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Venu Shamapant
Founding Partner at LiveOak Ventures
Austin, Texas
Overview
Venu Shamapant is the Founder of LiveOak Ventures, a venture capital firm in Austin, Texas, specializing in investing in early-stage companies in sectors such as security, SaaS, and FinTech. With an MBA from Harvard Business School and a track record of successful investments in companies like Osano, TrustRadius, and Lifesize, Venu has established himself as a strategic investor with a keen eye for promising startups.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2011 - Current
LiveOak Ventures is an an Austin, TX based early stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and technology driven services companies based in Texas and the Southwest.
Member Board of Directors
2024
Revisto is a pioneer AI-powered technology that simplifies the medical, legal, and regulatory review process for pharmaceutical marketing.
Raised $4,000,000.00 from Arkin Digital Health, Eli Lilly, Tau Ventures and LiveOak Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2024
Illuma is a credit union service organization that offers real-time voice authentication and fraud prevention solutions for credit unions.
Raised $9,000,000.00 from Connexus Credit Union, LiveOak Ventures, UsNet, Forefront Venture Partners, Capital Factory, Texas Dow Employees Credit Union and Curql.
Member, Board of Directors
2019
Applying science to make teams better.
Raised $22,400,000.00 from Breyer Capital, Dallas Venture Capital, Greycroft, Capital Factory and LiveOak Ventures.
Member, Board of Directors
2018
Osano is a provider of a data privacy compliance suite that aids businesses in complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
Raised $44,400,000.00 from Jump Capital, Next Coast Ventures, TDF Ventures, Baird Capital, LiveOak Ventures and First Ascent Ventures.
Member Board Of Directors
2017
TrustRadius is a provider of an online review site used to offer business technology and software reviews.
Raised $25,100,000.00 from Next Coast Ventures, LiveOak Ventures and Mayfield Fund.
Investor
2020
Take Command Health is an innovative health insurance software provider for small businesses and independent professionals.
Raised $46,200,000.00 from LiveOak Ventures, SJF Ventures and Edison Partners.
Member, Board of Directors
2020
Cloud Native Runtime Security from Spyderbat detects and stops attacks throughout your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Raised $14,200,000.00 from John McHale, NTT Venture Capital, LiveOak Ventures and Benhamou Global Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2019
Flo Recruit enables law firms to hire faster and support law schools in helping their students find jobs.
Raised $14,814,762.00 from Tau Ventures, Moneta Ventures, LiveOak Ventures, Alumni Ventures, LiveOak Ventures, Y Combinator and Teamworthy Ventures.
Investor
2016
Data.world is the cloud-native data catalog platform.
Raised $132,300,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Dave Liu, Vopak, Paul Albright, Scott Stephenson, Sandbox Insurtech Ventures, Richard Braddock, Alumni Ventures, Prologis Ventures and Zachary Karabell.
Education
Investments
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