In 1981, Cosmo DeNicola didn’t build Amtech Software to chase headlines, he built it to fix the mess no one wanted to touch. Manufacturing floors were still stuck in analog purgatory, lost in paperwork and lag. So DeNicola, an accountant with a taste for precision and a nose for market gaps, coded his way into the chaos. Four decades later, the code evolved, the stakes scaled, and Amtech became the quiet powerhouse moving $13 billion worth of packaging software markets.
But “quiet” doesn’t quite cut it anymore.
On June 16, 2025, Amtech Software announced a strategic growth investment from Vista Equity Partners, locking arms with Peak Rock Capital, the same crew who backed their SaaS transition in 2021. Vista came in through its Foundation strategy, which doesn’t tap startups hoping to become something. They back companies already in motion, already earning their seat. Amtech didn’t just get funding. They got drafted into a league where operational excellence is the bare minimum.
Chuck Schneider took the CEO reins in 2021 and doubled the team, tripled recurring revenue, and turned a niche ERP shop into a global tech spine for over 1,250 packaging plants. He didn’t just keep the legacy alive, he gave it a second wind that’s now flying across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC. Darren Weiss joined in April 2024 with 20+ years of financial firepower and a CPA’s cold steel for numbers. Together with SVPs Danna Nelson, Darren Artillio, Bill Woerner, and Eric Nolan, they’re building more than software, they’re standardizing speed, accuracy, and visibility for 60,000+ users who can’t afford downtime.
The product names aren’t marketing fluff, they’re declarations. EnCore ERP isn’t just another SaaS acronym, it’s the encore act for plants ready to shed legacy bloat. Label Traxx ERP tracks every label like it owes it money. Axiom delivers pure scheduling geometry for sheet-fed ops that don’t tolerate chaos. All of it sits on multitenant cloud, with REST APIs that play nice with the logistics, BI, and ERP stacks most folks are still patching together.
And while the market screams AI, Amtech listens like a tactician, AI and ML features that matter, not just trend-hop. MES integrations, CAPA quality control, Veracode-verified security, this is infrastructure, not lipstick. Add William Blair, Kirkland & Ellis, and 13% CAGR market tailwinds, and you get a company less interested in “disruption” and more focused on orchestration.
