Dayakar Puskoor
Founder and Managing Director @ Dallas Venture Capital
Dallas, United States
Dayakar Puskoor is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Dallas Venture Capital. Dayakar previously worked at JP Mobile as a Founder and CEO. He attended Nova Southeastern University.Dayakar’s distinguished career is showcased by an impressive record of achievement in building high value mobile, wireless and telecommunications businesses. He wasrecognized by the US White House as a mobile technology visionary and has been a keynote speaker for numerous industry events.Apart from his role at Naya Ventures, Dayakar is Executive Chairman at Motivity Labs, GlobalOutlook and Oyokey. He is also a Board Member at SnapOne and Zoomingo, a Board Observer at Minetta Brook and an Advisory Board Member at Boxfish and Glympse. Previously, Dayakar owned the P&L for the Hosting & Mobility Solutions business at Microsoft. He was responsible for the incubation, development and management of new mobility solutions. He also led the $350M hosting business encompassing all product development, product management, marketing and business development. Prior to joining Microsoft, as Founder and CEO of JP Mobile, Dayakar pioneered the industry's first mobile software solutions company. He secured $55 million in financing and successfully completed its acquisition by Good Technology, later acquired by Motorola.Dayakar began his career with Motorola. He owned the P&L for the Paging product, including all aspects of design, development and world-wide customer support. He received the Engineering Excellence Award from management at Nippon Motorola.Dayakar is an active supporter of entrepreneurs and startups. He has been involved with the Dallas chapter of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) since 1999 and is currently a charter member. Among other activities, he chaired the wireless/mobility SIG of TiE, and organized a wireless seminar in partnership with Nokia, TI and others. Dayakar is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin University and earned a master's degree in computer science from Nova University.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 77%
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Industries Dayakar Puskoor invests in
Stages Dayakar Puskoor invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 5 (38%)
- Software 4 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (31%)
- Big Data 3 (23%)
- Machine Learning 3 (23%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (46%)
- Series B 3 (23%)
- Series C 2 (15%)
- Seed 1 (8%)
- Funding Round 1 (8%)
Country
- United States 7 (54%)
- India 1 (8%)
- Canada 1 (8%)
Investments
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| Fiddler’s mission is to allow businesses of all sizes to unlock the AI black box and deliver transparent AI experiences to end-users. We enable businesses to build, deploy, and maintain trustworthy AI solutions. Fiddler’s next-generation ML Model Performance Management platform empowers data science and AI/ML teams to validate, monitor,explain, and analyze their AI solutions to accelerate AI adoption, meet regulatory compliance, and build trust with end-users. The platform provides complete visibility and understanding of AI solutions to customers. Fiddler works with pioneering Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging tech companies. | $30M / Series C / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Fiddler’s mission is to allow businesses of all sizes to unlock the AI black box and deliver transparent AI experiences to end-users. We enable businesses to build, deploy, and maintain trustworthy AI solutions. Fiddler’s next-generation ML Model Performance Management platform empowers data science and AI/ML teams to validate, monitor,explain, and analyze their AI solutions to accelerate AI adoption, meet regulatory compliance, and build trust with end-users. The platform provides complete visibility and understanding of AI solutions to customers. Fiddler works with pioneering Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging tech companies. | $18.6M / Series B / Dec 12, 2024 | ||
| At Dice, we are disrupting the way enterprises consume B2B goods and services, and manages corporate spend. We are redoing what SaaS stands for in a corporate setup - Spending as a Service.The modern corporate spending & consumption marketplace, built over unique UPI & banking architecture, integrates digital consumption APIs & B2Bmarketplaces with a no-code approval workflow. This enables all types of employee discretionary spend scenarios like commute, hotels, etc, and corporate spend scenarios like PO and Non-PO based vendor spend, through a single in-app open partner platform. No more cash. No more cards. No more reimbursements. No more offline invoices. Dice's super-app is used by more than 50,000 users pan-India, providing greater visibility into and control over how enterprises spend money, driving significant cost savings and profitability. | $5M / Series A / Jul 03, 2024 | ||
| Hippo Video provides a video customer experience platform that helps businesses engage with their audiences in an authentic way through personalized videos and hence accelerate conversions multifold. Hippo Video leverages AI and machine learning technologies to help businesses create, edit, personalize, and provide actionable analytics for videos.Hippo Video has hundreds of thousands of active users globally and is backed by KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge. | $8M / Series B / Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| StepFunction.ai provides a growth solution for SaaS AI platforms that provide rich customer intent signals to SaaS providers. | $5M / Seed / Aug 31, 2022 | ||
| Citylitics delivers predictive intelligence on local utility and public infrastructure markets. The company's data engine transforms over a billion documents buried in 31,000+ cities & utility data sources into high-value intelligence for targeted business development. | $5M / Series A / Mar 29, 2022 | ||
| CoreStack empowers enterprises to achieve continuous and autonomous cloud governance so they can accelerate innovation and deliver predictable outcomes. The company ensures cloud compliance and automating cloud operations. CoreStack's cloud-native, multi-cloud compliance platform is used today by many global enterprises. It is used today bymany leading global enterprises across multiple industries.CoreStack was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $30M / Series B / Nov 24, 2021 | ||
| Built for the Fortune 1000s and the agencies that serve them, Lucy reads, listens and watches every document, audio and video file from your Sharepoint, OneDrive, Office 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure, Amazon A3, Google Drive , or other common file systems so that she can answer any question. When Lucy joins a team, she neverleaves, never forgets and becomes smarter every day.Businesses hold huge stores of unstructured data; PowerPoints, PDFs, Word Docs, audio and video. This data was expensive to procure or produce yet more than 90% of this data will go largely unused after just 90 days. | $3M / Series A / Jun 01, 2021 | ||
| CoreStack empowers enterprises to achieve continuous and autonomous cloud governance so they can accelerate innovation and deliver predictable outcomes. The company ensures cloud compliance and automating cloud operations. CoreStack's cloud-native, multi-cloud compliance platform is used today by many global enterprises. It is used today bymany leading global enterprises across multiple industries.CoreStack was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $8.5M / Series A / Mar 17, 2020 | ||
| Viviota software provides unprecedented performance improvements in engineering data management and automated analysis — reducing costs and improving time-to-market for new vehicles, tools and devices. Viviota’s powerful software dramatically simplifies data management complexity and fully integrates into existing design, prototyping, and testenvironments—releasing the full potential of sensor data—and accelerating time-to-insight and innovation. Located in Austin, Texas, Viviota is a member of the HPE Partner Network, National Instruments Partner Alliance, and a graduate of the Capital Factory Accelerator Program. www.viviota.com | Series A / Jul 22, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Dallas Venture Capital
Dallas Venture Capital (DVC) is a Dallas based early-stage venture fund investing in AI/ML, IoT, XR and other emerging technologies launched by enterprise-focused entrepreneurs. In addition to providing capital and financing needs, our investment philosophy centers around guiding business development, product, and technology strategy for ourportfolio companies through ‘DVC Advantage’ to achieve successful outcomes. Operating from USA and India, we aim to create a bridge that connects the two large global markets.
Dallas Venture Capital Contacts
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Ravish Ailinani
Partner
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Abidali Neemuchwala
Co-Founder and Director
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Adhavan Manickam
Venture Partner
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Dayakar Puskoor
Founder and Managing Director
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Gokul Dixit
Venture Partner
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What does Dayakar Puskoor invest in?
Dayakar Puskoor invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 13 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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