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Investments

82

Portfolio Exits

45

Funds

15

Service Providers

3

About 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.

Headquarters Location

200 Clarendon Street 29th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts, 02116,

United States

617-790-9400

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Jezebel, the pioneering women’s site, is “suspended” by G/O Media

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.

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Great Hill Partners Investments Activity

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Date

Round

Company

Amount

New?

Co-Investors

Sources

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

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10

10/5/2021

Series F

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$99M

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10

Date

1/6/2023

6/21/2022

11/15/2021

10/26/2021

10/5/2021

Round

Private Equity - IV

Private Equity

Private Equity

Private Equity

Series F

Company

NMI

Echobot

Prodege

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Amount

$54.18M

$99M

New?

No

Yes

Yes

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Co-Investors

Sources

1

3

2

10

10

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
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Acquirer

Sources

9/6/2023

Acquired

$99M

5

6/7/2022

Acq - Fin - III

$99M

1

9/8/2021

Acquired

$99M

4

7/20/2021

Acq - Fin - II

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$99M

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10

6/30/2021

IPO

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$99M

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10

Date

9/6/2023

6/7/2022

9/8/2021

7/20/2021

6/30/2021

Exit

Acquired

Acq - Fin - III

Acquired

Acq - Fin - II

IPO

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Acquirer

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Sources

5

1

4

10

10

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

4/26/2023

Private Equity

$99M

$41M

Acq - Fin

3

7/15/2021

Series C

$99M

$39.38M

Acq - Fin

13

2/9/2021

Series E+

$99M

$64.38M

Acq - Fin

5

2/4/2021

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$99M

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10

6/25/2020

Grant

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$99M

$99M

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10

Date

4/26/2023

7/15/2021

2/9/2021

2/4/2021

6/25/2020

Investment Stage

Private Equity

Series C

Series E+

Grant

Companies

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Valuation

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

$99M

Total Funding

$41M

$39.38M

$64.38M

$99M

$99M

Note

Acq - Fin

Acq - Fin

Acq - Fin

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Sources

3

13

5

10

10

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

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

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$99M

10

6/1/2015

Great Hill Equity Partners V

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$99M

10

Closing Date

2/2/2022

4/16/2020

7/9/2019

2/1/2017

6/1/2015

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

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Status

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Amount

$4,650M

$150M

$2,500M

$99M

$99M

Sources

1

2

3

10

10

Great Hill Partners Service Providers

9 Service Providers

Great Hill Partners has 9 service provider relationships

Service Provider

Associated Rounds

Provider Type

Service Type

Kirkland & Ellis

Series B

Counsel

General Counsel

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Service Provider

Kirkland & Ellis

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Associated Rounds

Series B

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Provider Type

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Service Type

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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

Christopher Gaffney

M/C Partners, and BankBoston

Founder, Managing Director

Current

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Christopher Gaffney

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Work History

M/C Partners, and BankBoston

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Founder, Managing Director

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