Investment Summary

Summit Partners and Sorenson Capital Invest In Podium

On May 11, 2017, growth capital firm Summit Partners and private equity firm Sorenson Capital invested in internet software and services company Podium

Investment Highlights
  • This is Summit Partners’ 28th and Sorenson Capital’s 10th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 267th and Sorenson Capital’s 37th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Summit Partners’ 6th and Sorenson Capital’s 19th transaction in Utah.

Investment Summary

Date 2017-05-11
Target Podium
Sector Internet Software and Services
Investor(s) Summit Partners
Sorenson Capital
Deal Type Venture

Target

Podium

Lehi, Utah, United States
Podium is a SaaS platform that enables local businesses and consumers to more effectively and conveniently interact through messaging tools and online reviews. Podium helps businesses drive customer interaction in the form of online reviews to increase visibility, improve business operations, and drive purchase decisions. Podium serves 80,000+ users across nearly 10,000 businesses and is redefining the modern relationship between businesses and customers. Podium was founded in 2014 and is based in Lehi, Utah.

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Investor(S) 2

Investor

Summit Partners

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Category Growth Capital Firm
Founded 1984
PE ASSETS 39.0B 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 305 of 392
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 28 of 47
Type: Venture M&A Deals 23 of 34
State: Utah M&A 6 of 7
Country: United States M&A 267 of 322
Year: 2017 M&A 7 of 12
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2017-05-09 MacStadium

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

MacStadium is a provider of on-demand cloud IaaS, offering managed Mac hosting and private cloud solutions for individuals and organizations of all sizes. MacStadium was founded in 2012 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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2017-05-22 Dentalpro

Milan, Italy

Dentalpro owns and operates an Italian network of dental clinics that offer a wide range of high-quality dental services from general dentistry to more sophisticated procedures in convenient and modern settings. DentalPro provides top-tier practice management support to dentists, allowing them to focus on delivering care. Dentalpro was founded in 2010 and is based in Milan, Italy.

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Investor

Sorenson Capital

Lehi, Utah, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 2003
PE ASSETS 1.5B USD
Size Large
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Sorenson Capital is a private equity firm that seeks to support buyout and growth capital financings of lower middle-market companies. Sorenson invests across a broad range of industries and generally pursues companies with significant market share, high barriers to entry, fragmented industry competition, motivated managment, and sustainable pricing and profit margins. Target businesses typically have sales of $30 to $300 million with earnings of $3 to $25 million. Sorenson's geographic preference is for opportunities in the Mountain West and West Coast regions of the US. Sorenson raised its inaugural fund in 2004 and is based in Lehi, Utah.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 39 of 48
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 10 of 13
Type: Venture M&A Deals 6 of 12
State: Utah M&A 19 of 21
Country: United States M&A 37 of 46
Year: 2017 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-08-16 Axiom Materials

Santa Ana, California, United States

Axiom Materials, Inc. is a manufacturer of proprietary advanced composite materials and related products for customers in the aerospace & defense, industrial, automotive, medical device, and electronics industries. The Company provides customized, mission-critical products that are characterized by lightweight, durable, and temperature-resistant properties to over 300 customers.

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2017-05-23 Fastly

San Francisco, California, United States

Fastly is a content delivery company. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible at the edge of the internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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