forced to rely on a dizzying number of legacy point solutions that put the business at risk. The NinjaOne Platform was built to help IT and MSP teams efficiently manage, patch, and support all endpoints. More than 15,000 customers in more than 80 countries work with NinjaOne to:

• Automate IT: 95% of customers save time automating manual tasks

• Cut Costs: Nine out of every 10 customers replace two or more tools with NinjaOne (and seven of the nine replace more than four tools)

• Reduce Risk: 95% of customers improve patch compliance*.

“Gerhard and Hila are superb additions to the NinjaOne Board of Directors. They are both seasoned senior executives who have extensive experience with and an intimate understanding of IT buyers, go-to-market best practices, and building scalable growth businesses,” said Andy Collins, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who has served on the NinjaOne Board of Directors since 2018.

Watzinger is Chairman of the Board of Directors at CrowdStrike and member of the Board of Directors for Invicti Security. Watzinger has led several companies as CEO throughout his career and served as the Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President at McAfee. During his time at McAfee, he was responsible for record revenue growth and market share expansion, and he was the architect of the Intel acquisition of McAfee for $7.7 billion in 2011. Watzinger has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany.

Nir was Chief Marketing and Product Officer at ZoomInfo from 2015 to 2023, previously serving as Vice President of Marketing from 2011 to 2015. At ZoomInfo, Nir built and led the marketing and product strategy which took the company from $10 million to $1+ billion in revenue and through the first major technology IPO of the 2020s. Nir has a master’s degree in economics from Bar-Ilan University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting and economics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“Hila is a modern marketing leader who built one of the most lasting B2B brands of all time, and she is an invaluable advisor from go-to-market strategy to day-to-day execution. Gerhard is a business and software visionary, and his guidance and mentorship are helping us to further improve customer success and accelerate growth as we redefine endpoint management,” said Sal Sferlazza, CEO and Founder of NinjaOne. “We are fortunate and grateful to have leaders like this to back us and to help guide our growth with a customer-first focus.”

Learn more about the NinjaOne leadership team at www.ninjaone.com/leadership.

Leading IT Trends for 2024: Embracing Automation, Security, and Consolidation. Omdia.

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About NinjaOne
NinjaOne is a leading unified IT management solution that simplifies the way IT teams work. With NinjaOne, IT teams can automate, manage, and remediate all their endpoint management tasks within one fast, modern, intuitive platform, improving technician efficiency and user satisfaction. NinjaOne is consistently ranked #1 for its world-class customer support and has been recognized as the best-rated software in its category on G2 and Gartner Digital Markets2 for the past three years. For more information, visit www.ninjaone.comp.

New identity reflects integrated offering of wealth management, tax advisory and planning services for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients

Highlights expanded capabilities and continuing dedication to exceptional client experience

BOSTON - Adviser Investments, a leading independent wealth management firm, today announced its rebranding as RWA Wealth Partners. The rebrand follows the successful merger with Ropes Wealth Advisors earlier this year. With nearly 200 employees, RWA Wealth Partners has more than $15 billion in total client assets under management and assets under advisement as of September 30, 2023, of which approximately $14.7 billion is regulatory assets under management.

Mario Ramos, CEO of RWA Wealth Partners, said, "Our new brand reflects our deep commitment to integrated client service and to providing a comprehensive, coordinated experience delivered with the highest standards of care. The RWA Wealth Partners team is focused on being the only wealth advisor our clients need."

A fast-growing firm with a national footprint and broad resources, RWA Wealth Partners is built to meet the surging demand among high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families for wealth management services. The firm provides clients with a one-stop, high-touch service experience that addresses all key aspects of their financial lives, including tax, estate and family office services.

RWA Wealth Partners offers sophisticated financial planning and an open architecture investment management platform as part of a comprehensive wealth management solution. The firm's clients have access to broad trust and estate legal services through an exclusive relationship with Hall & Diana LLC, a law firm founded by two attorneys with extensive experience working with members of the RWA Wealth Partners team and serving the estate planning needs of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth families. And, through RWA Wealth Partners' wholly owned subsidiary, RWA Tax Solutions, LLC, the firm provides tax services including preparation, planning and strategies that integrate into clients' financial and estate plans.

Michelle Knight, President of the firm's Ropes Wealth Advisors division, added: "We believe high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals are increasingly seeking service providers who can address their wealth management, tax and estate needs comprehensively. The RWA Wealth Partners platform is incredibly well positioned to benefit from this trend, providing clients with a broad suite of solutions, alleviating the need to manage multiple relationships or stitch together services themselves."

Extensive Experience Paired With Human Touch, Innovative Service

Reflecting the rich heritage and shared values of its predecessor firms, the new brand also underscores the enhanced capabilities of RWA Wealth Partners' expanded organization. Building on more than 150 years of stewardship, the combined firm pairs innovative thinking with a total focus on helping clients as they seek to secure a rewarding lifestyle, realize individual and family goals, and establish legacies that last for generations.

Mr. Ramos said, "Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to individuals and families across the country. We believe in wealth building and wealth preservation that help people connect their past with the present and create their legacy. The RWA Wealth Partners brand stands for our commitment to that mission."

About RWA Wealth Partners
With approximately $14.7 billion in regulatory assets under management, RWA Wealth Partners provides wealth management solutions integrated seamlessly with tax, estate and family office services. The firm has a deep bench of advisors with the expertise and technology to tackle the most complex financial problems for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families across the country. To learn more about RWA Wealth Partners, please visit www.RWAWealth.com or call 833-RWA-PLAN.

Source: RWA Wealth Partners

We’re honored to be named to Inc.’s 2023 List of Founder-Friendly Investors. The list recognizes firms with demonstrated experience collaborating with founder-led companies and providing the financial support and resources needed to help accelerate growth.

Over nearly four decades, we’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with hundreds of entrepreneurs and management teams, partnering with more than 90 founder-led companies in the last five years alone. This experience has fostered a deep appreciation for and understanding of the courage, vision and tenacity required to start and scale a business. We are proud to support these growth journeys and we look forward to many more.

Read more about a few of the founders we’ve supported and the companies they’ve built in Stories from the Climb, a series dedicated to celebrating and sharing the challenges of building a growth company.

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^{To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit Inc.’s website.}

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Summit Managing Directors Len Ferrington Michael Medici were named to GrowthCap’s “Top 25 Software Investors 2023” list. In determining this year’s list, GrowthCap evaluated each investor based on capital allocation, investment judgement, strategic, tactical and operational expertise and more.

Len Ferrington joined Summit in 2006 and has since led or played a significant role in investing more than $1.8 billion across 14 Summit portfolio companies. Over the course of his career, Len has partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the technology sector building deep expertise across a variety of subsectors including cybersecurity, B2B software, collaboration and human capital software, tech-enabled education and communications technology.

Len’s current board directorships include Keeper Security, Ruffalo Noel Levitz, StackAdapt and Ylopo, and he is active in the firm’s investment in QAD. His prior board and investment experience includes Access Information Management (acquired by Berkshire Partners), Aeryon Labs (acquired by FLIR Systems), Ascentis (acquired by UKG), Heald College (acquired by Corinthian Colleges), Redzone Software (acquired by QAD), Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR), Teaching Strategies (acquired by KKR), Trident University International (acquired by Perdoceo Education Corporation) and Ubiquiti (NYSE: UI, formerly Ubiquiti Networks).

Michael Medici joined Summit in 2005 and has since led or played a significant role in 19 Summit investments, representing more than $1.0 billion in invested capital. He has invested in and partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the technology landscape, building deep sector expertise within several software subsectors, including e-commerce enablement, marketing automation, infrastructure and DevOps, industrial technology and supply chain.

Michael’s current board directorships include Klaviyo (NYSE: KVYO), MacStadium, Markforged (NYSE: MKFG), Mavrck and Sifted. His prior investments and directorships include Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA, later acquired by Cisco), Accedian Networks (recapitalized by Bridge Growth Partners and later acquired by Cisco), Anesthetix (acquired by TeamHealth), Clarabridge (acquired by Qualtrics), Diagnostic Hybrids (acquired by Quidel Corporation), Fermentas International (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), Hiperos (acquired by Opus Global), Logi Analytics (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners), Mi9 Retail (acquired by General Atlantic), and Telerik (acquired by Progress Software).

Read more about Len, Michael and their fellow honorees at GrowthCap.

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Shares of EngageSmart to be Acquired for $23.00 Per Share in Cash

Represents a 30% Premium to the 30-Day Unaffected Volume-Weighted Average Price (VWAP)

EngageSmart to Become Privately Held Company Upon Completion of the Transaction; General Atlantic to Retain Minority Ownership Position

BOSTON -- EngageSmart, Inc. (NYSE: ESMT) (“EngageSmart” or “the Company”), a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of Vista Equity Partners ("Vista"), a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $4.0 billion.

Under the terms of the agreement, EngageSmart stockholders will receive $23.00 per share in cash upon completion of the proposed transaction. The purchase price represents a premium of approximately 23% to the unaffected closing price of EngageSmart’s common stock on October 4, 2023, and a premium of approximately 30% over the volume weighted average price (VWAP) of EngageSmart’s common stock for the 30 days ending October 4, 2023.1 Upon completion of the transaction, affiliates of Vista will hold approximately 65% and affiliates of General Atlantic, a leading global investor, will hold approximately 35% of the outstanding equity.

A special committee of EngageSmart’s Board of Directors comprised of independent directors (the “Special Committee”), advised by independent legal and financial advisors, was formed to conduct a deliberate and thoughtful process to evaluate this proposal and other potential value creation opportunities for EngageSmart.

“We have built an amazing business by putting our customers at the center of everything we do,” said Bob Bennett, EngageSmart CEO. “We continue to see attractive growth and customer retention in our vertically tailored SaaS solutions—a testament to the strength of our business model and our leading products. We believe the partnership with Vista and General Atlantic will enable us to continue investing in innovation and people to drive growth. We look forward to continuing to serve our customers and support our employees who are relentless in their pursuit of customer satisfaction.”

“EngageSmart is a demonstrated leader in delivering mission-critical solutions for modern businesses and simplifying customer and client engagement for over a hundred thousand organizations,” said Michael Fosnaugh, Co-Head of Vista’s Flagship Fund and Senior Managing Director. “We look forward to working with EngageSmart as they continue to innovate, scale and empower organizations to better serve their customers.”

“We have long admired EngageSmart’s vertical domain expertise in SaaS and its high-quality solutions across the SMB and Enterprise segments—proven by an established track record of growth and profitability,” said Jeff Wilson, Managing Director at Vista. “We are eager to build on EngageSmart’s momentum and look forward to working closely with the talented leadership team to provide even more powerful, innovative and seamless solutions for customers.”

“We are grateful to Bob and the entire EngageSmart team for their ongoing collaboration and trust. Since we first partnered together in 2019, EngageSmart has established itself as an industry leader by digitizing critical business processes and payments in the industry verticals they serve,” said Paul Stamas, Managing Director and Global Head of General Atlantic’s Financial Services sector. “We believe this transaction is compelling for stockholders, and we look forward to continued partnership with the EngageSmart team alongside Vista to build on the Company’s success to date.”

Transaction Details
Transaction negotiations were led by the Special Committee and following its unanimous recommendation, the EngageSmart Board of Directors unanimously approved the merger agreement with Vista and agreed to recommend that EngageSmart stockholders vote to adopt the merger agreement.

EngageSmart has entered into support agreements with affiliates of General Atlantic and Summit Partners, owners of 52% and 14% of the fully diluted stock of the Company, respectively, under which they have agreed to vote all of their shares in favor of the transaction, subject to certain terms.

The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2024, subject to customary closing conditions and receipt of customary regulatory approvals, as well as the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock held by stockholders other than affiliates of General Atlantic and certain officers of the Company. Vista intends to finance the transaction with fully committed equity financing that is not subject to a financing condition. Upon completion of the transaction, EngageSmart will become a privately held company and EngageSmart common stock will no longer be listed on any public market.

The definitive agreement includes a 30-day "go-shop" period that will expire at 11:59 PM ET on November 22, 2023, which permits the Special Committee and its financial advisors to solicit and consider alternative acquisition proposals. There can be no assurance that this process will result in a superior proposal, and the company does not intend to disclose developments with respect to the "go-shop" process unless and until it determines such disclosure is appropriate or is otherwise required.

Third Quarter 2023 Earnings
EngageSmart’s third quarter 2023 earnings will be issued on November 2, 2023. In light of the proposed announced transaction, EngageSmart will not host an earnings conference call. EngageSmart’s third quarter 2023 earnings results will be available on its investor relations website at https://investors.engagesmart.com.

Advisors
Evercore is acting as financial advisor to the Special Committee, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal counsel to the Special Committee.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC is acting as exclusive financial advisor to EngageSmart.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is acting as legal counsel to General Atlantic.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP is acting as legal counsel to Vista Equity Partners.

About EngageSmart
EngageSmart is a leading provider of vertically tailored customer engagement software and integrated payments solutions. At EngageSmart, our mission is to simplify customer and client engagement to allow our customers to focus resources on initiatives that improve their businesses and better serve their communities. EngageSmart offers single instance, multi-tenant, true Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") vertical solutions, including SimplePractice, InvoiceCloud and DonorDrive, that are designed to simplify our customers' engagement with their clients by driving digital adoption and self-service. As of June 30, 2023, EngageSmart serves 109,700 customers in the SMB Solutions segment and 3,400 customers in the Enterprise Solutions segment across several core verticals: Health & Wellness, Government, Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare and Giving. For more information, visit www.engagesmart.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Vista Equity Partners
Vista is a leading global investment firm with more than $101 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2023. The firm exclusively invests in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled organizations across private equity, permanent capital, credit and public equity strategies, bringing an approach that prioritizes creating enduring market value for the benefit of its global ecosystem of investors, companies, customers and employees. Vista's investments are anchored by a sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions and proven, flexible management techniques that drive sustainable growth. Vista believes the transformative power of technology is the key to an even better future – a healthier planet, a smarter economy, a diverse and inclusive community and a broader path to prosperity. Further information is available at vistaequitypartners.com. Follow Vista on LinkedIn, @Vista Equity Partners, and on Twitter, @Vista_Equity.

About General Atlantic
General Atlantic is a leading global investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 500 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980 to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and deliver lasting impact, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses around the world. General Atlantic has more than $77 billion in assets under management inclusive of all products as of September 30, 2023, and more than 220 investment professionals based in New York, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Miami, Mumbai, Munich, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stamford and Tel Aviv. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit: www.generalatlantic.com.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This communication includes certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of, and subject to the safe harbor created by, the federal securities laws, including statements related to the proposed merger of the Company with Vista (the “Transaction”), including financial estimates and statements as to the expected timing, completion and effects of the Transaction. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations, estimates and projections regarding, among other things, the expected date of closing of the Transaction and the potential benefits thereof, its business and industry, management’s beliefs and certain assumptions made by the Company, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements often contain words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “aims,” “plan,” “believe,” “could,” “seek,” “see,” “will,” “may,” “would,” “might,” “considered,” “potential,” “estimate,” “continue,” “likely,” “expect,” “target” or similar expressions or the negatives of these words or other comparable terminology that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes. By their nature, forward-looking statements address matters that involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend upon future circumstances that may or may not occur, such as the consummation of the Transaction and the anticipated benefits thereof. These and other forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Important risk factors that may cause such a difference include, but are not limited to: (i) the completion of the Transaction on anticipated terms and timing, including obtaining required stockholder and regulatory approvals, and the satisfaction of other conditions to the completion of the Transaction; (ii) the ability of affiliates of Vista to obtain the necessary financing arrangements set forth in the commitment letters received in connection with the Transaction; (iii) potential litigation relating to the Transaction that could be instituted against Vista, the Company or their respective directors, managers or officers, including the effects of any outcomes related thereto; (iv) the risk that disruptions from the Transaction will harm the Company’s business, including current plans and operations; (v) the ability of the Company to retain and hire key personnel; (vi) potential adverse reactions or changes to business relationships resulting from the announcement or completion of the Transaction; (vii) continued availability of capital and financing and rating agency actions; (viii) legislative, regulatory and economic developments affecting the Company’s business; (ix) general economic and market developments and conditions; (x) potential business uncertainty, including changes to existing business relationships, during the pendency of the Transaction that could affect the Company’s financial performance; (xi) certain restrictions during the pendency of the Transaction that may impact the Company’s ability to pursue certain business opportunities or strategic transactions; (xii) unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events, including but not limited to acts of terrorism, pandemics, outbreaks of war or hostilities, as well as the Company’s response to any of the aforementioned factors; (xiii) significant transaction costs associated with the Transaction; (xiv) the possibility that the Transaction may be more expensive to complete than anticipated, including as a result of unexpected factors or events; (xv) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Transaction, including in circumstances requiring the Company to pay a termination fee or other expenses; (xvi) competitive responses to the Transaction; (xvii) the risks and uncertainties pertaining to the Company’s business, including those set forth in Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and Part II, Item 1A of the Company’s subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, as such risk factors may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time by other reports filed by the Company with the SEC; and (xviii) the risks and uncertainties that will be described in the Proxy Statement available from the sources indicated below. These risks, as well as other risks associated with the Transaction, will be more fully discussed in the Proxy Statement. While the list of factors presented here is, and the list of factors to be presented in the Proxy Statement will be, considered representative, no such list should be considered a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Consequences of material differences in results as compared with those anticipated in the forward-looking statements could include, among other things, business disruption, operational problems, financial loss, legal liability to third parties and similar risks, any of which could have a material impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, credit rating or liquidity. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company does not undertake to and specifically disclaims any obligation to publicly release the results of any updates or revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect future events or circumstances after the date of such statements or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated or unanticipated events.

SOURCE: EngageSmart.

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Klaviyo – the company that powers smarter digital relationships and makes it easy for businesses to capture, store, analyze, and predictively use their own data to drive measurable, high-value outcomes – began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol KVYO on September 20, 2023. This represents a significant milestone in a growth journey that began over a decade ago – a journey that Summit has supported since leading Klaviyo's Series B financing in 2019.

Recognizing the growing importance of data-driven solutions to help businesses of all sizes understand consumer behavior and connect with customers and prospects, Summit identified Klaviyo as a leader in a rapidly evolving landscape of marketing technology and commerce enablement solutions. We believed the company shared the attributes we see in many of the most successful growth businesses – an uncompromising commitment to the customer, a strong product-market fit, and a relentless focus on cash-efficient growth.

Read more about Klaviyo's journey from bootstrapped beginnings to IPO >>

New funding allows the Company to maintain its vendor neutral position and to support continued expansion of innovative workforce management solutions that bring transparency, efficiency and savings to healthcare organizations.

HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK - Hallmark Health Care Solutions (“Hallmark” or “the Company”), a healthcare technology company specializing in workforce management solutions, today announced a significant investment led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Enhanced Healthcare Partners and Hallmark management. The new funding will be used to accelerate Hallmark’s continued growth and further deepen the Company’s commitment to product innovation and customer success.

Hallmark Health Care Solutions partners with health systems, hospitals, physician groups and other healthcare organizations to overcome some of their biggest labor-related challenges. The Company’s SaaS-based platform combines tools addressing talent sourcing and deployment with provider compensation and contracting to create an end-to-end healthcare workforce management solution. With Hallmark, customers can unlock essential workforce data, improve access to talent, drive operational efficiency and achieve substantial cost savings.

“We believe this investment is a testament to the strength and tremendous future potential of our business,” said Isaac Ullatil, Co-Founder and CEO of Hallmark Health Care Solutions. “There is a healthcare workforce crisis in this country – one that is impacting both quality and cost of care. This new capital will enable Hallmark to further our commitment to our customers, helping the healthcare organizations with whom we partner save time and money, allowing them to focus on the lifesaving work they are called to do.”

U.S. hospital labor costs grew at a CAGR of 37% from 2019 to early 2022 , and clinical labor shortages, which have long plagued the healthcare industry, are expected to persist. McKinsey & Company projects a shortage of between 200,000 to 450,000 nurses by 2025 and the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates the need for as many as 100,000 additional physicians to support healthcare demand by 2030. Against this backdrop, Hallmark continues to experience significant growth. The Company’s SaaS platform is the industry’s only vendor neutral solution and today is used by more than 85 healthcare organizations and more than 750 staffing agency partners across the United States.

“Hallmark is helping healthcare organizations address their most critical workforce related challenges. The Company’s solution is designed to drive efficiency, transparency and cost savings in one of the most problematic areas of healthcare spend,” said Ross Stern, a Managing Director of Summit Partners, who has joined Hallmark’s Board of Directors. “This deeply experienced team has built a scalable, modern SaaS platform with broad applicability and a compelling ROI for customers. We look forward to collaborating with the Hallmark team to help them achieve their long-term goals.”

“We’ve been fortunate to work with Isaac and team over the last three years during a period of strong growth and innovation at Hallmark,” said Matthew Thompson, General Partner at Enhanced Healthcare Partners. “We’ve been consistently impressed with the team’s dedication to their customers and the true impact the company is making in an increasingly critical area of the healthcare ecosystem. We look forward to our continued partnership.”

TripleTree, LLC served as the financial advisor to Hallmark Health Care Solutions for this transaction. With this investment, Hallmark continues to retain its vendor neutral position in the market, receiving no funding from staffing agencies.

About Hallmark Health Care Solutions
Hallmark Health Care Solutions partners with healthcare organizations to overcome their labor-related challenges. From talent sourcing and deployment to provider compensation and contracting, our workforce management platform unlocks essential data, improves access to talent, drives operational efficiency, and delivers substantial cost savings. Through our unique blend of technology, strategy, service, and partnership, we empower healthcare organizations to focus on their core purpose: lifesaving patient care. For more information visit: www.hallmarkhcs.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $37 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

About Enhanced Healthcare Partners
Enhanced Healthcare Partners (EHP) is a leading private equity firm that specializes in partnering with transformative, middle-market healthcare businesses. EHP provides the flexible capital, operational support, and strategic guidance necessary to support the continued success of growth-oriented businesses. Representative investments include Hallmark Health Care Solutions, Vytalize Health, PAI, SCA Pharma, and West Dermatology. For more information, visit: www.enhancedhealthcare.com.

BOSTON — Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, today announced that it has been named Investor of the Year at the inaugural GTM Awards. Sponsored by Pavilion in partnership with G2, the GTM Awards is an esteemed industry-wide recognition program created with the goal of celebrating top go-to-market leaders and companies that have demonstrated excellence, innovation, and success within the B2B SaaS sector.

