Founded in 2005, S3 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. The firm seeks to make seed, early-stage, late-stage and growth equity minority investments. The firm prefers to invest in companies from the healthcare devices and supplies, Software as a Service, Cybersecurity, Financial Technology, and E-Commerce sectors.
S3 Ventures is backed by a philanthropic, multi-billion-dollar family who, for over a decade, have worked to support entrepreneurs with patient capital and the resources required to grow companies. With more than half-a-billion dollars under management, they lead Seed, Series A, and Series B investments with the capacity to follow-on for the life of a company.
S3 Ventures make initial investments ranging from $250,000 to $10 million. They often lead rounds, hold a board seat, and make follow-on investments for the life of a company. Additionally, their sole financial backer has co-invested $10 million or more into the larger rounds of some of their growth-stage portfolio companies.
S3 Ventures' investments include Alkami Technology, Liveoak Technologies, Atmosphere, OrthoAccel Technologies, OutboundEngine, Pivot3, StoreIQ, Digby and Callvine.
Their exited investments include Favor, Complex, Qualia, TVA Medical, BlueCava, Packet Design, Pristine, Gravitant, Digby, Kimbia, LibreDigital, StoredIQ, Sipera Systems and Invodo.
