
Investments
82Portfolio Exits
45Funds
15Service Providers
3About Great Hill Partners
Great Hill Partners is a private equity firm specializing in financing the acquisition, recapitalization, or expansion of rapidly growing middle-market companies in a wide range of sectors within the business and consumer services, healthcare, media, communications, and software industries.
Latest Great Hill Partners News
Nov 9, 2023
The site’s seven editorial staffers have been laid off, along with 16 other staffers across G/O. Nov. 9, 2023, 1 p.m. “Disillusioned by the state of American women’s media, I was given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create and oversee a women’s-media entity‚ in this case, a Web site,” Anna Holmes , the founder of Jezebel, wrote for The New Yorker on November 4 . “I imagined it as one with a lot of personality, with humor, with edge. I wanted it to combine wit, smarts, and anger, providing women — many of whom had been taught to believe that ‘feminism’ was a bad word or one to be avoided — with a model of critical thinking around gender and race which felt accessible and entertaining.” Jezebel has been up for sale for a couple of weeks. On Thursday, Jim Spanfeller, CEO of Jezebel’s parent company G/O Media, said in a memo to staff that the site had not found a buyer and that “we are making the very, very difficult decision to suspend Jezebel.” In response to a question about why G/O Media says Jezebel is “suspended” rather than “shut down,” G/O Media head of corporate communications Mark Neschis told me in an email, “The hope is that G/O Media might still find a buyer, a partner, or enough advertiser support to bring it back fully.” Jezebel launched in May 2007 under the Gawker umbrella. After Gawker filed for bankruptcy in 2016 following Hulk Hogan’s sex tape lawsuit (a lawsuit bankrolled in part by billionaire Peter Thiel), Univision acquired all the Gawker Media brands except for Gawker. In 2019, they were sold to equity firm Great Hill Partners and made into a new company, G/O Media, under Spanfeller. Prior to Gawker’s bankruptcy, and in the heyday of digital media , Jezebel lived up to Holmes’s vision. By December 2007, it was receiving 10 million monthly pageviews ; by June 2009, 25 million . It was parodied on 30 Rock (Liz Lemon: “It’s this really cool feminist website where women talk about how far we’ve come and which celebrities have the worst beach bodies”). “I really despise mainstream feminism,” Moe Tkacik , the site’s first features editor and one of its earliest writers, told The Guardian in 2017 , but “Jezebel was part of bringing feminism into the mainstream.” For me, one of the site’s most memorable stories was Jia Tolentino ‘s 2016 interview with a woman who had an abortion at 32 weeks of pregnancy after finding out her fetus would not survive outside the womb. The site has continued its abortion coverage , with near-daily stories in recent months. “Their urgent, breakthrough coverage of reproductive rights in this post-Roe era, as well as other key issues core to modern women, affirmed the brand’s storied legacy as the website that changed women’s media forever,” Spanfeller wrote in his memo. “Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel’s.” News: G/O Media is "suspending publication of @Jezebel ," C.E.O. Jim Spanfeller emails staff: pic.twitter.com/stQVfocMPV
Great Hill Partners Investments
82 Investments
Great Hill Partners has made 82 investments. Their latest investment was in NMI as part of their Private Equity - IV on January 1, 2023.

Great Hill Partners Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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1/6/2023 | Private Equity - IV | NMI | $54.18M | No | 1 | |
6/21/2022 | Private Equity | Echobot | Yes | 3 | ||
11/15/2021 | Private Equity | Prodege | Yes | 2 | ||
10/26/2021 | Private Equity | |||||
10/5/2021 | Series F |
Date | 1/6/2023 | 6/21/2022 | 11/15/2021 | 10/26/2021 | 10/5/2021 |
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Round | Private Equity - IV | Private Equity | Private Equity | Private Equity | Series F |
Company | NMI | Echobot | Prodege | ||
Amount | $54.18M | ||||
New? | No | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | |||||
Sources | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Great Hill Partners Portfolio Exits
45 Portfolio Exits
Great Hill Partners has 45 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Examity on September 06, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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9/6/2023 | Acquired | 5 | |||
6/7/2022 | Acq - Fin - III | 1 | |||
9/8/2021 | Acquired | 4 | |||
Date | 9/6/2023 | 6/7/2022 | 9/8/2021 | ||
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Exit | Acquired | Acq - Fin - III | Acquired | ||
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Great Hill Partners Acquisitions
40 Acquisitions
Great Hill Partners acquired 40 companies. Their latest acquisition was Fusion Risk Management on April 26, 2023.
Date | Investment Stage | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Total Funding | Note | Sources |
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4/26/2023 | Private Equity | $41M | Acq - Fin | 3 | ||
7/15/2021 | Series C | $39.38M | Acq - Fin | 13 | ||
2/9/2021 | Series E+ | $64.38M | Acq - Fin | 5 | ||
2/4/2021 | ||||||
6/25/2020 | Grant |
Date | 4/26/2023 | 7/15/2021 | 2/9/2021 | 2/4/2021 | 6/25/2020 |
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Investment Stage | Private Equity | Series C | Series E+ | Grant | |
Companies | |||||
Valuation | |||||
Total Funding | $41M | $39.38M | $64.38M | ||
Note | Acq - Fin | Acq - Fin | Acq - Fin | ||
Sources | 3 | 13 | 5 |
Great Hill Partners Fund History
15 Fund Histories
Great Hill Partners has 15 funds, including Great Hill Equity Partners VIII.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
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2/2/2022 | Great Hill Equity Partners VIII | $4,650M | 1 | ||
4/16/2020 | Great Hill Equity Partners Co-Invest VII | $150M | 2 | ||
7/9/2019 | Great Hill Equity Partners VII | Buyouts & Acquisitions | Closed | $2,500M | 3 |
2/1/2017 | Great Hill Equity Partners VI | ||||
6/1/2015 | Great Hill Equity Partners V |
Closing Date | 2/2/2022 | 4/16/2020 | 7/9/2019 | 2/1/2017 | 6/1/2015 |
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Fund | Great Hill Equity Partners VIII | Great Hill Equity Partners Co-Invest VII | Great Hill Equity Partners VII | Great Hill Equity Partners VI | Great Hill Equity Partners V |
Fund Type | Buyouts & Acquisitions | ||||
Status | Closed | ||||
Amount | $4,650M | $150M | $2,500M | ||
Sources | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Great Hill Partners Service Providers
9 Service Providers
Great Hill Partners has 9 service provider relationships
Service Provider | Associated Rounds | Provider Type | Service Type |
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Kirkland & Ellis | Series B | Counsel | General Counsel |
Service Provider | Kirkland & Ellis | ||
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Associated Rounds | Series B | ||
Provider Type | Counsel | ||
Service Type | General Counsel |
Partnership data by VentureSource
Great Hill Partners Team
22 Team Members
Great Hill Partners has 22 team members, including current Founder, Managing Director, Christopher Gaffney.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
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Christopher Gaffney | M/C Partners, and BankBoston | Founder, Managing Director | Current |
Name | Christopher Gaffney | ||||
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Work History | M/C Partners, and BankBoston | ||||
Title | Founder, Managing Director | ||||
Status | Current |
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