Charles Thornburgh couldn't keep his kids o of Roblox. The serial edtech founder had stepped back from his CEO role at the Austin, Texas-based edtech giant Civitas Learning in 2019, and had been spending more time with his two young sons while he decided what to do next. He watched his sons play online games for hours at a time, and heard from his friends that their kids were doing the same...Read More

Osano, an Austin, Texas-based startup developing a platform to help companies manage their data privacy, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Baird Capital with First Ascent Ventures, Jump Capital, LiveOak, NextCoast and TDF....Read more

Flo Recruit, legal recruitment software unlocking data-driven strategy for law firms, announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $4.2M seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners and Moneta Ventures with participation from Tau Ventures and Alumni Ventures. Flo Recruit intends to use the funds to accelerate the expansion of its Flo Recruit Applicant Tracking product, particularly in developing advanced reporting and deep system integration for clients....Read More

And post-game, Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners share their investing strategies....Read more

Backflip, an all-in-one real estate and fintech platform for fix-and-flip investors, today announced its second Impact Report highlighting impressive lending metrics to diverse individuals in the residential redevelopment industry. Backflip's findings also highlight stark differences in private lending from traditional mortgage lenders that showcase fairer, more inclusive lending practices....Read more

MedScout, the revenue acceleration platform revolutionizing commercial operations for medtech and life sciences companies, is excited to announce the successful completion of a $5M Seed investment round....Read more

Over 85% of cybersecurity breaches continue to involve a social action or error. Also known as people-targeted attacks, these are attacks such as phishing, business email compromise (BEC), stolen credentials, or unintentional user-downloaded malware. Despite nonstop technological innovation and improved security measures, this statistic has remained nearly unchanged for over a decade as threats continue to find a way to users....Read more

Austin, Texas, June 6, 2023 – Keep Aware, the company pioneering a human-centric approach to browser security, today announced a $2.4 million round led by LiveOak Venture Partners, with participation from Runtime Ventures and prominent angel investors in the cybersecurity industry. Keep Aware will use this funding to accelerate product development and establish go-to-market programs, enabling it to support its growing customer base and keep up with surging demand....Read more

Setpoint closed a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Henry Kravis (KKR), Spencer Rascoff (co-founder Zillow & 75andSunny), Fifth Wall, 645 Ventures, NextView Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, Vesta Ventures, ATX Venture Partners and Capital Factory.....Read more

1Password, a leader in human-centric security and privacy, today announced the acquisition of Passage, a developer-first passwordless authentication company. 1Password will use Passage's technology to launch a passwordless authentication platform for enterprises – enabling a safer, simpler, and more secure end-user experience across any platform or device...Read more

When Venu Shamapant and Krishna Srinivasan graduated with their master’s degrees from UT in 1990 and 1995, they never envisioned becoming venture capitalists, holding the ability to invest in potentially high-impact startups. However, the two spent the past decades running one of Texas’ most successful venture capital firms....Read more

The flow of venture capital to Austin startups has slowed abruptly as investors take a step back amid economic uncertainty and recession fears. Austin companies raised $701 million in the third quarter of 2022, marking a 30% drop from the same quarter a year ago, according to a new report by research firm Pitchbook and the National Venture Capital Association....Read more

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveOak Venture Partners, an Austin-based venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage tech startups across Texas, announced today that it has been named on Inc.’s list of Founder-Friendly Investors for 2022, honoring the private equity and venture capital firms that have helped founder-led businesses thrive....Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, is delighted to announce the expansion of its investment team with the addition of Paola Retes as Vice President. This addition to the team coincides with the launch of the firm’s third fund, a $210M fund focused on early-stage companies based in Texas...Read more

ClosingLock, an Austin startup that has developed a secure platform to close real estate transactions, announced Tuesday it has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by LiveOak Venture Partners with participation from RWT Horizons and GTMfund...Read more

On Wednesday, August 3 the Austin Chamber in partnership with SXSW held the 11th Annual A-LIST Awards. This event is designed to recognize homegrown companies in various growth stages. These companies are developing new ways to connect with customers while transforming their industries and creating a robust culture for their employees. For the first time this year, the A-LIST Awards also honored Investors of the Year....Read more

For more than 20 years, our investment philosophy has been to serve as lead investors in backing exceptional Texas-based entrepreneurs disrupting massive industries, in their first institutional rounds. Applying this philosophy, we have doubled down on leading early stage investments in companies that have subsequently become industry leaders in the nexus of real estate....Read more

Nada, a Dallas-based fintech platform whose goal is to widen access to real estate wealth. The company offers index-like real estate investment products called “Cityfunds” that allows anyone, including non-accredited investors, to buy into a city’s home equity market with a minimum of $250 dollars, CEO and co-founder John Green told TechCrunch....Read more

