Summit Partners is a global alternative investment firm with capital dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. The Summit Partners’ strategy is grounded in a foundational belief that profitable growth is the most reliable path to building a durable business and creating long-term value. For four decades, the Summit team has focused on partnering with and powering the growth of great people and great companies. Summit invests across growth sectors of the economy and has invested in more than 550 companies in technology, healthcare, and other growth industries including financial services, consumer, business services and industrial technology. These companies have completed more than 175 public equity offerings, and more than 250 have been acquired through strategic mergers and sales. Summit maintains offices in North America and Europe and invests in companies around the world.
The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for over 70 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. The Company’s most recent credits include the hit holiday special for Apple TVThe First Snow of Fraggle Rock,as well as the Emmy-nominatedAlexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Tripfor Disney+, the Oscar®-winningGuillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchiofor Netflix, and the Emmy®-winningFraggle Rock: Back to the Rockfor Apple TV. Other television credits includeSlumberkinsandHarriet the Spyfor Apple TV;Dinosaur Train,Splash and Bubbles, andSid the Science Kidall for PBS;Earth to Nedfor Disney+; andthe Netflix seriesWord Partyand the Emmy-winningThe Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Iconic catalogue titles includeFraggle Rock,The Storyteller,Farscape, and the ground-breaking fantasy classicsThe Dark CrystalandLabyrinth.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with additional locations in New York and London, the Company is also home to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™, a pre-eminent puppet and creature-building group and industry leader in puppeteered digital animation, with international film, television, theme park, and advertising clients.