Spectrum Equity Investors

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Founded in 1994, Spectrum Equity Investors have raised five investment funds representing $4 billion of private equity capital. They seek opportunities in businesses with common economic characteristics: recurring revenue, significant operating leverage, healthy operating margins, strong free cash flow, and franchise customer loyalty. Their investment activity is focused on business services, entertainment, communications, information services, media, and related growth sectors.

The companies in which they invest are leaders in their industries, have well-established business models, are run by experienced management teams, and have significant opportunities for future growth either organically, through acquisition, or both. Their investment activity includes private companies, public companies, and divisions of larger companies. They invest, either as a minority or majority investor, providing equity capital in a wide variety of transactions including:

• Leveraged buyouts

• Recapitalizations and dividends

• Acquisition financings

• Secondary share purchases

Spectrum Equity Investors typically invest between $30 million - $150 million per investment and are capable of underwriting much larger equity amounts in conjunction with their limited partners. Our business model and industry focus allows them to respond quickly to opportunities, invest comfortably in a wide variety of investment structures, and provide value to their companies and their management teams as an active member of the board of directors.

Their investment professionals operate from offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California, and they invest across North America and Western Europe. If you are an owner of, manager of, or an advisor to a company that fits their investment strategy, they would like to discuss how they can be helpful to you.

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1. Spectrum Equity Investors backs Business Monitor International Spectrum Equity Investors backs Business Monitor International (altassets.com) [edit]
2. SURVEYMONKEY ANNOUNCES GROUP LED BY SPECTRUM EQUITY   TO BECOME MAJORITY INVESTOR  (businesswire.com) [edit]
3. Private BuyOut Of Ancestry.com For $300+ Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. pehub.com [edit]
5. Investors Love Forex. Interbank FX Gets $40M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
6. venturebeat.com [edit]
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