Chainguard, a startup that focuses on securing software supply chains, announced today that it has raised a $50 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Amplify, the Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC, LiveOak Venture Partners, Banana Capital, K5/JPMC and CISOs from Google and Square, among others, also participated in this round....Read more

To understand the recent growth of venture capital in Austin, it's important to look to the past for context. Srinivasan has had a front row seat to the transformation. He came to Austin in 2000 and got involved in funding startups with Austin Ventures, at the time one of the biggest and most active VC firms in the world. After that firm began winding down its startup investments, Srinivasan co-founded LiveOak in 2012....Read more

The round was co-led by Next Coast Ventures and LiveOak Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Schematic Ventures and new investor Data Point Capital. Richter told TechCrunch that the funding comes as more people are interested in purchasing resale....Read more

Backflip, a real estate and fintech startup improving how entrepreneurs invest in residential properties, announces an $8 million equity seed round co-led by Vertical Venture Partners (VVP) and LiveOak Venture Partners (LiveOak) with participation from Revel Partners, Great Oaks VC, and Greg Waldorf, former founding investor and Board Member at Trulia and Zillow....Read more

Austin made headlines in 2021 for being “the place” for startup founders and venture capitalists alike to set up shop. That’s why TechCrunch has chosen to shine a spotlight on the city with a special episode of TechCrunch Live centered on the growing startup scene in Austin, Texas. As Austin’s skyline expands, the city continues to solidify its standing as a tech hub. And the numbers are there to back it up....Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, is pleased to announce the promotion of Creighton Hicks and Mike Marcantonio to Partner.....Read more

For the third year, LiveOak Venture Partners has spearheaded the LiveOak Gives program to support nonprofit organizations. This year, LiveOak Gives Program is giving $250,000, the highest in the history of the program, which donated $200,000 in 2020 and $174,000 in 2019....Read more

LiveOak was the first investor in three major Austin proptech companies OJO, Homeward and Opcity, and is working with a startup that is currently in stealth mode, Srinivasan said Austin's combination of deep real estate expertise and its technical talent have made it a break-out player in real estate tech, and the firm is looking for future investments here....Read more

We are excited to announce that Method has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round from Y Combinator, Ardent Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners and a slew of VCs and angel investors, including Haroon Mokhtarzada (CEO & co-founder at Truebill), Val Gui (VP Product at Upstart), and others....Read more

Passwords are the leading cause of data breaches and the most likely path to account takeovers. In addition to the security concerns, passwords are hard to manage and create user friction that has direct topline impact. By some accounts, over a third of online purchases are abandoned due to forgotten passwords. Despite these drawbacks authentication hasn’t meaningfully changed since Web 1.0....Read more

Passage, an innovator in the rapidly growing passwordless identity space, today emerged from stealth announcing the availability of its public beta along with $4 million of new funding led by LiveOak Venture Partners with participation from Next Coast Ventures, Tau Ventures, Secure Octane, and various angel investors. Passage takes a developer-first and biometric-first approach to passwordless authentication, enabling users to log in to web applications with Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, and other biometrics built into their devices....Read more

Datto Holding Corp. (Datto) (NYSE:MSP), the leading global provider of cloud-based software and security solutions purpose-built for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), today announced that it has acquired threat detection and response company Infocyte, extending Datto’s security capabilities that protect, detect, and respond to cyberthreats found within endpoints and cloud environments....Read more

Aledade, the leading primary care enablement company, announced today that it has acquired Iris Healthcare, the best-in-class provider of Advance Care Planning (ACP) solutions for tens of thousands of patients across the country.....Read More

LiveOak Venture Partners raised its largest fund to date, $210 million for Fund III, which will enable the Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm to double down on Texas founders....Read more

"Krishna Srinivasan has been absolutely amazing to work with at every stage of the journey. He's had great ideas about everything from pricing, to building out the executive team, to our GTM strategies……I couldn’t have asked for a better partner in building the business." - Kiwi Camara, CEO DISCO....Watch video

Mavenir has once again opened its wallet to accelerate its portfolio development with the acquisition of existing partner Telestax, a Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS) technology specialist, for an undisclosed sum....Read more

FireEye-owned Mandiant on Tuesday announced it has acquired attack surface management startup Intrigue in a move to bolster the Mandiant Advantage software-as-a-service platform....Read more

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BrandMaker, a leading innovator in Marketing Operations and Marketing Resource Management (MRM) software solutions, today announced it has acquired Hive9, a leading Marketing Planning, Budgeting and Performance Management SaaS solution....Read more

Plano-based AmplifAI, an artificial intelligence startup dedicated to improving employee satisfaction, has closed on an $18.5 million round of Series A funding led by Greycroft, a seed-to-growth venture capital firm located in New York and Los Angeles...Read more

