For 40 years, Summit Partners has looked for founders who already found something that works - then handed them capital and a playbook to make it bigger. The results include Uber, McAfee, Klaviyo, and $9.5 billion of fresh dry powder.
Most venture firms promise a network. B Capital wired one into its operating model - then stretched it from Silicon Valley to Singapore and from seed rounds to late-stage growth.
For 40-plus years, Harvest Partners has bought unglamorous middle-market companies and held them long enough to matter. Here is how a relationship-first shop on Park Avenue turned patience into a $20-billion franchise.
The New York firm has nearly $900 million, fewer than 10 new bets a year and a taste for founders still sketching the future. Its wager is that operating experience and patient conviction can beat venture capital by trend cycle.
The Vistria Group has built a $17 billion investment platform around a provocative premise: the hardest systems to navigate may also hold the most durable opportunities to create value.
Lightspeed has grown from an enterprise-focused Silicon Valley partnership into a global, multi-stage investor. Its newest funds reveal the real strategy: specialist judgment, patient capital and enough range to keep backing a company as the stakes rise.