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Summit Partners

Investment firm · Founded 1984 · Active in 2026

Summit Partners is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1984. The page below shows 52 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 · Cybersecurity · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · Singapore · Canada. Summit ranks #168 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

52 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #168 · Global · 52 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 15% 5y
39
Decacorns → 0% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 23% 5y
42
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 52 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. USA36
  2. Singapore3
  3. Canada3
  4. Germany2
  5. UK2
  6. Belgium1
  7. Finland1
  8. Czechia1
  9. Nigeria1
  10. France1
  11. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech9
  2. Cybersecurity8
  3. Marketing8
  4. Other B2B Software8
  5. AI4
  6. Other3
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  8. Health Tech & Medtech3
  9. Energy2
  10. Edtech2
  11. Transportation1
  12. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+33
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed2
Estimated holdings

Summit’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Summit’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 4 companies where Summit is a named shareholder, worth about $2.0B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 OdooMarketing · Unicorn 17% $7.7B $1.3B
  2. 2 NinjaOneSecurity · Unicorn 10% $5.0B $500M
  3. 3 PodiumEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4% $3.0B $120M
  4. 4 Red PointsLegal · Colt 14.94% $250M $37M

Estimated value = Summit’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 →

Summit’s biggest exits.

Summit portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2014
Entered SeedNow $182B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $36.7B
IPO · 2010
Entered Series ANow $30.6B
$2.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $14.5B
$10.0B IPO · 2023
Entered Series B+Now $3.6B
buyout · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $8.0B
$7.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.3B
$990M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $7.2B
buyout · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $6.3B
$5.3B buyout · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.0B IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $4.9B
$4.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.4B
$833M IPO · 2021
Now $4.2B
$3.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $448M
acquisition · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $3.2B
$2.5B buyout · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.2B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $810M
$2.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $77M
$2.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.8B
$2.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series A
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $2.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$1.4B IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $167M
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+

+5 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Summit's 52 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
52 of 52 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Summit stack up?

Summit in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
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.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

95 founders across the 52 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
Canada11
Germany10
France9
Denmark7
Nigeria5
Norway3
India3
Australia2
+7 more →
UniversityCount
HEC Paris5
Harvard University5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
Copenhagen Business School4
University of Pretoria3
Curtin University of Technology2
Dalhousie University2
University of Manitoba2
University of Toronto2
INSEAD Business School2
+42 more →
Origin companyCount
Rocket Internet9
Microsoft4
Alphabet | Google3
Autonomy - HP Autonomy2
Thinkific2
SAP2
Yahoo!2
Apple1
Kyruus1
Palantir1
+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.

Market sentiment

What the market 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

In the news

Latest news about Summit Partners

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Summit — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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