Dallas Venture Capital
Venture capitalDallas · Seed–Growth · 16 people tracked
Also known as DALLAS VENTURE CAPITAL LLC
Investment thesis
Dallas Venture Capital follows a 'TTT' thesis, backing founders who can build a strong Team, demonstrate meaningful Traction through product-market fit, and operate in markets with a large Total Addressable Market. Through its 'DVC Advantage' program, the firm leverages its operating experience in building, selling, and buying technology to support portfolio companies with go-to-market strategy, recruiting key team members, and customer introductions. It focuses on growing B2B SaaS startups to accelerate their path to success.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 16 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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What they invest in
from 19 of 48 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×15Enterprise Software ×12SaaS ×7Data & Infrastructure ×6Cybersecurity ×4Fintech ×3Cloud Computing ×2Developer Tools ×2
HQs:United States×13Israel×1India×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 8 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×42 founders×13 founders×3
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 48 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 32023 · 22021 · 32018 · 12017 · 110 dated
Cupertino, US
Aurangzeb Khan(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRicky Tsai(Director)Lucio Lanza(Director)
Board seatDayakar Puskoor· per SEC Form D · $16.4M raise · filed Feb 2017
Bellevue, US
Thiruvalluvar Narayanan Balakrishnan(Director)Arun Ramamoorthy(Director)Ezhilarasan Natarajan(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatDayakar Puskoor· per SEC Form D · $30M raise · filed Nov 2021
Irving, US
Jiger Patel(Member of General Partner)Dayakar Puskoor(Member of General Partner)in
Board seatDayakar Puskoor· per SEC Form D · $5M raise · filed Apr 2018
Austin, US
Bernie Brenner(Director)Douglas Worple(Director)Matt Kinley(Director)Andrew Greff(Executive Officer, Director)James Grotelueschen(Director)
Board seatDayakar Puskoor· per SEC Form D · $7.7M raise · filed Jul 2021
Alkira provides on-demand, cloud-native network infrastructure as-a-service for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise connectivity.
Amir K.(Founder)in
Co-investorsGeodesic CapitalKleiner PerkinsKoch Disruptive TechnologiesNextEquity PartnersPresidio VenturesSequoia Capital
Altia provides embedded GUI (graphical user interface) design and development software for manufacturers across industries including automotive, medical devices, and consumer appliances.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareHardwareDetroit, US
Co-investorsFirstMile VenturesIntel Capital
AmplifAI provides an AI-enabled platform for performance and customer experience management in contact centers, unifying data from voice, chat, email, and other sources to deliver role-specific insights and recommended actions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMiami, US
Sean Minter(CEO, Founder, Board Member)in
Co-investorsBreyer CapitalGreycroftLiveOak Ventures
Aragorn is an integration platform designed for HR teams that provides visibility into data flows and direct control over how data moves between systems.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSDallas, US
Ed Adjei(Founder)inGladys Adjei(Founder)inEric Adjei(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsY CombinatorLiveOak Ventures
Application security posture management company offering code security, secret detection, and developer access management.
Ballerine provides AI-powered merchant policy fit analysis that evaluates whether merchants' business activities align with acceptable use policies (AUP).
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSTel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Noam Izhaki(Founder)inNitzan Gelbard(Founder)inAlon Peretz(Founder)in
Co-investorsMoneta VCTreasuryY Combinator
Bluecopa provides an AI-native platform that automates end-to-end financial processes for CFOs and finance teams, enabling autonomous transaction matching and audit-ready governance at scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Nilotpal Chanda(Founder)inRaghavendra Reddy (RR)(Founder)in
Co-investorsHyderabad Angels
BluSapphire is a vendor-neutral, AI-driven security operations platform that unifies SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and threat intelligence, offering managed SOC services, autonomous threat response, and a security data lake.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareHyderabad, IN
Co-investorsMerisis Advisors
Business intelligence company providing information on future infrastructure projects to help companies win municipal bids.
CoreStack offers an AI-native governance platform that unifies FinOps, security, and compliance across cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and AI systems in a single control plane.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurity
Ezhilarasan Natarajan(Founder)
Co-investorsAvatar Growth Capital PartnersIron PillarZ5 Capital
Spend management solution transforming enterprise consumption of B2B goods and services.
