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Investor profile

Spectrum Equity

Venture Capital, Private Equity · Founded 1994 · Boston, United States

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Growth capital for category-leading software, data, and consumer internet businesses

98 portfolio companies Venture Capital, Private Equity · $7.1B invested · 132 investments · Investor rank #388 · Last investment 3/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 18% 5y
98
Decacorns
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 9% 5y
12
Exits

Spectrum Equity’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Spectrum Equity’s transaction record.

GoodRx
$13B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $1.4BHealth
NetScreen Technologies
$720M IPO · 2001
Entered Series ANow $4.0BSecurity
Verafin
$2.8B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+Fintech
Momentive
$1.5B IPO · 2018
Entered SeedNow $1.5BMarketing
Lynda
$1.5B acquisition · 2015
Entered Series AEducation
Portfolio analysis

Where Spectrum Equity's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 98 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA86
  2. Canada4
  3. UK4
  4. Australia1
  5. India1
  6. Ireland1
  7. Netherlands1
  8. Türkiye1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software25
  2. Fintech20
  3. Health15
  4. Marketing14
  5. Media10
  6. Telecom10
  7. Education6
  8. Jobs Recruitment4
  9. Security4
  10. Transportation4
  11. Food3
  12. Legal3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+75
  2. Series A20
  3. Seed2
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage47
  2. Late Growth42
  3. Early Growth9
  4. Mature1
Portfolio market map

Inside Spectrum Equity's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 98 tracked.

Momentive
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.5B
Kajabi
Education · Unicorn
$2.0B
Lighthouse
Travel · Unicorn
$2.4B
Verafin
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.8B
WeddingWire
Wellness Beauty
$100M
Quavo
Fintech
$30M
Lynda
Education · Unicorn
$1.5B
CyberCube
Security
$720M
SavvyMoney
Fintech
$900M
Awardco
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Rapid Ratings International
Fintech
AllTrails
Travel
$736M
XR Extreme Reach
Marketing
$36M
Egenera
Hosting
$64M
Headspace Health
Health · Unicorn
$3.0B
Lucid
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Zenwork
Legal
VBASoftware
Health
$12M
DispatchTrack
Transportation
Intira Corporation
Enterprise Software
$560M
Leaf Group (formerly Demand Media)
Media
$323M
Employee Navigator
Jobs Recruitment
Goldbelly
Food
$400M
Trintech
Fintech
$520M
Network Photonics
Semiconductors
$426M
Adero
Media
$40M
Scribd
Media
$232M
ITA Software
Transportation
Membersy
Health
$264M
Canopy Financial
Health
$250M
Lucid
Energy
$525M
Spreedly
Fintech
$12M
MedHOK
Health
$543M
Empyrean Solutions
Enterprise Software
B-Stock Solutions
Transportation
$28M
Otter.ai
Media
$160M
Prezi
Media
$300M
Ease Entertainment Services
Fintech
$164M
RainKing
Marketing
$268M
NetScreen Technologies
Security · Unicorn
$4.0B
Teachers Pay Teachers
Education
$256M
GoodRx
Health · Unicorn
$1.4B
Ennovate Networks
USA
$236M
HealthMEDX
Health
$392M
Ethoca
Fintech
$3.9M
Vendavo
Enterprise Software
$60M
Quantile Technologies
Fintech
Surebridge
Marketing
$54M
Seamless
Food
$200M
Orblynx
Media
$200M
WIN Reality
Sports
$180M
PicMonkey
Media
$110M
Getworkflex
Jobs Recruitment
Lucid Software
India
$144M
180Solutions
Marketing
$160M
Interbank FX
Fintech
$160M
SponsorUnited
Marketing
$100M
Varicent Software
Fintech
Splose
Health
$119M
DataCamp
Education
$100M
Portfolio founders

Where Spectrum Equity's portfolio founders come from.

87 founders across the 99 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States62
  2. United Kingdom5
  3. Canada4
  4. Ireland4
  5. Hungary3
  6. Australia2
  7. Germany2
  8. Argentina1
  9. India1
  10. Netherlands1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University3
  2. University of California, Berkeley3
  3. University of Wisconsin-Madison3
  4. Dartmouth College2
  5. Harvard Business School2
  6. KTH Royal Institute of Technology2
  7. KU Leuven2
  8. Memorial University of Newfoundland2
  9. Temple University2
  10. Tufts University2
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google4
  2. Bank of America3
  3. Start-Up Chile3
  4. Morgan Stanley2
  5. Pressure Pipe Inspection Company2
  6. PwC2
  7. Qualtrics2
  8. Stanford University2
  9. AB InBev1
  10. Amplion Research1
How Spectrum Equity stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#427 rank 2,321 companies $292B portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,187 companies $4.7T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,065 companies $1.9T portfolio
Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#837 rank 2,278 companies $254B portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#120 rank 984 companies $3.9T portfolio
General Catalyst
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#16 rank 921 companies $2.1T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,919 companies $23T portfolio
NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,184 companies $2.5T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Spectrum Equity.

John Connolly
John Connolly
Partner
 Steven Price
Steven Price
General Partner
 Dan Kimball
Dan Kimball
CMO
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.