Investment Summary

Summit Partners Invests In optionsXpress

On January 20, 2004, growth capital firm Summit Partners invested in financial services company optionsXpress

Investment Highlights
  • This is Summit Partners’ 1st transaction in the Financial Services sector.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 140th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 2nd transaction in Illinois.
Investment Fate
  • optionsXpress went public in 2005.
  • optionsXpress was sold to a strategic buyer in 2011 for 1.0B USD.

Investment Summary

Date 2004-01-20
Target optionsXpress
Sector Financial Services
Investor(s) Summit Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

optionsXpress

Chicago, Illinois, United States
optionsXpress Holdings, Inc., a pioneer in equity options and futures trading, offers an innovative suite of online brokerage services for investor education, strategy evaluation and trade execution. optionsXpress Holdings subsidiaries include optionsXpress, Inc., a retail online brokerage specializing in options and futures, brokersXpress, LLC, an online trading and reporting platform for independent investment professionals, Open E Cry, LLC, an innovative futures broker offering direct access futures trading for high volume commodities and futures traders through its proprietary software platform, and Optionetics, Inc., a leading provider of investment education services, including live seminars, proprietary software analytics, online and offline educational products and individual coaching.

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Investor

Summit Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 45.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Summit Partners is a private investment and asset management firm focused on venture, growth, credit, and public equity investing. Sectors of interest include business services, communications technology and services, consumer products, energy, financial services, healthcare and life sciences, industrial products, internet/information services, media/entertainment, semiconductors, electronics, and software. Summit Partners is known for having a proactive business development group for sourcing transactions. Summit will consider both minority or majority investment stakes and is willing to commit as little as $10 million or as much as $500 million in combined debt/junior capital per transaction. The Firm's geographic coverage spans North America and Europe. Summit Partners was formed in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 145 of 415
Sector: Financial Services M&A 1 of 16
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 95 of 237
State: Illinois M&A 2 of 11
Country: United States M&A 140 of 335
Year: 2004 M&A 2 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-01-01 B&W TEK

Newark, Delaware, United States

B&W TEK is a manufacturer of analytical spectrometers, spectroscopic lasers, OEM medical lasers, and other industrial instrumentation. B&W TEK was founded in 1997 and is based in Newark, Delaware.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-02-10 Axis Systems

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Axis Systems, Inc. provides hardware and software systems for functional verification of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits.

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