Osano, a risk and compliance startup, has confirmed it has raised $11 million in new funding. The round was led by Jump Capital, with participation from existing investors LiveOak Venture Partners and Next Coast Ventures. The Austin, Texas-based company describes the round as a Series A-1, following a $5 million Series A raise in 2019, just months after it debuted at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. In total, the startup has raised $22.3 million....Read more

Financial services software firm Eventus Systems has landed $30 million to expand its technology and grow its workforce....Read more

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- RealWork Labs, a pioneer in helping Home Service companies improve their web presence and generate hyperlocal leads via their software solution, announces, that it has closed $2.5 million in funding led by LiveOak Venture Partners as well as added Krishna Srinivasan (co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners) and John Berkowitz (EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Founder and CEO of OJO Labs, and Co-Founder of Yodle) to the board of directors....Read more

One year after voice-based AI technology company ConverseNow raised a $3.3 million seed round, the company is back with a cash infusion of $15 million in Series A funding in a round led by Craft Ventures.

Joining Craft in the Series A round were LiveOak Venture Partners, Tensility Venture Partners, Knoll Ventures, Bala Investments, 2048 Ventures, Bridge Investments, Moneta Ventures and angel investors Federico Castellucci and Ashish Gupta. This new investment brings ConverseNow’s total funding to $18.3 million, Vinay Shukla, co-founder and CEO of ConverseNow, told TechCrunch....Read more

by Krishna Srinivasan, Chairman of the Board, DISCO and co-Founding Partner, LiveOak Venture Partners

In October 2013, we received a cold email – it had all the elements on first glance that begged to be ignored. The email came from a person named “CeCe” who talked about a founder called “Kiwi” and a company called “DISCO” in the legal tech space, which was also a category that did not have a history of great companies or large outcomes. But, boy, am I glad that we did not ignore that email!...Read more

Breyer Capital led the $7.5 million Series A round, betting that tools to review workplace communications to curb risks will thrive in a hybrid environment

LitLingo Technologies Inc., a startup that aims to improve online communications among co-workers, has won new investor backing as it gears up for the long-term adoption of remote work.

The Austin, Texas-based startup tapped technology investor Breyer Capital to lead its $7.5 million funding round, which was joined by former International Business Machine Corp. chief executive Sam Palmisano. This follows a $2 million seed round in January 2020 led by LiveOak Venture Partners, which participated in the new financing...Read more

A Google search + a cold email = Austin lands another promising startup

That's the equation that played out for Disco, an e-discovery company with a software platform that helps lawyers discover and manage evidence. The startup was born out of Kiwi Camara's Houston law office. Once Camara and his team began further developing legal software, he decided he'd need to raise venture capital to succeed. He initially pitched Austin Ventures, at a time when it had already mostly stopped its early-stage investment.

Then, he Googled "Austin VC" and spotted LiveOak Venture Partners and ended up filling out an online contact form...Read more

MedScout, a revenue intelligence platform focused on enabling the sales teams at medical device, pharmaceutical, and home health companies, announces that it has closed an $800k pre-seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners. Chuck Gordonand Mario Feghali (co-founders of Storable) and Austin-based growth leader/angel investor Luke Fernandez also participated in the round. The company will use the funds to expand product development and build early go-to-market momentum...Read more

Trying to buy a house in a competitive market is perhaps one of the most stressful things an adult can go through.

Competing with a bunch of people all putting offers on a house that fly off the market in a matter of days is not fun. One startup that is trying to give home buyers a competitive edge by giving them a way to offer all cash on a home has just raised a boatload of money to help it keep growing.

Austin-based Homeward, which aims to help people buy homes faster, announced today it has raised $136 million in a Series B funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners at a valuation “just north of $800 million.” The company has also secured $235 million in debt....Read more

A Dallas company landed more funding as it looks to use its technology smarts to help encourage a new approach to health insurance.

Take Command Health has raised $12 million in a Series A investment, CEO Jack Hooper said in an interview. That brings the overall funding at the startup to more than $17 million...Read more

A Richardson company landed a deal for $500 million in funding.

Mavenir, a company that provides software for wireless technology, has an agreement for a strategic minority investment from Koch Strategic Platforms, a subsidiary of Koch Investments Group, according to a statement Wednesday. Affiliates of Siris Capital Group LLC, a technology-focused private equity firm, will remain majority equity holders...Read more

Virdee, an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company delivering digital check-in and virtual concierge services to the hospitality and commercial real estate industries, received a strategic financing from SaaS investors, bringing total seed funding to $4M...Read more

Security startup Intrigue.io has raised $2 million from LiveOak Venture partners to accelerate product development for its attack surface management (ASM) platform. Intrigue developed an open source approach for discovering and investigating vulnerabilities across mobile, work-from-home, and cloud infrastructures...Read more

For years now, a growing number of tech companies — large and small — have either relocated their headquarters to Austin or opened another office or campus in the Texas capital. They’ve been drawn to the city for a number of factors, including its laid-back lifestyle, no state tax, a business-friendly environment and lower cost of living (for now).

