Dallas Venture Capital
Venture capitalDallas · Seed–Growth · 15 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 3, 2026.
Team · 15 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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What they invest in
from 12 of 48 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×8Enterprise Software ×8SaaS ×5Developer Tools ×3Cybersecurity ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2Fintech ×2HR Tech ×2
HQs:United States×10Israel×1
Investments · 48 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathCupertino, US
Ricky Tsai(Director)Dayakar Puskoor(Director)Lucio Lanza(Director)Aurangzeb Khan(Executive Officer, 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
Orlando, US
Board seatDayakar Puskoor· per SEC Form D · $23.5M raise · filed Sep 2021
Irving, US
Jiger Patel(Member of General Partner)Dayakar Puskoor(Member of General Partner)
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
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
Platform enabling teams to streamline and automate vendor and IT integrations.
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)
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
Unified finance operations management platform for fast-growing businesses.
Cloud-native cyber resilience AI platform providing 24/7 managed detection, response, and remediation.
Business intelligence company providing information on future infrastructure projects to help companies win municipal bids.
Spend management solution transforming enterprise consumption of B2B goods and services.
AI-based platform automating data quality checks and remediation for reliable business data outcomes.
Fiddler provides an AI control plane that offers monitoring, guardrails, and governance for enterprise AI agents and compound AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Krishna Gade(Founder & CEO)in
Palo Alto, US
Amit Paka(Executive Officer, Director)Krishna Gade(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRaviraj Jain(Director)Bilal Zuberi(Director)George Mathew(Director)
Video CX platform enabling businesses to engage audiences through personalized video experiences.
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
AI governance platform helping businesses manage AI risks and ensure fair, unbiased, and secure AI systems with regulatory compliance.
AI and DeepTech-powered AML/CFT solutions provider.
Prophecy is an AI-powered data preparation and analysis platform that generates visual data workflows from natural language descriptions, enabling business users and analysts to inspect, refine, and deploy production-grade code on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery without manual coding.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
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
Gary Papilsky(Director)Amit Maheshwari(Director)Bernie Brenner(CEO)
BoardMorgan Flager(Director)
Unified AI Detection & Response platform securing user, data, and AI interactions in enterprise environments.
Growth engineering platform providing actionable data to marketing and customer success teams for churn management and retention
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.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
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