DENVER, CO, November 17, 2025 — Crest Rock Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm specializing in technology and business services investments, is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Opti9 Technologies LLC (Opti9), has acquired Aptible, a leading Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider. This strategic acquisition further strengthens Opti9’s position as a trusted North American managed cloud services provider and accelerates its mission to deliver secure, compliant, and innovative cloud solutions.
“As we continue to invest in the growth and innovation of Opti9, the acquisition of Aptible represents a significant milestone,” said Kyle Wiest, Principal at Crest Rock Partners. “Aptible’s expertise in secure and compliant PaaS solutions is a perfect complement to Opti9’s robust cloud infrastructure capabilities. We are excited about what this partnership means for Opti9’s future, which we expect will drive even greater value for customers and further position Opti9 as a leader in the evolving cloud landscape.”
Paul Butcher, CEO of Opti9, added, “For over a decade, Aptible has been a critical partner to customers focused on building products rather than managing infrastructure, and today we are excited to join forces. The combination of Opti9’s deep cloud infrastructure expertise with Aptible’s compliant and secure PaaS foundation will further differentiate us in the market. Our combined roadmap to deliver GenAI- and LLM-embedded frameworks and services will empower developers, startups, and enterprises alike to achieve rapid scale, performance, reliability, and security. We’re thrilled to bring together our comprehensive services portfolio and Aptible’s innovative platform to help partners and customers accelerate their compliant cloud initiatives to realize their digital transformation goals.”
Opti9, an AWS Premier Partner and Veeam Platinum VCSP, is focused on implementing and managing cloud deployment strategies across the entire spectrum of complex business challenges. The acquisition of Aptible unlocks new opportunities to accelerate Aptible’s roadmap, with additional capabilities set to be announced in the coming months.
Frank Macreery, Co-founder, CEO, and CTO of Aptible, commented, “We are incredibly excited about this new step forward for Aptible. We started Aptible to streamline the code shipping process for development teams, facilitating deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure scaling. Along the way, we have built an industry-leading PaaS trusted by hundreds of customers across North America. These companies face new challenges as cloud services become all-encompassing, including compute, storage, security, and delivery across multiple platform vendors. We are thrilled to become part of the Opti9 family and for the additional capabilities, investment, and support Opti9 will bring to our clients. Our shared commitment to scalability, reliability, security, and compliance is core to this strategic partnership. This marks a new chapter for Aptible and a major step forward for our current and future customers.” Frank Macreery will join Opti9’s executive team and continue to focus on innovative solutions for Aptible and the broader Opti9 solution set.
About Crest Rock Partners
Crest Rock Partners is a Denver-based private equity firm focused on the lower middle market. Founded in 2019, the firm seeks investment opportunities where it can leverage its principals’ extensive operating and investing experience to help companies execute their strategic growth initiatives. Through the team’s completion of over 65 acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, and integrations, Crest Rock has developed a differentiated investment process and partnership approach, working with management, founders, and other shareholders to establish alignment and achieve mutual objectives. Crest Rock targets control investments across multiple industry verticals, including software, technology, IT services, tech-enabled business services, manufacturing, and industrial services with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $200 million. For more information about Crest Rock, please visit www.crestrockpartners.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
About Opti9
Opti9 is a leading cloud solutions provider, delivering managed infrastructure solutions, security, and disaster recovery services across private, public, and hybrid environments to businesses in North America, Europe, and the APAC region. As an AWS Premier Partner and Veeam Platinum VCSP, Opti9 brings over 40 years of collective IT expertise. Opti9 specializes in managed cloud services, application development and modernization, backup and disaster recovery, security, and compliance. With its business-first focus, Opti9 helps organizations navigate their cloud journey with tailored solutions that optimize performance, cost, and compliance to deliver on its “Right Workload, Right Cloud, Right Time” approach.
About Aptible
Aptible is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that streamlines security and compliance, offers reliable and high-performance infrastructure as the default, allows for easy resource scaling, and features a best-in-class support team providing invaluable infrastructure expertise to their customers. In 2013, Aptible embarked on a mission to simplify HIPAA for developers in healthcare, from solo developers at startups to large-scale development teams who lacked the time/resources to delve into the compliance space. Aptible’s platform makes HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance achievable from day 1 — establishing themselves as the go-to PaaS for companies that need to prioritize compliance and security across the globe.