# Chris Hecht

> Chris Hecht is a seed investor at Silversmith Capital Partners backing SaaS. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Silversmith Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silversmith-capital-partners)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cahecht
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cahecht
- Website: https://x.com/cahecht
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.hecht

Chris Hecht is a seed investor at Silversmith Capital Partners in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Chris Hecht is the current Operating Partner of Silversmith Capital Partners. He previously worked at Databricks as an SVP. Chris Hecht attended UCLA Anderson School of Management.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 5 | 50% |
| Software | 4 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 40% |
| Analytics | 3 | 30% |
| CRM | 2 | 20% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 20% |
| Series B | 2 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series D | 1 | 10% |
| Series E | 1 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Prophecy.io | Prophecy.io offers a data transformation copilot that assists users in developing, deploying, and monitoring data pipelines across cloud platforms. The platform integrates AI and a visual interface to enhance productivity for various data users, enabling them to manage complex data workflows with ease. | $35M | Series B | Oct 02, 2023 |  |
| Catalyst Software | Catalyst, now part of Totango, empowers teams to identify and capitalize on expansion and upsell opportunities, driving recurring revenue growth. Built to simplify complex strategies, it helps businesses achieve sustainable success by aligning each action with your customer’s key objectives, ensuring they achieve their desired outcomes for yourproduct or service. Catalyst unlocks your team’s potential to deliver smarter, faster, and scalable results, paving the way for long-term success. |  |  | May 25, 2023 |  |
| Snyk | Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customersatisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture.Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce.Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021. | $75M | Series F | Sep 30, 2021 |  |
| Snyk | Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customersatisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture.Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce.Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021. | $304M | Series F | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| Split Software | Split Software is a feature delivery platform that builds better software for engineering teams to build impactful products. Its feature delivery platform pairs the speed and reliability of feature flags with data to measure the impact of every feature. Engineering teams at Twilio, Salesforce, and WePay use Split to reduce software developmentcycle time, mitigate release risk, and create a data-driven culture to maximize impact. Founded in 2015, Split is based in Redwood City, California with offices in Boston and Argentina. It is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and Harmony Partners. | $50M | Series D | Aug 17, 2021 |  |
| adam.ai | adam.ai is an all-in-one meeting management platform that helps organizations, teams, and professionals manage their entire meeting lifecycle to ensure real results and paves the way to drive business outcomes. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 03, 2021 |  |
| TrustCloud | Kintent is an all-in-one revenue-accelerating compliance platform. Kintent automates security compliance audit readiness, uses machine learning and NLP to auto-suggest answers to security questionnaires, and generates a live, elegant website and API that lets companies share and prove compliance with their customers. Our first area of focus is tostreamline how trust is established between a buyer and seller of software - specifically in the area of security and data privacy compliance. As Kintent grows and scales, our focus will naturally shift to other areas of a business. | $4M | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| TrustCloud | TrustCloud is a leader in AI-native GRC transformation for CISOs, delivering the first security assurance platform designed to integrate the relationship between GRC and cybersecurity. The platform delivers the option of distinct applications to manage every facet of enterprise security risk and compliance and turn GRC into a profit center. Learnmore at TrustCloud.ai. | $4M | Seed | Apr 01, 2021 |  |
| Snyk | Snyk empowers the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Its developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customersatisfaction, cost savings, and an overall improved security posture.Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce.Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021. | $175M | Series E | Mar 10, 2021 |  |
| Vivun | Vivun delivers Hero, the world’s most advanced AI Sales Teammate—automating the critical work required to move complex deals forward. By providing expertise and generating sales-ready outputs that help every rep engage stakeholders, build value, and drive urgency, Vivun empowers sales teams to close more deals, faster.For more information, visitvivun.com. | $35M | Series B | Feb 10, 2021 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Salesforce Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/salesforce-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Alkeon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alkeon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Chang Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chang-com-0014) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Franklin Templeton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/franklin-templeton-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Silversmith Capital Partners

VC Fund · Boston, United States

Silversmith Capital Partners invests in technology and healthcare companies. Its mission is to partner with and support entrepreneurs in growing, profitable technology, and healthcare companies.

5 contacts available at Silversmith Capital Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alison Fiore | Executive Assistant | — |
| Brian Peterson | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-peterson-3 |
| Chris Hecht | Operating Partner | — |
| Conor Finn | Associate | — |
| Graham Wagner | Growth Equity Investor | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Chris Hecht invest in?

Chris Hecht invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Chris Hecht last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Chris Hecht closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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