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Sri Rao

General Partner at Silversmith Capital Partners

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Sri Rao is currently a General Partner at Silversmith Capital Partners in Boston, Massachusetts, with a strong background in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions. Notable career highlights include leading investments in companies like Constructor and AppHub, showcasing expertise in SMB software and SaaS sectors. Rao's career progression includes roles at Salesforce as Senior Director and Executive Director, Strategy, demonstrating a track record of success in corporate development and strategic partnerships.

Work Experience 

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Silversmith Capital Partners

  • General Partner

    2015 - Current

    Silversmith is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management Involved with firm’s investments in ActiveCampaign, Appfire, AppHub, Constructor, DistroKid, Gearset, Impact, Microblink, Northbeam, Apryse, Validity and Webflow

Silversmith Capital Partners is partnering with entrepreneurs in the technology and healthcare industry.

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Salesforce

  • Senior Director, Advertising Products

    2012 - 2015

    Head of Operations for Advertising Products business unit Products include social.com (leading social advertising technology for media optimization) and Active Audiences (audience management platform for activation of CRM data) Led product management for Active Audiences (Facebook Innovation Competition Award Winner), go to market strategy, partnerships, sales operations, forecasting, financial planning, training/enablement, tech support functions for Advertising Products business unit https://www.salesforce.com/products/marketing-cloud/digital-advertising/

  • Executive Director, Strategy

    2012 - 2012

    Strategy (sales, product, corporate) and chief of staff role reporting to Mike Lazerow, Founder/CEO of Buddy Media.

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.

Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.

salesforce.com
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TA Associates

  • Associate

    2009 - 2012

    Private equity for growth technology businesses

TA Associates invests in technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer, and business services.

ta.com
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Jefferies & Company

  • Analyst

    2007 - 2009

    M&A for growth technology businesses

Education 

Investments 

Constructor

Series A

Total funding: $86M

AppHub

Series A

Total funding: $160M

Northbeam

Series A

Total funding: $30M

Gearset

Private Equity

Total funding: $55M

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