The impact on the city’s startup ecosystem is noticeable in the growing number of entrepreneurs (many of whom worked at some of the tech giants that have a big presence in the city) and investors calling Austin home.

Most recently, Tesla’s plans to build a gigafactory in the city and Oracle’s announcement that it was relocating its headquarters here have made national headlines...Read more

Every November, the Dallas Independent School District’s 10,000 eighth grade students spend a week mapping out potential career paths through the Open Choice Application. This process informs where they should spend the next four years: at a traditional high school, early college, p-tech, career institute, dual language school or elsewhere. All of this self-discovery happens on SchooLinks, a career and college counseling platform aimed at ensuring success for students of any ambition by empowering teens who may not be suited for four-year colleges—as well as those who intend to pursue university education. On Monday, SchooLinks announced it raised an $8.3 million Series A led by LiveOak Venture Partners...Read more

If you ever buy an oversized piece of furniture online that you need to return, FloorFound may be the company behind the return. Chris Richter and Ryan Matthews started FloorFound with a mission to keep these oversized goods from finding their way to landfills by transforming returns into resales.

“E-commerce penetration grew to 30 percent during the global pandemic, and we will never shop in the same way as in the past,” CEO Richter told Crunchbase News. “No one has focused on the oversized returns of that 30 percent, which accounted for more than $92 billion of revenue last year.”....Read more

LoudCrowd is tapping into user-generated content to enable brands to attract and retain customers. The Austin-based company raised $2.2 million in seed funding in a round led by LiveOak Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Active Capital and angel investors including Steve Schaffer. In total, LoudCrowd has raised about $2.28 million in funding, which includes a pre-seed round in late 2019...Read more

Two LiveOak Portfolio Companies ranked in Deloitte's Tech Fast 500 - OJO Labs #29 (1st in Texas) and Disco (#181)... Read more

If ever there were a pandemic-perfect startup solution, it would be Austin-headquartered Supply Drop.

But CEO Andrew Busey and Chief Operating Officer April Downing, co-founders and luminaries of Austin’s startup ecosystem, actually founded Supply Drop Online Inc. in July 2019 — many months prior to the coronavirus’ onset...Read more

Legal-technology startup CS Disco Inc. has secured another eight-figure funding, less than two years after its last one.

The Austin-based company announced Oct. 15 a $60 million equity funding round that values the company at $785 million...Read more

We are thrilled to announce that Cloudera has acquired Eventador, a provider of cloud-native services for enterprise-grade stream processing. Eventador, based in Austin, TX, was founded by Erik Beebe and Kenny Gorman in 2016 to address a fundamental business problem – make it simpler to build streaming applications built on real-time data...Read more

LitLingo closed on its first institutional funding of $2 million in seed round capital Monday to help organizations minimize risks associated with electronic communications. LiveOak Venture Partners led the investment, and founding Partner Krishna Srinivasan will join LitLingo’s board of directors...Read more

Ceresa, a leadership development platform, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1 million in seed funding. Austin-based Next Coast Ventures and LiveOak Venture Partners led the round.

Ceresa plans to use the funds to expand product development. It has created a data-driven, personalized program called the Ceresa Leadership Accelerator that provides 100 percent virtual coaching, mentoring, and support for startups to Fortune 500 companies...Read more

Austin-based cybersecurity startup Spyderbat said Wednesday that it has raised $4.2 million to accelerate development and launch its product.

The funding was led by LiveOak Venture Partners and Benhamou Global Ventures...Read more

Peer-to-peer motorcycle marketplace startup Riders Share has raised $2 million for its Series A, the company announced Wednesday.

The round, which was led by LiveOak Venture Partners, will help the Austin-based company expand its team and speed up its product development...Read more

OJO Labs on Wednesday announced a $62.5 million round of funding and the acquisition of Movoto, a residential real estate search site.

“It brings together two superpowers overnight,” said John Berkowitz, CEO, and Co-Founder of OJO Labs...Read more

Having closed a fourth round of funding, OJO Labs, a real estate company that deploys artificial intelligence to the home buying experience, announced today the acquisition of home listing website Movoto.

Austin, Texas-based OJO Labs, known for its proprietary personal assistant technology that blends machine learning and human operations, raised $62.5 million in a Series D financing round...Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, today announced a new key hire with the addition of Creighton Hicks as Principal. He will be responsible for sourcing new deals and driving new investments, in addition to supporting LiveOak’s growing portfolio...Read more

Homeward, an Austin-based real estate startup that aims to help people buy homes faster, announced this morning that it has secured $105 million in funding.

