LiveOak Ventures

About LiveOak Ventures

LiveOak Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. With 25 years of successful venture investing in Texas, the founders of LiveOak have helped create nearly $5 billion of enterprise value. LiveOak is a complete life cycle investor focused on technology and technology-enabled service companies. With nearly $500M under management, and led/co-led over 60 high-growth investments in Texas-based leaders, such as AmplifAI, DISCO (NYSE: LAW), Eventus, Homeward, OJO Labs, Osano, SchooLinks, Take Command Health, and many more, some starting at inception. Today Texas is indeed a vibrant center for entrepreneurship, enabled by the combination of a strong and growing talent pool and an active early-stage investment ecosystem. LiveOak has continued to lead the way with over 60 investments just in the past decade and helped create numerous winners across many categories. This success has convinced us to double down on our Texas entrepreneur-focused strategy and to establish the strong foundations that help develop the leaders of the future. We are all-in on Texas, its founders and the entrepreneurial community that enables their success. Where We Invest ▪ Preferred Role: Lead/Co-Lead ▪ Stage: Seed, Series A, and Opportunistically Pre-Seed & Growth ▪ Sector: Tech and Tech-Enabled Services ▪ Initial Check Size: $500K-$10M ▪ Geography: Founder/CEO Based in Texas
People
  • Venu Shamapant, Founding Partner