John O'Connor

Silversmith

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023
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Growth Equity Investor
2023
Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with over $5 billion in capital under management. Silversmith seeks to partner with founders and entrepreneurs building enduring technology and healthcare businesses. The firm brings deep domain expertise, strategic perspective, and a long-term partnership approach to help management teams accelerate growth. The firm has served as the first institutional partner to some of the most dynamic and successful companies in its core verticals, including Appfire, Apryse, DistroKid, Iodine Software, and LifeStance Health.
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2020
Apteans AI-powered, enterprise software serves manufacturers and distributors worldwide across food and beverage, apparel, transportation and more. Through the AI-native Aptean AppCentral platform, applications like ERP, WMS, EAM, TMS and more operate together using a unified private data lake. Aptean Intelligence is built directly into them, helping teams make faster, better-informed decisions. And with 10,000+ customers and decades of industry expertise, Aptean is the partner organizations rely upon for future-proof technology. Aptean’s solutions and services help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Aptean has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. To learn more about Aptean and the markets we serve, visit www.aptean.com.
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2023
Growth Equity Investor
2023
Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with over $5 billion in capital under management. Silversmith seeks to partner with founders and entrepreneurs building enduring technology and healthcare businesses. The firm brings deep domain expertise, strategic perspective, and a long-term partnership approach to help management teams accelerate growth. The firm has served as the first institutional partner to some of the most dynamic and successful companies in its core verticals, including Appfire, Apryse, DistroKid, Iodine Software, and LifeStance Health.
2022
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2022
Tecnosylva is a technology company focused on the development of emergency solutions, such as forest fires. To this effect, we apply tools such as fiResponse and Wildfire Analyst. We also offer a consulting service and land engineering service in the natural environment. Our results over the years guarantee the quality of our projects which, from a multidisciplinary approach, offer services and solutions to real problems in the environment. We are committed to the develpment of software products which facilitate the application of new technologies in areas such as emergency management and forest fire control.
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2022
Veracode is a global leader in Application Risk Management for the AI era. Powered by trillions of lines of code scans and a proprietary AI-assisted remediation engine, the Veracode platform offers adaptive software security and is trusted by organizations worldwide to build and maintain secure software from code creation to cloud deployment. Thousands of the world’s leading development and security teams use Veracode every second of every day to get accurate, actionable visibility of exploitable risk, achieve real-time vulnerability remediation, and reduce their security debt at scale. Veracode is a multi-award-winning company offering capabilities to secure the entire software development life cycle, including Veracode Fix, Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Software Composition Analysis, Container Security, Application Security Posture Management, Malicious Package Detection, and Penetration Testing.
2021
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2021
PDQ is device management for sysadmins, by sysadmins, thats simple, secure, and pretty damn quick. Streamline your patch management and software deployment processes — whether you manage 50 machines or 5,000. PDQ is proud to power SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy along with PDQ Deploy & Inventory, PDQ Connect, and PDQ Detect. PDQ Deploy Free yourself and your team from pesky, repetitive tasks by unlocking powerful automations so everyone can focus on more important things with PDQ Deploy. Update third-party software, deploy custom scripts, and make impactful configuration changes in minutes. PDQ Inventory Streamline your systems management with PDQ Inventory. Scan, collect, and organize your machines so deployments go exactly where you need them to. It truly is the MacGyver of sysadmin tools. PDQ Connect Deploy packages in just a few clicks, automate repeat tasks, and get instant insights — from the cloud. PDQ Detect Avoid wasting time on vulnerabilities that will never meaningfully impact your organization. Secure your Windows, Apple, and Linux devices by prioritizing the highest-risk vulnerabilities. Visit our website, PDQ.com, for a free download and check out our YouTube channel to get the most out of your newly installed PDQ software.
2020
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2020
Idera, Inc. has always focused on the end-user, and helping software users make real-time technical decisions in business. Over the past 20 years, Idera, Inc. has delivered more tools and innovations to more people, and established itself as a trusted advisor by expanding the Idera, Inc. portfolio of brands. Idera, Inc. brands deliver the B2B software tools that technical users trust most. From database administration to application development to test management, our solutions help you do more for less so you can achieve your strategic goals.
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