Summit’s global team works collaboratively to partner with growth companies and provide resources to help drive long-term growth. In addition to serving as active board members, Summit provides on-demand, growth-oriented support to our portfolio companies through our Peak Performance Group (“PPG”), a dedicated purpose-built team offering strategic support across a variety of areas, including revenue optimization, growth marketing and other GTM areas. Summit invests across key industry sectors, including technology, healthcare and life sciences, and growth products and services.

“We are honored to be recognized for the work we do to support the many talented GTM leaders across Summit’s portfolio and beyond,” said Dave Averett, Managing Director and Head of Summit’s Peak Performance Group. “As a firm, we are relentlessly focused on providing strategic and tactical support to our portfolio company leadership teams, working collaboratively to help accelerate growth and build long-term value.”

In addition to supporting GTM strategies, Summit’s PPG offers the firm’s portfolio companies strategic support in talent and recruiting, technology and data science, and capital markets. Summit shares perspectives, frameworks and insights on these and other operational topics with the broader community of growth company leaders through our Growth Company Resource Center and our quarterly newsletter and webinar series The Ascent.

“We are so grateful for the opportunity to honor all of these incredible winners at last night's ceremony in Nashville," said Sam Jacobs, Founder and CEO of Pavilion. “These awards are a testament to our mission at Pavilion to connect GTM leaders through collaborative programming. We’re thrilled with this year's results, and we can’t wait to see what next year brings.”

To view the full list of honorees and more information about the GTM Awards, please visit www.joinpavilion.com/gtm-awards.

More about Pavilion and the GTM Awards

Methodology
The inaugural GTM Awards celebrate and honor top go-to-market leaders and teams who have demonstrated exceptional skills, achievements, and contributions across various sectors within the B2B SaaS space. Winners have been determined by the GTM Awards judging panel, comprised of independent industry experts.

About The GTM Awards
The GTM Awards is an industry-wide recognition program celebrating top go-to-market leaders who have demonstrated excellence, innovation, and success in sales, marketing, customer success, operations, CEO/founder roles, and investing. The program is sponsored by Pavilion and G2, and aims to inspire professionals, foster a sense of community, and honor exceptional contributions in the dynamic B2B SaaS go-to-market landscape. For more information, please visit http://www.joinpavilion.com/gtm-awards.

About Pavilion
Pavilion was founded in 2016 as a support network for revenue leaders. Since then, it has grown into a 10,000+ member international community of go-to-market leaders. Through structured training in Pavilion University; private, moderated peer groups; and in-person events, Pavilion delivers on its mission to help revenue leaders unlock and achieve their full professional potential. For more information about Pavilion or to become a member, please visit http://www.joinpavilion.com.

About G2
G2 is the world's largest and most trusted software marketplace. More than 80 million people annually — including employees at all Fortune 500 companies — use G2 to make smarter software decisions based on authentic peer reviews. Thousands of software and services companies of all sizes partner with G2 to build their reputation and grow their business — including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoom, and Adobe. To learn more about where you go for software, visit http://www.g2.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $37 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Award selections are determined based on Pavilion and G2’s evaluation of top go-to-market leaders and teams who have demonstrated exceptional skills, achievements, and contributions across various sectors within the B2B SaaS space. Information on each nominee was submitted through Pavilion’s online nomination portal, from members of Pavilion’s community of GTM professionals. Finalists and winners were determined by a panel of independent industry experts. To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit Pavilion’s website.

This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the party conferring the award referenced herein.

Summit Partners was named to GrowthCap’s list of the Top Private Equity Firms of 2023. This year’s list is comprised of 30 firms representing various market segments and sectors. GrowthCap evaluated private equity firms on multiple criteria, including reputation among CEOs, LPs and fellow GPs; firm culture; the level of support provided to portfolio companies; overall growth and performance; and commitment to ESG.

For nearly 40 years, Summit Partners has focused on partnering with some of the world’s most disruptive growth stage companies and the exceptional executives who lead them. We are grateful for the partnership of the visionary CEOs, dedicated teams and the dynamic companies we have the privilege to support.

To view the full list visit of winners, visit www.growthcapadvisory.com.

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Munich, Germany – CERTANIA Holding GmbH (“CERTANIA” or “the Company”), a provider of Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) services focused on addressing global challenges across health and sustainability, today announced a growth investment from Summit Partners. The funding will be used to further support CERTANIA’s  acquisition strategy and help position the Company as a leading TIC provider in Europe and beyond. Founding investor GREENPEAK Partners will maintain significant equity ownership in the Company. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

Founded in 2020 and based in Munich, Germany, CERTANIA united leading companies in its field to form a new independent market player with a global footprint serving customers across the whole chain of TIC services.  From the beginning, the Company has focused  serving two key market sectors: health and sustainability, putting human well-being and a functioning environment at the center of its mission. Under the CERTANIA umbrella, partner companies benefit from shared operational infrastructure and improved  customer confidence that may otherwise prove elusive to smaller operators – all while maintaining their unique identity and entrepreneurial spark.

“This investment is a testament to our commitment to drive positive change in the TIC landscape,” said Karsten Xander and Moritz Gruber, co-CEOs at CERTANIA . “We believe that, by fostering collaboration among independent experts and focusing on sustainability and health consciousness, we can create visible value for our partners, clients and the wider community. Summit Partners’ engagement will help boost our global development. We look forward to benefiting from their deep experience in the TIC market and to maintaining the well-established and trustful relationship with GREENPEAK Partners as specialists for entrepreneurial company building."

Today, CERTANIA includes sixteen partner companies and employs more than 1,000 professionals across the globe. The Company offers an extensive portfolio of services, including expertise in the areas of food, environmental and industrial testing, CRO services, ESG analytics and consulting, and a broad range of certification and quality-control services, all with the goal of helping clients ensure the safety and quality of their products and processes.

"CERTANIA has achieved impressive scale in just three years since the Company’s founding, and we believe the platform offers a unique opportunity for independent TIC providers who are looking to expand their reach and impact,” said Johannes Grefe, Managing Director at Summit Partners who will join the CERTANIA Board of Directors. “We are thrilled to partner with this visionary team and look forward to working together with co-CEOs Karsten and Moritz and Daniel Beringer at GREENPEAK to build upon CERTANIA’s impressive momentum and support continued organic and acquisition-driven growth.”

“We are excited and honored to have Summit Partners by our side,” added Daniel Beringer, Founding Partner at GREENPEAK Partners. “Together, we will continue to focus on making our planet more sustainable and healthier by expanding CERTANIA’s reach geographically and by growing its service offerings to its customers.”

The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in Q4 2023.‍

About CERTANIA‍

Under the umbrella of CERTANIA Holding GmbH, a new global market player  is created in the field of Testing, Inspection & Certification as well as scientific, laboratory and compliance services. This group offers medium-sized partners a sustainable home for their life’s work. CERTANIA enables entrepreneurs and owners to further develop their companies with like-minded people, while continuing to preserve their entrepreneurial roots, corporate culture, brand and values.

About GREENPEAK‍

GREENPEAK Partners is a company builder with proven track record and comprehensive expertise in the foundation, development, and expansion of industry leaders. While executing its Buy & Build strategies, GREENPEAK aims to develop industry leaders by virtue of strong partnerships, ESG values, and aligned sustainable interests.

To date, the GREENPEAK Partners team has built over 10 platforms, with annual revenues exceeding €1 billion.

About Summit Partners

‍Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $37 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

The leading revenue enablement vendor is the only one of sales readiness leaders that’s also a sales content solutions leader in independent research firm’s latest rankings.

WALTHAM, Mass. — Allego, the leading modern revenue enablement platform provider, today announced its recognition as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Sales Readiness Solutions, Q4 2023. This follows Allego’s leader status in The Forrester Wave™: Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022. According to the Sales Readiness report, “Allego delivers with its platform and delights with its service. Allego began in 2013 with its initial sales video coaching application, and has grown from there to make smart, measured investments into the platform. Along with continuous sales readiness innovation, it recently added a strong entry into the sales content solutions market as well. The success of Allego’s strategy is rooted in its deep understanding of the changing buyer landscape…”

“At Allego, our drive is to provide the most innovative and comprehensive sales readiness and enablement solution in the market,” said Yuchun Lee, CEO and co-founder of Allego. “Receiving the highest possible score from Forrester in the innovation and adoption criteria, and now being recognized as a leader across both Sales Readiness, Q4 2023 and Sales Content Solutions, Q4 2022 evaluations, only solidifies for us our position as one of the most forward-thinking Revenue Enablement providers in the market.”

The content and readiness spaces are now converging into comprehensive revenue enablement platforms. In today’s dynamic sales environment, arming sales teams with the right skills, knowledge, and content is paramount. Sales and enablement teams face many challenges: from limited time to coach effectively, to struggles with consistent messaging, to driving knowledge retention and behavior change.

Traditional approaches to these problems fall short. The old training paradigm consisting mainly of formal courses and quizzes often leads to information overload that doesn’t get retained, and what’s worse, the learning content is quickly rendered obsolete.

Allego stands at the forefront of the shift towards modern revenue enablement. With Allego’s GO Platform and EnablementAI, organizations can streamline sales learning and content, drawing from both internal peer-to-peer and external seller-to-buyer interactions. This enables coaches and sellers to collaborate efficiently and sell as a team, ensuring that valuable selling time remains uninterrupted. Sellers can quickly tap into peer knowledge, while managers can pinpoint role-specific skill gaps, providing real-time guidance and mobile reinforcements that sync with sellers’ work rhythm.

The Forrester Sales Readiness report evaluated 11 companies based on 31 criteria across three categories: current offering, strategy, and market presence. Allego received the highest score possible across 19 of the criteria including: adoption, innovation, end-user experience, coaching recommendations, mobile support, and customer success.

“Allego’s modern enablement platform has given our team the flexibility to train sales teams when and where it works for them, through an interface that is extremely intuitive to navigate. Allego’s customer success team has been a critical partner that continues to be by our side every single day. And with Allego’s periodic product enhancements, including use of AI, we know we have the best platform to meet our needs now and in the future” said Guillermo Gonzalez, Director, US Sales Training, Meetings & Events at Abbott.

This recognition by Forrester comes on the heels of Allego’s inclusion as a key vendor in the 2023 Gartner Market Guide for Revenue Enablement Platforms and a notable vendor in Forrester’s Sales Readiness Solutions Landscape, Q2 2023.

To learn more about Allego’s inclusion in The Forrester Wave™: Sales Readiness Solutions, Q4 2023 or to download a copy of the report, visit Allego.com.

About Allego
Allego is the leading provider of modern revenue enablement software. GO, Allego’s Modern Revenue Enablement platform, brings together sales, enablement, and marketing teams to deliver the experience B2B buyers are looking for — in a single, comprehensive platform. With its patented technology, the GO platform ensures revenue teams curate the right content, ready sales teams to win with confidence, and engage with buyers in the right way at the right time for faster sales cycles and greater revenue.

Allego is the trusted choice for one quarter of Dow Jones Industrial Average companies, 5 of the 15 largest U.S. banks, 4 of the 8 largest insurance providers, 4 of the 5 largest global medical device companies, 6 of the 10 largest wealth management firms, 5 of the 5 largest asset management companies, and many other global enterprises. Learn more about revenue enablement that wins sellers and buyers at Allego.com.

Atlanta, GA - OTR Solutions has launched OTR Clutch, the first and only debit card and banking solution designed exclusively for owner-operators and small and midsize business (SMB) carriers.

"We are very excited to launch OTR Clutch not only as a benefit to our clients, but to the trucking industry as a whole," said OTR Solutions CEO, Fritz Owens. "We've always believed that financial inclusivity and accessibility are powerful principles we should strive for and OTR Clutch paves the way for this reality."

The introduction of OTR Clutch is a result of the company's continued focus on its mission to deliver exceptional value to carrier clients, regardless of market conditions. OTR delivers a banking solution with unlimited cash back on purchases, as well as an executive-like metal business debit card, fee-free overdraft protection, and interest earnings on account balances. With rising interest rates, higher operating costs, and often increased fees from or lack of access to traditional financial providers, OTR Clutch is a timely solution for truckers now more than ever.

"OTR Clutch offers a variety of benefits to cardholders, foremost among these is the ability to earn unlimited cash back on all debit card purchases," said Owens. "This benefit will allow our customers to stretch their budget further, while participating in a system that is traditionally unavailable in our industry."

OTR Clutch banking customers become part of a specialized financial ecosystem catering to the trucking industry, providing easy access to OTR Solutions' suite of trucking-focused financial solutions. Paired with their well-regarded factoring solutions and fuel card, OTR Clutch offers a comprehensive end-to-end package that empowers trucking businesses with a seamless blend of user-friendly financial and operational services. This holistic approach enables companies to initiate, maintain, and grow their operations efficiently and affordably, ensuring a smooth and prosperous journey in the pursuit of trucking.

"Fundamentally, OTR Clutch represents our continued focus on bringing innovative solutions to the trucking industry," said OTR Solutions EVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Clayton Griffin. "We designed OTR Clutch with a ton of heart, and we are incredibly excited to deliver a premium product that serves our clients where they need it most, ultimately putting valuable time and money back into their pockets."

All cardholders receive a premium, solid metal Visa card and virtual card access compatible with Apple Wallet or Google Pay. The OTR Clutch app, available in the Apple and Google Play Store, features seamless mobile capabilities for cardholders to apply for the card, manage their banking, and receive customer exceptional client support.

"In an era where financial empowerment can impact the success of companies and the livelihood of small business owners, we're making sure the trucking community can take advantage," said Owens.

Truckers can learn more and sign up to take advantage of all OTR Clutch has to offer at www.otrclutch.com.

About OTR Solutions

Founded in 2011, OTR Solutions provides industry-leading technology and financial services, tools, and support to help carriers start and grow a successful operation. As the first debit card designed exclusively for the trucking industry, OTR Clutch is revolutionizing the way truckers spend while on the road. OTR Solutions' mission is to simplify the financial lives of hardworking truckers while delivering exceptional value and convenience. To learn more about OTR Clutch, please visit www.otrclutch.com.

Source: OTR Solutions

Summit’s Sophia Popova and Chelsea Jurman were both named to GrowthCap’s list of “Top Women Leaders in Growth Investing of 2023”. This award recognizes women who, through their investment acumen, operational capabilities, and work ethic, have had a profound impact on their firms, portfolio companies and others across the industry. In determining this year’s list, GrowthCap evaluated each candidate based on her demonstrated success in her specific roles, breadth of experience, longevity in the field, and consistency in performance.

Sophia Popova joined Summit in 2017 and is a Partner on the Technology team. She has played an active role in eight Summit investments, representing more than $1.3 billion in invested capital. Her current board and investment experience includes Invicti Security, Klaviyo, Markforged (completed IPO in 2021, NYSE: MKFG), Mavrck, Vensure Employer Services (formerly PrismHR), Sifted, StackAdapt and Ylopo.

Chelsea Jurman joined Summit in 2019 and is a Principal on the Growth Products & Services team. She has played an active role in six Summit investments, representing more than $1.3 billion in invested capital, including more than $860 million in the last two years alone. Her current investment and board experience includes Adviser Investments, Brooklinen and ShipMonk.

Read more about Sophia, Chelsea and their fellow honorees at Growth Cap.

^{Award selections are determined based on GrowthCap’s evaluation of the nominee’s demonstrated success in her specific role, breadth of experience, longevity in the field, and consistency in performance, among other factors. Information on each nominee was received through nomination application forms, GrowthCap’s online submission portal, direction communication with portfolio company executives and/or others in the industry. To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit Growth Cap's website.}

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Financial close automation leader bolsters capabilities for an additional 400 blue-chip clients to drive ROI for the Office of the CFO.

Dallas, TX – Trintech, a leading global provider of cloud-based financial close solutions for the Office of the CFO, today announced its acquisition of Frontier™ Reconciliation and Accurate™ Reconciliation from Fiserv (NYSE: FI), a leading global provider of fintech and payments solutions. Serving customers across multiple verticals including financial services, telecommunications, retail, insurance and utilities, the acquired reconciliation business will act as a springboard for innovation, expanding Trintech’s accounting automation platform.

Through the acquisition, Trintech gains two leading reconciliation solutions, further enhancing the company’s portfolio of capabilities. Trintech brings over 35 years of global innovation in automation, reconciliations and financial close processes. The addition of Frontier Reconciliation and Accurate Reconciliation, used by more than 400 blue-chip clients across the globe, including eight of the top ten banks and two of the top three insurance companies in the United States, enables these newly acquired clients to benefit from complementary product offerings and differentiated solutions across key U.S. and international markets. Fiserv will continue to deliver solutions and services to many of these clients.

“In this era of intense digital transformation, accounting automation, reconciliations and financial close represent a significant market opportunity. This acquisition positions Trintech to provide even more compelling financial close capabilities, broaden the reach of our partner ecosystem and drive impressive ROI for our customers," said Darren Heffernan, CEO of Trintech. "It's also the latest illustration of our holistic growth strategy – one which places a dual mandate on rapid expansion into key verticals and the prioritization of continuous innovation and talent recruitment. We are thrilled to add this powerful complement to Trintech’s market-leading portfolio."

The acquisition also includes the addition of key employees with technical expertise supporting these solutions across North America, EMEA and APAC, bringing Trintech’s global headcount to nearly 700. New and existing customers benefit not only from expanded technical talent and capabilities but also by gaining access to Trintech’s partner ecosystem of leading technology and service providers. Additionally, as part of an exclusive referral agreement with Fiserv, Trintech expands its global presence and capabilities into new international markets.

“Trintech is well-positioned to guide the Frontier and Accurate reconciliation business through its next chapter, and we are confident they will provide excellent service to our clients and support for their businesses,” said Whitney Stewart Russell, President of Digital Solutions, Fiserv. “We are excited about the partnership we have built with Trintech and look forward to serving clients through our future relationship as a referral partner.”

About Trintech
Trintech, a leading global provider of cloud-based, integrated reconciliation and financial close solutions for Finance & Accounting departments. From high volume transaction matching, to automating and managing balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, journal entries, close management tasks, to governance, risk and compliance – Trintech’s portfolio of financial solutions, including its Cadency® Platform (for large enterprises) and Adra® Suite (for mid-market organizations), help manage all aspects of the reconciliation and financial close processes. Trintech’s excellence in both innovation and client support have been recognized with a variety of awards over the years including most recently “Easiest to Do Business With” and “Fastest Implementation” in G2’s Fall 2022 Report. Over 4,200 clients worldwide – including the majority of the Fortune 100 – rely on Trintech’s solutions to enable their F&A operation to become a strategic partner to the business by optimizing data, controlling risk, driving efficiencies, and providing strategic insights.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Trintech has offices located across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the Nordics, as well as strategic partners in South Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. To learn more about Trintech, visit www.trintech.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook,Twitter and Instagram.

About Fiserv
Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE: FI) aspires to move money and information in a way that moves the world. As a global leader in payments and financial technology, the company helps clients achieve best-in-class results through a commitment to innovation and excellence in areas including account processing and digital banking solutions; card issuer processing and network services; payments; e-commerce; merchant acquiring and processing; and the Clover® cloud-based point-of-sale and business management platform. Fiserv is a member of the S&P 500® Index and one of Fortune® World’s Most Admired Companies™. Visit fiserv.com and follow on social media for more information and the latest company news.

Source: Trintech

Chris Bon, a Principal in Summit’s London office, was named one of the “2023 Rising Stars of Private Equity” by Financial News and Private Equity News. Over the course of his tenure at Summit, Chris has been actively involved in helping invest more than €213 million in six growth companies across Europe. His board and investment experience includes Energy Aspects, GRESB, Normec (acquired by Astorg), ProGlove (acquired by Nordic Capital) and Sipartech (acquired by Blackstone).

The ”2023 Rising Stars of Private Equity” list from Private Equity News recognizes 25 emerging leaders who stand out for their ability to help shape the future of their firms and the private equity industry in Europe. Read more about Chris and his fellow honorees here.‍

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Zug, Switzerland – Cinerius Financial Partners (“Cinerius”, “Cinerius Group” or “the Company”), a leading independent wealth management platform, today announced a majority investment from IK Partners (“IK”). IK is investing from its IK IX Fund and existing investor, Summit Partners, as well as the Cinerius management team are reinvesting significantly as part of the transaction. Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.

Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Cinerius is a leading platform for independent wealth managers (“IWMs”) from German-speaking European regions. The platform currently includes seven partner businesses, each of which offers a range of wealth management solutions, including opportunities to invest in proprietary funds and access advisory services. Cinerius partner businesses include: B&K Vermögen; BV & P Vermögen; Entrepreneur Partners; Habbel, Pohlig & Partner Vermögensverwaltung; KSW Vermögensverwaltung; Ringelstein & Partner Vermögensbetreuung; and VM Vermögens-Management.

Through its partner companies, the Cinerius Group manages assets for over 5,500 clients. With 13 locations and more than 140 employees across Germany and Switzerland, Cinerius collectively manages over 10 billion CHF of assets.

In the two years since Cinerius was founded, it has gone from strength-to-strength, seeking to promote the growth of its IWMs by offering strategic advice and access to a range of middle-office and back- office functions. The platform enables the provision of HR-related services as well as support in areas such as hiring, compliance, digital marketing and new customer acquisition. With IK joining as a majority shareholder, the Company aims to solidify its position as a leading wealth management platform by pursuing organic growth initiatives, investing in its people and technology and growing its group of partner businesses through a dedicated M&A strategy.

Christoph Lieber, CEO at Cinerius Financial Partners, said: “We look forward to the next chapter in our journey, drawing on IK’s extensive experience in the financial services sector. We believe that the IK team can help us realise our ambitions to further strengthen our position in the IWM marketplace through both organic and inorganic growth. We are grateful to have had the support of Summit Partners over the last two years and are pleased to see them reinvest in our dynamic company.”

Mirko Jablonsky, Partner at IK Partners and Advisor to the IK IX Fund, said: “We have been impressed with Cinerius’ track record to date and its ability to attract high-performing, complementary partner businesses to the platform. Within a short period of time, Cinerius has developed into the preeminent consolidation platform in a fragmented market in the DACH region, offering both growth support as well as succession solutions to IWMs. With a comprehensive range of services, Cinerius has exciting growth potential, which we aim to unlock during our partnership in the coming years. We look forward to working with Chris and his team, while continuing to draw on the expertise of Summit Partners, to develop the Company further.”

Johannes Grefe, Managing Director at Summit Partners, commented: “We have been fortunate to partner with ambitious and passionate partner businesses and work with an experienced Cinerius team these last few years. The Company has grown meaningfully since our initial investment in 2021 and today is a clear market leader in the DACH wealth management industry. We are inspired by the hard work and commitment of the Cinerius team and our partner businesses and we are confident that with our continued support and the additional experience of our new partners at IK, the Company will continue to deliver on its ambitious growth strategy.”

