Spectrum Equity Investors
Spectrum Equity Investors is a company investing in profitable and growing service businesses. They maintain six investment funds, with over $4.7 billion of private equity capital.
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| Industry: | Investment |
| Founded: | 1994 |
| Founder(s): | William Collatos |
| Ownership: | Private |
| Headquarters: | One International Place, 29th Floor, Boston, MA |
| Country: | USA |
| Businesses: | Investment |
| Website: | spectrumequity.com |
| LinkedIn: | Spectrum Equity Investors |
Common business characteristics that they look for in business opportunities include, recurring revenue, significant operating leverage, healthy operating margins, strong free cash flow, and franchise customer loyalty.
Investment Strategy
Their investment activity is focused on business services, entertainment, communications, information services, media, and related growth sectors. Spectrum invests in companies who are leaders in their industries, have well established business models and have significant opportunity for future growth. The types of companies they invest in include private companies, public companies and divisions of large companies.
They typically invest between $25 million - $100 million in a given company or project. They are capable of taking up much larger investments with their partners. Their investments are mainly focused across North America and Western Europe.[1]
Team
Spectrum was founded by William Collatos.[2] Currently, the board of directors is made up of: Brion B. Applegate, William P. Collatos, Randy J. Henderson, Michael J. Kennealy, Kevin J. Maroni, Christopher T. Mitchell, Victor E. Parker, James J. Quagliaroli and Benjamin C. Spero[3]
Current principals of the company are Stephen M. LeSieur and Adam J. Margolin.[4]