Thayer Swartwood
Partner at Akmazo Capital
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2021 - Current
Akmazo is an investment firm focused on building market-leading B2B SaaS businesses and accelerating sustainable growth by leveraging our team's proven operating experience.
Managing Member
2013 - 2020
T Capital Partners is an independent sponsor investing in Technology sector special situations including secondary-direct transactions, divestitures, family-owned businesses solving for liquidity and growth, management-led buyouts and spinouts. We are comfortable with control oriented ownership stakes, active, Board level positions or smaller "passive" positions depending on the transaction type, but in all cases serve as a partner with management and shareholders. We focus on higher margin software and technology enabled services companies ranging from Ad-Tech to Analytics and Data Aggregation to eCommerce Enablement to Marketing Automation to Online Platforms to Productivity Applications and SaaS.
Investor
2016 - 2019
EverQuote, Inc. operates the largest online marketplace for insurance shopping in the United States and partners closely with leading insurance providers and agents to offer consumers looking for auto, home or life insurance a streamlined experience, while saving them time and money.
EverQuote is an independent insurance marketplace and is a free service that helps consumers compare quotes on auto insurance.
Raised $52,568,676.00 from Recognition Capital.
Board Member
2008 - 2019
Certona is the leading real-time omnichannel personalization solution and pioneer of AI-driven experience individualization and powers over 100 billion unique experiences each month for over 500 brands in 70 countries. Certona was acquired by Kibo, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company.
co-Founder
2015 - 2018
Acend (Formerly PlatformBrown,Inc) is a technology and services company that combines telematics, big data & analytics to improve drone operations - while redefining how insurance is priced and delivered
Principal
2004 - 2012
Multi-stage venture capital firm employing both primary and secondary-direct investment strategies in the technology sector. Identified, sourced and managed investment opportunities in software and tech enabaled services sectors. Also, primary responsability for special situtations secondary portfolio and interim-CEO of ABS portfolio company.
Board Member
2008 - 2011
Acquired by KANA Software March 2011
Board Observer
2003 - 2009
Acquired by Compuware (CPWR) November 2009
Associate
2001 - 2004
As a member of DB Capital Venture Partners, the DB's venture capital group, triaged and managed a global venture portfolio. Part of team that spun-out and created an independent ABS Ventures.
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.
Manager
1999 - 2000
Member of Corporate Development team executing and overseeing a variety of corporate and strategic activities.