Completion of the transaction is subject to competition authority approvals.

About Cinerius Financial Partners
Cinerius is a wealth management platform in the German-speaking region of Europe (“DACH”). Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, the Company employs 140 people across 13 locations in the DACH region. Cinerius seeks to promote a higher growth dynamic by offering resources at scale and strategic support to partner businesses while allowing leaders to maintain operational independence. For more information, visit www.cinerius.com.

About IK Partners
IK Partners (“IK”) is a European private equity firm focused on investments in the Benelux, DACH, France, Nordics and the UK. Since 1989, IK has raised more than €14 billion of capital and invested in over 170 European companies. IK supports companies with strong underlying potential, partnering with management teams and investors to create robust, well-positioned businesses with excellent long-term prospects. For more information, visit www.ikpartners.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

London, UK – TradingHub, a leading provider of sophisticated risk-based software solutions for financial markets, today announced a minority investment from global growth equity investor Summit Partners. The investment, which comes in the form of secondary capital, will help TradingHub expand its product offering, deepen its financial market footprint and support the company’s continued growth.

TradingHub was founded in 2010 with a vision to provide financial analytics tools to the world’s leading capital markets participants. The company provides market-leading trade surveillance, anti-money laundering, best execution, and financial analytics software across a broad range of asset classes, including rates, fixed income, FX, commodities, and equities. TradingHub’s risk-based approach to identifying anomalous trading behavior represents a paradigm shift – a move away from traditional, rules-based systems towards sophisticated monitoring of capital markets activity.

“With the introduction and increasing complexity of financial market regulations – such as Dodd-Frank, MAR and MiFID II – financial institutions are under mounting pressure to deliver robust trade surveillance programs to help both ensure regulatory compliance and counter continuously evolving market abuse,” described Neil Walker, CEO and Co-founder of TradingHub. “Leveraging sophisticated financial modeling and deep experience across both exchange-traded and OTC products, TradingHub’s technology is uniquely positioned to accurately detect the most complex forms of financial crime, including cross-asset market manipulation.”

Today, TradingHub monitors 135M+ trades per day across 45+ countries and serves more than 60 clients, including some of the world’s largest investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

“As reporting requirements expand and financial crime evolves, we believe TradingHub offers differentiated and powerful trade surveillance solutions that are mission-critical to sell-side and buy-side firms,” said Antony Clavel, Managing Director at Summit Partners who will join the TradingHub Board of Directors. “We have followed TradingHub’s growth for several years and believe they have built an enviable market position with deep relationships with leading financial institutions. We look forward to collaborating with the team to help them achieve their long-term goals.”

Neil Walker, CEO of TradingHub, added: “We are delighted to announce Summit Partners as a new TradingHub shareholder. The firm has a strong reputation for partnering with their portfolio companies and we have already experienced the benefit of their perspective and their collaborative approach. We look forward to working with the Summit team to help further accelerate TradingHub’s growth.”

Financial terms for the transaction were not disclosed. Alantra Partners advised TradingHub and the sellers.

About TradingHub
TradingHub is a finance-focused big data firm that aims to create the world’s leading financial markets analytics platform. Its customer base includes some of the world's leading investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, commodity houses, and brokerage firms, which collectively represent over $20 trillion in assets under management. TradingHub specializes in building best-in-class tooling for trade surveillance, financial markets anti-money laundering, best execution, and financial markets reporting and analytics. TradingHub is headquartered in London and has additional offices in New York, San Francisco, Toronto, and Singapore. For more information, visit https://tradinghub.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

BOSTON, MA — Global growth equity investor Summit Partners today announced the addition of John Coughlin to the firm’s Executive-in-Residence (“EIR”) program. In this role, Mr. Coughlin will work closely with Summit’s growth products & services team to identify new investment opportunities and advise growth-stage companies in the payments, financial technology and business services sectors.

Mr. Coughlin brings deep experience building and managing teams and businesses in the payments industry. He joins Summit’s EIR program after serving as a member of the executive team at Summit-backed FLEETCOR Technologies (NYSE: FLT), a corporate payments solutions company. During his twelve-year tenure, Mr. Coughlin helped lead the company through a period of meaningful growth. Most recently, Mr. Coughlin served as Group President – Corporate Payments where he ran FLEETCOR’s AP automation, corporate and virtual card, and cross-border payments businesses. Prior to that, he served as EVP of Global Corporate Development where his team completed 38 acquisitions and deployed $8.6 billion in capital over a nine-year period. During Mr. Coughlin’s tenure, FLEETCOR experienced a tenfold increase in both revenues and market capitalization and joined the S&P 500 index. Prior to FLEETCOR, Mr. Coughlin was a Managing Director at middle market private equity firm PCG Capital Partners, CEO at dental services company Benevis, and a Senior Partner at strategy consulting firm The Parthenon Group.

"We are thrilled to welcome John to Summit’s Executive in Residence program,” said Matt Hamilton, a Managing Director with Summit Partners. "He is a highly experienced operator and a talented people leader who brings deep expertise in the fintech and information services sectors.”

“Summit has a long history of partnering with category-leading growth companies driving innovation across the fintech and information services landscape,” said Mr. Coughlin. “I’m very much looking forward to working alongside the Summit team and leveraging our combined experience to identify new opportunities, drive growth and create value.”

Summit has been active in the payments, financial technology and business services sectors for nearly four decades. Since the firm’s founding in 1984, Summit has partnered with more than 125 companies across the financial technology and services, and business and information services sectors.

Summit’s EIR program is an established element of the firm’s growth-oriented investing strategy. Since its inception, the program has facilitated collaboration between seasoned industry executives and Summit’s investment professionals, working to identify sector-specific opportunities in which EIRs may support companies in an ongoing capacity through board or leadership roles.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Summit Managing Directors Darren Black and Ross Stern were named to GrowthCap’s “Top 25 Healthcare Investors 2023” list. In determining this year’s list, GrowthCap evaluated the breadth of experience of each nominee, feedback from CEOs, firm colleagues and industry peers, in addition to conducting proprietary research.

Darren Black joined Summit in 2013 and has since led or played a significant role in investing more than $3.5 billion in capital across 18 portfolio companies. He has partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the healthcare sector during his career, building deep expertise across the healthcare services and outsourced life sciences services landscape.

Darren's current board directorships include Fortis Life Sciences, InnovaCare Partners, Leon Medical Centers, LifeStance Health (NASDAQ: LFST), Paradigm (recapitalized by OMERS), PharmScript, Sound Physicians, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, US Health Partners, U.S. Renal Care, VaxCare and Veranex. His previous board and investment experience includes Abode Healthcare (acquired by BrightSpring Health Services), ABILITY Network (acquired by Inovalon), Advance Health (acquired by New Mountain Capital), DuPage Medical Group (now known as Duly Health and Care; acquired by Ares Management) and HealthSun (acquired by Anthem).

Ross Stern joined Summit in 2009 and has since led or played a significant role in investing more than $2.0 billion in capital across 12 portfolio companies. Ross has partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the healthcare sector, building deep expertise in value-based care, provider-led practice management business models, HCIT and life sciences.

His board and investment experience includes Abode Healthcare (acquired by BrightSpring Health Services), DuPage Medical Group (now known as Duly Health and Care; acquired by Ares Management), Fortis Life Sciences, My Dentist (acquired by Heartland Dental), Paradigm (recapitalized by OMERS), PharmScript, Sound Physicians, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions, U.S. Renal Care and VaxCare.

Read more about Darren, Ross and their fellow honorees atGrowth Cap.

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Partnership expands advisory capabilities for both firms, reinforces shared strengths in serving high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, trusts and endowments

NEWTON, Mass. and BOSTON, -- Adviser Investments, LLC ("Adviser") and Ropes Wealth Advisors ("Ropes Wealth") announced they are combining their wealth management businesses to create a bespoke advisory firm providing customized wealth solutions through a planning-first, fiduciary-only model. Established 30 years ago, Adviser Investments is an independent registered investment advisor (RIA) that serves families, businesses, foundations and institutions. Ropes Wealth Advisors is an RIA supporting families, trusts and institutions.

Together, Adviser and Ropes Wealth manage nearly $15 billion in client assets and have more than 185 employees, including wealth advisors, portfolio managers, fiduciary and financial planning specialists, and client service professionals catering to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients nationwide. Their services span the full range of wealth management needs, including financial, tax and estate planning as well as institutional-quality investment management within public and private markets and across active, passive and tactical investment strategies.

"We're thrilled to partner with Ropes Wealth. The firm's differentiated service offering, which is centered on high-net-worth clients, is as impressive as its talented executive leaders and deep bench of advisors, " said Adviser CEO Mario Ramos. "Their expertise in trust, estate and tax planning will be a game-changing addition to our wealth management platform."

Mr. Ramos continued, "With this combination, we will deepen our leadership position serving wealth management clients with complex planning needs. Equally important, this transaction reinforces our role as one of the leading merger partners of choice for RIA firms and other independent wealth management firms across the country."

The combined company will yield enhanced capabilities and new services for clients of both firms.

Michelle Knight, CEO and chief economist at Ropes Wealth, said, "Adviser shares our vision, values and commitment to delivering exceptional service to sophisticated individual and institutional clients. This excellent cultural and strategic match enables us to enrich our wealth management offerings. I look forward to all that we can achieve together with a combined team, enhanced technology, a shared commitment to employee development, and the deep resources to support industry-leading growth and a personalized service model."

Ropes Wealth Advisors, previously a wholly owned subsidiary of the global law firm Ropes & Gray, will retain its brand, continue to have its offices in Boston's Prudential Tower, and maintain close ties to its former parent company, acting as the preferred provider of wealth management services to Ropes & Gray clients and partners.

Enhanced Legal Resources and Growth Opportunities With Ropes & Gray

In a related development, the co-chairs of the private client group at Ropes & Gray, Brenda Diana and Martin Hall, will also join the Adviser Investments management team, with Diana as chief fiduciary officer and Hall as managing director. Both were instrumental in the launch and growth of Ropes Wealth Advisors.

In addition to their roles with Adviser, Diana and Hall will continue to offer legal services through a new law firm specializing in domestic and international estate, tax and charitable planning, estate settlement, and fiduciary administration.

The new relationship between Adviser Investments and Diana and Hall will enable wealth management clients of both Adviser and Ropes Wealth to benefit from leading tax planning and collaborative, coordinated legal advice.

Looking Ahead

The management of Adviser and Ropes Wealth will own the combined firm in partnership with Summit Partners, a leading global growth equity investment firm. In 2020, Summit made a growth capital investment in Adviser to support its national expansion.

"Adviser and Ropes Wealth are highly complementary organizations in terms of both values and vast capabilities," said Matt Hamilton, a Managing Director at Summit Partners and board director at Adviser Investments. "This exciting partnership positions the combined firm to be a formidable leader in the wealth advisory space."

About Adviser Investments
For 30 years, Adviser Investments, LLC has served families, businesses, trusts, foundations and institutions, providing tailored wealth management services including financial, tax and estate planning, 401(k) advisory services, as well as balanced portfolios of core index funds, ETFs and select alternative investments. Adviser is a nationally recognized brand with over 5,000 clients across the U.S. and multiple offices in locations including Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area and Dallas. The firm employs over 130 professionals including fully staffed client service, research, operations, marketing, technology and M&A teams. Over the last decade, the firm has expanded both organically and through targeted partnerships.

Adviser Investments is routinely named among Barron's top independent financial advisors and the Financial Times' 300 top registered investment advisors, and it has been consistently chosen as one of the best places to work in financial services in national and regional surveys.

About Ropes Wealth Advisors
Ropes Wealth Advisors, LLC was formed in 2013 and opened its doors as a registered investment advisor (RIA) in 2015. It is a nationally recognized fee-only firm with a mission to preserve and enhance the wealth and legacy of the families and institutions it serves. The firm prides itself on the core values of integrated perspective, uncompromising integrity, effective stewardship, generational continuity, sustainable investment results, communication and education. Ropes Wealth Advisors manages investments and provides financial planning services, assists with gift and estate planning, prepares tax returns, consults on philanthropic transfers, and provides trustee and other fiduciary services. It serves high-net-worth individuals and families, charitable organizations and businesses as well as pension and profit-sharing plans.

Investment marks the second significant funding round from a leading technology growth equity firm

CHICAGO, IL – Keeper Security (“Keeper” or the “Company”), a leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software, today announced that global growth equity firm Summit Partners has completed a significant minority investment in the Company. With this investment, Len Ferrington, Managing Director at Summit Partners, will join the Keeper Security Board of Directors. The synergy between Keeper, Summit and existing investor Insight Partners will further accelerate product innovation and catalyze strategic expansion of the Company’s prominence as a cybersecurity leader in the public and private sectors.

Keeper has seen strong growth in its global operations since raising its last round of funding in August 2020. The Company has added several hundred new employees, acquired remote network access provider Glyptodon, expanded its industry certifications to include earning FedRAMP and StateRAMP Authorization, opened new data centers in Australia, Canada and Japan, and expanded its partner ecosystem across the NorAm, EMEA and APAC regions. Keeper doubled its revenue while maintaining strong gross margins and continued its trajectory with Q1 2023 marking the Company’s strongest quarter on record. This latest investment will accelerate Keeper’s growth and solidify the Company’s position as an innovator in enterprise password management, secrets management, privileged connection management and privileged access management.

“Insight Partners is and has been a fantastic partner that has helped us with go-to-market strategies and best practices. I’ve known Len Ferrington and the Summit team for many years. They have deep experience investing in cybersecurity and a shared passion for the Keeper vision,” said Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security. “I’m excited about the expanded perspective that both Insight and Summit will bring to Keeper, supporting our exceptional team as we continue to create and deliver industry-leading technology and innovation.”

“While the current economic environment has led to a contraction in many areas of technology investment, the demand for secure and accessible cybersecurity solutions continues to accelerate,” said Len Ferrington, Managing Director at Summit Partners. “Summit has invested in security software for more than thirty years. We are impressed with the breadth of the Keeper product portfolio as well as the Company’s growth, and we are excited to see Keeper work to further disrupt the cybersecurity industry.”

“We saw great potential in Keeper and they’ve surpassed our expectations as a consistently high-performing company in the industry,” said Thomas Krane, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “This strategic investment will elevate Keeper even further, expanding its ability to provide best-in-class cybersecurity solutions to organizations around the world.”

Keeper was co-founded in 2011 by CEO Darren Guccione and CTO Craig Lurey as a password manager for mobile devices. Since then, the Company has developed a robust cybersecurity platform with a clear focus on fulfilling critical unmet needs of the rapidly growing identity and access management market. Today, Keeper’s solutions include a full suite of award-winning consumer and business offerings in password, secrets and privileged connection management, as well as differentiators including dark web monitoring, secure file storage, single-sign on integration, compliance reporting and detailed event logging. The Company services organizations of all sizes from small home offices to multinational enterprises and the largest public sector organizations. Enterprises select Keeper because of its strong security architecture; ability to support federated and passwordless authentication with any identity provider; seamless integration into on-premises, cloud or hybrid environments; and ease of use across desktop and mobile devices.

Its latest offering, KeeperPAM™, provides a next-generation Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution that is disrupting the traditional PAM market. KeeperPAM delivers enterprise-grade password, secrets and privileged connection management within a unified SaaS platform that is cost-effective, easy-to-use and simple-to-deploy. KeeperPAM enables least-privilege access with zero-trust and zero-knowledge security. Keeper’s patented cybersecurity solution is designed to enable complete visibility, security, control and reporting across every privileged user on every device within an organization.

Keeper is committed to maintaining the highest standards of security through continuous testing and auditing. Keeper holds the longest standing SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications in the industry. Keeper is GDPR compliant and CCPA compliant, PCI DSS certified, FedRAMP and StateRAMP Authorized, and certified by TrustArc for online privacy. The Company is consistently ranked as having the top-rated password management platform on the market. Keeper has a 4.9 out of 5-star rating on the App Store and 4.6 out of 5-star rating on Google Play, with more than 250,000 combined reviews.

Evercore served as financial advisor to both Keeper Security and Insight Partners. No other terms of this private transaction are being disclosed.

About Keeper Security, Inc.
Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance. Trusted by millions of individuals and thousands of organizations, Keeper is a leader for best-in-class password management, secrets management, privileged access, secure remote access and encrypted messaging. Learn more at KeeperSecurity.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Summit Partners was named to Growth Cap’s list of the Best Growth Investment Firms for 2023. Each firm was evaluated based on its leadership, strategy, unique competitive advantage, operational capabilities, team composition, and capital responsibility (ESG), among other factors.

To view the full list visit: www.growthcapadvisory.com/rankings

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Teresa Mackintosh to become Executive Chair of Board of Directors

Dallas, TX — Trintech, a leading global provider of cloud-based financial close solutions for the Office of Finance, today announced that Darren Heffernan, President & Chief Operating Officer, will become the company’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective May 1, 2023. Heffernan will succeed Teresa Mackintosh, who will transition to Executive Chair of the Trintech Board of Directors, after a successful seven-year tenure leading the company.

Heffernan, who has been with Trintech since 2001, has held a number of strategic and corporate development roles throughout his tenure at the company. He has been instrumental in driving significant growth in his capacity as CFO and President & COO, as well as through his involvement in the company’s international business expansion. Heffernan’s diverse experience and deep industry knowledge will inform his stewardship of Trintech’s continued focus on the company’s operational excellence and commitment to client service, partnership and growth.

Prior to Trintech, Heffernan held various finance and operational positions, driving innovation with companies like GE, Paramount / Universal Studios, IAWS and Anglo American.

As Executive Chair, Mackintosh will continue to work closely with Heffernan and Trintech’s leadership team to ensure a smooth and successful transition. She is steadfast in her commitment to advancing Trintech’s position as a leading global SaaS provider for the Office of Finance.“I am incredibly proud of all that we have accomplished over the past seven years,” said Mackintosh. “The team’s unwavering commitment to serving our customers and supporting our partners has been astounding. I am excited to now welcome Darren as Trintech’s next CEO. Darren has been critical in driving Trintech’s growth for over twenty years, and his passion for innovation and deep understanding of our company culture is unmatched. Darren’s focus on operational excellence will help us to meet and exceed the evolving needs of our expanding client base while also driving Trintech’s growth trajectory. I look forward to our continued partnership in my new role as Executive Chair.”

“On behalf of the Board of Directors, I want to extend my sincerest gratitude to Teresa for her exemplary leadership throughout these past seven years,” said Pete Rottier, Managing Director of Summit Partners. “Under her leadership, Trintech tripled its revenue, solidifying its position as a leader and trusted partner in the global SaaS market for the Office of Finance. The Board is looking forward to Trintech’s continued growth under Darren’s leadership. With his strong strategic, financial, and operational background, and clear dedication to the company’s business and customers, we believe Darren is the ideal person to lead Trintech forward in the years to come.”

“It is a tremendous honor to serve as Trintech’s next CEO,” said Heffernan. “Teresa has been an incredible leader and colleague, and I am privileged to have worked alongside her for the past several years. I want to thank both Teresa and the entire Board for their support and confidence. I look forward to continuing our commitment to deliver better solutions and innovative services for our clients, collaborating with our global partners, expanding our business with exciting new opportunities for growth and building the company with the help of our tremendous employees.”

About Trintech
Trintech, a leading global provider of cloud-based, integrated reconciliation and financial close solutions for Finance & Accounting departments. From high volume transaction matching, to automating and managing balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany accounting, journal entries, close management tasks, to governance, risk and compliance – Trintech’s portfolio of financial solutions, including its Cadency® Platform (for large enterprises) and Adra® Suite for mid-market organizations), help manage all aspects of the reconciliation and financial close processes. Trintech’s excellence in both innovation and client support have been recognized with a variety of awards over the years including most recently “Easiest to Do Business With” and “Fastest Implementation” in G2’s Fall 2022 Report. Over 3,500 clients worldwide – including the majority of the Fortune 100 – rely on Trintech’s solutions to enable their F&A operation to become a strategic partner to the business by controlling risk, driving efficiencies, and providing strategic insights.

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Trintech has offices located across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Singapore, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the Nordics, as well as strategic partners in South Africa, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. To learn more about Trintech, visit www.trintech.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook,Twitter and Instagram.

PARIS, FRANCE – Doctrine, a leading provider of legal intelligence solutions, today announced a majority growth investment from Summit Partners and Peugeot Invest.

Information tools are critical for day-to-day legal work. With an ever-expanding volume of available data, the ability to properly search and articulate such data has become time-consuming and unwieldy for legal professionals.

Doctrine was founded in 2016 with a vision to innovate legal search and is a pioneer in the application of artificial intelligence to legal data. The company’s legal intelligence platform aggregates, contextualizes and automates the processing of legal information and is designed to empower legal professionals to conduct more accurate and efficient search and save time, limit errors and focus on higher value-add tasks. Doctrine has grown by more than 20x in the last five years, and today the company serves more than 11,000 clients.

“Legal professionals across the globe are struggling to keep up with the proliferation of available legal data," said Guillaume Carrère, CEO of Doctrine. "Doctrine offers a technological solution to this widespread problem, allowing legal professionals to efficiently and accurately locate, understand and harness massive amounts of information in order to build the most impactful legal strategies.”

“Early on, we made the decision to focus on profitable growth, and this approach has informed our operations and our culture,” added Carrère. “We are focused on continuing to apply this approach as we develop innovative solutions that support legal professionals in France and around the world. We believe Summit Partners’ experience will allow us to continue our development and build a leader in legal technology.”

“We believe Doctrine is a pioneer in bringing technology innovation to the field of legal information. We’re thrilled to partner with this dynamic, talented and visionary team, and we look forward to working together to build upon the company’s impressive momentum and support its continued growth,” said Johannes Grefe, Managing Director, and Chris Bon, Principal at Summit Partners.

Bertrand Finet, CEO at Peugeot Invest, added, “We are proud to support Doctrine with this investment, which aligns with our growth strategy to support the technology leaders of tomorrow.”

About Doctrine
Founded in 2016, Paris-based Doctrine is a leading provider of data, search and productivity solutions for legal professionals. The Doctrine platform includes a search engine, a document analyzer module, real-time monitoring and alerts on any changes in legislation or case law, and a folder functionality to save references and build cases. More than 11,000 legal professionals use Doctrine to devise winning legal strategies and minimize risk for their clients. For more information, please visit: https://www.doctrine.fr/, or follow Doctrine on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $36 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe, and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

About Peugeot Invest
Peugeot Invest is an investment company listed on Euronext, majority owned by Etablissements Peugeot Frères. Peugeot Invest is one of the leading shareholders in Stellantis and Forvia, via its Peugeot 1810 subsidiary, and pursues a policy of establishing shareholdings with a long-term view. Peugeot Invest holds interests in listed companies (such as SEB, LISI and SPIE), non-listed companies (such as International SOS, Signa Prime or Signa Development), co-investments (ArchiMed or JAB Holding), and investment funds.

