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Summerhill Venture Partners’ focus and expertise is in communications, digital media and information technology.

Summerhill Venture Partners’ investment professionals have an extensive and diverse mix of operational, technical and investment expertise, which enables us to develop a deep understanding of an opportunity before making an investment.  Once an investment is made, the team takes a “roll up your sleeves” approach and works closely with the company to turn innovative ideas and technologies into successful businesses.

Summerhill Venture Partners’ approach to investing is based on a thoughtful analysis of the current investment environment. The venture capital industry today continues to face major challenges as a result of the public equity market inflation of the late 1990s and the over-commitment of capital to the industry. Summerhill Venture Partners is highly focused, nimble and well-prepared to address today’s investment opportunities and challenges.

Because Summerhill Venture Partners is small, agile and focused on sectors where it has operating and investing experience, we can respond in a timely manner with investment commitments. Summerhill Venture Partners typically leads/co-leads all of its investments and takes an active role in the early stages of developing its portfolio companies. We are primarily interested in earlier stage investments (seed and Series A) located in the North East regions of the United States and Canada, and Series B investments in Silicon Valley and the Western regions of Canada and the United States.


“Summerhill Venture Partners has truly outdone itself as a partner from both a financial and strategic partner perspective. In particular, the firm has provided resources that have resulted in several key business developments. BridgePort Networks was fortunate to have a variety of investment offers. I can honestly say that choosing Summerhill Venture Partners to participate in the last investment round was one of the best decisions the company made in 2004.”

- Mike Mulica, President and CEO, BridgePort Networks