Spectrum Equity Investors is a private equity investor in established companies in the media, communications, information technology, and information and business services industries. Founded in 1994, Spectrum is one of the largest and fastest-growing private equity investment firms worldwide. We manage private equity funds representing $3 billion in committed capital, and our investors include many of the world’s most prominent financial institutions, university endowments, pension funds, and charitable trusts. Our industry focus and track record positions us as a knowledgeable investor with a strong reputation and a deep set of industry and capital markets relationships. Spectrum invests substantial amounts of capital behind strong management teams and provides long-term and active board-level assistance to those teams to help them create and realize value. Spectrum invests in a variety of transactions including leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, stock purchases from early shareholders, and financings for growth either organically or by acquisition. We typically invest in growing, profitable private companies, in privately negotiated investments in public companies, and in leveraged acquisitions of independent companies or divisions of larger companies.