The 18-month-old startup raised $20 million in equity in a round led by Adams Street Partners that included participation from Javelin Venture Partners and existing backer LiveOak Venture Partners. Homeward also closed on $85 million in debt financing from multiple unnamed institutional lenders...Read more

Austin-based company Homeward was founded by a former real estate agent with a deceptively simple premise.

Homeward, which has just raised $20 million in equity funding from Adams Street Partners and another $85 million in debt from undisclosed lenders, pitches a plan where the company will loan money to would-be homebuyers equal to the amount of their home equity so these buyers can make an all-cash offer to purchase their next home. The company also makes a “floor-price” guarantee on the existing home if the owners aren’t able to sell the property for full market value...Read more

Homeward Inc., an Austin real estate-technology startup founded by CEO Tim Heyl in 2018, announced May 14 it had obtained $105 million worth of capital.

The bulk of that funding, $85 million, was in new debt from multiple institutional lenders. Chicago-based Adams Street Partners LLC led the $20 million equity portion of the funding, with participation by Austin venture capital firm LiveOak Venture Partners and San Francisco-based Javelin Venture Partners....Read more

Homeward today announced it has secured growth capital of $105M, including $20M in equity and $85M in debt. The $20M of equity financing was led by Adams Street Partners, with additional participation by Javelin Venture Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners. The $85M in debt was secured from multiple institutional lenders...Read more

In this COVID-19 environment, many quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are touting a “contactless” customer experience when ordering and receiving food.

As more QSRs adopt this as the “new normal,” ConverseNow Technologies Inc., an Austin, Texas-based startup, is poised to meet the demand with its platform that automates and personalizes restaurant orders on high-volume call channels using artificial intelligence...Read more

Perry Barth, Dan Burton, Nolan Schiff, Sharad Kumar bring 80 years of experience, including in finance, markets, technology...Read more

Press Ganey today announced the acquisition of NarrativeDx, the leading provider of artificial intelligence solutions to drive health care performance improvement. NarrativeDx’s proprietary artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology enables health systems to humanize comment data from patients and employees, translating massive volumes of critical feedback into actionable insights that can be used to transform the health care experience...Read more

Austin-based Eventus Systems, Inc., a multi-award winning global trade surveillance and market risk software platform provider, announced that the firm has just raised $10.5 million of growth capital in a Series A investment round. Investors included a range of venture capital and financial services organizations, led by Chicago-based Jump Capital and Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners...Read more

One of Austin’s most active venture capital firms is building up a new advisory program, and it has locked in four Austin startup executives to lead the way.

LiveOak Venture Partners said its new Venture Advisors program is a more aggressive approach to what the firm is already doing as it advises portfolio companies and helps identify opportunities...Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, announced today the launch of their Venture Advisors Program, with four notable tech industry executives coming on board. The Venture Advisors boast a cumulative 12 decades of tech industry experience spanning executive leadership and deep functional expertise in finance, sales, marketing, growth, and engineering and will provide crucial guidance in these areas to the rapidly growing LiveOak Portfolio...Read more

Dallas-based Mercado Labs, a startup working to transform the global supply chain by digitizing the first mile, has closed a $3.2 million seed funding round led by Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners...Read more

2019 was a good year for Austin.

Companies, big and small, continued to flock to the city in droves. Several venture capital firms based in Austin announced nine-figure funds, a new unicorn was born, and venture funding hit record numbers. Plus, those venture rounds included more global investors than ever....Read more

Risk and compliance startup Osano, which earlier this year debuted on the Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, has raised $5.4 million in its Series A round.

The company told TechCrunch that the round was led by LiveOak Venture Partners and Next Coast Ventures, both of which invested in the company’s seed round. Its Series A fundraise also included participation from several individual investors, putting Osano’s total amount raised to date at $8.4 million...Read more

By Mike Cronin – Staff Writer, Austin Business Journal

Dec 13, 2019, 6:54am CST Updated Dec 13, 2019, 8:56am CST

If it weren’t for mechanical engineering, we all might know Krishna Srinivasan as a Bollywood star.

At the ages of 16 and 17, the founding partner of Austin investment firm LiveOak Venture Partners had an acting role on the “top-rated TV sitcom in India,” Srinivasan said.

