# Argonaut Private Equity

> Argonaut Private Equity is a VC fund in Tulsa backing Video and Software. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tulsa, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2019
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enterprisesg
- Website: http://www.argonautpe.com/

Argonaut Private Equity is a diversified global private equity fund dedicated to building emerging market leaders. With more than $2 billion under management provided by a single entrepreneur, Argonaut is uniquely positioned to assist entrepreneurial companies. Unlike conventional private equity firms, Argonaut exercises wide discretion oninvestment size, stage, sector and geography. Because of its focused ownership and management, Argonaut can make quick decisions without fund restrictions on subsequent investments or exit timing. Its equity investments range from $1 million to $200 million and span such diverse markets as consumer electronics, specialty materials, telecommunications, software, aviation, and healthcare technology and services. Argonaut’s portfolio includes investments in the United States, Israel, India, China, the Netherlands, South Korea and Australia.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Video | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| GPS | 1 | 7% |
| SaaS | 1 | 7% |
| Credit | 1 | 7% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 27% |
| Series C | 3 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |
| Series E | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 40% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Steven R. Mitchell | CEO and Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steven-r-mitchell |
| Anil Khatod | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anil-khatod |
| George B. Kaiser | President and CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-b-kaiser |
| Phil VanTrease | Director of Finance | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-vantrease |
| Steve Mitchell | Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/steve-mitchell |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alkami Technology | Alkami Technology provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for credit unions and banks. Its platform provides financial institutions a complete digital banking solution ready to facilitate both retail and business user onboarding, engagement, and account servicing. It enables clients to enhance the platform with upgrades and can tailor theirexperience with additional Alkami products as well as third-party solutions.The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas. | $55M | Series E | Jun 10, 2019 |  |
| Mammoth Carbon Products | Mammoth Carbon Products is committed to being a World-Class industry leader in the Standard and Line Pipe distribution space that serves the Energy, Petrochemical and Construction markets. Mammoth was created with the belief that there is an easier more streamlined way of doing business. Central to this belief is the idea that the combination ofprofessionalism, honesty and ethicality in all dealings will guarantee that involved stakeholders – whether customer, vendor or employee – walk away with an optimal outcome. |  | Private Equity | Feb 28, 2019 |  |
| Alkami Technology | Alkami Technology provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for credit unions and banks. Its platform provides financial institutions a complete digital banking solution ready to facilitate both retail and business user onboarding, engagement, and account servicing. It enables clients to enhance the platform with upgrades and can tailor theirexperience with additional Alkami products as well as third-party solutions.The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Plano, Texas. | $60.4M | Series C | Mar 10, 2017 |  |
| Pivot3 | Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational andoverall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future.Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time.Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more. | $45M | Series G | Feb 24, 2015 |  |
| Pivot3 | Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational andoverall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future.Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time.Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more. | $2M | Series E | Oct 23, 2014 |  |
| Aspen Aerogels | Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range ofconsumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gear, apparel, and footwear products. | $10M | Debt Financing | Jun 27, 2012 |  |
| Crown Bioscience | CrownBio is a Cutting Edge Translational Technology Company Making Precision Medicine a RealityCrownBio brings clarity to drug discovery around the world by helping biopharmaceutical companies solve some of today's most pressing challenges in oncology, cardiovascular, and metabolic disease Drug Discovery.Their premier TranslationalPlatforms for cancer and metabolic disease help our clients accelerate their new drug development programs. CrownBio develops world-leading preclinical efficacy models and provides both in vitro and in vivo testing services and preclinical research products. They are a global company with facilities across the world in the United States, United Kingdom, China, and Taiwan. | $28.8M | Series C | May 04, 2011 |  |
| Yulex | Yulex Corporation is the world leader in guayule crop science and renewable products made from guayule. Through Yulex's advancements in plant breeding, biotechnology, cultivation, product development, and proprietary processing technologies, the company has established a vital international medical industry and sustainable clean tech industryin the U.S. Southwest with international expansion to other arid regions underway. | $15M |  | Mar 16, 2011 |  |
| Aspen Aerogels | Aspen Aerogels provides thermal management and energy conservation insulation solutions for a variety of industries. Their insulation products are up to eight times more effective than traditional insulation materials. Aspen Aerogels' insulation provides maximum thermal performance with minimal weight and thickness for a growing range ofconsumer items, including packaging products and many outdoor gear, apparel, and footwear products. | $21.5M |  | Oct 08, 2010 |  |
| Luminus Devices | Luminus Devices develops and manufactures high performance, solid state lighting solutions for a variety of illumination applications previously thought impossible for solid state lighting. Its patented PhlatLight® LEDs products are the brightest and most versatile solid state light sources available today, redefining the solid state lightinglandscape by enabling the creation of innovative new products and applications. PhlatLight LED technology is used today in products from leading global mass market consumer and specialty products companies. | $19M |  | Feb 25, 2010 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [S3 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s3-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Stata Venture Partners (SVP)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stata-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arcapita Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arcapita-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
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- [InterWest Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/interwest-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Reservoir Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/reservoir-capital-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Argonaut Private Equity invest in?

Argonaut Private Equity invests primarily in Video, Software and GPS startups, most often at Funding Round and Series C stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Argonaut Private Equity?

The team at Argonaut Private Equity includes Steven R. Mitchell (CEO and Managing Director), Anil Khatod (Managing Director) and George B. Kaiser (President and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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