Investment Summary

Summit Partners Invests In Lingoda

On April 15, 2021, growth capital firm Summit Partners invested in education company Lingoda

Investment Highlights
  • This is Summit Partners’ 5th transaction in the Education sector.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 12th transaction in Germany.

Investment Summary

Date 2021-04-15
Target Lingoda
Sector Education
Investor(s) Summit Partners
Deal Type Venture
Advisor(s) GP Bullhound (Financial)

Target

Lingoda

Berlin, Germany
Lingoda is an online language school offering live small group and private classes available 24/7 in four languages - English, German, French, and Spanish. Lingoda teaches more than 450,000 classes each year through a community of over 1,400 certified, native-speaking teaching professionals. The company’s structured curriculum includes over 2,000 digital lessons produced in-house by linguistic experts. Courses are designed to empower language fluency, and 97% of Lingoda learners confirm that the platform is more effective than using language apps alone. Lingoda was founded in 2013 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

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Investor(S) 1

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 369 of 415
Sector: Education M&A 5 of 5
Type: Venture M&A Deals 31 of 34
Country: Germany M&A 12 of 15
Year: 2021 M&A 8 of 17
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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