Back then, only one TV channel existed in India, he said. “So everyone had to see it. There's nothing else to see. And so I had a choice of doing one of two things: a couple of movies or go to the best engineering school in India. So I chose the latter and the rest is history.”...Read more

Legal technology leader DISCO today announced Melanie (White) Antoon joins the company as its Vice President of Professional Services. Melanie will oversee DISCO’s project management, data operations and forensics teams in North America and Europe...Read more

TalentGuard, the predictive people development SaaS platform today announced the addition of two experienced enterprise SaaS executives to its growing leadership team. Former SVP of Sales at SilkRoad Technology Sam Gillen joins as Chief Revenue Officer and former Director of the Startup Services Division at Bridgepoint Consulting Pete Pearson joins as Chief Financial Officer to help meet demand for its solutions...Read more

To keep pace with its exploding global growth and new client acquisition, legal technology leader DISCO today announced four new additions to its leadership team...Read more

Legal technology leader DISCO today announced its listing on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America, now in its 25th year...Read more

Leading mobile telecom innovator across the Middle East and North Africa announces strategic partnership with Telestax.

Using Telestax technology, Zain Jordan will now deliver rich application programming interfaces (APIs) for enterprise omnichannel digital transformation to organizations across the country....Read more

Razberi Technologies, a leading provider of simple, secure video surveillance and IoT solutions, announced today an investment of $5.8 million led by LiveOak Venture Partners, a venture capital fund based in Austin, Texas. LiveOak will invest in participation with Chartline Capital Partners and other investors including the family offices of industry leaders Ken Boyda and Jiri Modry...Read more

John Berkowitz is truly a multitasker. In addition to leading a thriving Austin startup, he's also running one in the Caribbean.

Berkowitz is CEO and co-founder of OJO Labs, which is making artificial intelligence chatbots that help with the home-buying process...Read more

Serial entrepreneurs Arlo Gilbert and Scott Herel were troubled by what they saw last year when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg testified in a congressional hearing focused on how the social media giant allowed a political data-mining firm to collect data from about 87 million people...Read more

Mike Taylor joins Razberi™ Technologies as VP of Sales to accelerate its growth in the video surveillance security arena. He brings more than 20 years of technology sales experience to the role and a breadth of reseller and integrator knowledge...Read more

OJO Labs has acquired Austin-based RealSavvy to create an even bigger platform for real estate brokers, agents, and teams and the customers they serve.

The companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal...Read more

Venture capital investment in Austin has been on the rise.

VC funding hit $1.3 billion in 2018, the highest on record since the dot-com boom in 2000, according to the MoneyTree Report from PwC and CB Insights. That’s up 70 percent from $783 million in 2017....Read more

Chief executive Huw Edwards announced Wednesday CyberFortress had closed a $3 million seed funding round co-led by New York-based private equity firm Greycroft and Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners.

Monte Tulum Capital, which had invested in CyberFortress’s pre-seed round, is also participating in the latest funding. Porthcawl Holdings, Jungle Disk’s parent company, provided pre-seed financing in 2018...Read more

CyberFortress, an insuretech startup focused on protecting e-commerce companies from cyber threats, announces that it has closed a $3 million seed round co-led by Greycroft and LiveOak Venture Partners. The funds will be used to expand its product development team in order to accelerate its product launch in the Texas market, which is anticipated for early 2020...Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, is pleased to announce the addition of David Stewart as Venture Partner. David will focus on sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, as well as providing strategic guidance to LiveOak’s portfolio companies...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)--data.world today announced that it has acquired Capsenta to enable businesses to securely access, view, and work with on-premises databases in the cloud. Capsenta's patented knowledge graph virtualization and modeling technologies create online, business-friendly views of complex data. Teams can now access a single, aligned view of cloud and on-premises data so more of the organization can understand and immediately use it to power better decisions...Read more

Topo Chico-stocked fridges, cold brew and snacks are all great, but perks alone won’t keep your most ambitious employees happy.

The real secret to retaining employees long-term rests in something far less flashy: career development. It’s something every company claims to have, but it rarely gets the attention or resources it deserves.

Linda Ginac launched TalentGuard in 2010 to fix that by providing a platform that helps automate and personalize career plans....Read more

If you ask most business owners or operators what their biggest challenge is, it’s likely employee retention will rank pretty highly on their list. Now, an Austin-based talent management SaaS (software-as-a-subscription) startup focused on helping companies and HR managers not only retain employees, but better engage with and coach them, has raised $4 million to grow its business....Read more

TalentGuard, an award-winning leader in career pathing and talent management software and solutions, announced today it has raised $4M in a Series B round of financing led by LiveOak Venture Partners of Austin, Texas. The capital in this round will be used for funding strategic growth initiatives...Read more

There’s so many players in the real estate tech game, it’s hard to keep up. (We’ve tried in numerous pieces such as this one). Now an Austin upstart called Homeward has entered the crowded scene in an ambitious attempt to take on bigger established players with its offering, and it’s just raised $4 million in equity funding and $21 million in debt funding to help it in its mission...Read more

AUSTIN, Texas, July 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- OJO Labs, which empowers consumers to make better decisions through its conversational AI (artificial intelligence) platform, "OJO," announced today that two top industry leaders who have led at the highest levels in real estate, financial services, consumer products, and enterprise technology joined their executive team. Real estate industry leader, Chris Heller, former CEO of Keller Williams, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the world, and most recently CEO of mellohome, joined as OJO's Chief Real Estate Officer. Consumer brand trailblazer, Karen Starns, who most recently led brand and customer experience at Amazon for Echo, Alexa, FireTV, Kindle, and the portfolio of Amazon smart home devices, joined as OJO's Chief Marketing Officer....Read more

As Telestax Inc. tries to reconfigure its business model and regain its footing after cutting some jobs, it's brought on a new chief financial officer.

