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Summit Partners

Investment firm · Founded 1984 · Active in 2026

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49 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #168 · Global · 49 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 15% 5y
39
Decacorns → 0% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 23% 5y
42

Summit Partners is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1984. The page below shows 49 Power Law outcomes from Summit Partners's portfolio — 39 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Marketing · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · Singapore · Canada. Summit ranks #168 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 49 Summit Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA33
  2. Singapore3
  3. Canada3
  4. UK2
  5. Germany2
  6. Czechia1
  7. Belgium1
  8. Netherlands1
  9. Nigeria1
  10. Finland1
  11. France1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech9
  2. Marketing8
  3. Other B2B Software8
  4. Cybersecurity7
  5. Other3
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  7. Health Tech & Medtech3
  8. Edtech2
  9. Energy2
  10. AI2
  11. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  12. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+33
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Summit's 49 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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49 of 49 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Summit's founders come from — and where they study.

94 founders across the 49 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. HEC Paris and Rocket Internet are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States18
United Kingdom11
Germany10
Canada10
France9
Denmark7
Nigeria5
Norway3
India3
Australia2
+7 more →
UniversityCount
HEC Paris5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
Harvard University5
Copenhagen Business School4
University of Pretoria3
Curtin University of Technology2
University of Toronto2
Western University2
Dalhousie University2
University of Manitoba2
+41 more →
Origin companyCount
Rocket Internet8
Microsoft6
Alphabet | Google3
Yahoo!3
SAP2
Thinkific2
Autonomy - HP Autonomy2
Apple1
Kyruus1
Medallia1
+16 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Summit.

Senior investment team at Summit Partners has not been published on this profile yet.
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04 · Compare with peers

How does Summit stack up?

Summit in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Summit Partners

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Summit on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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