Spectrum Equity Investors
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Spectrum Equity Investors is a Boston-based private equity
and venture capital
firm founded in 1994. The firm focuses on business services, entertainment, communications, information services, media, and related growth sectors. The firm currently has a capital base of approximately $4.7 billion. Their investment professionals operate from offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California.
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Private equity
Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....
and venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firm founded in 1994. The firm focuses on business services, entertainment, communications, information services, media, and related growth sectors. The firm currently has a capital base of approximately $4.7 billion. Their investment professionals operate from offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California.
Current and Past Representative Investments
Some of Spectrum Equity Investors's most notable investments include:- SeamlessWebSeamlessWebSeamless is an online food ordering web site and suite of mobile apps that allows users to order food for delivery and takeout from restaurants....
- SurveyMonkeySurveyMonkeySurveyMonkey is a private American company that enables users to create their own web-survey, using free and enhanced paid products and services. The company's offices are located in Palo Alto, California and Portland, Oregon. The company was founded in 1999 by Ryan and Chris Finley...
- AMC TheatresAMC TheatresAMC Theatres , officially known as AMC Entertainment, Inc., is the second largest movie theater chain in North America with 5,325 screens, second only to Regal Entertainment Group, and one of the United States's four national cinema chains AMC Theatres (American Multi-Cinema), officially known as...
- Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM)
- Bug Music (Acquired by KKR's BMGBMGBertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
) - Cellular OneCellular OneCellular One is the trademarked brand name used by several cellular service providers in the United States and Bermuda. The brand was sold to Trilogy Partners by AT&T in 2008 shortly after AT&T had completed its acquisition of Dobson Communications...
(acquired by AT&TAT&TAT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
Wireless) - RCN CorporationRCN CorporationRCN Corporation, founded in 1993 and based in Herndon, Virginia, is the first American facilities-based competitive provider of bundled telephone, cable television and high-speed internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the Boston, New York, Eastern...
- JagexJagexJagex Games Studio, based in Cambridge, is the UK’s largest independent developer and publisher of online games. Jagex is best known for RuneScape, the world's largest free-to-play MMORPG....
- EutelsatEutelsatEutelsat S.A. is a French-based satellite provider. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, it is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues.Eutelsat’s satellites...
(Euronext:ETL.PA) - iPay Technologies (acquired by Jack Henry & AssociatesJack Henry & AssociatesJack Henry & Associates an S&P 400 company, supports more than 11,200 financial institutions with core processing solutions as well as the highly specialized products and services that financial services organizations of all asset sizes and diverse businesses outside the financial industry use to...
, Nasdaq: JKHY) - RiskMetrics Group, Inc. (NYSE: RMG)
- World-CheckWorld-CheckWorld-Check created and maintains a database of Politically Exposed Persons and heightened risk individuals and organisations. Reported by the company to serve more than 4500 institutions in 162 countries, including 49 of the world’s 50 top banks, World-Check's risk products and services are used...
(acquired by Thomson ReutersThomson ReutersThomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...
, NYSE: TRI) - Demand MediaDemand MediaDemand Media, Inc. is an online media company and content farm that operates online brands such as eHow, and Cracked, and is known for creating online content through its Demand Media Studios division based on a combination of measured consumer demand and predicted ROI...
(NYSE: DMD) - Pictometry International
- AnimotoAnimotoAnimoto is a web application that produces videos from photos, video clips and music.Animoto analyzes the provided photos, video clips and music to generate a video similar to a trailer. According to the website, the song is analyzed, producing a unique video every time...
- MortgagebotMortgagebotMortgagebot LLC develops and markets online technology solutions for automating the process of mortgage applications, pricing, approval, and disclosure. Mortgagebot products are “cloud computing” solutions that Mortgagebot hosts for regulated banks and credit unions in the United States. In 2009,...
(acquired by Davis & Henderson, TSX: DH) - American Tower CorporationAmerican Tower CorporationAmerican Tower Corporation is a publicly held company that is a leading owner and operator of wireless and broadcast communications sites in North America. The company was formed in 1995 as a unit of American Radio Systems, and was spun off from that company in 1998 when that company merged with...
(NYSE:AMT) - ITA SoftwareITA SoftwareITA Software is a travel industry software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company was founded by computer scientists from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1996. On July 1, 2010 ITA agreed to be acquired by Google. On April 8th, 2011 the US Department of Justice approved the...
(acquired by GoogleGoogleGoogle Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
, NASDAQ: GOOG) - NetQuoteNetQuoteNetQuote is an insurance lead provider for insurance agents. The online insurance quote marketplace allows consumers to apply and comparison-shop for quotes, from a variety of major providers of auto, home, health, life and business insurance....
(acquired by BankrateBankrateBankrate, Inc. is a consumer financial services company based in North Palm Beach, Florida, in the United States. Bankrate.com, perhaps its best known brand, is a personal finance website.-History:...
, Inc., NASDAQ: RATE) - NetScreen TechnologiesNetScreen TechnologiesNetScreen Technologies was acquired by Juniper Networks for US$ 4 billion stock for stock in 2004.NetScreen Technologies developed ASIC-based Internet security systems and appliances that delivered high performance firewall, VPN and traffic shaping functionality to Internet data centers, e-business...
(acquired by Juniper NetworksJuniper NetworksJuniper Networks is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is head quartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services...
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History
Spectrum Equity Investors was founded in 1994 by Brion Applegate and William Collatos, who had worked together at TA AssociatesTA Associates
TA Associates, founded in 1968, is one of the oldest private equity firms in the United States. The firm employs a hybrid strategy making growth capital investments in developing companies and acquiring mature companies through leveraged buyout and recapitalization transactions...
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