# Austin Ventures

> Austin Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 247 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 247
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 36%
- Fund size: $900M
- Last fund: Jan 2008
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/162584
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/AustinVentures
- Website: http://www.austinventures.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/austinventures

Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $1.6M–$12M |
| Series B | $5M–$30M |
| Series C | $6M–$28M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 52 | 21% |
| Enterprise Software | 22 | 9% |
| Internet | 15 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 6% |
| Manufacturing | 14 | 6% |

180 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 59 | 24% |
| Series A | 54 | 22% |
| Series C | 42 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 33 | 13% |
| Series D | 23 | 9% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 122 | 49% |
| China | 1 | 0% |
| Japan | 1 | 0% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dave Alter | Senior Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-alter |
| Jim Kozlowski | Venture Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-kozlowski-2 |
| Chris Pacitti | General Partner | 56 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-pacitti |
| Devon T Rogers | Venture Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/traveon-rogers |
| Joe Aragona | Founder & General Partner | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-aragona |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tasktop | Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis. | $100M | Private Equity | Apr 08, 2021 |  |
| Veros Systems | Veros Systems enables industrial customers to maximize production by providing actionable intelligence on their electrically-driven machines.Their web-based Predictive Intelligence Platform uses completely nonintrusive monitors that can be installed in hours. PIP offers real-time predictive reliability and energy efficiency intelligence onelectromechanical systems, and seamlessly integrates with leading Enterprise Asset Management applications. At last, engineers, managers, and executives have a means to see the future: to plan better, reduce costs, and improve a facility’s overall availability. | $2.2M | Series C | Jun 11, 2020 |  |
| Ambiq Micro | Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics.Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneeringultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility. | $11.4M |  | Jun 05, 2018 |  |
| Vyze | Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturersgreater control over their lending options. | $13.1M | Series C | Aug 11, 2017 |  |
| Tasktop | Tasktop offers a software platform that allows companies to better manage the process of building their software. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automation, visualizations, and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis. | $11M | Series B | Apr 13, 2017 |  |
| FLASH | FlashParking is the total simple approach to parking with their integrated suite of hardware and subscription solutions for parking operators and asset owners to manage their gated, parking lot, and valet operations. With their award-winning parking solutions, FlashParking's customers can take control of their revenue. | $3M |  | Nov 10, 2016 |  |
| Onit | Onit deploys Onit Apps to simplify business process automation and improve business productivity across all departments and industries. The Onit App Builder allows business users to drive efficiency and productivity by combining business process management, project management, and information management into one easy to use the tool so the usercan create their own Onit Apps without having to rely on IT for support. Businesses have processes for everything -- whether it’s hiring a vendor or law firm, terminating an employee, submitting a contract for review, requesting a trademark request, obtaining an NDA, etc. Most of these processes are manual, paper-intensive, and cumbersome. With Onit Apps, processes are automated in a few clicks, responsible parties are notified immediately, and data collection is centralized. Onit doesn’t require any software to download or resources from IT. | $8.3M |  | Oct 27, 2016 |  |
| Ambiq Micro | Ambiq Micro is an early-stage fabless semiconductor company that is developing ultra-low-power mixed-signal solutions for a new generation of wireless electronics.Ambiq Micro was founded in 2010 on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Through the use of their pioneeringultra-low-power technology, they help innovative companies around the world develop differentiated solutions that reduce or eliminate the need for batteries, lower overall system power, and maximize industrial design flexibility. | $9.5M | Series C | Jul 27, 2016 |  |
| Vyze | Vyze is a financial technology leader in consumer financing solutions. NCL helps merchants launch and implement innovative lending programs that provide more consumers with the financing options they want and need. NCL’s simple solutions deliver increased sales and a better consumer financing experience while giving retailers and manufacturersgreater control over their lending options. | $13M | Series B | Jun 02, 2016 |  |
| Spredfast | Khoros is a computer software company that offers a customer engagement platform that turns siloed knowledge into enterprise value and customers into contributors. It enables companies the ability to run their business with their customers, anticipating their needs, accelerating sales, loyalty, and innovation. | $50M | Series F | Jun 01, 2016 |  |

10 of 247 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Austin Ventures invest in?

Austin Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Internet startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 247 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Austin Ventures's check size?

Austin Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$12M at Series A, $5M–$30M at Series B and $6M–$28M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Austin Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Austin Ventures?

Public channels for Austin Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Austin Ventures?

The team at Austin Ventures includes Dave Alter (Senior Associate), Jim Kozlowski (Venture Partner) and Chris Pacitti (General Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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