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November 2023 Despite market shifts and uncertainty, we remain patient capital—ready to support our portfolio companies and excited to invest in founders with a bold, long-term vision. Read below to learn more about our … Latest Investment: ControlRooms.ai’s $10M Series A Founder Spotlight: Ryan Walsh, CEO & Founder of RepVue Newest Resource: Stagger Charts Template Webinar Recording: AI + Startups + The Law Job Openings: 70+ exciting opportunities across our growing portfolio
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S3 Ventures Participated in ControlRooms.ai’s $10M Series A We are thrilled to partner with Monte Zweben, Omar Talib, and the amazing team at ControlRooms.ai—the leading provider of AI-assisted troubleshooting for heavy industry. We are excited to be part of their oversubscribed $10M Series A financing—led by Origin Ventures with participation from Amity Ventures, Tokio Marine Future Fund, GTM Fund, Alpha Square Group, and FJ Labs, among others. Read the Press Release |
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Get to Know: Ryan Walsh, CEO & Founder of RepVue
Read how and why Ryan—a former public-company CRO—started RepVue to fix sales hiring for employees and employers alike.
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Melissa Bates joined Stellar as Chief Marketing Officer. She brings decades of experience serving in a variety of roles including Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Partner Growth & Business Development, and General Manager.
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Olivier Gachot joined LeanDNA as Chief Revenue Officer. He has extensive experience leading enterprise sales organizations— having served as CRO for several SaaS companies in the U.S. and overseas, including Spredfast. Learn more about Olivier… |
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Ryan Arnett joined Videate as Chief Revenue Officer. He brings 15+ years of GTM experience at high-growth companies—including OpenGov and DocSend.
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Jordan Slabaugh joined LeanDNA as Chief Marketing Officer. She has nearly 20 years of marketing, communications, and leadership experience across disruptive enterprise SaaS companies and global marketing agencies.
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Josh Nisenson joined Videate as SVP of Engineering. He has held multiple executive engineering roles at firms including Sketch and VideoAmp, where he scaled a team to 100+. Learn more about Josh… |
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Jami Smith joined Stellar as VP of People Operations. She brings decades of experience, serving as Director of Culture at Procore Technologies, VP of People and VP of Operations roles at Levelset, and also spent six years at Pinnacle Entertainment.
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Jennifer Cobb joined BrainCheck as VP of Partnerships. She has15 years of experience in risk adjustment, value-based care, and managing government programs. Previously, she was with Aetna where she specialized in revenue optimization and medical loss ratio management.
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Emma Vas joined Interplay Learning as VP of Marketing. She brings 15+ years of experience in marketing strategy and execution that accelerates growth for small and medium size businesses as well as Fortune 500 companies.
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Allstacks earned the #55 spot on Will Reed's Top 100 Class of 2023 List. Arpio was recognized as honoree on GrepBeat's Startups To Watch 2023 List. Atmosphere now reaches more than 50 Percent of adults in the United States. BrainCheck joined the athenahealth Marketplace. HYAS Protect At Home was named a 2023 New Product of the Year by Security Today Magazine! They also released new products: HYAS Protect (#ProtectiveDNS) and HYAS Insight (#ThreatIntelligence). Interplay Learning won the 2024 AHR Innovation Award in the Software Category for SAM. LeanDNA was named 2023 Digital Transformation Award finalist for The Supply Chain Excellence Awards. RepVue announced the world's best sales organizations for the second half of 2023. Riscosity announced their new rebrand and a strategic partnership with SecurityScorecard.
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New Resource: Stagger Charts Template
Our brand new Stagger Charts template provides a simple, but powerful, way to track and visualize forecasts over time. Businesses that reforecast their financials regularly are more agile, accountable, and manageable. Use this workbook to: Track monthly, rolling forecasts for various financial metrics Analyze actuals and forecasts relative to an annual operating plan Generate tables and graphs for board reporting
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The Shift of the VC Fundraising Landscape
Join us for ATX Startup Week! S3’s Charlie Plauche will moderate a panel of leading VCs on November 8 at Capital Factory in Austin to review the latest fundraising data and share their outlook for Texas-based startups. Register today… |
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Webinar Recording: AI + Startups + The Law
Watch this webinar replay to learn tips from experts on how AI can impact various areas of the law—including IP, government regulation, product liability, employment, and more. Panelists include legal experts on IP and AI—Justin Haan, Partner at Morrison Foerster, and Scott McKinney, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati—and is moderated by Eric Engineer, Partner at S3 Ventures. Watch the recording… |
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Events Around Texas We enjoyed connecting with entrepreneurs at multiple events across Texas—including our annual CEO Summit, Marketing Leaders Happy Hour, Venture Dallas, San Antonio Startup Week, and the Texas Venture Crawl. |
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Check out the 70+ openings on our Job Board, and join our Talent Network to be discovered by our entire portfolio of companies. When you join our Talent Network, you can also opt-in to receive alerts about new postings.
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We invest in Seed, Series A, and Series B companies with checks ranging from $500K to $10M. If you are looking for an investor, please reach out!
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S3 Ventures is the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas. Backed by a philanthropic, multi-billion-dollar family for 18+ years, we empower great entrepreneurs with the commitment to patient capital and true resources required to grow extraordinary, high-impact companies in Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology.
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