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LiveOak Venture Partners LP is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, series A, startups, early and later stage lead investments. Based in Austin Texas, LiveOak Venture Partners was founded in 2012 by Ben Scott, Krishna Srinivasan, Venu Shamapant.
LiveOak is a full lifecycle investor focused on technology and technology-enabled service companies based in Texas. The Founders of LiveOak have invested in a variety of companies, such as Spatial Wireless (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), LifeSize Technologies (acquired by Logitech) Mavenir Systems (NYSE:MVNR) and Stackengine (acquired by Oracle).
LiveOak Venture Partners invest in startups and technology companies with a focus on information technology, cleantech, wireless, enterprise, components and technology enabled services. It prefers to invest in Texas, with a focus on Austin, North Texas with a focus on Dallas, and the Southwest and seeks to make an initial investment between $1 million and $4 million and further investments between $7 million and $10 million in the companies.The company has invested over $250 million in companies based in Texas since 2000 and successfully created over $1.5 billion of enterprise value.
Investments include Rollick, DISCO and Irish Plans and exits include Stack Engine, Ranzure Networks and Opcity.