Patrick Bonnaure has been hired as CFO, according to a June 6 announcement. It brings the Austin startup a veteran software executive with extensive experience in both Silicon Valley and Austin.

Telestax is a communications-platform-as-a-service company — it has built a program that telecommunications companies can use to build new voice, video and text communications tools...Read more

Silicon Valley has long been the heart of the tech industry. But if you ask Krishna Srinivasan or Venu Shamapant, there are plenty of tech business opportunities in the heart of Texas.

Srinivasan and Shamapant are two of the founders of LiveOak Venture Partners, an Austin, Texas, based investment firm that focuses on startups in the Lone Star State. Last month, the firm finished raising $105 million for its second fund, which it plans to invest in nascent Texas tech companies...Read more

Austin-based artificial intelligence firm Imandra Inc. said Thursday that it has raised $5 million to support the hiring of additional AI, engineering and product workers in Austin, London and Edinburgh, Scotland.

U.K.-based AlbionVC and IQ Capital and Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners led the investment round....Read more

Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed!

While there are more startups than ever, there's also more money chasing them. In this series, we look at the new (or relatively new) VCs in the early stages: seed and Series A....Read more

Texas may have suffered a heartbreaking defeat during last night’s NCAA men’s championship basketball game, but the state does have something to celebrate today. Local outfit LiveOak Venture Partners, a venture firm focused exclusively on Texas-based startups, has closed a new fund with $105 million in capital commitments....Read more

Texas startups just got another new source of potential capital.

Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners has announced the close of its second fund, topping it out at $105 million....Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an Austin-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups across Texas, today announced the successful close of Fund II, a $105 million oversubscribed fund.

The LiveOak team has held a steady, growing presence in the Texas market since its inception in 2013 having invested close to $100 million in startups across the state. Co-Founders Krishna Srinivasan, Venu Shamapant and Ben Scott met at Austin Ventures in 2000 and invested over an additional $150 million in Texas startups...Read more

OJO Labs, an artificial intelligence startup, has raised $45 million in additional funding. The Austin-based company plans to use the funds to accelerate its development and market expansion. It plans to hire more employees in the areas of engineering, data science, product and design.

The Series C funding round is being led by LiveOak Venture Partners, Realogy Holdings Corp., Royal Bank of Canada and Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures.....Read more

AmplifAI combines artificial intelligence with customer data to improve employee satisfaction. The new capital from Naya Ventures, LiveOak Venture Partners, and Capital Factory will get the startup closer to real-time assistance...Read more

Digital Pharmacist Inc., an Austin-based software company, has been acquired for $125 million by K1 Investment Management LLC in Los Angeles.

The private equity and venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Mdk Limited Partners Ltd. in South Korea, bought out Austin-based venture capital firm LiveOak Venture Partners LP. LiveOak led a $6.5 million series B round in Digital Pharmacist that closed in 2017...Read more

Less than five months after moving its headquarters to Austin, legal-technology startup CS Disco Inc. has secured a massive $83 million investment led by Toronto-based venture capital firm Georgian Partners.

Bessemer Venture Partners, LiveOak Venture Partners, The Stephens Group and venture-debt provider Comerica all invested in the funding round, announced Jan. 24. All were prior investors...Read more

In nine years, Heather Brunner had grown her company into one of Austin’s most recognized tech startups, and now, it was ready for the next level.

It was 2017, and WP Engine, a managed hosting platform for websites and applications built on WordPress, had received multiple inquiries from investment firms throughout the country. After a six-month process of weeding out candidates, Brunner was ready to announce a new corporate partner... Read more

Austin has been a regular topic here at Crunchbase News, especially its venture inputs. Turning our sights to M&A outputs is, therefore, all the more important.