Acquisition Accelerates Company’s Growth Plan, at-Value, and Brings Customers a Unique Whole Home Experience

HOUSTON -- NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) completed its acquisition of Vivint Smart Home, Inc., effective today, accelerating the realization of NRG’s consumer-focused growth strategy and offering consumers simple, connected experiences to power, protect, and manage their homes intelligently. The acquisition improves and diversifies NRG’s financial profile while also expanding the total market opportunity available to NRG.

“This acquisition is the next step in our consumer services strategy,” said Mauricio Gutierrez, NRG President and Chief Executive Officer. “Today, NRG is at the intersection of energy and home services, with a unique end-to-end smart home ecosystem underpinned by our exceptional customer experience. I am excited to welcome Vivint into the NRG family.”

The company now features a larger customer footprint, serving a network of approximately 7.3 million customers across North America that represents a substantial cross-sell opportunity through market-leading brands and complementary sales channels.

NRG’s leadership in energy markets combined with Vivint’s tech-forward smart home solutions come together as a platform to provide additional opportunities to serve customers with products and services across power, natural gas, and essential home services segments.

About NRG
NRG Energy is a leading energy and home services company powered by people and our passion for a smarter, cleaner, and more connected future. A Fortune 500 company operating in the United States and Canada, NRG delivers innovative solutions that help people, organizations, and businesses achieve their goals while also advocating for competitive energy markets and customer choice. More information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG on Facebook and LinkedIn, and follow us on Twitter, @nrgenergy.

About Vivint
Vivint is a leading smart home company in the United States. Vivint delivers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros, as well as 24-7 customer care and monitoring. Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than 1.9 million customers throughout the United States. For more information, visit https://www.vivint.com.

Source: NRG

BOSTON & LONDON – Summit Partners, a global alternative investment firm, today announced the first and final closing of its newest Europe growth equity fund. Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund IV closed at its hard cap with €1.4 billion in total commitments. Launched in October 2022, the fund was oversubscribed.

“With the closing of this new fund, we further our commitment to Summit’s growth equity strategy across Europe, serving as the partner of choice for category-leading, profitable growth companies within our core sectors of focus,” said Peter Chung, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Partners. “We are deeply grateful for the continued support of our limited partners and for their trust and confidence in our global team and our growth-focused strategy.”

Summit Partners Europe Growth Equity Fund IV will target minority and majority equity investments between €20 and €80 million in Europe-based companies, applying the growth equity strategy the firm pioneered in 1984.

“As we invest this fund in Europe, we will build upon nearly 40 years of experience as a growth investor, leveraging our deep sector knowledge, extensive global network and value enhancement resources to support the growth of our portfolio companies,” said Han Sikkens, Managing Director and Head of Europe at Summit Partners. “Europe has been an integral part of Summit’s global investment strategy since 2000, and we have been proud to partner with exceptional founders and management teams over that time.”

Summit’s London-based team collaborates closely with the firm’s global team of more than 115 investment professionals, working together to identify and partner with growth companies in key industry sectors, including technology, healthcare and life sciences, and growth products and services. As active board members and through dedicated value enhancement resources, Summit offers its portfolio company leaders strategic support focused on areas we believe are critical to accelerating and supporting long-term, profitable growth, including human capital, go-to-market and operations, technology and data science, and capital markets.

Since the firm’s inception in 1984, Summit Partners has raised more than $43 billion in capital.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

In the United States of America, Summit Partners operates as an SEC-registered investment adviser. In the United Kingdom, this document is issued by Summit Partners LLP, a firm authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Summit Partners LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC388179 and its registered office is at 11-12 Hanover Square, London, W1S 1JJ, UK. This document is intended solely to provide information regarding Summit Partners' potential financing capabilities for prospective portfolio companies.

General Atlantic leads investment with focus on accelerating customer growth and product development

Toronto, ON and New York, NY—Jobber, a leading provider of operations management software for home service businesses, today announced it has raised $100 million USD in primary capital led by global growth equity investor General Atlantic. The Series D round also includes participation from Jobber’s existing investors Summit Partners, Version One Ventures, and Tech Pioneers Fund. The financing is anticipated to support the company’s continued growth through investments in R&D, sales and marketing, and new customer acquisition.

Jobber’s mission is to help small home service businesses modernize their operations, increase earning potential, and meet evolving consumer expectations. Jobber’s all-in-one SaaS and mobile solution supports businesses through the full customer lifecycle—from sending quotes to scheduling crews, dispatching jobs, invoicing customers, and accepting credit card payments. More than 200,000 service pros in 60 countries rely on Jobber to help improve customer experience and run a more efficient small business.

“While this is an important milestone for Jobber, what we care about most is the success of the small businesses we serve,” said Sam Pillar, CEO and co-founder of Jobber. “We’re committed to doing everything we can to help them transform the way they deliver their services and operate their companies. We’re thrilled to partner with General Atlantic as we continue to pursue our mission of helping the people in small businesses be successful, and further entrench our leadership position in this important and growing small business category.”

Aaron Goldman, Managing Director and Head of Enterprise Technology Investing at General Atlantic, has joined Jobber’s Board of Directors. Mr. Goldman commented, “We believe Jobber is bringing much-needed innovation to the small business segment, a category that has been traditionally underserved by technology solutions and is still in the early stages of digital adoption. With a platform that is purpose-built for the home service category, Jobber has an opportunity to continue deepening its value as the platform of choice with its customers. We are pleased to partner with Sam and the Jobber leadership team as they focus on strategic growth and continued product expansion.”

Jobber raised its last round of funding in January 2021, a $60 million USD growth equity financing led by Summit Partners. Since that time, Jobber has grown its revenue 3X and is now helping more than 200,000 home service professionals across 50 industries including HVAC, lawn care, plumbing, residential cleaning, painting, and more to deliver services to more than 27 million properties. These jobs resulted in over $13 billion USD in revenue in 2022 for Jobber’s customers.

“Although we’re proud of our growth to date, the real opportunity lies ahead of us,” said Shawn Cadeau, Chief Revenue Officer at Jobber. “There are more than 6.2 million home service businesses in North America alone delivering more than $600 billion in services each year that can benefit greatly from using Jobber.”

Jobber has nearly 600 employees located across Canada, with some based in the U.S. and Latin America. The company is actively hiring across all areas of its business including sales, marketing, product, customer support, and business operations.

About Jobber
Jobber is an award-winning operations management platform for small home service businesses. Unlike spreadsheets or pen and paper, Jobber keeps track of everything in one place and automates day-to-day operations, so small businesses can run smoothly and provide service at scale. Jobber’s 200,000 home service professionals have served over 27 million properties in more than 60 countries. The company continually ranks as one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most innovative companies by Canadian Business and Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, and Deloitte. For more information, visit: https://jobber.com/.

About General Atlantic
General Atlantic is a leading global growth equity firm with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 445 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980 to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and deliver lasting impact, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses around the world. General Atlantic currently has over $73 billion in assets under management inclusive of all products as of September 30, 2022, and more than 215 investment professionals based in New York, Amsterdam, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, London, Mexico City, Miami, Mumbai, Munich, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Stamford and Tel Aviv. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit the website: www.generalatlantic.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.

For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

We are pleased to announce that Redzone, the world’s #1 connected workforce solution for manufacturing, has been acquired by QAD Inc., a provider of next-generation manufacturing and supply chain solutions in the cloud. Together, QAD Redzone will help manufacturers improve productivity and frontline engagement to address the challenges of rising input costs, wage inflation and labor shortages.

Summit Partners invested in Redzone in 2020, partnering with founders Mark Sutcliffe, Richard Tester and Jon Clement as the company’s first outside investor. With a vision to transform the frontline worker experience in manufacturing, Redzone has achieved significant scale with its Connected Worker platform, a cloud-based collaboration and engagement solution designed to empower workers and drive productivity improvements from plant floor on up. In 2022, the company defied a slowing SaaS market and accelerated bookings growth to 47 percent, adding 100 new logos and over 200 new plants by meeting the critical needs of manufacturers with its suite of frontline productivity, compliance, reliability and learning applications.

Today, over 1,000 plants and 300,000 frontline workers worldwide rely on Redzone’s solutions to create a better employee experience for frontline teams and transform productivity with digital workflows and collaboration tools to get the most out of every shift.

“From the early days of our partnership, Summit shared our vision for empowering frontline workers with purpose-built, human-centric technology to change how work is done on the factory floor,” said Richard Tester, CEO of Redzone. “The Summit team brought meaningful resources to support our expansion into new manufacturing verticals as we extended our leadership position in the connected workforce space.”

“In our view, employee retention and engagement has never been more crucial, especially as manufacturers seek to keep plant floors running in order to meet dynamic customer demand while navigating escalating material costs and supply chain disruption. We believe QAD Redzone is strongly positioned to help manufacturers address these challenges head-on,” said Jay Pauley, Managing Director at Summit Partners.

“We’ve been proud to work alongside the Redzone team to support the company’s strong growth and expansion over the last two years, and we are looking forward to supporting Redzone’s continued development as part of the QAD platform,” added Len Ferrington, Managing Director at Summit Partners.

Learn more about the acquisition at www.rzasoftware.com.

BOSTON, MA; MENLO PARK, CA; NEW YORK, NY; and LONDON, UK – Summit Partners, a leading alternative investment firm, today announced the promotion of 14 professionals across the firm’s global offices. Scott Ferguson, Paul Furer, Mark Nordstrom, Dayton Ogden and Sophia Popova have been promoted to Partner; Chris Bon, Ali Dowd, Mark Hexamer, Chelsea Jurman, Nick Oppedisano, and Jono Pagden have been promoted to Principal; and Jonathan Gilman, Andy Lee and Irina Müller have been promoted to Vice President.

“We are very pleased to recognize the achievements of our colleagues with these well-deserved promotions,” said Peter Chung, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Summit Partners. “Each of these professionals represents well the culture and values of our firm. We are very confident they will continue to serve our investors and our portfolio companies with distinction.”

Scott Ferguson has been promoted to Partner. Scott joined Summit’s Menlo Park office as an Associate in 2009 and is a member of the Technology team. His investment and board experience includes Calypso Technology (acquired by Thoma Bravo), HelpSystems (acquired by H.I.G. Capital), MercuryGate, Perforce Software (acquired by Clearlake Capital), Teaching Strategies (acquired by KKR) and Trintech. Prior to Summit, Scott worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Piper Jaffray. Scott holds a BS in finance from the University of Kansas and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Paul Furer has been promoted to Partner. Paul joined Summit’s Boston office as an Associate in 2011 and is a member of the Growth Products & Services team. His investment and board experience includes 48forty Solutions, Beyond Risk, FineLine Technologies (acquired by L Squared Capital Partners and Leonard Green Partners), Harvey Performance Company (acquired by Berkshire Partners), Parts Town (acquired by Berkshire Partners and Leonard Green Partners), Patriot Growth Insurance Services, Solo Brands (NYSE: DTC), and Vivint Smart Home (NYSE: VVNT). Prior to Summit, Paul worked for Jefferies and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Paul holds a BS in finance from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Mark Nordstrom has been promoted to Partner. Mark joined Summit’s Boston office as an Associate in 2010. Today, Mark serves as the Head of our Capital Markets team and in this capacity leads the firm’s capital markets activities for existing portfolio companies and new acquisitions. Additionally, he helps Summit manage its commercial and investment banking relationships. Prior to Summit, Mark worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and State Street Corporation. Mark holds a BA in economics from Wesleyan University. In addition, he is a CFA charterholder.

Dayton Ogden has been promoted to Partner. Dayton joined Summit’s Boston office as the Head of Talent & Recruiting in 2014. Dayton works with Summit’s portfolio companies and investment teams to identify and recruit high-impact senior executives and board members. Prior to Summit, Dayton led the venture capital and growth equity practice at executive search firm CTPartners. Previously, he was a co-founder of Fortis Partners and a senior associate at Spencer Stuart. Dayton holds a BA in American Studies, with highest distinction, from Wittenberg University.

Sophia Popova has been promoted to Partner. Sophia joined Summit’s Boston office as a Vice President in 2017 and is a member of the Technology team. Her investment and board experience includes Invicti Security, Klaviyo, Markforged (NYSE: MKFG), Mavrck, PrismHR (acquired by Stone Point), Sifted, StackAdapt and Ylopo. Prior to Summit, Sophia worked at Morgan Stanley and led product management at several technology startups, including Contactive. Sophia holds a BA in economics and mathematics from Yale University and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.

Chris Bon has been promoted to Principal. Chris joined Summit’s London office as an Associate in 2016 and is a member of the Growth Products & Services team. His investment and board experience includes Energy Aspects, GRESB, Normec (acquired by Astorg), OnRobot, ProGlove (acquired by Nordic Capital) and Sipartech (acquired by Blackstone). Prior to Summit, Chris worked in M&A advisory at J.P. Morgan. Chris holds a BCom in economics from the University of Toronto and an MSc in finance from HEC Paris.

Ali Dowd has been promoted to Principal. Ali joined Summit’s Boston office as a Vice President in 2021 and is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Her investment experience includes Veranex. Prior to Summit, Ali worked in the Healthcare Group at Thomas H. Lee Partners. Previously, she worked at TA Associates. Ali holds a BA in economics, cum laude, from Vanderbilt University.

Mark Hexamer has been promoted to Principal. Mark joined Summit’s Menlo Park office as a Vice President in 2014. As a member of the Talent & Recruiting team, Mark works with Summit’s portfolio companies and investment teams to identify and recruit high-impact senior executives and board members. Prior to Summit, Mark was a founding member of the venture capital and growth equity practice at executive search firm CTPartners, a partner at Fortis Partners and a cofounder of Swap.com and Sidebar Software. Mark holds a BA in history from the University of Notre Dame and a JD/MBA from Boston College.

Chelsea Jurman has been promoted to Principal. Chelsea joined Summit’s Boston office as a Vice President in 2019 and is a member of theGrowth Products & Services team. Her investment and board experience includes Adviser Investments, Brooklinen, Halborn and ShipMonk. Prior to Summit, Chelsea worked in Global Investment Research at Goldman Sachs, in the Technology group. Chelsea holds a BA in political science, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Nick Oppedisano has been promoted to Principal. Nick joined Summit’s Menlo Park Office as a Vice President in 2019 and is a member of the Technology team. His investment and board experience includes CoderPad, Foxen, Jobber, PriceLabs and Recharge. Prior to Summit, Nick worked on Goldman Sachs’ tech, media, telecom investment banking team and Centerview Partners’ tech investment banking team. Nick holds a BA in business administration, honors, from Ivey Business School and a BS in engineering from the University of Western Ontario.

Jono Pagden has been promoted to Principal. Jono joined Summit’s London office as an Associate in 2016 and is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. His investment experience includes Advance Medical (acquired by Teladoc), CluePoints, Fortis Life Sciences and zahneins (acquired by PAI Partners). Prior to Summit, Jono worked on the Retail/Healthcare and U.K. M&A teams at Goldman Sachs. Jono holds a Bachelor of Business Science, with honors, in accounting and finance from the University of Cape Town.

Jonathan Gilman has been promoted to Vice President. Jonathan joined Summit’s Boston office as an Associate in 2018 and is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences team. His investment experience includes Abode Healthcare (acquired by BrightSpring Health Services), Fortis Life Sciences, InnovaCare Health, Leon Medical Centers, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions and U.S. Renal Care. Prior to Summit, Jonathan worked in the Global Healthcare Group in the Investment Banking Division at Jefferies. Jonathan holds a BS in finance and economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Andy Lee has been promoted to Vice President. Andy joined Summit’s Boston Office as an Associate in 2018 and is a member of theGrowth Products & Services team. His investment and board experience includes Beyond Risk and Patriot Growth Insurance Services. Prior to Summit, Andy worked for Fisher Lynch Capital and Fidelity Investments. Andy holds a BA, cum laude, in psychology from Dartmouth College.

Irina Müller has been promoted to Vice President. Irina joined Summit’s London office as an Associate in 2019 and is a member of the Technology team. Her investment experience includes Appway (acquired by FNZ), ProGlove (acquired by Nordic Capital) and Solactive. Prior to Summit, Irina worked in the M&A Group at Houlihan Lokey. Irina holds a BA in business administration and an MA in banking and finance from the University of St. Gallen.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

In the United States of America, Summit Partners operates as an SEC-registered investment advisor. In the United Kingdom, this document is issued by Summit Partners LLP, a firm authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Summit Partners LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with registered number OC388179 and its registered office is at 11-12 Hanover Square, London, W1S 1JJ, UK. This document is intended solely to provide information regarding Summit Partners' potential financing capabilities for prospective portfolio companies.

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CHICAGO, Illinois — Syndigo, a leading provider of data management, syndication, and analytics to power eCommerce, today announced that Simon Angove has been named Chief Executive Officer. Paul Salay, who has been Chief Executive Officer for the last six years, will continue to support Syndigo’s Board of Directors, advising on company strategy and mergers & acquisitions.

Mr. Angove brings over 25 years of leadership experience building technology businesses, having both launched and grown innovative start-ups as well as run large companies in several industries, including retail, financial services, and the public sector. Most recently, Mr. Angove served as CEO of CentralSquare Technologies, a market leading provider of public safety software formed through the multi-billion-dollar merger of Superion and two other companies. Prior to leading CentralSquare, Mr. Angove was CEO of Superion where he led that company’s growth and transformation, helping to drive product innovation, optimize go-to-market execution, enhance operational excellence, and build a high-performing team. Prior to Superion, Mr. Angove led global business units focused on digital solutions at Verint, an omni-channel customer engagement software provider. Earlier in his career, he founded several businesses in the areas of cloud computing, retail in-store video analytics, and workforce optimization.

“I am incredibly excited to serve as Syndigo’s next CEO and to join the company at a time of exciting innovation and transformation in the eCommerce industry,” said Mr. Angove. “In partnering with our customers and team, I look forward to scaling Syndigo with a strong focus on customer centricity, product innovation, and world-class talent. I believe we are well positioned to help both brands and retailers optimize their data and content to drive success in the fast-growing and competitive eCommerce channel.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Simon as Syndigo’s next CEO, and we look forward to working closely with him as the company continues to pursue its ambitious goals for growth and customer success,” said Peter Rottier, Managing Director at Summit Partners and a member of the Syndigo Board of Directors. “Under Paul’s leadership, Syndigo established itself as a market leader in a new category of content optimization for eCommerce. We are grateful for his service, vision, and leadership and look forward to his continued guidance to the board as he transitions to an advisory role.”

“It has been an honor to lead and build Syndigo, together with our team, over the last six years. Syndigo has always been defined by our commitment to help customers optimize their content and digital assets in an age of eCommerce,” said Mr. Salay. “Today, I am as confident as I have ever been about the company’s future. I believe Simon is the right CEO to lead Syndigo through its next phase, and I look forward to supporting him and the team in the journey ahead.”

About Syndigo
Syndigo is the first Active Content Engine built to power modern commerce by enabling the continual flow of data and content throughout the entire commerce ecosystem. With industry-leading data management, syndication, and analytics, combined with the largest two-sided network for content distribution, we deliver accurate information that improves decision-making and accelerates sales on every shelf. Syndigo serves more than 12,000 manufacturers, and 1,750 retailers and distributors globally across key industries including grocery, foodservice, hardlines, home improvement/DIY, pet, health and beauty, automotive, apparel, oil & gas, and healthcare. Syndigo is backed by Summit Partners and The Jordan Company. For more information, visit www.syndigo.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit has partnered with more than two dozen companies across the e-commerce and consumer landscape, including Brooklinen, Klaviyo, Philz Coffee, Reverb.com, Sezane, Sifted, TinyPrints, and MercuryGate. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

About The Jordan CompanyTJC (www.thejordancompany.com), founded in 1982, is a middle-market private equity firm that has managed funds with original capital commitments in excess of $18 billion since 1987 and a 40-year track record of investing in and contributing to the growth of many businesses across a wide range of industries including Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Supply Chain & Logistics, Industrials, and Consumer & Healthcare. The senior investment team has been investing together for over 20 years and is supported by the Operations Management Group, which was established in 1988 to initiate and support operational improvements in portfolio companies. Headquartered in New York, TJC also has offices in Chicago and Miami.

Growth investment led by Summit Partners to accelerate product development, go-to-market strategy and new market expansion

Tel Aviv and London – ImagenAI (“Imagen”), a leading provider of AI-powered editing solutions for professional photographers, today announced a $30 million investment led by global growth investor Summit Partners with participation from existing investor NFX. The financing will support continued investment in strategic hiring and M&A, expansion of the company’s SaaS product and further acceleration of Imagen’s rapid growth.

Imagen was founded in July 2020 to modernize and improve the post-production workflow of professional photographers by intelligently automating image editing at scale. The initial idea for the business originated from one of the co-founder’s months-long wait for his wedding photos. In speaking with numerous photographers, he uncovered a clear pain point felt across the broader industry: while advancements in digital photography had increased the volume of images captured and stored, post-production work was still largely repetitive and time-consuming, estimated at almost two hours for each hour of shooting time. Because each photographer has their own unique style, the process could not be automated generically with existing tools. With backgrounds in machine learning and computer science, the Imagen team recognized the opportunity to dramatically improve this workflow.

“We built Imagen to make photographers' lives easier. Our AI-powered solution is designed specifically to automate the tedious aspects of post-production work, allowing each artist to maintain and evolve his or her own creative style,” said Yotam Gil, co-founder and CEO of Imagen. “Imagen essentially creates time for our photographers, allowing them to focus on the artistry of their work and deliver a better experience for their customers.”

Imagen’s end-to-end AI technology creates an individual profile based on a photographer’s previous work and unique creative style. The more photos uploaded, with more diverse scenes and lighting conditions, the better the AI can capture each editing style and accurately predict dozens of editing parameters. Imagen’s solution can save up to 90% of post-production time and turns many hours of manual work to seconds, while preserving the personal style of each user. The profile evolves and learns with the user over time, allowing better accuracy and consistency in applying each photographer’s style to new photos ingested into Imagen.

Building on these AI-powered editing capabilities, Imagen plans to continue expanding its SaaS offering, including a near-term launch of a culling product that leverages a user’s AI-generated profile to select the best photos from a photoshoot to streamline the post-production process even further.

