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Spectrum Equity
Private Equity, Venture Capital · Founded 1994 · Boston, United States
Spectrum Equity’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Spectrum Equity still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Spectrum Equity directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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1
Lighthouse
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$2.4B
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2
Kajabi
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$2.0B
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3
Awardco
7.7%
$1.0B
$77M
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4
Lucid
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$1.0B
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5
CyberCube
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$720M
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6
Scribd
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$232M
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7
Otter.ai
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$160M
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8
Origami Risk
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Estimated value = Spectrum Equity’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
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.
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.
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USA91
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UK6
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Canada4
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Australia2
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India1
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Ireland1
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Netherlands1
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Türkiye1
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Enterprise Software25
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Fintech24
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Health15
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Marketing15
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Media11
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Telecom10
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Education8
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Transportation6
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Energy4
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Jobs Recruitment4
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Security4
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Food3
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Series B+77
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Series A19
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Seed2
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Breakout Stage46
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Late Growth44
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Early Growth14
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Mature3
Inside Spectrum Equity’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 98 tracked.
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SpAnWhere Spectrum Equity’s portfolio founders come from.
86 founders across the 100 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.
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United States62
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United Kingdom5
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Ireland4
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Canada3
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Hungary3
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Australia2
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Germany2
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Argentina1
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India1
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Netherlands1
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Stanford University3
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University of California, Berkeley3
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University of Wisconsin-Madison3
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Dartmouth College2
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Harvard Business School2
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology2
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KU Leuven2
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
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Temple University2
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Tufts University2
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Alphabet | Google4
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Bank of America3
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Start-Up Chile3
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Morgan Stanley2
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Pressure Pipe Inspection Company2
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PwC2
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Qualtrics2
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Stanford University2
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Yahoo!2
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AB InBev1
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Spectrum Equity.
