Chris Mitchell
Managing Director @ Spectrum Equity
Boston, United States
Chris Mitchell is a private equity investor at Spectrum Equity in Boston focused on FinTech and Software. MANAGING DIRECTOR at Spectrum Equity, Chris joined the firm in 2001 and is a Managing Director. His investment focus includes Internet-enabled information services, software, and financial technology. Before joining Spectrum, Chris worked at TA Associates and Monitor Clipper Partners. He serves as a Director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts and is a Charter Trustee of The Roxbury Latin School. Chris received an AB in Classics, cum laude, from Princeton University.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 86%
Last updated:
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Industries Chris Mitchell invests in
Stages Chris Mitchell invests in
Countries Chris Mitchell invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (29%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Fraud Detection 2 (29%)
- Financial Services 2 (29%)
- Information Services 2 (29%)
Stage
- Private Equity 6 (86%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 5 (71%)
- Canada 2 (29%)
Investments
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| Launched in 2018, SponsorUnited is a global sports and entertainment intelligence platform. SponsorUnited enables brands, agencies, and properties to partner intelligently by connecting the entire partnership ecosystem through the most comprehensive data available anywhere.SponsorUnited has over 10M images, 10M assets, 700K deals, 200K brands,22K properties—across sports, media, music and events in its SaaS database.Through detailed analysis and machine learning, SponsorUnited is able to efficiently identify partnership opportunities based on historical performance trends and broad curation and standardization of ideas and strategies, all within the format of a marketplace.The company has diversified solutions to suit all levels and complexities of sponsorship that make entering or scaling in sponsorship much easier. | $35M / Series A / Nov 20, 2022 | ||
| RapidRatings® is transforming the way the world’s leading companies manage enterprise and financial risk. RapidRatings provides the most sophisticated analysis of the financial health of public and private companies in the world. The company’s analytics system provides predictive insights into third-party partners, suppliers, vendors, customersand securities issuers. Business relationships informed by the RapidRatings Financial Health System™ are more productive, transparent and rewarding. | $200M / Private Equity / Feb 14, 2022 | ||
| Tenstreet provides web-based tools to nearly 1,000 motor carriers and private fleets to help recruit, hire and manage drivers. Over the last decade, the platform has been used by 3 million drivers and offers drivers the easiest way to find their next job. | Private Equity / Nov 16, 2016 | ||
| RainKing is a marketing system that supports sales teams with enterprise leads, customer leads, and marketing in the IT sector. | $67M / Private Equity / Oct 13, 2015 | ||
| Ethoca is a global collaboration-based tech services company that helps connect card issuers to online merchants in order to stop fraud slipping through their defenses and recapture lost revenues. Its network consists of card issuing banks and merchants working together through a single automated connection outside the payment networks stream totheir mutual benefit. Merchants use its direct-from-source card issuer data to stop the fulfillment of products tied to fraudulent accounts on orders they are actively processing while Ethoca Alerts reduces the time it takes for merchants to be alerted of fraud. Founded in 2005, Ethoca is headquarted in Toronto, Canada. | $45M / Private Equity / Jul 16, 2015 | ||
| Definitive Healthcare aims transform data, analytics and expertise into healthcare commercial intelligence. We help clients uncover the right markets, opportunities and people, so they can shape tomorrow’s healthcare industry. Our SaaS platform creates new paths to commercial success in the healthcare market, so companies can identify where to gonext. | Private Equity / Mar 02, 2015 | ||
| Verafin provides a cloud-based cross-institutional software platform for Fraud Detection and Management, BSA/AML Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management, and Secure 314(b) Information Sharing. More than 2600 banks and credit unions use Verafin to effectively fight financial crime and comply with regulations.Leveraging itsbig data intelligence, visual storytelling, and collaborative investigation capabilities, Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts, delivers context-rich insights, and streamlines the daunting BSA/AML compliance processes that financial institutions face today. Verafin is the exclusive provider for Texas Bankers Association, Western Bankers Association, Florida Bankers Association, Illinois Bankers Association, Massachusetts Bankers Association, and CUNA Strategic Services, with industry endorsements in 47 U.S. states. | $60M / Private Equity / May 15, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About Spectrum Equity
Spectrum Equity is a private equity firm, provides capital and strategic support to internet, software, and information services companies. The firm seeks to invest in companies with defensible and sustainable business models.
Spectrum Equity Contacts
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Bill Collatos
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Bruno Werneck de Almeida
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Chris Mitchell
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Michael Radonich
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Ronan Cunningham
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What does Chris Mitchell invest in?
Chris Mitchell invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Fraud Detection startups, most often at Private Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Chris Mitchell closed in Nov 2022. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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