May Newsletter 2023

May 2023

Summer is just around the corner, and things are starting to heat back up! 🌞

Read below about:

Our Newest Investment: We led Riscosity’s $7M financing
Portfolio News: Including some amazing executive hires
Founder Spotlight: Yash Sabharwal, Founder & CEO of QbDVision
Startup Toolbox: Download our new Sales Quota Workbook
Job Openings: 70+ opportunities across our growing portfolio

LATEST INVESTMENTS

Riscosity Joins the S3 Ventures Portfolio

We welcomed repeat founder Anirban Banerjee, his co-founder James Greene, and the amazing Riscocity team to our portfolio! Riscosity's third-party data observability platform — trusted by large publicly traded enterprises — manages and mitigates data supply chain risk for security, compliance, and engineering teams. We are thrilled to have led their $7M Financing with participation from Secure Octane Investments and Firebolt Ventures.

Read the Press Release

PORTFOLIO NEWS

Kim Rodriguez joined BrainCheck in March as CEO. She brings 25 years experience in the healthcare and medical device industry-- including as CEO of S3 portfolio company Acessa (acq. Hologic).

Learn more about Kim…

Kim Caldbeck joined Interplay Learning’s Board of Directors in April. She is a prominent education and training expert and was most recently Coursera’s CMO.

Learn more about Kim…

Mike MacKinnon joined Saranas in February as CEO. Mike brings 25 years of executive leadership and medical device experience.

Learn more about Mike…

Evan Whelchel joined Allstacks in February as Chief Revenue Officer. He brings 23 years of experience, including expertise in DevOps and value stream management.

Learn more about Evan…

Jeff Vanlandingham joined ZSuite Tech as Chief Financial Officer. He brings 15+ years of experience in finance and accounting leadership roles.

Learn more about Jeff…

Matt Wetrich joined Stellar in May as VP of Operations after holding operations leadership roles at Veho and Uber.

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Drew Johnson joined Liquibase in April as VP of Finance. He brings 15+ years of comprehensive finance and revenue management experience.

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Bradford Walker joined Prokeep in April as VP of Finance. He brings 20+ years of experience, most recently as CFO at Levelset -- a former S3 portfolio company.

Learn more about Bradford…

Alleviant Medical’s 6-month results from first-in-human studies of its atrial shunt were published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Allstacks’ VP of Engineering, Jamie Howard, was selected as a NEXT TECH award winner! Allstacks also was listed in Inc.’s 2023 Best Workplaces!

Atmosphere has reached over 100M unique monthly viewers and is now streaming in 50K+ venues globally! Atmosphere is also a StreamTV Streaming Platform of the Year finalist and earned Top Workplaces’ Culture Excellence recognition in four categories!

HYAS won eight Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine!

LeanDNA was named "Data Solution of the Year - Industrial" for its inventory optimization command center in the 2023 Data Breakthrough Awards! They also ranked among Highest-Scoring Businesses on the Inc. Best Workplaces 2023 list!

Prokeep announced a new suite of solutions for distributors.

Stellar’s Founder and CEO Dustin Marx was featured in Shaping DFW!

Videate announced a partnership with WellSaid Labs, the industry's best-in-class provider of AI voices!

FOUNDER SPOTLIGHT

Get to Know: Yash Sabharwal

Meet the incredible Yash Sabharwal, Founder & CEO of QbDVision! A father of two girls and three-time founder, read his insights on startup fundraising and managing a remote team — and about his hardest lesson learned.

Read the interview…

RESOURCES

NEW: Sales Quota Workbook

Not having the right number of salespeople hired, trained, and productive is a surefire way to miss your sales plan! Our brand new Sales Quota Workbook will help you:

Build a sales quota capacity plan that supports your bookings plan
Track your team’s quota capacity and achievement by sales rep over time
Generate a summary report for operational reviews and board meetings

DOWNLOAD THE WORKBOOK

FEATURED JOBS

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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EVENTS

HX Venture Fund: Engage VC - S3 Partner Eric Engineer participated in a Fireside Chat at HX Venture Fund's Engage VC event on April 20 at the Ion in Houston.

Thanks to all those that attended our events this spring — including our annual SXSW VC Dinner, Sales/CS Leaders Mixer, CEO Happy Hour, and Founder Dinner with Edison Partners.

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ABOUT US

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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