Articles from Silversmith Capital Partners
Silversmith Capital Partners (“Silversmith”), a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced the first and final close of Silversmith Capital Partners Fund V (“Fund V”). Fund V closed with $1.7 billion in total commitments, including $1.6 billion from limited partners and $110 million from the Silversmith team. The close marks a significant milestone: Silversmith’s fifth fund in 10 years, bringing total capital commitments to over $5 billion and marking a decade of disciplined execution and a founder-first investment strategy.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · July 31, 2025
Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced that Lidiane Jones, an accomplished technology executive and former CEO of Slack and Bumble, has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor. Lidiane brings more than two decades of deep leadership, technical and product experience, having held senior roles at some of the world’s most innovative technology companies.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · May 19, 2025
Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced that Eric Webster has joined the firm as an Operating Partner for Go-to-Market. With over two decades of experience leading and scaling high-performance teams at high-growth technology companies, Eric will work closely with Silversmith’s portfolio companies to drive go-to-market strategies, accelerate growth, and optimize revenue operations.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · April 1, 2025

Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting entrepreneurs in healthcare and technology, today announced that Jim Costanzo, former CEO of Silversmith portfolio company Nordic Consulting, has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor. With over 40 years of experience in healthcare and technology, Jim brings deep expertise to Silversmith and its portfolio companies.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · December 9, 2024

Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced that technology industry veteran Chris Hecht has joined the firm as an Operating Partner. Chris brings extensive experience in scaling market-leading companies within technology sectors that are core to Silversmith’s focus, including software, SaaS, and data-driven platforms. In this newly created role, he will work closely with the Silversmith investment team to support deal origination and diligence and with portfolio companies to drive value creation as they continue to grow and scale their businesses.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · October 29, 2024

Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced that Mike Owens, Founder and former CEO of Absorb Software, has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor. As an entrepreneur who successfully transitioned a bootstrapped, founder-led Canadian-based company into a scaled global enterprise, Mike will provide strategic support to the Silversmith portfolio and the firm.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · April 4, 2023

Proven Optics, a practitioner-founded Financial Management software company, today announced a strategic investment from ServiceNow, adding to the majority growth investment the company received from Silversmith Capital Partners in December 2022. This marks a continued interest from ServiceNow to invest in partners building unique solutions on the ServiceNow Platform and in the financial management software category.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · January 11, 2023

Proven Optics, a practitioner-founded Financial Management software company, today announced that is has secured a majority growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. The investment marks the first time the profitable, founder-led company has raised outside capital and was made from Silversmith's fourth growth equity fund, a $1.3 billion fund raised in July 2022. Silversmith has served as the first institutional investor in numerous other leading DevOps platforms, including Appfire, Gearset, and PDFTron.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · December 6, 2022

Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, announced today that Bryan Landerman has joined the firm as Operating Partner, Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In this newly created role, Bryan will collaborate closely with entrepreneurs and leaders across the Silversmith portfolio as they look to leverage technology to deliver value through product-driven initiatives.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · October 6, 2022

GiveCampus, a leading fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions, announced today that it has closed a $50 million minority growth equity investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. Several individual investors also participated in the financing including Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel, Stripe’s Claire Hughes Johnson and founding HubSpot team member, Mike Volpe. As part of the investment, Silversmith has committed significant additional capital to provide GiveCampus employees with liquidity through a tender offer. The financing marks the first time the bootstrapped company has raised capital since raising less than $1 million from family, friends, angel investors, and Y Combinator in 2015. The capital will be used to accelerate product development and hiring across the organization.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · September 19, 2022

Northbeam, the machine learning-powered marketing measurement platform for DTC and ecommerce brands, today announced it has closed $15 million in Series A funding led by Silversmith Capital Partners. The company will use the funds for further product development, including expanding its machine learning capabilities.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · August 16, 2022

