# LiveOak Ventures

> LiveOak Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 141 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 141
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 54%
- Fund size: $210M
- Last fund: Nov 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/liveoak-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/liveoakvp
- Website: http://liveoakvp.com

LiveOak Ventures is a VC fund in Austin focused on Software and Information Technology. Liveoak Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on technology and technology-driven services in Texas. LiveOak is a full lifecycle investor, with most of its relationships beginning at the seed stage.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7.3M |
| Series A | $3M–$20M |
| Series B | $5.5M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 32 | 23% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 11% |
| SaaS | 13 | 9% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 9% |
| Financial Services | 11 | 8% |

117 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 47 | 33% |
| Series A | 39 | 28% |
| Series B | 17 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 7% |
| Series C | 5 | 4% |

12 stages tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Stewart | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-stewart-f51e |
| Krishna Srinivasan | Founding Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/krishna-srinivasan-3 |
| Paola Retes | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paola-retes |
| Ram Velidi | Venture Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ram-velidi |
| Venu Shamapant | Founding Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venu-shamapant |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| RDC | Receipts Depositary Corporation (RDC) provides a platform for investing in digital and alternative assets. The company leverages the Depositary Receipt (DR) structure to simplify the investment process. RDC does not operate or hold assets directly but facilitates investments through its platform. The company focuses on making it easier forinvestors to access a variety of asset classes, including cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. | $7M | Seed | Jun 16, 2026 |  |
| Artis | Artis is a branding, marketing, and technology partner for residential architects, landscape architects, custom home builders, and luxury interior designers. | $7.3M | Seed | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Mallory | Mallory provides an AI-native threat intelligence platform that monitors global cyber threats, correlates them with a customer's attack surface, and delivers prioritized, actionable insights for security teams. It ingests data from thousands of sources, automates enrichment and triage, and integrates with existing tools like SIEM and SOAR forautomated responses such as ticket creation and notifications. The platform supports natural language monitoring, generates decision traces for audits, and focuses on answering whether an organization is affected by events like zero-days or supply chain breaches. |  | Seed | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| MedScout | MedScout is a revenue acceleration platform for medical device and diagnostic companies. MedScout combines the most recent medical claims intelligence from public and private payors with an easy-to-use user interface designed specifically for sales professionals and leaders at growing medical device and diagnostic companies. MedScout providesclients with immediate insight into the addressable market within their current territories and enables them to easily understand the implications of any changes. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| UPTIQ | Uptiq is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform designed to support financial services firms with real-time analytics, risk assessment, and decision-making workflows. The company’s platform uses machine learning to process and interpret large volumes of financial data, identify trends, and generate actionable insights that helpteams evaluate credit risk, detect anomalies, and inform portfolio strategies. Its tools support integration with existing data systems and workflows, enabling users to automate data ingestion, modeling, and reporting across lending, investment, and compliance functions.Uptiq also offers customizable dashboards and APIs that help financial analysts, risk officers, and product teams operationalize insights and align them with business objectives. The company works with banks, fintechs, and financial institutions to tailor AI models and analytic frameworks to specific use cases such as credit scoring, customer lifetime value prediction, and loss forecasting. Its platform emphasizes scalable data processing and transparent model outputs to support informed decision-making in financial operations. | $25M | Series B | Feb 12, 2026 |  |
| Nada | Nada is the homeowner finance platform helping families unlock and manage their home wealth through innovative financial products and an integrated platform built for every stage of homeownership. Its flagship Home Equity Agreement (HEA) provides a debt-free way for homeowners to access their equity, and the company is currently active across 14states with continued expansion underway.In addition to HEAs, Nada provides integrated mortgage and real estate services — helping homeowners finance, buy, sell, or stay — and offering the guidance and tools that build long-term financial freedom.Through Homeshares.co, Nada has also introduced the first retail investment platform dedicated to the HEA asset class, aligning diversified capital to expand opportunity for homeowners.Nada is backed by LiveOak Venture Partners, Nomura, Interlock Partners, Revolution, and 7BC Venture Capital | $10M | Series A | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Backflip | Reinvigorating neighborhoods by supporting real estate entrepreneurs with innovative technology and capital. | $10M |  | Nov 14, 2025 |  |
| UPTIQ | Uptiq is a technology company that provides an AI-driven platform designed to support financial services firms with real-time analytics, risk assessment, and decision-making workflows. The company’s platform uses machine learning to process and interpret large volumes of financial data, identify trends, and generate actionable insights that helpteams evaluate credit risk, detect anomalies, and inform portfolio strategies. Its tools support integration with existing data systems and workflows, enabling users to automate data ingestion, modeling, and reporting across lending, investment, and compliance functions.Uptiq also offers customizable dashboards and APIs that help financial analysts, risk officers, and product teams operationalize insights and align them with business objectives. The company works with banks, fintechs, and financial institutions to tailor AI models and analytic frameworks to specific use cases such as credit scoring, customer lifetime value prediction, and loss forecasting. Its platform emphasizes scalable data processing and transparent model outputs to support informed decision-making in financial operations. | $12M |  | Oct 25, 2025 |  |
| Triplemoon | Triplemoon is a tech-enabled mental health enterprise, serves children, patients, professionals, and their families. | $3.5M | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Aragorn AI | Aragorn AI develops a cloud people resource data integration platform. It integrates the company’s human resources data with 3rd-party software. | $4.3M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |

10 of 141 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does LiveOak Ventures invest in?

LiveOak Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 141 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 LiveOak Ventures's check size?

LiveOak Ventures typically joins rounds of $1M–$7.3M at Seed, $3M–$20M at Series A and $5.5M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds LiveOak Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact LiveOak Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at LiveOak Ventures?

The team at LiveOak Ventures includes David Stewart (Partner), Krishna Srinivasan (Founding Partner) and Paola Retes (Vice President), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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