# Venu Shamapant

> Venu Shamapant is a seed investor at LiveOak Ventures (Austin) backing Software and SaaS. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LiveOak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liveoak-venture-partners)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venu-shamapant-7987007
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/vshamapant
- Website: https://x.com/vshamapant

Venu Shamapant is a seed investor at LiveOak Ventures in Austin focused on Software and SaaS. Venu Shamapant is the Founding Partner of LiveOak Venture Partners. He previously worked at Infocyte as a Member Board Of Directors. Venu Shamapant attended Harvard Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 22% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| B2B | 2 | 9% |
| Marketing | 2 | 9% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 9% |

38 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 22% |
| Series A | 5 | 22% |
| Series B | 5 | 22% |
| Series C | 2 | 9% |
| Series D | 2 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Revisto | Revisto is a pioneering AI-powered technology that simplifies the medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) review process for pharmaceutical marketing materials. | $4M | Seed | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Illuma | Illuma Labs provides real-time voice authentication for customers around the world. With a technology that has its origins in R&D projects with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, the company’s solutions support secure communications in verticals ranging from financial services and insurance toe-commerce. Illuma Shield, the company’s flagship solution, leverages signal processing, machine learning, and AI to offer call centers a real-time voice authentication solution that analyzes voices in natural conversation and provides a high authentication accuracy rate in a short period of time. | $9M | Series A | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Illuma | Illuma is a credit union service organization that offers real-time voice authentication and fraud prevention solutions for credit unions. | $9M | Series A | Sep 10, 2024 |  |
| Osano | Osano is an easy-to-use data privacy platform that helps businesses to become compliant with laws such as GDPR and CCPA. | $25M | Series B | Aug 10, 2023 |  |
| Flo | Flo Recruit enables companies to hire the best talent at recruitment events by capturing candidate data in less than 30 seconds, gathering employee feedback in a frictionless process, and delivering never before available insights to recruiters. | $4.2M | Seed | Aug 08, 2023 |  |
| Osano | Osano is an easy-to-use data privacy platform that helps businesses to become compliant with laws such as GDPR and CCPA. | $11M | Series A | Sep 22, 2021 |  |
| Spyderbat | Cloud Native Runtime Security from Spyderbat detects and stops attacks throughout your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Secure your Linux VMs and Kubernetes clusters at runtime. Rapidly and securely iterate your workloads with an automated understanding of runtime behavior differences between builds and environments. Block attacks againstcloud-native workloads. Gain live and historic contextual views across your Kubernetes, containers, and VM environments to immediately understand the root cause of security and operational issues.With a highly scalable, cloud-native SaaS architecture, Spyderbat's Automatic Continuous Causal Context (A3C) Engine immediately assembles runtime activities into a visual map based on causal relationships for real time and historic views. The Spyderbat platform monitors every causal sequence of activities within and across your workloads and automatically surfaces threats using actionable intelligence from Spyderbat Labs. The map is fully searchable to crush your investigation time and root cause analysis with a contextual understanding of what is happening. Block attacks against known and unknown vulnerabilities and track attacker's moves across different user sessions, workloads, and long periods of time. Through Spyderbat’s supported integrations, automated actions, and documented APIs, weave Spyderbat’s workload behavior monitoring and blocking into your existing build practices and notification channels. See it for yourself! Visit Spyderbat.com to try out our previously captured scenarios or create your own on your own systems. | $4.2M | Seed | Jul 29, 2020 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Next Coast Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/next-coast-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Austin Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/austin-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tau Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tau-ventures-e0e2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Capital Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-factory) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Chevron Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chevron-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Curql](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/curql) — VC Fund, 3 deals 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 Venu Shamapant invest in?

Venu Shamapant invests primarily in Software, SaaS and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 23 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 Venu Shamapant last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Venu Shamapant closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 23 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?

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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