Aaron Perman
Partner at S3 Ventures
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2013 - Current
S3 Ventures - the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas entrepreneurs - makes Seed, Series A, and Series B investments in start-ups across three sectors: Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology. S3′s portfolio includes: Alkami, Alleviant, Allstacks, Atmosphere, Buildforce, Braincheck, CereTax, Crogl, Genda, HYAS, Hydrolix, Ictero Medical, Interplay Learning, LeanDNA, Liquibase, Nexus, NoiseAware, Plural, Prokeep, QBDVision, RepVue, Riscosity, Saranas, Stellar, Sudozi, Sunthetics, UpEquity, Upkey, Videate, VUV Analytics, ZSuite Tech.
Investor
2025
Crogl is the only autonomous knowledge engine for security operations. It investigates every alert and executes threat hunts by continuously learning your processes with speed, consistency, and depth.
Investor
2024
Sunthetics is a machine learning (ML) company specializing in accelerating innovation and sustainability in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms and small datasets, Sunthetics' software guides experimentation in chemical labs, empowering industries to reduce their carbon footprint while optimizing production efficiency. Founded with the mission of revolutionizing traditional manufacturing practices with democratized AI, Sunthetics has been recognized for its innovation in green technology and commitment to a sustainable future.
Board Member
2024
Hydrolix is a streaming data lake that combines decoupled storage, indexed search, and stream processing to deliver real-time query performance at terabyte-scale for a radically lower cost.
Investor
2022
Hydrolix is a data management company that specializes in providing solutions for storing, managing, and analyzing large-scale data.
Raised $65,000,000.00 from Oregon Venture Fund, Wing Venture Capital, S3 Ventures, AV8 Ventures and Nava Ventures.
Board Member
2024
CereTax is a next-generation sales tax automation solution that leverages the latest advancements in cloud technology to revolutionize how a sales tax calculation platform operates. CereTax processes millions of transactions per month for some of the largest enterprises, enabling companies to do business reliably and in compliance.
CereTax is here to show tax managers, tax directors.
Raised $19,000,000.00 from S3 Ventures, Wild Basin Investments and Leaders Fund.
Board Member
2023
Riscosity is the pioneer in Third-Party Data Observability (TPDO). Revolutionizing the ability of enterprises to gain visibility into and mitigate their data supply chain risk, Riscosity enables organizations to quickly develop, confidently deploy, and securely manage software that leverages third-party components and data sub-processors without compromise. Trusted by large public and private enterprises, Riscosity leads the TPDO market.
Riscosity is the data flow posture management platform built to enable control, visibility, and compliance for data going to third parties.
Raised $7,000,000.00 from Firebolt Ventures, S3 Ventures and Secure Octane.
Board Member
2022
Plural develops cutting-edge legislative tracking tools which make it easy to discover, interpret, and collaborate on public policy change. Plural gives government relations professionals an edge by giving them clarity on the status and changes to bills, enabling them to develop more inclusive strategies and quickly take action on pending legislation. Plural's tools deliver open access to legislative information, and provide simple to use, modern approaches to public policy tracking and collaboration.
Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Comeback Capital, Backstage Capital, Techstars, Higher Ground Labs and Boomtown Accelerators.
Investor
2022
Track, collaborate, budget, approve and optimize all in one integrated awesome-to-use real-time finance platform.
Sudozi is a real-time platform that track, collaborate, budget, and approve budget management and vendor management workflow.
Raised $4,300,000.00 from Mischief, Pear VC, S3 Ventures and Nick Candito.
Investor
2021
Buildforce is building the first ever career lifecycle platform for people in the construction trades. It's end-to-end career platform enables people in the construction trades to leverage their skills to maintain consistent work at fair pay and with the benefits of a W-2 employee.
Buildforce is a marketplace and career lifecycle platform for people in the construction trades
Raised $12,425,995.00 from S3 Ventures, Mercury and TDF Ventures.
Investor
2021
HYAS is the world’s leading authority on cyber adversary infrastructure and communication to that infrastructure.