Bow River Capital, a Denver-based alternative asset manager, has hired Matt Warta as a managing director on the software growth equity team.

Warta will oversee the sourcing and due diligence of majority-control transactions, lead the board of directors across SaaS platform companies and build relationships with founders and tech CEOs in Bow River Capital’s software growth equity portfolio. Warta began his investment career at Koch Ventures (now Koch Disruptive Technologies) in 1996. He was a general partner at Village Ventures and the co-founder and CEO of GutCheck for more than 10 years. Most recently, he was an executive at EverCommerce Inc., where he lead the combination of five client-centered digital marketing firms.