Summit Partners - History

History

History of private equity
and venture capital

Early history
(Origins of modern private equity)
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The 1980s
(LB The 1990s
(LBO bust and the VC bubble)
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The 2000s
(Dot-com bubble to the credit crunch)

Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by Stephen Woodsum and E. Roe Stamps, who had worked together at TA Associates and before that at First Chicago Investment Corporation (the predecessor of Madison Dearborn Partners). Woodsum and Stamps were joined shortly thereafter by Greg Avis, who would open the firm's California office in 1993. In 2001, Summit Partners completed its management succession led by Bruce Evans, Walter Kortschak, Marty Mannion, Tom Roberts, and Joe Trustey.

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