“I think 2018, in general, has been a great year for fundraising, exits, and IPOs in the Austin area,” said LiveOak Venture Partners’ Mason Rathe...Read more

Rollick announced Thursday that is has closed on $8.3 million in venture capital funding. The Austin-based company, which has created an online platform for dealers and retailers to sell powersports, RV, marine and industrial equipment, has raised $14 million to date. Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partnersled the Series A round...Read more

News Corp. subsidiary and realtor.com operator, Move Inc., today announced the acquisition of Opcity, a real estate lead generation technology platform that matches vetted buyers and sellers with real estate agents in real time, for $210 million...Read more

The startup plans to expand sales and marketing, and invest in engineering, operations and research and development. The Austin-based company, which launched in 2016, received the seed funding from LiveOak Venture Partners with participation by Deep Space Ventures, RSH Ventures, Capital Factory and Keshif Ventures...Read more

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Marcantonio as Principal and Mason Rathe as Senior Associate. Mike and Mason are the first investment professionals being added to the team outside of the three founding partners and will focus on both executing new investments and supporting the firm’s growing portfolio...Read more

OJO Labs, an Austin artificial intelligence startup, has raised $20.5 million in venture capital.

The company, founded in 2015, raised the Series B round from new investors Realogy, the Royal Bank of Canada, Northwest Mutual Fund Ventures and ServiceMaster. It also included existing investors LiveOak Venture Partners and Silverton Partners, both based in Austin...Read more

Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners, which has invested roughly a quarter billion dollars in Texas companies, is starting a mentoring partnership with Houston incubator Station Houston.

The partnership is expected to be announced May 10 and will increase LiveOak's presence at the incubator, which is considered one of the most prominent in Houston...Read more

AI tech firm Veros Systems closed a $4.3 million Series B round of funding this week, led by five undisclosed investors.

The company develops machine learning solutions using electrical signal analytics that continuously monitor industrial assets without interruption. By predicting equipment failures before they occur, Veros Systems helps clients “increase uptime, improve efficiency and optimize maintenance.” ...Read more

San Antonio cybersecurity company Infocyte is expected to announce Monday that it has closed a $5.2 million funding round and brought on Curtis Hutcheson as its new CEO.

Hutcheson will be replacing Peter Klante, who was hired January 2017 as interim CEO on a one-year contract, said Chris Gerritz, Infocyte founder and chief product officer....Read more

Infocyte has tapped former SonicWall General Manager Curtis Hutcheson to double the company's headcount and size of its partner community over the next year.

The San Antonio-based threat hunting startup appointed Hutcheson as CEO in conjunction with the company's close of a $5.2 million Series B funding round,...Read more

CS Disco Inc., the legal technology company that makes the market-leading cloud ediscovery solution DISCO, today announced a $20M equity financing. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from LiveOak Venture Partners and The Stephens Group. All three were existing DISCO investors. This brings the total investment in DISCO to more than $50M...Read more

Iris Plans, a telemedicine company that connects patients to palliative care, announced Wednesday that it has raised $5.1 million...Read More

In 2010, LiveOak Venture Partners saw a vast opportunity in the Austin and Texas market for early stage technology entrepreneurs. “But there was not as much capital available as many of the local entrepreneurs would attest to”...Read More

After a slow start to the year, venture capital activity in Austin bounced back in the second quarter, with internet companies leading the charge. A total of $330 million was raised by 43 companies during the quarter...Read More

Austin telecommunications startup founded in 2011, announced Monday they had closed a $4.7 million series A round of funding. Austin's LiveOak Venture Partners led the capital infusion...Read More

“The company has grown over five-fold since our initial investment a little over 18 months ago”...Read More

Ben Rubenstein first launched Yodle at the ripe age of 21 years old. By 32, he sold the marketing automation company for a whopping $342 million...Read More

An Austin startup that describes itself as the eHarmony of real estate has raised a whopping $27 million in its first round...Read More

NarrativeDX, an artificial intelligence platform that lets healthcare providers...Read More

For RxWiki Inc., an Austin-based software firm developing tools to connect pharmacists with their customers, the prescription for growth was absorbing a New Jersey company with a healthy client list. The merger with Newark-based TeleManager...Read More

Infocyte Inc., a malware hunting technology startup in San Antonio, just got a booster shot of capital to grow deeper roots...Read More

"If you have a good company in Austin, you can raise money"...Read More

Big drivers are low taxes and a cost of living that is low relative to major metro areas such as New York, Boston, Chicago and Silicon Valley...Read More

Houston-based tech startup that builds software for the legal industry, has raised $18.56 million...Read More

With an initial investment of 120 Swiss Francs ($122), the rest came easy...Read More

The former CEO of Travelzoo Inc. has been named CEO of a tech-based Austin health care sector startup...Read Article

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Anyone familiar with the University of Texas at Austin is no stranger to the words “what happens here changes the world.”...Read More

Tech startups are flocking to Austin, Texas, as the city’s reputation...Read More

...From the startup’s perspective, venture capitalists’ pockets in Central Texas will never be as deep as Silicon Valley’s. But that’s OK...Read More