After a bootstrapped beginning, the Imagen team raised a seed round in September 2021 to support hiring and continued, rapid growth. Today, Imagen is profitable and counts thousands of photographers as part of its growing user community, helping these creative professionals to provide better service for their customers, scale up their own businesses and develop their own signature style. Imagen edits more than 150 million photos annually and saves millions of hours of manual work each month for a wide range of customers, from individual photographers to big studios to other creative businesses.

“We believe Imagen offers a truly innovative, intuitive solution for the professional photography industry with broad applicability to numerous genres across the creator economy where high volumes of digital assets are generated – from events, e-commerce and travel to real estate, sports, food and portraiture,” said Steffan Peyer, a Managing Director with Summit Partners, who has joined the Imagen Board of Directors. “We are excited to partner with this dynamic, smart and visionary team, and we look forward to working together to build upon the strong momentum they’ve established and help bring Imagen’s state-of-the-art technology to new markets.”

Photographers interested in using Imagen’s AI-powered editing solutions can visit www.imagen-ai.com.

About Imagen
Imagen is on a mission to change the photography industry with AI-powered solutions that modernize the post-production workflow, enabling professional photographers to plan better, work less, earn more, and focus on the creative aspects of their job. Thousands of professional photographers trust Imagen to accelerate their editing process so they can spend more time doing what they love. Learn more at www.imagen-ai.com or join the Imagen community on Instagramor Facebook.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.

For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Acquisition Positions NRG as the Leading Essential Home Services Provider, Accelerating Growth Plan

HOUSTON & PROVO, Utah - NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and Vivint Smart Home, Inc. (NYSE: VVNT) today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which NRG will acquire Vivint for $12 per share or $2.8 billion in an all-cash transaction with an implied multiple of 6.3x run-rate Enterprise Value to Adjusted EBITDA. The agreement has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

Vivint Smart Home is a leading smart home platform company whose mission is to help its nearly two million customers live intelligently by providing them with technology, products, and services to create a smarter, more efficient, and safer home. Vivint delivers an engaging customer experience through multiple devices united into a single expandable platform that incorporates artificial intelligence and machine learning into its operating system. The company’s vertically integrated business model includes hardware, software, sales, installation, support, and professional monitoring, enabling superior customer experiences and a complete end-to-end smart home experience.

The acquisition accelerates the realization of NRG’s consumer-focused growth strategy and creates the leading essential home services platform fueled by market-leading brands, unparalleled insights, proprietary technologies, and complementary sales channels. The transaction improves and diversifies NRG’s financial profile while also expanding the total market opportunity available to NRG. The annual run-rate Adjusted EBITDA, inclusive of $100 million of run-rate synergies, is $835 million.

“Last year at our Investor Day, we presented our strategic roadmap to becoming the leading provider of essential services for homes and businesses, informed by consumer trends and underpinned by disciplined execution,” said Mauricio Gutierrez, President and CEO of NRG. “The acquisition of Vivint is a transformational step in achieving our vision. Customers want simple, connected, and customized experiences that provide peace of mind. Vivint’s smart home technology strengthens our retail platform, improves our customer experience, and increases customer lifetime value. I am excited to welcome Vivint to the NRG family.”

“We are pleased to announce a transaction that delivers immediate and compelling cash value to Vivint’s stockholders while also presenting significant opportunities to drive our company’s continued success in the years to come,” said David Bywater, CEO of Vivint Smart Home. “Our agreement with NRG is the culmination of our Board’s ongoing pursuit of maximizing value for Vivint stockholders and is a testament to the strength of the Vivint brand, capabilities, and proven industry leadership. We look forward to working with NRG to create exciting opportunities for Vivint as part of a larger platform. On behalf of our Board and management team, I thank the hard-working Vivint employees for the significant role they have played in this important milestone.”

About NRG
At NRG, we’re bringing the power of energy to people and organizations by putting customers at the center of everything we do. We generate electricity and provide energy solutions and natural gas to millions of customers through our diverse portfolio of retail brands. A Fortune 500 company, operating in the United States and Canada, NRG delivers innovative solutions while advocating for competitive energy markets and customer choice, working towards a sustainable energy future. More information is available at www.nrg.com. Connect with NRG on Facebook, LinkedIn, and follow us on Twitter @nrgenergy.

About Vivint
Vivint is a leading smart home company in the United States. Vivint delivers an integrated smart home system with in-home consultation, professional installation and support delivered by its Smart Home Pros, as well as 24-7 customer care and monitoring. Dedicated to redefining the home experience with intelligent products and services, Vivint serves more than 1.9 million customers throughout the United States. For more information, visit https://www.vivint.com.

Source: Vivint and NRG. View complete release on BusinessWire.

Community can be a powerful engine for growth.

Often, the most successful growth companies are powered by an employee community with a true passion for their mission and energized by a customer community that shares in that passion. We believe a strong community of peers is just as important in supporting growth company leaders and enhancing the impact leaders can have on their teams and their businesses.

Our 2022 Women’s Executive Forum brought together female leaders from across the Summit Partners Network and offered an opportunity to build and strengthen a dynamic, supportive community of peers. The event featured content focused on navigating today’s turbulent operating environment and – most importantly – provided a forum for women leaders to connect in person and benefit from the collective experience of the Summit community.

We are grateful to the speakers, panelists and all the incredible women leaders from across #TheSummitPartnersNetwork who joined us and generously shared their perspective, passion and experience to create a truly energizing event.

Jan Bednar, CEO of Summit-backed ShipMonk, has been named an Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 National Award winner by EY US. This award celebrates business leaders who were able to achieve incredible growth, shake up industry standards, and provide products and services their communities needed.

Jan founded ShipMonk in 2014 with a vision to change the way e-commerce companies manage their supply chain and ship products to customers. Today, ShipMonk is a leading provider of direct-to-consumer (DTC) fulfillment and technology solutions, helping over 1,500 e-commerce companies to deliver over 5 million products every month to customers around the world.

Learn more here.

Award selections are determined based on Ernst & Young’s evaluation of each nominee’s entrepreneurial spirit, company purpose, growth, impact, and other core contributions. To view the full list of honorees and read more about the selection methodology, visit Ernst & Young LLP’s website.

Summit Partners did not have a role in the nomination/submission process for this award. This award is the opinion of the party conferring the award and not of Summit Partners. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the foregoing.

● New funding will support Red Points’ global market dominance in preventing revenue loss against online counterfeits, piracy, and impersonations.

● After 8 years of rapid growth, Red Points already serves 1,000+ clients, more than half of which in the U.S.

● The company recently became B Corp certified to keep raising awareness around the need for a safer and more sustainable Internet.

New York, NY – Red Points, the world’s most widely used platform to counter online brand abuse, announced a new $20 million funding led by IRIS alongside existing investors Summit Partners and Eight Roads. The company plans to use the new financing to accelerate the evolution of its AI-led technology suite and to strengthen its go-to-market strategy to meet growing customer demand as online fraud and brand abuse continue to escalate worldwide.

Since its first round in 2014, Red Points has raised over $76 million. Previous investors also include Mangrove, Northzone and Banc Sabadell.

Red Points scans the Internet on behalf of its clients to automatically find and take down counterfeiters, pirates, and impersonators that are, in effect, stealing revenue. The company’s comprehensive Revenue Recovery Platform offers robust online brand protection, providing visibility across online marketplaces, social media, websites, apps, and NFT platforms. Working with global brands across fashion, sports, consumer goods, homeware, finance, electronics, and software, Red Points’ customers include Hugo Boss, Electrolux, Fila, Wahl Clipper, Real Madrid, 100%, and Puma. In the last 12 months, the total value of counterfeit listings taken down by Red Points surpassed $1.7 billion.

Red Points has disrupted an industry that has historically been led by service providers, offering a scalable, cost-effective SaaS solution that automatically detects and removes intellectual property infringements online 24/7. In the midst of an online fraud boom — a trend accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic — the company has continued to grow at a fast pace, consistently expanding its customer base and recently reaching 1,000+ corporate clients. Today, Red Points has 300 employees in offices across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Laura Urquizu, Red Points’ CEO & President, said “The U.S. Customs and Border Protection estimates that counterfeit goods cost the global economy over $500 billion a year, and this is just one of many rising threats that brands and consumers face in digital. Red Points enables companies to bring back revenue and brand equity lost to fraud, and this new funding will help us accelerate the adoption of the technologies that make it happen effectively.”

“Companies are struggling to catch up with the explosion of brand fraud and emerging forms of threats. With its unique automated and highly scalable platform, Red Points is leading the digitalization of the anti-fraud space," added Itziar Estevez Latasa, Partner at IRIS, who has joined the company’s Board of Directors, which will now count with gender parity. “We’ve been impressed with Red Points’ ability to address customers’ needs across industries by focusing on the most harmful infringements and untapping hidden fraudulent networks. We are very proud to be part of this journey”.

Last month, Red Points also became a certified B Corp company, an exclusive distinction that recognizes an organization’s rigorous social and environmental standards and its commitment to inclusion, equity, and regenerative initiatives. Through its fight against fraudulent commerce and fraud, Red Points advocates for a more just, safe, and sustainable digital world.

“Our north star is to make the Internet a safer place for brands and consumers, and I could not ask for a more committed team to keep advancing towards this objective. The way in which we implement our mission is also core to us, with values like sustainability, respect, diversity, and transparency”, concluded Urquizu.

About Red Points
Red Points is the most widely used solution to recover digital revenue. Over 1,000 companies rely on our platform to fight counterfeits, piracy, impersonation, and distribution abuse. They leverage Red Points to take back the revenue that’s rightfully theirs. With 300 professionals and offices in New York, Barcelona, Beijing, and Salt Lake City, Red Points has disrupted an industry traditionally led by service providers with a scalable, cost-effective solution.

Source: Red Points

BOSTON, MA — Global growth equity investor Summit Partners today announced the addition of Davide Molho to the firm’s Executive-in-Residence (“EIR”) program. In this role, Dr. Molho will work closely with Summit’s healthcare & life sciences team to identify new investment opportunities and advise growth-stage companies focused on the development and commercialization of advanced therapies.

Dr. Molho, DVM, brings more than 25 years of international operational and business management experience in the contract research, life sciences, biotechnology and animal health industries. He joins Summit Partners’ EIR program from Viroclinics-DDL, a Summit-backed virology and immunology CRO, where he had served as CEO since 2020. During his tenure, Dr. Molho led Viroclinics-DDL through a period of significant growth and global expansion, culminating in the company’s sale to Cerba Healthcare in 2022. Prior to Viroclinics-DDL, Dr. Molho served as CEO of Evolution Research Group and spent nearly two decades with Charles River Laboratories, where eventually he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of the global organization.

“Davide is a high-caliber executive with an impressive record of leadership and a deep appreciation for the important mission that drives teams operating at the forefront of drug discovery and commercialization,” said Ross Stern, a Managing Director with Summit Partners. “We are thrilled to once again work with Davide and bring his perspective and experience to Summit’s EIR program.”

“At Viroclinics-DDL, I had the opportunity to work closely with the Summit team in scaling the business, enhancing our infrastructure, and expanding our global reach and capacity – all during a time when the vital role CROs play in accelerating the market entry of innovative vaccines and therapies has never been clearer,” said Dr. Molho. “I’ve experienced first-hand the resources and productive approach to partnership that the Summit team brings to growth businesses, and I’m proud to join Summit’s EIR program.”

Summit has been active in the healthcare and life sciences sector for nearly four decades. Since the firm’s founding in 1984, Summit has partnered with more than 100 companies across the healthcare services, healthcare IT and life sciences sectors.

Summit’s EIR program is an established element of the firm’s growth-oriented investing strategy. Since its inception, the program has facilitated collaboration between seasoned industry executives and Summit’s investment teams, working to identify sector-specific opportunities in which EIRs may support companies in an ongoing capacity through board or leadership roles.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries. Summit Partners maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.

For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Michael Medici, a Managing Director on Summit’s technology team, has been named to GrowthCap’s Top 25 Software Investors of 2022. This award recognizes some of the most experienced and accomplished individuals in software investing. Since joining the firm in 2005, Michael has invested in and partnered with numerous high-growth companies across the technology landscape, building deep sector expertise within several software subsectors, including commerce enablement, marketing automation, infrastructure and DevOps, industrial technology and supply chain.

Michael is currently a board director at Klaviyo, MacStadium, Markforged (NYSE: MKFG), Mavrck and Sifted. His prior board and investment experience includes Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA, later acquired by Cisco), Accedian Networks (acquired by Bridge Growth Partners), Anesthetix (acquired by TeamHealth), Clarabridge (acquired by Qualtrics), Diagnostic Hybrids (acquired by Quidel Corporation), Fermentas International (acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific), Hiperos (acquired by Opus Global), Logi Analytics (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners), Mi9 Retail (acquired by General Atlantic), and Telerik (acquired by Progress Software).

Read more about Michael and his fellow honorees here.

New Raise Led by Ten Eleven Ventures, with Participation from Existing Venture Investors, Strengthens Immersive Labs’ Leadership Position in the Cyber Workforce Resilience Category

Cybersecurity Leader Appoints Sandra McDevitt, Chief Human Resources Officer, and Lucian Lui, Chief Marketing Officer; Ten Eleven General Partner Dave Palmer to Join its Board of Directors

BRISTOL, UK – Immersive Labs today announced it has raised $66 million in capital to continue its growth and investment in its Cyber Workforce Resilience platform. Ten Eleven Ventures led the latest raise supporting the company’s efforts to help organizations around the world assess, build, and prove their resilience to cyber threats of all kinds. Existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Summit Partners, Insight Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Citi Ventures all participated in the round.

The company also announced new strategic additions to its executive leadership team, including Sandra McDevitt as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and Lucian Lui as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Ten Eleven General Partner and Darktrace Founder and former Chief Product Officer Dave Palmer will join the company’s Board of Directors, while Jack Huffard, Tenable Co-Founder and current Non-Executive Director of Immersive has become Chair of the Board.

Accelerating Growth and Enterprise Adoption
Immersive Labs, which provides realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities, will use the additional capital to accelerate its growth in the Cyber Workforce Resilience category and deliver solutions that give enterprise customers innovative ways to prove their cyber capabilities across the business, from executive decision making to hands-on cyber defense teams. Today, enterprise and government customers like Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Pfizer, Daimler, Humana, Atos, and the UK National Health Service rely on Immersive Labs to demonstrate their cyber resilience by measuring their cyber defense and crisis management capabilities compared to industry benchmarks, building rapid team collaboration, and showing risk reduction and compliance with data-backed evidence.

“Attracting new investment during a difficult time overall for the tech sector underscores the incredible demand for Immersive Labs’ disruptive, people-centric approach to cybersecurity,” said James Hadley, CEO, Immersive Labs. “Proving cyber resilience has increasingly become a Board and C-level consideration. Our customers rely on us because we offer a trusted and effective approach to upskilling and measuring team and individual cyber defense capabilities.”

“As we see more focus on proving cyber resilience across public and private sectors, Immersive Labs stands to play a key role in the future of cybersecurity,” said David Palmer, General Partner, Ten Eleven Ventures. “The company’s product innovation and strategic leadership hires further secure the company’s top position in the Cyber Workforce Resilience category.”

Additions to Immersive Labs’ Executive Leadership Team
Immersive Labs expanded its management team with strategic hires and additions, including a new CMO and CHRO, as well as a new member of its Board of Directors. The latest additions provide the company with valuable expertise, insights, and experience to usher the company into its next phase of rapid growth.

• Sandra McDevitt, CHRO: McDevitt oversees all people-related operations globally. Prior to joining Immersive Labs, she served as Chief People Officer at Quantcast and Patreon and held several people operations leadership roles at Google in Europe and US. Prior to Google, she served as a Group General Manager at Irish Life Financial Services and as Director of Human Resources for Ireland and Online Sales for EMEA at Oracle.
• Lucian Lui, CMO: Lui joins the company overseeing its marketing efforts globally. He is a commercial business leader with over 25 years of experience growing publicly traded and Forbes-ranked commercial companies for world class brands like Microsoft, Iron Mountain and Rapid7. Throughout his career, he has led a broad set of commercial disciplines including branding, product marketing, enterprise sales, demand generation, customer experience, corporate communications, and emerging markets strategy.
• Dave Palmer, Non-Executive Director: Palmer is a General Partner of Ten Eleven Ventures. Prior to joining Ten Eleven, he was the Chief Product Officer at Darktrace, overseeing the mathematics and engineering teams. Palmer has also worked across UK intelligence agencies GCHQ and MI5, where he was responsible for delivering mission-critical infrastructure services, including replacing and securing entire global networks, the developing of operational internet capabilities, and the management of critical disaster recovery incidents.

About Immersive Labs
Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. Organizations can now prove their cyber resilience by measuring their readiness compared to industry benchmarks, building team capabilities, and demonstrating risk reduction and compliance with data-backed evidence.

Immersive Labs is trusted by the world’s largest organizations and governments, including Citi, Pfizer, Daimler, Humana, Atos, HSBC, and the UK National Health Service. We are backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Summit Partners, Insight Partners, Citi Ventures, and Menlo Ventures. Learn more at: www.immersivelabs.com.

About Ten Eleven Ventures
Ten Eleven Ventures is the original cybersecurity-focused, global, stage agnostic investment firm. The firm finds, invests, and helps grow top cybersecurity companies addressing critical digital security needs, tapping its team, network, and experience to help build successful businesses. Since its founding, Ten Eleven Ventures has raised over $US 1 billion and made over 40 cybersecurity investments across stages worldwide, including KnowBe4, Darktrace, Twistlock, Verodin, Cylance, and Ping Identity. For more information, please visit www.1011vc.com or follow us on Twitter @1011vc.

Source: Immersive Labs

Disruptive leader in private markets technology for institutional investors plans to leverage new investment to continue product expansion and support global growth

NEW YORK CITY – Chronograph, a leading private markets technology company, today announced a ‘Series X’ funding round led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners. Existing investors Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) and Nasdaq Ventures also participated in the round. The new investment will position Chronograph to further accelerate global growth and development of the company’s robust portfolio monitoring, reporting, and analytics solutions.

Headquartered in Brooklyn, Chronograph was founded by technologists and private equity investment professionals to bring next-generation technology to private capital markets participants. Through a suite of cloud-based analytics and data management solutions, Chronograph’s technology plays a crucial role in how many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors understand, value, and manage their private investments. The company has grown rapidly since its founding in 2016, and today monitors over $6 trillion of private equity and venture capital assets on behalf of institutional limited partners and general partners, with over 100,000 private companies represented on the Chronograph platform.

“Information is the ultimate asset in private markets,” said Charlie Tafoya, Co-Founder and CEO of Chronograph. “The enormous growth in private capital strategies over the past decade has brought about an equally significant expansion in the volume and complexity of valuable data that the world’s best investors look to efficiently gather, manage, and use. We are focused on driving continued innovation on behalf of our clients and are excited to invest further in capabilities that support more timely reporting and analysis, improvements in ESG data management, and LP/GP data inter-connectivity.”

“With the rapid proliferation of global private capital strategies has come increased regulatory demands and reporting requirements for the investors managing and allocating that capital,” said Greg Goldfarb, Managing Director at Summit Partners. “Since entering the market, Chronograph has changed the way many private equity firms and their investors interact with their data, offering elegant and innovative software designed to enable robust, timely, and transparent reporting and analysis. We have been consistently impressed by the innovation and ingenuity Chronograph has shown and continues to demonstrate.”

Chronograph’s solutions eliminate dependencies on error-prone, inflexible, manual and time-consuming templates for portfolio companies and funds. By ingesting reporting in any format, the company’s technology enables investment teams, IR professionals, and reporting teams to efficiently run analytics, conduct valuations, and build reports powered by automated data pipelines that produce clean, rich, reliable data.

“We are thrilled to increase our investment in Chronograph, and to continue our relationship as an LP and GP client,” said Eric Hanno, Partner and Co-head of AlpInvest’s Primary Investment Team at Carlyle. “Chronograph’s technology has allowed AlpInvest to capture and structure more than seven million data points from our portfolio, and we feel the LP solution is unique in its ability to capture such a rich and complete data set.”

“Nasdaq Ventures is thrilled to continue its support of Chronograph alongside Summit and Carlyle,” said Benjamin Blueweiss of Nasdaq Ventures. “With increased allocation to private capital strategies and heightened volatility in today’s public markets, access to transparent investment-level data and analytics is more crucial than ever for institutional LPs and GPs to maximize returns while managing risk.”

“Calling this our ‘Series X’ funding round reflects the fact we have not pursued a traditional fundraising strategy. Instead, we have focused on building a scalable, capital-efficient company with a world-class team. And our team is growing – we are hiring across all functions and are incredibly hungry for exceptional talent in engineering, product, sales, client success, and other areas,” Tafoya remarked. “We are thrilled to benefit from Summit Partners’ deep experience in the technology sector and further leverage our partnerships with Carlyle and Nasdaq to push Chronograph to the next level.”

About Chronograph
Chronograph was founded in 2016 to bring differentiated technology solutions to the private capital market. The firm’s products help institutional limited partners and general partners – including many of the world’s largest private equity and venture capital investors – streamline and automate portfolio monitoring, valuations, analytics, and reporting. The firm is backed by The Carlyle Group, Nasdaq, Inc. and Summit Partners. For further information please visit www.chronograph.pe.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 500 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit has backed many notable fintech and SaaS companies, including Calypso Technology, Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), EngageSmart (NYSE: ESMT), Gainsight, Jamf (NYSE: JAMF), Klaviyo, RightNow and Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR). Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For further information please visit www.summitpartners.com.

About The Carlyle Group
Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit and Global Investment Solutions. With $376 billion of Assets Under Management as of June 30, 2022, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 1,900 people in 26 offices across five continents. Further information is available at www.carlyle.com. Follow Carlyle on Twitter @OneCarlyle.

About Nasdaq
Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Our diverse offering of data, analytics, software and services enables clients to optimize and execute their business vision with confidence. For further information please visit www.nasdaq.com.

We’re honored to be named to Inc.’s 2022 List of Founder-Friendly Investors. The list recognizes firms with demonstrated experience collaborating with founder-led companies and providing the financial support and resources needed to help accelerate growth.

Over nearly four decades, we’ve had the opportunity to collaborate with hundreds of entrepreneurs and management teams - partnering with more than 70 founder-led companies in the last five years alone. This experience has fostered a deep appreciation for and understanding of the courage, vision and tenacity required to start and scale a business. We are proud to support these growth journeys – and we look forward to many more.

Read more about a few of the founders we’ve supported and the companies they’ve built in Stories from the Climb – a series dedicated to celebrating and sharing the challenges of building a growth company.

