Reach Your Summit
Exceptional people are the foundation for our success – both within Summit and at the companies in which we invest. Together, we work as a team to build companies and build careers.
Growth is the focus of everything we do.
Building lifelong connections and preparing you for incredible opportunities – within Summit and beyond
“As an Associate, you’re involved at every stage of an investment, from identifying the best businesses in a market, selling your way into an opportunity, and then helping that company succeed. Along the way, you’re not only developing finance and analytical skills, but also honing your strengths in strategy, operations, people assessment and much more. You’re truly building a skillset that can be applied anywhere.”
Andy Collins│Managing Director│Summit Partners
“Summit really taught me to use my voice. While my primary job was to reach out and build relationships with entrepreneurs and CEOs, I was always encouraged to share my ideas and opinions – to use my voice – internally as well. I quickly learned just how much change is possible by doing just that. And that’s something I’m taking with me into all of my next roles.”
Caitlin Vorlicek│SVP Partnerships│VeriShip
“At Summit, I learned the value of adopting a proactive mindset to create your own opportunities. This outlook was essential as I shifted from investing to a career as an operator. In evaluating opportunities after Summit, I took a thesis-driven approach while actively connecting with folks far beyond my extended network, and accepted a role at an early-stage startup that had launched a promising on-demand black car marketplace. Uber quickly became part of our everyday language, and I spent seven transformative years there. More recently, I applied the same approach and joined the team at Summit-backed Klaviyo.”
Pat Twomey│Director of Product Analytics│Klaviyo
“Summit was a great training ground. I was speaking with entrepreneurs on a day-to-day basis – really understanding their business, hearing about their challenges, their successes, their struggles, the whole experience of being an entrepreneur. And I was enthralled by that. From that foundation at Summit, I sought out opportunities where I could apply my skillset in finance, learn more about what it takes to build a business, and accumulate experiences that would put me in a position to ultimately lead an organization.”
Jay DeCoons│Brand President│The Bar Method
Inclusion drives our innovation. We hire exceptional people seeking to make a lasting impact.
We back talented teams and great companies across sectors and around the world.
2020 was a year like no other, defined by unprecedented challenges and uncertainty around the world. Throughout, we witnessed the astounding resilience, amazing agility and enormous creativity of leaders and teams across the Summit Partners Network and experienced first-hand the value of expecting – and planning for – the unexpected. We are proud to share this look back at 2020, to celebrate the challenge of the entrepreneurial climb and to recognize all those who continue to reach for their summit.
Summit Managing Directors Andrew Collins and Matthew Hamilton were named to GrowthCap’s “Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investors of 2020” list. GrowthCap evaluated breadth of experience as well as feedback from CEOs and other executives in determining the 40 individuals named to this year’s list.
Colin Mistele, a Principal in Summit's Menlo Park office, was named to Venture Capital Journal's 2021 Rising Stars list. Colin joined Summit in 2011 and has since played an active role in partnering with nearly 20 Summit portfolio companies
Ross Stern, a Principal in Summit’s Boston office, was named to Mergers & Acquisitions’ "2020 Rising Stars of Private Equity" list.
Growth Through Advocacy: Summit Hosts 2019 Women’s Leadership Forum
We created the Summit Partners Women’s Network to power the professional growth and support the success of women across our network by creating opportunities to interact and learn from the insights and experience of others.