Sean Cantwell

Director at Black Kite

Sean Cantwell is a director at Black Kite and a managing partner and co-founder of Volition Capital. Sean focuses on investments in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and technology-enabled services businesses. Sean'scurrent board directorships and investments include Black Kite, Millions, One Day, Creatio, Assent Compliance, TraceLink, GRAX, and Broker Genius. Sean'spast board directorships and investments include JazzHR (acquired by K1), Visual IQ (acquired by Nielsen), GlobalTranz (acquired by The Jordan Company), iPipeline (acquired by Thoma Bravo), G5 Search Marketing (acquired by Peak Equity), Ping Identity (PING), GeoLearning (acquired by SumTotal), Velocify (acquired by Ellie Mae) and EnterpriseDB (acquired by Peak Equity).

Prior to co-founding Volition Capital in 2010, Sean was an investor at Fidelity Ventures. Sean entered the private equity industry in 2001 at Summit Partners, where they focused on growth equity investments in software businesses. Sean began their career at Arthur Andersen. Sean received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sean Cantwell has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Sean also attended Allentown Central Catholic High School.

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  • Director

    Current role