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Investment to support the company’s continued growth and further its commitment to public lands

Missoula, MT – onX, a pioneer in outdoor digital navigation, today announced a $87.4M Series B investment. The funding round was led by Summit Partners, which led the company’s Series A financing in 2018, and includes participation from Steve Burke’s Madison Valley Partners and other existing investors. This growth investment will support onX as the company reimagines the outdoor experience and works to protect the landscapes that host recreational pursuits.

Founded in 2009 and based in Missoula, Montana, onX creates mapping and navigation technology that helps inform, inspire, and empower millions of outdoor recreationists. The company’s suite of navigation apps includes three products – onX Hunt, onX Offroad, and onX Backcountry – each tailored to the adventure at hand. The apps put 852 million acres of public land, 550,000 miles of motorized trails, 10,000 detailed hikes and routes, 60,000 campgrounds and cabins, hundreds of layers, and more at users’ fingertips.

“The outdoor industry is thriving, and onX is meeting an essential need for adventurers,” said Steve Burke, Madison Valley Partners founding partner and former NBCUniversal CEO. “I have been an onX customer for years. I have watched the company establish its leadership in the hunting and outdoor industries by designing amazing customer experiences that connect people with the land. I’m looking forward to seeing onX continue working towards defining the future of mapping technology and how recreationalists of all types engage on that landscape.”

Since raising a Series A in 2018, the company’s growth has accelerated. Over the course of the last four years, onX has increased annual recurring revenues 10x while growing its team by more than 300% – including a nearly five-fold increase in its engineering bench – to support continued expansion and enhancement of its product offering. The company also acquired Outdoor Project and the Adventure Project suite of products (Mountain Project, Hiking Project, MTB Project, Powder Project, Trail Run Project, and National Park Trail Guide). Recent onX updates include CarPlay and Android Auto functionality, critical safety information such as wildfire and avalanche layers, and a popular series of Masterclasses that share tips for making the most of a day outdoors and building outdoor communities.

“What sets onX apart is our ability to create products that empower recreationists to explore new landscapes and unite them to protect access to our natural world,” said Laura Orvidas, onX CEO. “It’s this combination that fuels our impressive customer traction. This investment positions us to expand our offerings even further and continue changing the way outdoor enthusiasts experience the world around them.”

By connecting adventurers to the landscape, and by using its platform to share responsible recreation practices, onX hopes to awaken the adventurer inside everyone – and to inspire users to help protect outdoor spaces for future generations.

onX has committed a percentage of its app sales to increase access to 150,000 acres of public land and to help build or restore 150 miles of trails by the end of 2023. To reach this goal, onX offers grants to organizations that help preserve and create access to outdoor adventures. The company also lends its data analysis and research to support key legislation, and brings together different perspectives to find creative solutions to protect our shared spaces. onX recently hosted the Shared Ground symposium, an industry-first alliance of diverse outdoor recreation and land management groups. The meeting sparked three unique stewardship projects that onX will help bring to fruition.

“When onX was founded, it changed the way many outdoorsmen and women navigate in the wild, and the company hasn’t slowed down,” said Colin Mistele, Managing Director at Summit Partners and onX Board Member. “We’ve been proud to work alongside the onX team over the last four years as the company has grown from a single product into a true platform business with an impressive consumer subscription base of outdoor enthusiasts across numerous recreational markets. With a data-driven approach and true connection to the community, we believe onX is well poised to continue reimagining the outdoor experience through its innovative navigation apps.”

About onX
Founded in 2009, onX is a pioneer in digital outdoor navigation, developing software that helps inform, inspire, and empower outdoor recreationists. onX Hunt, onX Offroad, and onX Backcountry make up the company’s suite of apps which are built by explorers for explorers. Because off-the-beaten path experiences are at the heart of what onX does, the company also leads initiatives to protect and expand access to public land and promote stewardship opportunities. Learn more at www.onxmaps.com/about

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries.

For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Houston, TX - 48forty Solutions ("48forty"), a leading national provider of recycled pallets and pallet management services, today announced that it has acquired Texas pallet management leader Pallet-Ops ("Pallet-Ops" or the "Company"). The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 48forty is a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity and Summit Partners.

Established in 2011, Pallet-Ops services customers across the southwestern region of the United States, offering a variety of sizes of recycled, remanufactured, and custom wooden pallets at competitive prices. The Company's services include pallet retrieval, lease pallet management, and pallet repair and return. CEO John Maclay founded Pallet-Ops in 2011 with a vision of bringing a professional commitment to providing the highest service levels to their customers with the most "dynamic of pallet solutions," focusing on consistent quality and performance. Pallet-Ops has three locations strategically located in the San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston markets, making them one of Texas's largest, most efficient pallet services providers. The Pallet-Ops management team has more than 70 years of combined experience and prides itself on its sustainability initiative toward a zero-waste environment for its community and 170 employees. The Company owns and operates 386 trailers, and the facilities are situated on 34 acres and 137,000 square feet of property across its three Texas locations.

Mike Hachtman, CEO of 48forty, remarked, "Acquiring this customer-focused business with a strong presence in three major markets in Texas ensures more seamless service to our customers in the region. We know Pallet Ops will fit right in with 48forty operationally and culturally."

Leon Nutt, President, Pallet-Ops, said, "Joining 48forty will benefit our customers geographically and synergistically. We are excited about the acquisition and the opportunity to expand our network and create greater opportunities for our employees."

ABOUT 48forty Solutions
48forty Solutions is one of the largest pallet management services companies in North America, with a national network of 237 facilities, including 60 company-owned and operated pallet recycling plants, 160 onsite and 12 reverse logistics centers, 5 sorting centers, and more than 850 service providers. 48forty provides end-to-end pallet solutions from supply to retrieval, new and custom pallets, and reverse logistics services. We also operate one of the nation's largest private fleets of over 6,500 trailers and over 400 power units. For more information, visit www.48forty.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Pallet-Ops
Pallet-Ops was established to bring a professional commitment to providing the highest service levels to its customers. The Pallet-Ops management team has over 70 years of combined experience servicing customers from the largest pallet producers and users in the United States to the lower volume specialty customers. As green and sustainable practices have evolved throughout unitized shipping, customers' needs have created a demand for value-added services that enhance their supply chain. Pallet-Ops pallet-management services are custom-made to ensure they fit any company's needs. With exceptional customer service and dedication to providing low-cost pallet solutions, Pallet-Ops has become a sustainable pallet industry leader. For more information, visit www.pallet-ops.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Partnership with CareCentrix extends care capabilities into the home to create a connected ecosystem for patients

Deerfield, IL – Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced it has completed its previously announced majority share acquisition of CareCentrix, Inc.—the leading, independent home-centered platform that coordinates care to the home for health plans, patients and providers. The majority investment in CareCentrix accelerates Walgreens Health’s capabilities in delivering quality healthcare across a spectrum of settings including primary care, specialty pharmacy care, post-acute care and home care.

By bringing together Walgreens trusted health services and community presence with CareCentrix’s technology-enabled, care-at-home solutions, the partnership better addresses the needs of people with complex or chronic conditions as they transition out of the hospital. CareCentrix’s advanced data analytics capabilities enable highly personalized care plans to help people transition to the right site of care, prioritizing care in the home when appropriate. This approach supports both care quality and value by reducing hospital readmissions and improving patient satisfaction and outcomes.

“We created Walgreens Health to reimagine local healthcare and wellbeing for all. This partnership advances our ability to address the needs of people across care settings immediately following hospital discharge,” said Roz Brewer, CEO, WBA. “Our collaboration with CareCentrix is one of the many ways we are expanding on our pharmacy and patient expertise to surround individuals with care when and how they need it.”

Healthcare services delivered after discharge, including care delivered in the home, are one of the fastest growing segments in healthcare today. Caring for patients from the hospital to the home represents more than $75 billion in annual healthcare costs for payers, providers and patients.

“The most challenging part of the healthcare journey is the last mile – extending healthcare delivery into people’s homes,” said John Driscoll, CEO, CareCentrix. “Together with Walgreens Health, CareCentrix is able to combine Walgreens trusted community presence with our powerful technology-enabled care to better address patients’ unique health needs in their homes.”

In addition to home-based care, CareCentrix connects patients to appropriate providers and sites of care post-discharge, utilizing a predictive analytics platform, HomeFirst Analytics. This level of customization also includes pairing patients with care transition teams that support patient engagement for 90 days post-discharge to improve quality metrics.

Walgreens Health will continue to advance capabilities that integrate CareCentrix data analytics and home care expertise with WBA’s portfolio of health solutions to identify and close care gaps, as well as coordinate patient care across conditions, settings and provider networks. These capabilities will enable Walgreens to support medication reconciliation for CareCentrix patients transitioning from hospital to home and provide primary care options to patients when needed, including VillageMD providers. CareCentrix will also play a critical role in Walgreens Health integrated offerings to manage population level risk for benefits management and post-acute spend and outcomes.

CareCentrix manages care for 19 million members through approximately 7,400 provider locations, and empowers more people to live, heal and age at home. By partnering with health plans and health systems, CareCentrix has reduced total cost of care for members by 20 percent, including a greater than 11 percent reduction in emergency department usage and a 23 percent reduction in skilled nursing costs.

This investment gives WBA majority ownership of CareCentrix, investing approximately $330 million for 55 percent of the company at an $800 million valuation, net of debt, with the option to acquire the remaining equity interests in the future. In WBA’s fiscal year 2021, CareCentrix delivered pro forma sales of $1.5 billion. Following the completion of the investment, CareCentrix will continue to operate as an independent company under its current executive leadership.

Sidley Austin LLP acted as lead legal advisor for WBA, along with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Citi acted as financial advisor for CareCentrix, Inc., and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP acted as lead legal advisor.

About CareCentrix
CareCentrix offers value-based home solutions to payors and health systems to help more of their members access the home care they need, when they need it. Through a single platform, CareCentrix coordinates multiple, complex home care needs for over 19 million members through a national network of approximately 7,400 provider locations, resulting in a simplified patient and physician experience. For over 25 years, CareCentrix’s focus on the whole person has improved continuity of care, reduced unnecessary readmissions and unnecessary emergency department utilization, and has delivered positive financial results for health plans. With proprietary HomeFirst Analytics to stratify risk and optimize care delivery, CareCentrix takes on the complexities of care coordination and management of care in the home to provide our clients with essential insights into care at home. CareCentrix has been named one of Fierce Healthcare’s 2022 “Fierce 15” companies and FORTUNE’s Best Workplaces for Aging Services. For more information, please visit www.carecentrix.com.

About Walgreens Boots Alliance
Walgreens Boots Alliance (Nasdaq: WBA) is a global leader in retail pharmacy, impacting millions of lives every day through dispensing medicines, and providing accessible, high-quality care. With more than 170 years of trusted healthcare heritage and innovation in community pharmacy, the company is meeting customers’ and patients’ needs through its convenient retail locations, digital platforms and health and beauty products.

WBA has a presence in more than 9 countries, employs more than 315,000 people and has more than 13,000 stores in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.

WBA’s purpose is to inspire more joyful lives through better health. The company is proud of its contributions to healthy communities, a healthy planet, an inclusive workplace and a sustainable marketplace. WBA is a participant of the United Nations Global Compact and adheres to its principles-based approach to responsible business.

More company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

Houston, TX - 48forty Solutions ("48forty"), a leading national provider of recycled pallets and pallet management services, today announced that it has acquired mid-western pallet management leader CALco Pallets ("CALco" or the "Company"). The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 48forty is a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity ("Audax") and Summit Partners ("Summit").

CALco is a pallet management company established in 2007 by brothers Matt and Greg Calhoun, the Company's first two employees. CALco has grown steadily over the last 15 years and employs nearly 300 people across the Midwest today. The Company focuses on new and recycled pallets and mulch production, and its services include onsite pallet sortation, recycling, and repair. CALco has three centrally located facilities in the northern Midwest to conveniently service customers locally and nationally. The Company's two manufacturing facilities are located in Chicago and Richmond, IL, and its lumber mill, which produces all the hardwood material used in the new pallet manufacturing process, is located in Bryant, WI. The three locations have a combined total of 263,000 square feet and sit on 136 acres. In addition, CALco owns and operates over 550 trailers. CALco has been a portfolio company of Strength Capital since 2019.

Mike Hachtman, the CEO of 48forty, remarked, "This acquisition further expands our footprint in the Midwest and creates significant operational opportunities for 48forty. Greg and Matt have run CALco with integrity and transparency, leading a great team of employees who will contribute greatly to 48forty's success."

Greg Calhoun, Co-Owner of CALco, said, "Matt and I are excited about our new partnership with 48forty. In the toughest pallet region in the country, our combined strengths will present endless opportunities within the Chicago/Milwaukee market."

About 48forty Solutions
48forty Solutions is one of the largest pallet management services companies in North America, with a national network of 237 facilities, including 60 company-owned and operated pallet recycling plants, 160 onsite and 12 reverse logistics centers, 5 sorting centers, and more than 850 service providers. 48forty provides end-to-end pallet solutions from supply to retrieval, new and custom pallets, and reverse logistics services. We also operate one of the nation's largest private fleets of over 6,500 trailers and over 400 power units. For more information, visit www.48forty.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

About CALco PalletsCALco Pallets was established in 2007 and is owned and managed by brothers Matt and Greg Calhoun, who were the Company's only employees when they opened their doors. They have since grown their workforce to almost 300 employees. CALco focuses on new and recycled pallets and mulch production and operates a lumber mill, which provides the wood needed for its manufacturing business. CALco has three centrally located facilities in Chicago, Richmond, IL, and Bryant, WI. The northern Midwest locations allow them to conveniently service customers locally and nationally. CALco prioritizes customers' needs above all else. For more information, visit www.calcopallets.com.

San Francisco and San Antonio - LumaBridge (formerly known as Cancer Insight), a clinical research organization (CRO) dedicated to discovering, developing, and testing emerging biotechnologies related to cancer therapies, and the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI), the largest network of immuno-oncology expertise in the world, have announced a new strategic partnership aimed at accelerating breakthrough immunotherapies from bench to bedside with greater ease. The new collaboration offers affiliated scientists and organizations a one-stop shop to advance research studies.

The two organizations are collaborating to provide PICI Affiliated Partners—PICI Network institutions and investigators, affiliated companies, and nonprofit collaborators—direct access to the full suite of clinical trial services from LumaBridge. Offerings range from clinical trial design through regulatory strategy support, including patient accrual, clinical operations, quality assurance, data management, medical writing and biostatistics, pharmacovigilance, and beyond.

"PICI was founded to clear the path from scientific idea to best possible clinical outcomes," said Ute Dugan, MD, PhD, chief medical officer of PICI, based in San Francisco. "By combining our focus with additional expertise in clinical trial design and oversight, we aim to streamline the development process and ultimately accelerate novel immunotherapies to patients."

PICI's first valued CRO partner, LumaBridge also is focused on accelerating the development of immunological cures for cancer through innovative science, advanced technologies, and new modes of research collaboration. Through this mission-focused alliance, PICI Affiliated Partners gain preferred access to and pricing for an array of clinical trial services and expertise, including early consulting on clinical trial design and development, protocol development, regulatory support, and full-service clinical trial support.

"Patients awaiting new therapies deserve an effective, efficient process," said George E. Peoples, MD, FACS, founder and chief medical officer of San Antonio-based LumaBridge. "Through this partnership, we will harness our pioneering experience in immuno-oncology research alongside the expertise of academic, clinical, and industry partners to reduce turnaround time and safely test the most promising novel therapies for our cancer patients."

More specifically, available LumaBridge services include:

• Regulatory support for pre-investigational new drug meetings and investigational new drug (IND) preparation, publishing, filing, and maintenance
• Clinical trial design, execution, and support such as medical monitoring, clinical operations, data management, and quality assurance
• Medical writing and biostatistics support such as statistical analysis, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) application writing, and abstract or journal publication preparation
• Guidance in navigating government/military contracts and funding
• Clinical development and commercialization strategies for Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) applicants

The partnership advances PICI's focus on bringing together top researchers, nonprofits and industry collaborators, providing resources and eliminating barriers to get treatments to patients faster.

"Collaboration is critical to achieving our mission," said Tarak Mody, PhD, chief business officer of PICI. "By offering access to LumaBridge's services and expertise to our PICI Affiliated Partners, we intend to accelerate breakthrough scientific discoveries, moving them into the clinic sooner to deliver patient impact."

About the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (PICI) is radically changing how cancer research is done. Founded in 2016 through a $250 million gift from Silicon Valley entrepreneur and philanthropist Sean Parker, the San Francisco-based nonprofit is an unprecedented collaboration between the country's leading immunotherapy researchers and cancer centers. The PICI Network includes researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Stanford Medicine; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Francisco; the University of Pennsylvania; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; City of Hope; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Institute for Systems Biology; Gladstone Institutes; and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. By forging alliances with academic, industry, and nonprofit partners, PICI makes big bets on bold research to fulfill its mission: to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.

Find out more at parkerici.org and follow us on LinkedIn and on Twitter @parkerici.

About LumaBridge
LumaBridge is a specialty clinical research organization (CRO) focused on creating innovative clinical trial solutions for biopharma companies. Founded in 2014 as Cancer Insight, the company offers customized clinical trial guidance, strategic partnership, and personalized attention to each sponsor, accelerating the development of potential therapies.

LumaBridge builds on the success and experience of a seasoned team, led by Dr. George Peoples, to support drug development, accelerating therapies to patients and guiding biopharma companies through clinical and regulatory pathways. As part of their comprehensive CRO services, LumaBridge offers consultation on trial design and clinical development strategy.

For more information, visit lumabridge.com.

San Antonio, TX, and Boston, MA – LumaBridge (formerly known as Cancer Insight), an oncology-focused clinical research organization (CRO), today announced a majority growth investment from global investor Summit Partners. The funding will help LumaBridge continue to build on its work offering best-in-class clinical trial solutions to support emerging biopharma companies that are working to develop life-changing immuno-oncology treatments.

LumaBridge was founded in 2014 by veterans Dr. George Peoples and Dan Hargrove to help advance the development of novel immunotherapies in the fight against cancer. Building on the founders’ three decades of combined experience in academic and military research, LumaBridge serves as a strategic partner to emerging biopharma and biotech companies, offering full outsourced clinical trial support across the entire timeline of clinical development.

“Innovative therapies often come from unexpected places, but navigating complex clinical and regulatory pathways can be challenging,” said Dr. George Peoples, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of LumaBridge. “We built LumaBridge to provide expert support for the execution of clinical trials and ultimately advance novel immunotherapies that benefit patients.”

LumaBridge offers comprehensive CRO services, including consultation on clinical development strategy, as well as special capabilities in military research. Over the eight years since its founding, LumaBridge has made a significant impact in the advancement of immuno-oncology therapies, supporting a substantial number of trials and projects for over 30 clients.

“Summit Partners has a long history of partnering with leading companies in healthcare and life sciences, helping to accelerate their growth and development,” added Dave Boyle, Chief Executive Officer of LumaBridge. “We are excited to leverage Summit’s experience and extensive resources as LumaBridge embarks on a new phase of growth and we expand our ability to support a greater number of trials and bring more therapies to market.”

“The pipeline for clinical-stage immuno-oncology therapies is growing, as is the complexity, duration, and cost of these trials, fueling a need for outsourced services. In our experience, this is particularly true among emerging biotech companies, which often lack the internal resources to run trials in-house,” said Mark deLaar, a Managing Director at Summit Partners who has joined the LumaBridge board of directors. “With a deeply experienced and highly regarded team, an extensive research site network, and robust clinical operations capabilities, we believe LumaBridge is strongly positioned to serve this important and growing need. We’re proud to partner with the LumaBridge team to support the company’s continued impact.”

About LumaBridge
LumaBridge is a specialty clinical research organization (CRO) focused on creating innovative clinical trial solutions for biopharma companies. Founded in 2014 as Cancer Insight, the company offers customized clinical trial guidance, strategic partnership, and personalized attention to each sponsor, accelerating the development of potential therapies.

LumaBridge builds on the success and experience of a seasoned team, led by Dr. George Peoples, to support drug development, accelerating therapies to patients and guiding biopharma companies through clinical and regulatory pathways. As part of their comprehensive CRO services, LumaBridge offers consultation on trial design and clinical development strategy. For more information, visit lumabridge.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $35 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in healthcare, technology, and other growth industries. Notable healthcare and life sciences companies backed by Summit include Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Clontech, Diagnostic Hybrids, Fortis Life Sciences, Integrated DNA Technologies, LakePharma, and Viroclinics Biosciences. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.

For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Funding to support continued team expansion and product development to support growing demand for innovative, easy-to-use dynamic pricing solutions for the short-term rental industry

Chicago, IL and Menlo Park, CA – PriceLabs, a leading provider of dynamic pricing and revenue management solutions for the short-term rental industry, today announced a $30 million minority growth investment from Summit Partners. This funding represents the first financing for the profitable business and will support PriceLabs’ continued commitment to building leading revenue management solutions and fuel global team growth.

PriceLabs was founded in 2014 to bring sophisticated AI and analytical tools to owners and managers of vacation homes and short-term rentals. The idea was born from co-founder Richie Khandelwal’s frustrations while managing personal rental property and the inability to efficiently adjust prices based on changes in demand. Teaming up with friends Anurag Verma and Sana Hassan, the group built a solution designed to address the similar challenges faced by the thousands of small business owners operating in the short-term rental market.

Today, PriceLabs powers over 150,000 listings in more than 100 countries. The company has been growing steadily since its founding, with an offering that has resonated with vacation rental businesses of all sizes, from single-property owners to large property managers. Recently, PriceLabs won SaaSBoomi’s 2021 Bootstrapped Startup of the Year award after having grown nearly 3x in 2021.

“Pricing can be the single biggest growth lever when running any business, particularly in the hospitality space, where most businesses still use archaic methods and static pricing that can leave anywhere from 10 - 40% of revenue on the table,” said Richie Khandelwal. “We purpose-built PriceLabs from the ground up to serve the needs of short-term rental operators, offering an easy-to-use and highly configurable solution that allows operators to combine our AI and algorithms with their own unique knowledge of the local market and property.”

PriceLabs’ automated dynamic pricing solution is designed to continuously analyze historical and forward-looking hyper-local data to sense changes in demand and recommend optimal daily pricing tailored to each property’s unique characteristics. The company’s comprehensive software provides users with data and tools to monitor and research local market conditions and adjust prices to suit the needs of the property and operations. Prices update automatically through direct integrations with over 70 property management software solutions, helping property owners efficiently manage their operations and maximize the profitability of their listings.

