Silversmith Capital Partners

Two weeks ago, we announced our investment in Vantora (formerly UP.Labs). Today, we're sharing more about what drew us to the company and why we're excited to partner with John Kuolt and the Vantora team. https://lnkd.in/dwkqW4Pg

A warm welcome to our newest Silversmith Capital Partners teammates. Jamie Brennan, Rachel Doman, Mathias Melucci, Andrew Ng, and Yeju S. Srivastava, we are thrilled to have you on board!

We're excited to announce our $100M+ investment in Vantora (formerly UP.Labs), a profitable, founder-led company that has never taken outside capital until now. Vantora was doing Physical AI before there was a name for it. Now they're creating a category of their own. By building ventures inside industrial giants like Porsche, Alaska Airlines, and J.B. Hunt, Vantora delivers demonstrated ROI and gives partners a path to own the intelligence layer of their own operations. We couldn't be happier to welcome John Kuolt, Sid Shah, Louis Matthews, D. Patrick Pettay, Stefan Teulon and the entire Vantora team to the Silversmith Capital Partners family. Many thanks to The Wall Street Journal reporter Maria Armental for sharing the company's story: https://lnkd.in/eVQRkc_K

We're excited to announce our $110 million investment in Perry Weather, a leading weather safety and operations platform, with participation from Arthur Ventures. Perry Weather has built a differentiated platform that pairs on-site weather stations with automated alerts. More than 3,000 organizations, from school districts and cities to leading construction firms, manufacturers, and major professional sports leagues, trust Perry Weather to protect their people and operations from severe weather and extreme heat.   We're thrilled to partner with Colin Perry and the Perry Weather team as they expand their Dallas headquarters, accelerate their AI roadmap, and continue to set the standard for turning real-time weather data into safer, faster decisions. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ghTuKEEX

We’re proud to share that for the fourth consecutive year, Silversmith Capital Partners has been named to GrowthCap's Top Private Equity Firms of 2026 list. “Silversmith being named a Top Private Equity Firm is an honor that ultimately belongs to the founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams we partner with. They're the ones doing the hard work of building enduring technology and healthcare companies. Our aim is simple: to be the partner we'd want if we were in their seat, supporting them with consistency, candor, and humility at every stage of growth." Jim Quagliaroli, Co-Founder & Managing Partner View Silversmith’s inclusion and the full list here: https://lnkd.in/gUfyNFPE Silversmith submitted a nomination and paid a fee to distribute the results. The Top Private Equity Firms recognition, issued by GrowthCap on August 27, 2026, was based on the time period of 8/1/2025 – 8/1/2026. There can be no assurance that other providers or surveys would reach the same conclusion as the party conferring the award referenced herein.

This past weekend, 14 members of the Silversmith Capital Partners team clipped in for the 2026 Pan-Mass Challenge as part of the largest Walker's Wings team in its history—24 riders strong. What started as a small group of riders is now a ten-year firm tradition that has raised cumulatively over $4.0 million, with every mile and every dollar raised supporting cancer research and care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Congratulations to our Silversmith riders: Jeffrey Crisan, Brian Peterson, Marc Munfa, Ned Kingsley, Tod Pesses, Jordan Braunstein, Graham Wagner, Matthew Nash, Brandon Booth, Alexander Sideropoulos, Becca Gilmore, Cooper Harrison, Kelly Yu, and Haley Leversedge, MEM—and to the entire Walker's Wings team on a remarkable ride. #PanMassChallenge #PMC2026 #DanaFarber

Last week, we welcomed finance leaders from across the Silversmith Capital Partners portfolio to Boston for our 2026 CFO Summit — a day of candid, real-world conversations among growth-stage CFOs. Highlights from the day included: ·      A fireside chat led by Silversmith's Marc Munfa with Heba Musa of Vastian (and formerly Fund I portfolio company Absorb Software) on what it really takes to prepare a company for a successful exit — and the lessons every CFO can apply long before a sale process begins ·      AI Roadmap for the Modern CFO: From Pilot to Production — practical lessons on implementing AI responsibly and generating real returns, with Chrissie Gorman Francona (The Long Game), Evan Dooher (Macánta Consulting), Thomas Conway (brightfin), and Katherine M. (JETNET) ·      Building A-Player Finance Teams — recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional people as organizations scale, with Julia Frenette (Silversmith) and Heba Musa (Vastian) ·      M&A: Best Practices in Acquisitions and Integrations — lessons from diligence through post-close value creation, with Jack Behrens (Opensignal), Warren Gouk (Nira Medical), and Christopher Newhall (Validity Inc.) A special thank-you to all our guest speakers and panelists for so generously sharing their time, experience, and hard-won lessons with the group. The best ideas at these summits rarely come from the stage — they come from CFOs comparing notes over coffee and lunch. Grateful to everyone who made the trip and made the day what it was. A few moments from the day below. #CFOSummit #GrowthEquity #FinanceLeaders #Silversmith

Every year, our summer outing gives us a chance to step away and spend real time together as a team. This year that meant two days in Portland, Maine, with fishing, golf, small group dinners that went long, and a few of us discovering that pottery is harder than it looks. And in the middle of it, a genuinely energizing session on how we're weaving AI into the way Silversmith Capital Partners operates day to day.   It was a great reminder that the best part of what we do is who we get to do it with.   #Silversmith #TeamCulture #SummerOuting #PortlandMaine

Exciting news from the Apryse team on their acquisition of Pdftools! This expands Apryse's global footprint — accelerating international growth through PDF Tools' strong European presence — and strengthens its enterprise-grade document processing technology for developers. Congrats to all! 

Congratulations to Talon.One! Looking forward to seeing what the Adyen + Talon.One teams achieve together.