Silversmith Capital Partners (“Silversmith”) today announced the first and final close of its fourth fund, Silversmith Capital Partners IV (“Fund IV”). Launched in May 2022, Fund IV was significantly oversubscribed and closed at its target and hard cap of $1.25 billion. In addition to the $1.25 billion from limited partners, the Silversmith team will contribute $90 million to Fund IV. Fund IV is the firm’s largest to date and brings total capital raised to more than $3.3 billion since its founding in 2015. Consistent with the strategy of its predecessor funds, Fund IV will focus on partnering with and supporting the best entrepreneurs leading growing, profitable technology and healthcare companies.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · July 28, 2022

JETNET, a leading provider of aviation data and market intelligence, today announced that it has secured a majority growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. The investment marks the first time JETNET has raised outside capital since its founding in 1988. The partnership with Silversmith will enable JETNET to expand its product footprint, invest in sales and marketing, and scale the team.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · July 19, 2022

Gearset, the complete DevOps solutions provider for Salesforce, today announced it has closed a $55 million growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. The investment marks the first time Gearset has raised outside capital since its founding six years ago. The funding will allow the company to accelerate the adoption of DevOps by low-code teams in the world’s biggest organisations by expanding its product offering, growing sales and marketing, and scaling the team across the US and UK.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · June 22, 2022

Silversmith Capital Partners (“Silversmith”) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Nordic Consulting Partners (“Nordic”) by Accrete Health Partners (“Accrete”), a strategic holding company of Bon Secours Mercy Health.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · June 3, 2022

Silversmith Capital Partners (“Silversmith”) is pleased to announce that the acquisition of Market Access Transformation (“MAT”) by Genesis Research has closed. MAT’s co-founders, Baiju Aurora and Paul Howard, will continue to lead MAT as a wholly owned subsidiary and will remain shareholders.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · May 23, 2022

AppHub today announced a new eCommerce software platform to provide an integrated suite of complementary applications that can simply, and cost effectively drive merchant success. In conjunction with the launch, AppHub announced it has received a $60 million growth investment from Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. The investment will support the Company’s internal development of new applications and strategic acquisitions of eCommerce application companies as it builds out its suite of best-of-breed software solutions that enable eCommerce merchants to start, grow and scale their businesses. AppHub’s platform currently serves more than 100K merchants across 20+ applications, including the recent acquisitions of six founder-led eCommerce application companies:
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · April 21, 2022

Silversmith Capital Partners today announced the promotion of Rafael Urdaneta to Chief Financial Officer. Since joining Silversmith in 2018 as Vice President of Finance, Raf has played an integral role in all finance and compliance related matters of the of the firm.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · January 5, 2022

Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced that Brad Coffey, Chief Customer Officer at Pipe and former Chief Strategy Officer at HubSpot, has joined the firm as a Senior Advisor. Brad brings significant experience serving in leadership roles across functional areas with category-defining companies. He will add value across the firm through his industry insights, perspectives on new investments, and strategic guidance to Silversmith portfolio companies.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · October 7, 2021

TMA Systems, a world-class provider of advanced Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), announced that it has secured a $68 million majority growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm. The investment marks the first time TMA Systems has raised outside capital. The partnership with Silversmith will enable TMA Systems to accelerate investment in R&D and sales & marketing.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · October 5, 2021

Zonos, the global technology leader for cross-border commerce, announced today a $69 million minority investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm, with additional participation from individual investors including Eric Rea, co-founder and CEO of Podium, Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight, Austen Allred, co-founder and CEO of Lambda School, Josh James, founder and CEO of Domo, and David Elkington, founder of InsideSales.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · September 15, 2021

Silversmith Capital Partners (“Silversmith”) is pleased to announce that the acquisition of Absorb Software (“Absorb,” or the “Company”) by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) has closed. The sale achieves a greater than $500 million enterprise valuation for the Company. Founder & CEO Mike Owens, along with other members of management team, will remain significant shareholders in the Company.
By Silversmith Capital Partners · Via Business Wire · May 26, 2021