“Our product democratizes powerful tools that, historically, have only been available to large hospitality businesses,” said Sana Hassan, co-founder of PriceLabs. “From an individual host seasonally renting their apartment in Paris to a multi-thousand unit vacation rental manager in Florida, we’ve built a solution that is easy to use, affordable, and integrates seamlessly with the software they’ve already adopted.”

"Consumer preference has continued to shift in favor of alternative accommodations across every demographic, which has led to rapid growth in the short-term rental industry and over 8 million unique listings on Airbnb and Vrbo alone. We see PriceLabs as ideally positioned to serve this growing market with an intuitive, easily customizable and comprehensive solution designed to deliver ROI to owners and managers almost immediately,” said Colin Mistele, Managing Director at Summit Partners, who has joined the PriceLabs Board of Directors. “We believe this deeply experienced team has a significant opportunity to capitalize on a substantial unpenetrated market as they continue to develop and launch innovative products.”

“At PriceLabs, we believe every business in the accommodation space should have access to data-driven pricing and associated capabilities. We’ve been at the forefront of innovation - from building a pricing solution that can be used worldwide to building an industry-first minimum stay recommendation engine,” said Anurag Verma, co-founder of PriceLabs. “With the support and growth-oriented resources that Summit offers, we are excited to continue our mission of delivering innovation to the short-term rental market and accelerate our global hiring.”

PriceLabs is hiring professionals globally with a passion for the short-term rental industry to join our remote team. If you’re interested in learning more about careers at PriceLabs, please visit our career center.

About PriceLabs
Headquartered in Chicago and founded in 2014, PriceLabs is a leading provider of innovative and easy-to-use dynamic pricing and revenue management solutions for the accommodation industry. PriceLabs provides a data-driven approach, automation rules, and customizations to manage pricing and stay restrictions that help the owners and managers of vacation rentals increase revenues with efficiency and ease. With over 70 integrations and a growing list of channels and property management systems, PriceLabs’ automated revenue management solution is built to serve the needs of everyone from large property managers to single-property owners. Learn more at www.pricelabs.co.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $39 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Summit Partners leads growth investment; SaaS industry leader J.D. Mullin named CEO

San Francisco and Menlo Park, CA — TextExpander, a developer of productivity software, today announced a $41.4 million financing round and the addition of SaaS industry leader J.D. Mullin as the company’s new CEO. The financing is led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners and will support continued investment in R&D, hiring and customer acquisition, and will help to further accelerate TextExpander’s rapid growth.

TextExpander is built to help teams and individuals accelerate repetitive tasks and deliver a personal touch in business communications. The company’s productivity software is designed to automate content creation through highly customizable, user-defined keyboard shortcuts, or “snippets”, helping management teams to promote consistent and compliant communications. From small teams to enterprise-wide deployments, users leverage TextExpander across a variety of job functions and use cases – from customer support to recruiting to outbound sales – and counts many high-growth technology, healthcare and consumer companies among its customers. Today, the company has more than 100,000 monthly active users (MAU) who have employed 560 million expansions in the last year alone.

“TextExpander has achieved best-in-class customer satisfaction and retention, with consistently strong net promoter scores. This is a testament to the founders’ focus on building a product that saves teams time and improves productivity,” said J.D. Mullin, CEO of TextExpander. “I’m excited to build on the strong foundation laid by founders Philip Goward and Greg Scown, as we work together to lead TextExpander in this new phase of growth.”

J.D. brings substantial experience in leading and scaling fast-growing SaaS businesses, as well as in building engineering and product teams that help drive rapid innovation and support high-velocity sales models. Prior to joining TextExpander, J.D. was an Executive-in-Residence at Summit Partners. Previously, he spent two years leading the QuickBooks Time business unit at Intuit following its acquisition of TSheets, a leading SaaS-based time tracking and scheduling program.

“We’ve worked closely with J.D. for a number of years. As a leader and an operator, he offers a rare combination of product vision, technical expertise and business acumen, and we are excited to bring this perspective to the TextExpander team,” said Colin Mistele, a Managing Director with Summit Partners. “At a time when organizations are seeking ways to empower their employees by automating routine tasks and communication, we believe TextExpander stands out with a simple, yet powerful, full-featured solution designed to serve the needs of individuals, teams and enterprises.”

TextExpander’s “use it anywhere and everywhere” flexibility has become a consistent theme among customer acclaims. The solution can be used across applications, from email and calendars to popular software applications like Salesforce and Zendesk. Customers regularly highlight the value created by the ability to both standardize and personalize messaging using templates. This is especially relevant in highly regulated industries or customer-facing scenarios where consistency is paramount but personalized communication continues to matter more than ever.

“TextExpander enables me to interact with more customers and maintain my quality of support. I am able to use our repository of snippets as frameworks and then slightly reword the solution for the customer’s specific situation.” - Michael Marvosh, Product Specialist, ConvertKit

“While individuals and small teams have benefited from TextExpander’s powerful solutions for years, large enterprises, including several Fortune 500 companies, are also now utilizing our solutions and benefiting from our content creation and team workflow features,” said Mullin. “With this investment from Summit Partners, we will continue to advance enterprise capabilities and expand our team to support a growing base of loyal customers."

J.D. Mullin and Colin Mistele have joined TextExpander Founders Philip Goward and Greg Scown on the TextExpander Board of Directors. Matt Rissell, founder and former CEO of TSheets, has been named as an independent board director.

About TextExpander
TextExpander develops productivity software for macOS®, Windows®, Chrome™, iPhone®, and iPad®. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, TextExpander is a closely-knit, geographically diverse company. We have proudly served our customers for more than 15 years. Our award-winning products redefine productivity so that our customers can get to the finish line sooner, leaving them more time for what comes next.

Sign up for a free TextExpander trial at https://textexpander.com.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $39 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

Miami, FL - Halborn, a cybersecurity firm serving both traditional finance and blockchain-based clients, announced the completion of a $90 million growth equity financing, the first external funding in the company's history. Global growth investor Summit Partners led the round, with participation from Castle Island, Digital Currency Group, Brevan Howard, Third Prime, Sky Vision Capital, and Fenwick. The funding was first announced in a Bloomberg exclusive.

Halborn was founded in 2019 by Steven Walbroehl and Rob Behnke with a vision to secure the blockchain and protect users against data and monetary losses. Profitable since inception, Walbroehl and Behnke bootstrapped Halborn into a leader in Web3 security. Halborn is growing rapidly and today serves over 250 clients and employs more than 100 team members around the world.

"With security vulnerabilities dominating the crypto news headlines, and over $1.5 billion in financial losses from DeFi hacks in 2022 to date, the demand for Web3 security is only growing," said Halborn co-founder and CISO Steven Walbroehll, author of the SANS Institute course on Blockchain and Smart Contract Security. "Funding from this Series A will be used to expand our global team of offensive security engineers and build our Halborn Labs division, accelerating our robust pipeline of SaaS security products."

With thousands of centralized and decentralized applications touching Web3 and developer counts growing rapidly, the Web3 attack surface has grown exponentially in recent years. Applications and APIs are often far more vulnerable than the blockchains upon which they are developed. Open-source vulnerabilities and human programming error have created significant, well-documented cyber risks - but the market has developed few security standards to address this challenge.

Operating across the software development lifecycle, Halborn provides a suite of products and services designed to identify and close vulnerabilities in Web3 applications, helping to create the security standards that the market currently lacks.

Halborn currently serves a diverse global client base spanning Layer 1 blockchains, infrastructure providers, financial institutions, and application and game developers. Halborn's customers include Solana Foundation, Avalanche, and Figment.

"Summit has a long history of partnering with innovative cybersecurity leaders focused on protecting against both monetary and data breaches in a constantly evolving and ever-expanding threat landscape. We believe the stakes and costs are even higher in Web3, given the decentralized development of and the dollars controlled by Web3 applications," said Matt Hamilton, a Managing Director at Summit Partners, who has joined the Halborn Board of Directors. "In a very short time, Halborn has established itself as a globally recognized brand in blockchain security working across Web3 and Web2 environments. The Halborn team has earned a reputation for tackling complex projects and has an impressive record of identifying high-profile vulnerabilities and breaches."

"Cybersecurity risk has historically been a barrier for organizations seeking to launch products in the blockchain industry. Halborn is changing this risk/reward equation and, in doing so, is expanding the addressable market for public blockchain technology. We are thrilled to partner with Halborn as they expand their product offering," said Matthew Walsh, Founding Partner at Castle Island.

"Third Prime is focused on investing in market leaders in some of the most important areas of crypto, and we believe the Halborn team, track record and technology fit squarely in this mandate. We're excited to partner with them as they secure companies across the space," added Wes Barton, Managing Partner at Third Prime.

About Halborn
Halborn is an elite blockchain cybersecurity firm founded in 2019 by ethical hacker Steven Walbroehl and growth hacker Rob Behnke. Halborn builds security products and provides end-to-end cybersecurity advisory services to the top Web3 organizations in the world.

ROSWELL, GA – OTR Capital has changed its name to OTR Solutions, a change that better reflects the company’s mission to create exceptional value for its SMB carrier clients by providing industry-leading services and solutions that extend far beyond traditional financing and back-office services.

Founded in 2011 as a financial services and factoring provider dedicated to improving cash flow for motor carriers, the launch of the OTR Solutions brand better defines what carriers, brokers, and industry partners have come to expect from the company —and what they can continue to expect for years to come. Along with the new brand, OTR Solutions is offering several new services to the trucking industry, including ELEVATE, a first-to-market solution that delivers value through branded domains and customized websites for carriers.

“OTR Capital is not only a leading resource for capital to help carriers improve their business, beyond that, we are a carrier’s best friend for a range of services, and the broker’s most reliable and widely respected partner for serving the trucking community,” said Fritz Owens, Chief Executive Officer. “When we think about what we truly do here at OTR, our goal is to provide services for trucking companies to not only be as successful as possible, but also to better compete against, or even out-compete, the largest players in the market. We want to be the go-to resource for small- and medium-sized carriers to get the financing and the services they need to thrive in today’s marketplace.”

“Capital and back-office support will remain a critically important piece of carrier success in the market” Owens added, “but the complexity and unprecedented advancement of the transportation industry over the last several years now requires additional tools and solutions, and OTR Solutions is committed to providing them.”

“We’ve always said from the very start that we’re more than just a factoring company,” said Grace Maher, Chief Operating Officer. “While it’s our core business and we do it better than anyone else, it’s been our mission to do everything we can to help the small carrier succeed, and to help brokers efficiently and effectively transact with a broad segment of the market. Through those solutions we currently have, the technology that we’re building, and the partners we’ve brought on board, we are going to continue to expand our menu of tools and services as we formally change our brand to OTR Solutions.”

Included among the services that OTR is launching to expand its menu of services concurrent with today’s name change are the following:

• An expansion of OTR’s “Bolt” product to allow carriers to receive “direct to debit” payments in a timely and cost-effective manner;

• A “driver safety rating scorecard” tool that will allow carriers to monitor their FMCSA scores to ensure that a surprise inspection doesn’t take them off the road;

• An “OTR Solutions Forum” where carriers can trade notes best practices with their industry colleagues, identify opportunities, and find new ideas for growing the success of their business;

• Expanded availability of OTR’s fuel advance app to allow carriers to receive advance financing in today’s high fuel cost environment; and

• The $9 Lumper Advance, which for a low and flat fee of $9 will provide advance financing of lumper fees.

In the coming months and years, Owens said, OTR will be expanding its menu of additional services in its continuing quest to help carriers and brokers succeed.

About OTR Solutions
OTR Solutions provides industry-leading technology and financial services, tools, and support to help carriers and brokers start and grow a successful operation. Trucking companies and freight brokerages of all sizes turn to OTR to receive reliable financing and back-office solutions, a dedicated fuel team, up-to-date news and education, and technology and innovation to prepare them for anything and everything. As a testament to its growth, OTR has been named in the Inc. 5000 multiple years in a row and strives to improve the work experience for its employees as a Top Workplace in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 as named by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Source: OTR Solutions

Columbus, OH and Santa Barbara, CA – Foxen, a market leader in financial technology solutions for the real estate industry, today announced a $44 million Series A financing led by growth equity investor Summit Partners, with participation from Level Equity. Foxen will use the funding to accelerate development of its expanding product portfolio and fuel hiring across the organization.

Foxen’s technology solutions center on financial wellness – the improvement in the management of finances through technology – and are designed to mutually benefit property managers, owners, and their residents. The company’s products were born of a market need for accountability and compliance in insurance coverage across the multifamily real estate market. Rental housing provides homes to more than a third of U.S. households , and while most multi-family property managers require renters insurance, compliance of this requirement is often not managed. Only about 57% of tenants carry an insurance policy , exposing renters to risk due to common incidents and leaving building owners susceptible to damage to the unit or property.

“As a property owner, I learned firsthand that requiring renters insurance is ineffective without the ability to manage compliance," said Jay Harkrider, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Foxen." At Foxen, we’ve leveraged years of industry experience to build a technology platform that provides a convenient, affordable rental insurance alternative that simultaneously enables properties to achieve 100% compliance, creating a better experience for both residents and landlords. With the backing and resources of Summit Partners and Level Equity, we are poised to accelerate the expansion of this platform with new products that deliver on our vision of improving financial wellness through real estate.”

Reimagining Renters Insurance
Foxen’s proprietary software solution is designed to seamlessly integrate with leading property management systems to provide real time access to property and resident compliance data, with automated enrollment in Foxen’s insurance solution for residents who incur lapsed or cancelled third-party coverage. The enrollment safety net, along with an embedded program solution at lease signing maximizes program participation while offering residents a convenient renters insurance solution. Foxen’s program maintains market-leading participation rates and is a trusted partner to some of the most respected property and asset management firms across the United States.

Foxen has grown rapidly since its founding in 2018; over the last twelve months, Foxen grew units monitored by more than 240%. This capital provides Foxen an opportunity to expand into a total addressable market of more than 24 million multifamily units in the U.S. alone.

"With intuitive products that are designed to be easily adopted, seamlessly integrated and quickly revenue generating, Foxen applies a fresh approach to complex processes in the real estate, insurance, and financial categories,” said Colin Mistele, Managing Director at Summit Partners, who has joined the Foxen Board of Directors. “Foxen’s approach has resonated with customers, helping the team to bootstrap the business as it has grown to serve property managers on a national scale. We believe this deeply experienced team has a significant opportunity to build on that momentum as they continue to develop and launch innovative products to benefit property owners and residents alike.”

This funding comes at a point of strategic inflection for Foxen, as the company seeks to scale its team and operations to support new product growth. In 2022, Foxen launched Rentistry, a rent reporting and credit building program that aims to positively impact residents through credit score improvements while creating value for the properties that offer it as a powerful rent collection tool. Foxen plans to double in size over the next twelve months, bringing new jobs to its operations in Columbus, Ohio, and Santa Barbara, California.

“We believe there is a need for smarter FinTech solutions in the multifamily real estate industry,” said Ben Levin, Co-Founder and CEO of Level Equity. “We expect our investment in Foxen to accelerate their release of solutions that continue to create new efficiencies in this space. We’re excited to partner with the team for this new phase of growth.”

About Foxen
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, and founded in 2018, Foxen is a leader in the development of innovative and proprietary financial technology for real estate, providing mutually beneficial solutions for the advancement of property owners, managers, and their residents. Through its seamless solution with leading property management software systems, Foxen’s technology enables significant revenue generation for properties and greater financial wellness for residents. For more information about Foxen, visit www.foxen.com or follow Foxen on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $39 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare and other growth industries. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world. For more information, please see www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

AUSTIN, Texas - Invicti Security™ today appointed esteemed cybersecurity industry veteran and investor Gerhard Watzinger as Chairman of the Board. Watzinger joins board members Michael George, CEO of Invicti, Scott Collins and Sophia Popova of Summit Partners, and Dominic Ang and Joanne Yuan of Turn/River Capital.

Along with his integral role in Crowdstrike's creation and serving as chairman of the board since 2012, Watzinger also currently is a member of the board at Mastech Digital, Absolute Software, and KnowBe4. He brings a deep focus and storied career within cybersecurity and was a key driver behind McAfee's 2010 acquisition by Intel, which resulted in a record-making $7.7B transaction. In his personal time, Watzinger is an internationally accomplished race car driver, competing in over 11 countries, earning 73 podium medals, and winning the coveted 24-hour endurance Sebring and Dubai races.

"The cybersecurity landscape is not unlike the race track. Navigating it requires both a proactive and a defensive approach and a constant pulse for what lies ahead," said Watzinger. "I've had the privilege to be at the forefront of some of cybersecurity's biggest waves. Application security is the wave of our time, and Invicti is the clear leader, with a modern approach and the technical horsepower to make and keep customers secure."

"On the track and in the Boardroom, Gerhard has earned a reputation for speed, innovation, and fearless leadership," said Michael George, Invicti CEO. "It's an honor to welcome Gerhard to Invicti as Chairman of the Board as we continue to deliver on our promise to dynamically test applications at scale, with a high degree of accuracy without the false positives. His commitment here is a resounding endorsement of the leadership position we hold in securing applications efficiently and effectively."

Watzinger's appointment comes on the heels of more record growth for Invicti. Last month, the company was named a Challenger in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing and welcomed new CMO Alex Bender and SVP Engineering John Mandel. In 2021, Invicti grew annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 50% and added nearly 750 new customers. The company expects to expand its employee base by as much as 40% this year.

About Invicti Security
Invicti Security is transforming the way web applications are secured. An AppSec leader for more than 15 years, Invicti enables organizations in every industry to continuously scan and secure all of their web applications and APIs at the speed of innovation. Invicti provides a comprehensive view of an organization's entire web application portfolio, and powerful automation and integrations enable customers to achieve broad coverage of even thousands of applications. Invicti is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and serves more than 3,600 organizations of all sizes all over the world. For more information, visit our website or follow us on LinkedIn

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RALEIGH, N.C.– Veranex — the only global, tech-enabled product development services provider focused on the medical technology industry — today announced strategic partnerships with Accelmed Partners II and Lauxera Capital Partners. Accelmed and Lauxera join existing investor Summit Partners to help further accelerate Veranex’s strategic development as the company continues to expand its global operations. Uri Geiger, managing partner with Accelmed, and Samuel Levy, co-founder of Lauxera, have joined the Veranex board of directors.

Veranex serves the medical technology industry by providing design, engineering, regulatory, preclinical research, clinical development, commercial strategy, and market access services on an integrated basis. As a result, Veranex helps companies accelerate their speed to market while mitigating the cost and risk of MedTech product development. Since the company’s formation in 2021, Veranex has completed six acquisitions to build its position as the leading global product development services provider dedicated to the medical device and biotech space.

“In a very short time, Veranex has built a robust platform that provides our customers with integrated, multidisciplinary medical technology product development services,” said David Dockhorn, CEO of Veranex. “We are thrilled to welcome Accelmed and Lauxera to the Veranex team to help us continue building on this strong momentum. Each brings a wealth of experience that will support continued expansion of our geographic footprint, both operationally and commercially. We are very well-positioned for further growth and continued impact.”

“Our team has a passion for healthcare innovation, and we see this same passion in the Veranex team,” said Uri Geiger, Ph.D., a managing partner at Accelmed. “We look forward to supporting the Veranex team in building a unique, integrated solution that meets the MedTech industry’s needs in the areas of design, development, regulatory, and commercialization.”

“Europe is home to a vast ecosystem of innovative medical technology companies that can benefit from the wide-ranging services and capabilities Veranex delivers,” added Samuel Levy, co-founder of Lauxera Capital Partners. “Veranex accelerates medical technology product development and, therefore, patient access to lifesaving MedTech innovations.”

Summit Partners, which invested in Veranex in 2021, retains majority ownership of Veranex in partnership with the Veranex management team.

Financial terms of the investments were not disclosed.

About Veranex
Veranex is the only truly comprehensive, global, tech-enabled service provider dedicated to the medical technology industry. Offering expert guidance for each of its four concept-through-commercialization pillars — engineering and design, clinical, market access, and regulatory — Veranex enables accelerated speed to market, controlled development costs, development risk mitigation, and accelerated market viability assessment. At every stage, Veranex customers realize efficiencies in cost and time, while its comprehensive solutions unify the entire development process. For more information, visit VeranexSolutions.com or follow on LinkedIn.

About Accelmed
Accelmed is a U.S.-based private equity firm focused on acquiring and investing in U.S. commercial stage, lower middle market HealthTech companies. Since 2009, Accelmed has deployed over $400 million into companies spanning medical devices, diagnostics, digital health and technology-enabled healthcare services. Accelmed seeks to accelerate value and scale innovation across the HealthTech field by bringing to bear the team’s industry experience, operational and financial expertise, and strong global relationships. For more information, please visit www.accelmed.com.

About Lauxera Capital Partners
Founded in January 2020, Lauxera Capital Partners is an independent, HealthTech-focused investment firm based in Paris and San Francisco. Its first fund, Lauxera Growth I, a €260 million vehicle, was reserved for professional investors and obtained the French government’s “Tibi” label for the financing of technology companies. Led by a team of life sciences business builders and professional healthcare investors with more than 50 years of experience, Lauxera makes Growth and Growth Buyout investments in commercial-stage HealthTech companies with the aim of driving business growth in the EU, US, and other international markets. More information: https://lauxera.com/.

Munich, Germany -- ProGlove, a leader in industrial Internet-of-Things (IoT) wearables, today announced that Nordic Capital has entered into a definitive agreement to become the majority owner of the company. This transaction represents an exit for Summit Partners, which invested in ProGlove in 2019.

ProGlove is a technology leader that has been growing rapidly since its founding in 2014. The company provides integrated hardware and software solutions built around wearable barcode scanners with multiple IoT sensors that allow for hands-free data capture. This combination of German engineering and industry analytics software is designed to serve the growing demand for digitalization across industries. ProGlove’s technology helps improve worker well-being, increase productivity and optimize efficiency.

Summit Partners invested in ProGlove in 2019, partnering with a visionary founding team led by CEO Andreas König. During this period, the company significantly expanded its presence in the North American market and broadened its client base from an initial focus on the automotive sector to serve customers in retail, e-commerce, logistics, warehousing and manufacturing. In 2021, the company launched its “Human Digital Twin” cloud-based software platform to firmly position itself as a leading industrial IoT provider.

“We are grateful for the partnership and support of the Summit team, who was instrumental in helping us expand our reach and impact over the last three years,” says Andreas König. “Summit collaborated closely with our team to drive meaningful sourcing and supply chain improvement, optimize our go-to-market strategy and expand our leadership team. Today’s announcement caps a period of significant growth and innovation for ProGlove, and we are excited about the opportunities ahead.”

