Silversmith Capital Partners, a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, today announced the addition of nine new team members to the firm including Livia Reuss as Senior Associate, Annie Cory and Alex Sideropoulos as Associates, and Ashanti Greene, Jerry Karalis, Ruben Luthra, Apurva Oak, Dade Ogunmuyiwa, and Edbert Wu as Analysts.
New team members include:
Livia Reuss, Senior Associate
Liv focuses on investments in SaaS & Information Services, particularly within sales, marketing, and customer experience technology. Prior to Silversmith, Liv was an investor at TA Associates where she focused on partnering with entrepreneurs in vertical market software. Before TA, Liv began her career on Morgan Stanley’s power and utilities investment banking team. Liv graduated from Middlebury College with a BA, summa cum laude.
Annie Cory, Associate
Annie focuses on investments in SaaS & Information Services. Prior to Silversmith, Annie was an investor at Summit Partners where she focused on partnering with entrepreneurs in enterprise software. Before joining Summit, Annie began her career on Morgan Stanley’s technology investment banking team. Annie graduated from Princeton University with a BA, magna cum laude, in Public and International Affairs.
Alex Sideropoulos, Associate
Alex focuses on investments in Healthcare IT & Services. Prior to Silversmith, Alex worked in investment banking at William Blair and Citi where he helped advise clients on private capital markets transactions. Alex graduated from Georgetown University with a BBA, summa cum laude, in Finance and Accounting.
Ashanti Greene, Analyst
Ashanti focuses on investments in SaaS & Information Services. Prior to Silversmith, Ashanti worked as an investment banking summer analyst at Morgan Stanley and an investment office intern at the Brown University Endowment. Ashanti graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Public Policy and an Economics minor from Duke University.
Jerry Karalis, Analyst
Jerry focuses on investments in SaaS & Information Services. Prior to Silversmith, Jerry worked as a summer analyst at VSS Capital Partners and Constitution Capital Partners. Jerry graduated from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College with a BS in Management and concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and a minor in Managing for Social Impact and Public Good.
Ruben Luthra, Analyst
Ruben focuses on investments in SaaS & Information Services. Prior to Silversmith, in the summers Ruben worked in business development at Pure Watercraft and as a QMS intern at Icertis. Reuben graduated from Georgetown University with a BBA in Finance and a minor in Science, Technology, and International Affairs.
Apurva Oak, Analyst
Apurva focuses on investments in Healthcare IT & Services. Prior to Silversmith, Apurva conducted research at the Cil Lab of University of California, San Francisco. While there, she focused on drug discovery and disease pathogenesis mechanisms for gastrointestinal diseases. Apurva graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a BS, summa cum laude, in Cellular and Molecular Biology and received a MA in Biotechnology from Columbia University.
Dade Ogunmuyiwa, Analyst
Dade focuses on investments in Healthcare IT & Services. Prior to Silversmith, Dade worked for a summer as an investor at Insight Partners where he covered Healthcare IT and SaaS. Prior to his time at Insight Partners, Dade developed a caregiver navigation platform for Alzheimer’s caregivers. Dade graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Health and Society with a concentration in Healthcare Markets and Finance.
Edbert Wu, Analyst
Edbert focuses on investments in SaaS & Information Services. Prior to Silversmith, Edbert was a summer investment analyst at Palm Drive Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in New York, and growth intern at Topline Pro, a startup helping expand the online presence of contractors. Edbert graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Economics, with honors, with a secondary in Government.