Disprz provides an AI-powered learning platform that diagnoses skill gaps, builds learning content, and delivers training within the flow of work for enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechHR Tech
Co-investorsKae CapitalLiquidity CapitalLumos Capital GroupMars Growth CapitalSilverneedle Ventures
Docyt provides an AI-powered accounting and bookkeeping platform that automates expense management, bank reconciliation, transaction categorization, and real-time financial reporting.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSilicon Valley, US
Co-investorsFirst Rays Venture PartnersLobby CapitalPage One Ventures
DQLabs offers Prizm, an AI-native data control plane that combines data observability, data quality, and cataloging in one platform.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsZ5 Capital
Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and control platform offering experiments, monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Krishna Gade(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundaVentureBenhamou Global VenturesCisco InvestmentsDentsu VenturesE12 Venture Capital, Llc+20 more
Palo Alto, US
Amit Paka(Executive Officer, Director)Krishna Gade(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRaviraj Jain(Director)inBilal Zuberi(Director)inGeorge Mathew(Director)in
Co-investorsBGVDentsu VenturesInsight PartnersLDV PartnersLightspeed Venture PartnersLux Capital+3 more
Video CX platform enabling businesses to engage audiences through personalized video experiences.
Hippo Video is a video creation platform using agentic AI to turn text, documents, and prompts into videos with lifelike avatars and multilingual voiceovers in 30+ languages.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaS
Karthi Mariappan(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalPeak XV Partners
Holistic AI provides an AI governance platform that identifies and inventories AI systems across an organization, tests them for security and bias risks, and generates compliance documentation for regulatory and internal stakeholders.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Adriano Soares Koshiyama(Founder)in
Co-investorsKickstart InnovationMozilla VenturesTola CapitalZ5 Capital
AI governance platform helping businesses manage AI risks and ensure fair, unbiased, and secure AI systems with regulatory compliance.
Product company founded by Pramod Sharma, refined product-market fit with SucSEED mentorship
Co-investorsSucSEED Indovation
Nirmata is an AI platform engineering assistant that helps teams write, validate, and enforce policy-as-code across Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Ritesh Patel(Founder)in
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsDreamit VenturesPeak XV PartnersZ5 CapitalBenhamou Global Ventures
Plnar offers an AI platform for property insurance claims and inspections that uses smartphone imagery to capture and create 3D models of interior and exterior spaces.
AI & Machine LearningInsurTechPropTechSaaS
Co-investorsCentral Texas Angel NetworkGeekdomManchesterStory Group, LLCColopl Next
Prophecy is an agentic data preparation and analysis platform that uses AI agents to turn natural-language prompts into visual, low-code data workflows that analysts and business users can inspect, refine, validate, and deploy.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Raj Bains(Founder)inVikas MarwahaMaciej Szpakowski(Founder)in
Co-investorsBerkeley SkyDeck FundDig Ventures Management LimitedPathlight VenturesSmith Point CapitalSquareOne CapitalDatabricks Ventures+3 more
Prophecy is an agentic data preparation and analysis platform that uses Claude Code-based AI agents to generate visual, low-code data workflows from natural-language prompts, which business users and analysts can inspect, refine, validate, and deploy.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US
Raj Bains(Founder)inMaciej Szpakowski(Founder)in
Co-investorsSignalFireDatabricks VenturesHSBCInsight PartnersSingTel Innov8 Pte Ltd.Smith Point Capital
Rollick connects manufacturers, dealers, and finance and insurance providers with in-market consumers to manage the customer journey from pre-purchase through re-purchase.
B2B MarketplacesMarketing TechMarketplacesSaaSSales TechAustin, US
Bernie Brenner(CEO)Gary Papilsky(Director)Amit Maheshwari(Director)
BoardMorgan Flager(Director)in
Co-investorsManchesterStory Group, LLCSilverton Partners
Unified AI Detection & Response platform securing user, data, and AI interactions in enterprise environments.
ML Ops infra platform with a fast AI inference engine reducing compute costs and latency
Co-investorsFirst ChequeShastra VC
Growth engineering platform providing actionable data to marketing and customer success teams for churn management and retention
Co-investorsAspenwoodHummer Winblad Venture PartnersInventus Capital PartnersZ5 Capital
VuNet offers a business observability platform (vuSmartMaps) that correlates metrics, events, logs, and traces into digital transaction flows, using AI/ML to detect and resolve issues before they affect customers.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsAthera Venture PartnersMela Ventures
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesBluSapphire · trysignalbase.com · Mar 23, 2026
Fiddler AI · thesaasnews.com · Jan 30, 2026
Fiddler Labs, Inc. · fiddler.ai · Jan 27, 2026
Aragorn AI · dmagazine.com · Nov 6, 2025
CoreStack · techcompanynews.com · Oct 22, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Dallas Venture Capital made?
- Dallas Venture Capital has 39 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Dallas Venture Capital invest at?
- Dallas Venture Capital invests at the Seed, Series A, Growth stages.
- What sectors does Dallas Venture Capital focus on?
- Dallas Venture Capital focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Dallas Venture Capital located?
- Dallas Venture Capital is headquartered in Dallas, US.
- Does Dallas Venture Capital lead rounds?
- Dallas Venture Capital typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Dallas Venture Capital co-invest with?
- Dallas Venture Capital most often shares deals with Z5 Capital, ManchesterStory Group, LLC, Y Combinator, among 40 tracked co-investors.
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