Investment Summary

Summit Partners Invests In Paragon Vision Sciences

On January 1, 1995, growth capital firm Summit Partners invested in consumer products company Paragon Vision Sciences

Investment Highlights
  • This is Summit Partners’ 1st transaction in the Consumer Products sector.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 51st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 1st transaction in Arizona.
Investment Fate
  • Paragon Vision Sciences was sold to management in 2000.
  • Paragon Vision Sciences was sold to a strategic buyer in 2017 for 80M USD.

Investment Summary

Date 1995-01-01
Target Paragon Vision Sciences
Sector Consumer Products
Investor(s) Summit Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Paragon Vision Sciences

Mesa, Arizona, United States
Paragon Vision Sciences is a manufacturer of the polymer materials used in the manufacture of rigid gas permeable contact lenses. Paragon Vision Sciences was founded in 1976 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

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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 52 of 415
Sector: Consumer Products M&A 1 of 11
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 35 of 237
State: Arizona M&A 1 of 4
Country: United States M&A 51 of 335
Year: 1995 M&A 9 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1995-01-01 TGV Software

Santa Cruz, California, United States

TGV Software develops and markets an integrated set of standards-based inter-networking software for the VMS operating environment.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1995-02-13 Software Artistry

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Software Artistry, Inc. is a developer of enterprise-wide software for problem tracking and resolution.

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