# Ram Velidi

> Ram Velidi is a seed investor at LiveOak Ventures (Dallas) backing E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LiveOak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveoak-venture-partners)
- Location: Dallas, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramvelidi

Ram Velidi is a seed investor at LiveOak Ventures in Dallas focused on E-Commerce and Consumer Goods. Ram is a passionate product marketer and brings over two decades of executive management and private equity investing experience in technology and software-enabled services to his current role as Venture Partner at LiveOak.He recently served as Chief Transformation Officer and Advisor of Medecision, an insurance data management and analyticssoftware company. Prior to that, he was President of Net.Orange (acqd. by NantHealth), a real-time integrated data warehouse and decision support company. He was an investment partner over two fund cycles at Sevin Rosen Funds and worked closely with entrepreneurs across a broad spectrum of industries, businesses and investment cycles. His operating experience also includes product marketing roles at Texas Instruments and venture backed mobile softswitch company, Xybridge (acqd. by NASDAQ: ZHNE)He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station, MS from UW-Madison and BE from Bangalore University, India. He is a listed inventor of two US patents in mobile communication.He is a director or works closely with the management teams of BSI Financial Services, NuTek Food Science and Vistara IT. He actively trains for 2nd degree Black Belt in Northern and Southern Shaolin Kung Fu styles.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |
| Consumer Goods | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gardenuity | Gardenuity is a e-commerce startup, aims to transform the way consumers create and tend their gardens | $5.5M | Seed | Oct 17, 2023 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Anchor Capital GP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anchor-capital-ae68) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gray’s Creek Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gray-s-creek-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [JFO Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jfo-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [North Texas Angel Network](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/north-texas-angel-network) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [RevTech Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revtech-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Retail Connection](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-retail-connection) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About LiveOak Ventures

VC Fund · Austin, United States

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.

5 contacts available at LiveOak Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Ram Velidi invest in?

Ram Velidi invests primarily in E-Commerce and Consumer Goods startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ram Velidi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ram Velidi closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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