S3 Ventures
VC Fund
Austin, United States
S3 Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs in building high-impact companies. The company provides patient capital and substantial resources to visionary entrepreneurs, enabling them to nurture exceptional, high-impact businesses in the fields of business technology, digital experiences, and healthcare technology.
- Total investments:
- 169
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
- Fund size:
- $250M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries S3 Ventures invests in
Stages S3 Ventures invests in
Countries S3 Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$8.2M
- Series A
- $4.4M–$20M
- Series B
- $5M–$42M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 36 (21%)
- SaaS 14 (8%)
- Health Care 14 (8%)
- Information Technology 14 (8%)
- Medical Device 12 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 39 (23%)
- Series B 30 (18%)
- Seed 24 (14%)
- Series C 14 (8%)
- Funding Round 8 (5%)
Country
- United States 81 (48%)
- Italy 1 (1%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- Australia 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaron Perman
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Alex Marty
Associate
|
Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Charlie Plauche
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 36 | Find email | |
Cole Bonner
Senior Associate
|
Senior Associate | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Eric Engineer
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| We believe that all patients deserve the most innovative, open surgical treatment options so they can live their fullest lives. We’re on a mission to advance robotic technology that pushes the limits of soft tissue open surgery and opens new opportunities for surgeons to restore quality of life for more patients with complex conditions. TheSymani® Surgical System is a first-of-its kind robotic technology that uniquely addresses the scale and complexities of microsurgery and supermicrosurgery to restore quality of life for more patients. | $125M / Series D / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Cloverleaf AI is the only video-based research tool that gives you eyes into every government meeting. Instead of sitting through hours of meetings, we provide the ability to jump to the exact moment in a government meeting that is relevant to you, based on keywords and campaigns created specifically for your organization. Share clips with yourteam, find opportunities for revenue generation, hear how you and your competitors are being discussed, and understand what’s coming down the pike from school district to state and federal legislature meetings. | $8M / Series A / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| MaxQ Medical is a manufacturing company. | $20M / Series A / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Boom provides financial solutions to produce credit and rent payments. Their platform allows users to pay their rent via credit or debit cards, bank transfers, and wallets, enabling users to pay rent. | $15M / Series A / Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| Versa Vascular is a developer of an implant system designed to treat tricuspid regurgitation by supporting native valve function. | $15M / Series C / Aug 11, 2026 | ||
| Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid. | $20M / Series A / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| DataBahn provides an AI-powered platform designed for smarter data pipeline management, enabling the collection, integration, routing, and optimization of telemetry data with high precision and minimal friction. The platform assists organizations in securely collecting, enriching, orchestrating, and optimizing their enterprise data, focusing onenhancing information security and operational efficacy. By eliminating fragmented toolchains and reducing operational overhead, DataBahn delivers real-time insights, intelligent automation and immediate ROI—without added complexity. | $40M / Series B / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Buildforce is building the first-ever marketplace and career lifecycle platform for people in construction, starting with the electrical trade. Its end-to-end career platform enables people in the construction trades to maintain consistent work at fair pay and with the benefits of a W-2 employee. Since its launch in 2020, Buildforce has become thego-to partner helping dozens of construction contractors connect with the construction workforce. | $10M / Series A / Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| RapidPulse, Inc. is a privately held medical device company that develops minimally invasive vascular products for ischemic stroke. The company is advancing the development of the RapidPulse™ Cyclic Aspiration System, which includes a novel aspiration pump to allow rapid and consistent removal of blood clots from the brain. RapidPulse is a spinoutof Syntheon LLC., a medical device incubator dedicated to developing innovative products in the medical device industry | $48M / Series B / Jul 16, 2026 | ||
| Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitorseverywhere they are going to be. | $50M / Series B / Jul 08, 2026 | ||
| See all 169 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does S3 Ventures invest in?
S3 Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 169 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does S3 Ventures invest in?
S3 Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.2M at Seed, $4.4M–$20M at Series A and $5M–$42M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not S3 Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds S3 Ventures took part in.
How do I contact S3 Ventures?
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Who are the partners at S3 Ventures?
The team at S3 Ventures includes Aaron Perman (General Partner), Alex Marty (Associate) and Charlie Plauche (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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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