Today, ProGlove has over 250 employees in Munich, Chicago and Belgrade and serves a diversified mix of customers across more than 30 countries. Among them are iconic global brands such Mercedes Benz, VW, BMW, DHL, XPO Logistics, GAP and Staples.

Mavrck secures $135 million investment from Summit Partners to build platform that drives revenue for brands and creators

Boston, MA, — Mavrck, the leading influencer marketing platform for enterprise consumer brands, today announced it will join forces with Later, the leading social media marketing and commerce platform for small business owners and creators. The combination was funded with a $135 million strategic investment by global growth equity investor Summit Partners, and represents a follow-on to the firm’s December 2021 $120 million investment in Mavrck. Later will continue to operate as a standalone product and business unit, while working together with Mavrck to solve creator measurement and monetization at scale to better serve both sides of the ecosystem — brands and creators. The Mavrck and Later technologies are positioned to capitalize on significant opportunities, including social commerce and creator-based marketing, through relationship management with brands of all sizes and creators of all types.

Providing More Meaningful Measurement of Business Impact
The influencer marketing industry is growing quickly - at an estimated CAGR of 30% and is expected to reach $85 billion in spend by 2028, according to Research and Markets. However, the lack of sophisticated social analytics remains a critical pain point within the global creator economy. Meaningful measurement is frequently cited as one of the most pressing challenges for enterprise brand influencer marketers, who have largely relied on metrics such as views and engagements as a proxy for success. More meaningful bottom-of-the-funnel metrics tied to business outcomes and ROI remain elusive - but are critical to proving the value of creator partnerships in a brand’s marketing mix. The benefit extends to creators as well; with the support of data-driven insights, creators can improve their monetization and collaboration opportunities with leading global brands.

“Creators add tremendous value to brands, but the ability to measure that value remains a challenge – creating tension between brands and the creators with whom they collaborate. Together, Mavrck and Later are committed to building an ecosystem of trust between marketers and creators — powered by proprietary data and designed to add transparency to the compensation process and fuel the growth of the creator middle class,” said Lyle Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Mavrck. “Specifically, adding Later’s social insights to the Mavrck platform will help brands search for creators based on historic traffic generated by Later’s link-in-bio solution, which is designed to drive a better brand fit. Creators become more desirable to brands when they’ve demonstrated an ability to convert consumers to action, improving their likelihood to monetize and collaborate with leading global brands.”

Since its launch in 2016, Later’s link-in-bio feature, one of the first Instagram bio link tools of its kind, has generated over 2 billion pageviews for users worldwide, capturing valuable insights on the social profiles and content that drive traffic. Almost 7 million creators and small business owners use Later’s suite of social media tools to visually plan and schedule social content, drive traffic, and increase their sales. With this unique technology, coupled with providing free educational resources and content to their customer base, Later has helped millions of small business owners and creators grow their brands and businesses online. This investment follows a period of substantial revenue growth for Later and will help to further accelerate growth by expanding its business solutions for small businesses and creators.

“We’ve built a phenomenal platform designed to help small businesses and entrepreneurs to manage their digital marketing, commerce, and customer relationships all in one place. Our notable scale is a result of the commitment we've placed on our role within that ecosystem,” said Roger Patterson, Co-Founder and CEO of Later. “Later’s leading technology paired with Mavrck’s enterprise social proof platform will expand on that value even further. Together, we’ll nurture a symbiotic relationship between creators and brands, helping both to drive meaningful results to grow their businesses.”

Reaching Consumers, Driving Revenue for Enterprise Brands
Since 2020, the average brand spend on the Mavrck platform has increased by 114 percent, a testament to the explosive growth of the influencer marketing industry, as people have turned to content creation as a secondary or primary source of income. Mavrck aims to help that rapidly growing creator class — an estimated 50 million people worldwide according to eMarketer — to better monetize their creative passions by connecting them with brands to deliver content people trust. Today, more than 5,000 marketing professionals at more than 500 global consumer brands rely on Mavrck’s technology to more effectively access and manage relationships with content creators. Since 2014, Mavrck has activated more than 3 million creators and paid more than $200 million in incentives. Mavrck’s petabytes of historical data from years of creator activations coupled with Later’s proprietary data will support and accelerate the platform’s machine learning advancements and other product innovations.

“Together, we believe Later and Mavrck can empower both sides of this ecosystem – content creators and the brands that seek to harness their influence – with solutions and at a scale not yet seen in the creator economy,” said Michael Medici, Managing Director at Summit Partners. “We look forward to working with Lyle, Roger and the entire team in their mission to solve a significant industry pain point for creators and marketers – and ultimately drive better business outcomes for both.”

Stevens will lead a new senior leadership team comprised of leaders from both companies: Patterson will oversee the Later business unit as President and join the Board of Directors; Smith Anderson, Mavrck’s Chief Customer Officer will become President of Mavrck’s enterprise-focused business unit; and Robin de Pelham, Later’s VP of People and Places is joining as Chief People Officer. Also joining the senior leadership team is Ian MacKinnon, Later’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer and Sean Naegeli, Mavrck’s Co-Founder and Chief Creator Officer.

The transaction closed in April 2022. Later was represented by Aqua Mergers & Acquisitions, and Mavrck was represented by Goodwin .

About Mavrck
Mavrck is the all-in-one, advanced influencer marketing platform enabling global consumer brands to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to discover and collaborate with influencers, advocates, referrers, and loyalists to create trusted content and insights for customer journey touchpoints at scale. Using its self-service influencer manager, Mavrck allows marketers to take an automated and performance-based approach to influencer marketing.

Founded in 2014, Mavrck has offices in Boston and Denver. Mavrck's platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail TouchPoints' Retail Innovator Awards, honored as "Best Influencer Marketing Platform" by Digiday, is the #1 influencer marketing platform for the enterprise on software review site G2, and was named to the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000. Mavrck was also named a "Leader" among the top influencer marketing platforms in Forrester's evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, Q2 2020.

About Later
Later is the leading social media marketing and commerce platform that helps small business owners and creators grow their brands and businesses online. With a unique combination of tools, machine-learning-based recommendations, and education, Later makes it easy to visually plan & schedule social content, drive traffic, and increase sales – empowering customers to turn their passions into possibilities.

Proudly based in Vancouver, BC, Later started at a hackathon in late 2013. Six months later, Latergramme launched to almost 20,000 people waiting to use the first version. The Later web and iOS mobile app were launched in May of 2014. Shortly after, Later launched an Android mobile app and continued the journey into the visual content marketing space. Profitable and debt-free, Later has become the pioneer for visual marketing in the social and digital age, operating at the intersection of content, social, and commerce. Maintaining its market lead and independence, the company is now the leading visual marketing platform for Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, and Pinterest in the world with over six million users, and in 2021 was ranked #18 in Canada in Deloitte’s Fast 50 list, #119 in North America, and placed 51st in the Globe and Mail’s Fastest Growing Companies list.

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The new name and pledge reflect the company's commitment to driving the Partner Elevation movement.

BURLINGTON, MA - ConstructSecure announced today that it has changed its name to Highwire, reflecting a new, broader mission to help builders and owners of capital projects succeed by elevating the capabilities of their partners to deliver great work. In order to elevate the entire industry, the company has also launched The Partner Elevation Pledge. The Pledge is a commitment to embracing a new mindset and a new way of working collaboratively with contracting partners in order to elevate them to do better work, reduce risk, and deliver more successful capital projects.

An Industry Falling Short

Increasingly complex capital projects and an acute skilled labor shortage — the most recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index found that 92% of contractors reported some level of difficulty finding skilled workers and 55% indicated high levels of difficulty — means firms are forced to take on riskier partners.

Traditional prequalification creates a false sense of security, leaving builders and owners open to significant safety, financial, quality and sustainability risks - which is why the world's leading companies are turning to Partner Elevation. Partner Elevation represents a fundamental shift across our industry — from an over-reliance on up-front partner screening to a more collaborative, dynamic approach to risk mitigation across the project lifecycle.

Championing Partner Elevation

The name Highwire is a reflection of the high stakes Partner Elevation, as well as the company's ability to mitigate risks beyond construction. Some of the world's most inspiring companies are increasingly deploying Highwire in the day-to-day operations of their facilities, not just the construction phases.

Highwire recognized that builders and operators needed more than just the old prequalification tools; they needed a platform to actively elevate their partners and help them grow.

"When we built the first version of our product as an internal risk mitigation platform at Harvard University 14 years ago, I never imagined we'd be where we are today," said Garrett Burke, Founder, and President of Highwire. "The world's most advanced builders and operators have embraced the Partner Elevation mindset and have fundamentally changed the way they collaborate with their contracting partners. It's a surreal moment to think about everything we've accomplished. And even more surreal to think that this is just the beginning."

In addition to changing the name, Highwire knew that in order to elevate the entire industry, they needed to do more.

Taking the Pledge

To deliver on the promise of elevating the entire industry, Highwire has launched The Partner Elevation Pledge. Signing the pledge is a commitment to embracing a new mindset and a new way of working collaboratively with contracting partners in order to elevate them to do better work, reduce risk, and deliver more successful capital projects.

By signing The Partner Elevation Pledge, you're pledging to meet partners wherever they are on their journey and collaborate to deliver better work. You're committing to helping them build a safer and more enduring business by dynamically mitigating risk together.

Join the movement by signing the pledge here: https://www.highwire.com/pledge

The company has partnered with two non-profit organizations focused on elevating their own communities. For the first 500 signatures of The Partner Elevation Pledge, Highwire will donate $10 to organization.

The first is Russell CARES, the philanthropic arm of H. J. Russell & Company (Russell).

"When our founder, Herman J. Russell, started the company, one of his desires was to economically empower his community," said Paul Bryant, Russell's Vice President of External Affairs. "For years, Mr. Russell, as well as his family, did just that, but it was not widely known. It wasn't until a few years ago that H. J. Russell & Company's philanthropic efforts were officially established under Russell CARES. As our official corporate social responsibility program, Russell CARES is the manifestation of the Russell family's commitment to community service. It's not something we do, it's who we are."

The second is The Rosendin Foundation, a philanthropic venture from Rosendin Holdings. The foundation was established to positively impact communities, build and empower people, and inspire innovation by partnering with community-focused, non-profit organizations in 17-regions across the U.S. to support health including emotional, nutritional, and occupational programs.

"ConstructSecure, now Highwire, has been a fantastic partner for Rosendin over the years. As the Supplier/Subcontractor Program Supervisor I've worked hand-in-hand with them while developing our subcontractor program, which is now a cornerstone of our project operations procedure," said Joan Bremer, Chairperson for the Grant Making Committee for The Rosendin Foundation. "I am beyond thrilled they looked to our organization for their philanthropic giving. I also strongly believe The Partner Elevation Pledge will help with Rosendin's goals of building quality with our many trade partners, along with building people in our communities."

About Highwire
Highwire is leading the Partner Elevation movement for builders and owners of capital projects. The world's most admired organizations — including Skanska, Merck, and Bond Brothers — use Highwire to ensure their contracting partners deliver great work, on budget and on schedule, by collaborating with them to dynamically mitigate safety, financial, quality and sustainability risks throughout every project lifecycle. Originally started as an internal risk assessment system at Harvard University, Highwire is now an independent company championing the Partner Elevation movement. Highwire is backed by global growth equity investor Summit Partners. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with employees across the United States. For more information visit www.highwire.com.

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Alpharetta, GA and Boston, MA - 48forty Solutions ("48forty" or the “Company”), a leading national provider of recycled wood pallets and related total pallet management services, today announced that global growth equity investor Summit Partners (“Summit”) has made a significant investment in the Company. Summit joins existing investor Audax Private Equity (“Audax”) as an equal partner in the business, with 48forty’s management team retaining meaningful ownership.

48forty is a leading national provider of end-to-end pallet management solutions – including supply, retrieval, on-site services, reverse logistics and retail services – across the U.S. and Canada. The Company’s solutions are designed to simplify pallet management operations and allow customers to source recycled pallets when and where they are needed. 48forty operates a national network of more than 235 facilities, including 60 Company-owned and operated pallet recycling plants, 160 onsite and 12 reverse logistics centers, five sorting centers and over 850 service providers.

Mike Hachtman, 48forty CEO, said: "We are thrilled to welcome Summit to the 48forty team and continue our partnership with Audax as we build on our market position. We look forward to working together to accelerate 48forty’s momentum and further expand our national network with a firm commitment to delivering high-quality, reliable and comprehensive solutions for customers and suppliers around the country.”

Pallets are a mission-critical component of the supply chain; industry research estimates that as much as 85% of all U.S. goods travel through the supply chain on a pallet. Thousands of customers across numerous industries rely on 48forty to support the success of their supply chains by consistently delivering quality pallets. As one of the nation’s largest pallet recyclers – handling over 300 million pallets a year – 48forty helps ensure its pallets are processed and put back into the cycle for reuse, helping bring efficiency, sustainability and greater confidence to customers at both ends of the supply chain.

Young J. Lee, Managing Director, Audax Private Equity, said: "We’ve been proud to partner with Mike and the 48forty team in creating a leading national platform in the recycled wood pallet market. Since our investment in November 2020, the Company has completed ten acquisitions and delivered solid organic growth, investing in new facilities, technology, automation capabilities, and talent to support continued expansion. We are excited to partner with Summit and support 48forty for its next phase of growth.”

John Carroll, Managing Director, Summit Partners, said: "Maintaining the integrity and managing the environmental footprint of the supply chain is a strategic imperative for many businesses, and effective pallet management is an important part of this process. We believe 48forty sits at the intersection of commerce enablement, warehouse and distribution supply chains, and ESG initiatives, offering high-quality, end-to-end solutions designed to lower costs and minimize environmental impact. We are thrilled to join Mike and his team to further their mission of simplifying pallet management.”

Piper Sandler served as lead financial advisor and Lincoln International served as co-advisor to 48forty and Audax. Ropes & Gray served as legal advisors to 48forty and Audax. Latham & Watkins served as legal advisor to Summit.

ABOUT 48forty Solutions
48forty Solutions is one of the largest pallet management services companies in North America, with a national network of 237 facilities, including 60 company-owned and operated pallet recycling plants, 160 onsite and 12 reverse logistics centers, 5 sorting centers, and more than 850 service providers. 48forty provides end-to-end pallet solutions from supply to retrieval, new and custom pallets, and reverse logistics services. We also operate one of the nation's largest private fleets of over 6,500 trailers and over 400 power units. For more information, visit www.48forty.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $42 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and 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 200 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn.

ABOUT Audax Private Equity
Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Since its founding in 1999, the firm has raised over $30 billion in capital across its Private Equity and Private Debt businesses. Audax Private Equity has invested over $9 billion in 150 platforms and over 1,050 add-on companies, and is currently investing out of its $3.5 billion, sixth private equity fund. Through its disciplined Buy & Build approach, Audax seeks to help platform companies execute add-on acquisitions that fuel revenue growth, optimize operations, and significantly increase equity value. With more than 300 employees and over 100 investment professionals, the firm is a leading capital partner for North American middle-market companies. For more information, visit the Audax Private Equity website: www.audaxprivateequity.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Appointment follows the company's $120 Million Investment from Summit Partners to Redefine Influencer Marketing into Social Proof at Scale

BOSTON - Mavrck, the leading influencer marketing platform for enterprise consumer brands, today announced that Tony Weisman has joined its board of directors. The appointment comes on the heels of a $120 million investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners, to support Mavrck's mission to build the operations cloud to power all types of social proof at scale.

"The addition of Tony to our board has not only added a wealth of experience and marketing acumen, but also the voice of our customer, the enterprise brand marketing leader," said Lyle Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Mavrck. "Marketing is going through another tectonic shift, fueled by digital democratization and the trust economy, that will require marketers to trust both creators and their customers to allow social proof to truly scale and reach its full potential. We've seen it pay huge dividends for the leading brands who have embraced creators. Tony will be instrumental in persuading marketing leaders to adopt and lean into this shift. "

Weisman is the former chief marketing officer of Dunkin' Brands, where he led a 200-person organization with a $500 million annual budget. During Tony's tenure, Dunkin' broke sales records and its store traffic was the highest in four years. He helped modernize the chain's image and menu, leading the rebranding efforts of the name to Dunkin' — dropping the "Donuts" from the name in recognition of its diverse and modern menu.

Weisman also transformed the brand's digital marketing and managed Dunkin's CPG business, resulting in $1 billion in retail sales in 2019 (10% increase year over year). He was named a Forbes World's Most Influential CMO, a Business Insider's 25 Most Transformational CMO, and an Adweek Brand Genius.

Before joining Dunkin', he spent a decade at Digitas, most recently serving as CEO of DigitasLBi North America. Prior to that, Weisman was the CMO of FCB Chicago and held various management positions at Leo Burnett. Weisman also serves on the board of Klaviyo, a customer data and automation platform; Cardlytics, a digital ad platform for financial institutions; and 3Q Digital, a performance marketing agency, among others.

"I am looking forward to working with Mavrck on their journey to define a new category of enterprise software that will transform how brands build trust with their customers and advocates," said Weisman. "The growth that we're seeing in the influencer marketing industry and creator economy as a whole is explosive. Influencer marketing is becoming one of the most reliable ways for brands to connect with their consumers, especially in a world where that is becoming harder and harder to do."

On the board, Weisman joins Lyle Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Mavrck; Summit Partners' Managing Director Michael Medici and Principal Sophia Popova; Investor and Senior Partner at Archer Venture Capital, George Bell; and Investor and General Partner at GrandBanks Capital, Tim Wright.

About Mavrck
Mavrck is the all-in-one, advanced influencer marketing platform enabling global consumer brands to harness the power of social proof that consumers trust today. Marketers use Mavrck to discover and collaborate with influencers, advocates, referrers, and loyalists to create trusted content and insights for customer journey touchpoints at scale. Using its self-service influencer manager, Mavrck allows marketers to take an automated and performance-based approach to influencer marketing.

Founded in 2014, Mavrck has offices in Boston and Denver. Mavrck's platform has been recognized for its superior offering by the Shorty Awards and Retail TouchPoints' Retail Innovator Awards, honored as "Best Influencer Marketing Platform" by Digiday, is the #1 influencer marketing platform for the enterprise on software review site G2, and was named to the 2019 and 2020 Inc. 5000. Mavrck was also named a "Leader" among the top influencer marketing platforms in Forrester's evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Influencer Marketing Solutions, Q2 2020.

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Summit Partners leads investment round to further accelerate Akeneo’s product development roadmap, bolster strategic hiring and support international growth

BOSTON – Akeneo, a global leader in product experience management (PXM) and product information management (PIM), today announced a $135 million Series D financing. The funding round is being led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners , which also led the company’s Series C financing in 2019. Existing investors Alven and Partech are also participating in the latest round, bringing Akeneo’s total investment to $196 million. The new capital will be used to drive continued momentum through an accelerated product development roadmap, key executive hires, and expansion of Akeneo’s strategic partnerships.

Akeneo is on a mission to fundamentally disrupt the product information category and better serve the rapidly growing needs of modern omnichannel brands and retailers. While many brands understand that PIM provides an important foundation for creating the engaging product experiences needed to turn first-look browsers into repeat shoppers and loyal customers into lifelong brand advocates, many lack the single source of truth to turn that vision into reality. Akeneo’s PXM solution is designed to help these companies reimagine their operations – making PIM a cornerstone of commercial success and helping influence new growth opportunities and drive revenue across their operations and sales channels.

“The customer journey changed in the blink of an eye, and we believe the most nimble and effective way to manage these ever-evolving dynamics is to invest in creating product experiences that resonate no matter where the customer is browsing or buying,” said Fred de Gombert, CEO and co-founder of Akeneo. “Brands and retailers are becoming as invested in building and managing their product information as they are in managing customer information, and we see this trend playing out in our platform adoption rates, new customer additions, and revenue growth. We are extremely grateful to our investors and partners; this momentum would not be possible without their continued support.”

Leading global brands including Fossil, 1-800 Flowers, and John Deere leverage Akeneo’s PXM Studio platform to centralize product information, quickly measure and enrich product data quality and consistency, and deliver compelling, consistent, and personalized product experiences across all sales channels and touchpoints; ultimately to increase sales, reduce time to market, and boost productivity.

The latest funding round will enable Akeneo to develop its PXM Studio platform further, by incorporating key product information such as real-time product availability and inventory, dynamic pricing, order management, competitive product insights, merchandising information, and user-generated content, with a goal to bring to market new offerings that consolidate this more dynamic and complete picture of product information alongside powerful analytics and insights.

The company has gained strong momentum since its Series C in September 2019, and today serves more than 600 customers across 40 countries. Akeneo’s open-source platform has been downloaded more than 80,000 times, with installations growing at a CAGR of more than 170% over the past seven years. Additionally, Akeneo’s partner ecosystem expanded by 30% in 2021, and the company’s employee headcount grew 40% to more than 300 employees in nine countries within the same period.

“Brands and retailers today understand the importance of delivering personalized experiences that are rich with relevant product content at every step along the customer buying journey,” said Steffan Peyer, Managing Director at Summit Partners. “The Akeneo team has been visionary in expanding beyond PIM and establishing an elevated standard in PXM, an approach we believe is necessary for both B2B and B2C companies alike. As seasoned technology investors, we have been impressed by the company’s momentum and ability to scale globally, and we look forward to supporting the team as they continue to build Akeneo’s leadership position in the market.”

Akeneo is announcing the Series D funding at Unlock 2022, the annual global summit for the PIM and PXM community taking place March 15-16 in Paris. This year marks the in-person return of Unlock, which went virtual in 2021, featuring keynote presentations from Akeneo partners and customers LVMH Group, BooHoo, Accor, Rémy Cointreau, Royal Canin, and more.

To learn more about Akeneo, please visit www.akeneo.com.

About Akeneo
Akeneo is a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM) helping businesses with products to unlock growth opportunities by delivering a consistent and compelling product experience across all channels, including e-commerce, mobile, print, points of sale and beyond. With its open platform, leading PIM, add-ons, connectors and marketplace, Akeneo PXM Studio dramatically improves product data quality and accuracy, simplifies catalog management, and accelerates the sharing of product information across channels and locales.

Leading global brands, manufacturers, distributors and retailers, including Staples Canada, Fossil, Air Liquide and Myer trust Akeneo to scale and customize their omnichannel commerce initiatives. Using Akeneo, brands and retailers can improve customer experience, increase sales, reduce time to market, go global, and boost team productivity. For more information: https://www.akeneo.com

About Summit Partners
Founded in 1984, Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm that is currently managing more than $42 billion in capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income and public equity opportunities. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and 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 200 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. For more information, please visit www.summitpartners.com or Follow on LinkedIn