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Dallas Venture Capital

Venture capital

Dallas · Seed–Growth · 16 people tracked

Also known as DALLAS VENTURE CAPITAL LLC

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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 Sep 29, 2026.

Stage
Seed–Growth
HQ
Dallas, Texas, US
Leads rounds
Follows
Instruments
Equity
Founded
2010
Last 12 months
3 investments
AUM
$121M
VC funds
11
Tracked investments
49
Acquisitions
1

Team · 16 people

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What they invest in

from 26 of 49 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×20Enterprise Software ×17SaaS ×15Data & Infrastructure ×6Fintech ×6Cloud Computing ×4Cybersecurity ×4Developer Tools ×4

HQs:United States×14India×5Israel×1

Who they back

founder profiles across 21 portfolio companies
62%
solo founders
13 of 21 mapped founding teams
44%
repeat founders
of 32 founders with career history

Founding team size:solo founder×132 founders×33 founders×34+ founders×2

Where their founders studiedfrom 31 founders with education data

Indian School of Business ×3Southern Methodist University ×3Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani ×2The University of Texas at Dallas ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2University of Madras ×2University of Mysore ×2

What their founders studiedfrom 28 founders with field-of-study data

Computer Science ×15Business & Management ×6Engineering ×5Finance & Accounting ×4Design & Architecture ×3Mathematics & Statistics ×2

Where their founders worked beforefrom 32 founders with career history

Remitly Israel (formerly Rewire) ×3Nortel Networks ×2Optotax ×2

Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program

Y Combinator ×2

1 founders hold a PhD · 7 hold an MBA (of 30 with degree data)

Investments · 49 tracked

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CoreStackcorestack.ioin𝕏✓ verified

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AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Ezhilarasan Natarajan(Founder)in

Co-investorsAvatar Growth Capital PartnersIron PillarZ5 CapitalDraper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)

Ituringituring.aiin𝕏✓ verified

iTuring Open Data Accelerator provides pre-built financial intelligence features for banking and insurance organizations, eliminating months of manual feature engineering through access to 50,000 production-ready signals deployable via APIs.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechBengaluru, IN

Suman Singh(Founder & CEO)inValsan Ponnachath(President, COO & Co-Founder)Amit Kumar(Co-Founder & VP Product Engineering)inMohammed Nawas M P(Co-Founder & VP Product Development)in

Co-investorsMela VenturesPentathlon Ventures

Korekore.aiin𝕏Sep 2021

Kore.ai builds an AI-native agent platform designed to help enterprises deploy AI agents for customer service and employee productivity.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSOrlando, US

Rajkumar Koneru(Executive Officer, Director)Raj Koneru(Founder)inRavi Singh(Executive Officer)in

BoardD K Sharma(Director)Don Callahan(Director)

Board seatDayakar Puskoor· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsFTV CapitalGlobal Blockchain VenturesNextEquity PartnersVistara Growth

Alkiraalkira.comMay 2024Acquired

Alkira provides on-demand, cloud-native network infrastructure as-a-service for hybrid and multi-cloud enterprise connectivity.

Amir K.(Founder)in

Co-investorsGeodesic CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Kleiner PerkinsKoch Disruptive TechnologiesNextEquity PartnersPresidio Ventures+3 more

Altiaaltia.comin𝕏

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

AmplifAIamplifai.comin𝕏

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 VenturesCVS Health Ventures

Aragorn AIaragorn.aiinSep 2025 · $4.3M

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)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorFriends Family CapitalLiveOak Ventures

Ballerineballerine.comin𝕏

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 CombinatorMarc BhargavaTeam8

Bluecopabluecopa.com𝕏Jan 2026

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(Co-Founder and CBO)inRaghavendra Reddy (RR)(Founder)inSatya Prakash(Co-Founder and CEO)Raghavendra Reddy(Co-Founder and COO)in

Co-investorsHyderabad AngelsTitan CapitalBlume Ventures

BluSapphireblusapphire.comin𝕏

BluSapphire provides an AI-native security operations platform that consolidates SIEM, endpoint detection and response, security orchestration, and threat intelligence capabilities for enterprise security teams.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareHyderabad, IN

Kiran Vangaveti(Founder)in

Crewaicrewai.comin𝕏

CrewAI provides an enterprise platform for discovering, building, deploying, and governing AI agents that automate workflows across business applications, with no-code multi-agent workflow creation and observability.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

João (Joe) Moura(Co-founder)inRob Bailey(Co-founder)in

Co-investorsBlitzscaling Venturesboldstart venturesCraft VenturesEarl Grey CapitalFirsthandVCFlybridge Capital Partners+2 more

Dicedice.tech

Dice is a corporate spend orchestration, digital commerce, and payments platform for enterprises, offering accounts payable tools such as OCR-based invoice data extraction, credit/debit note handling, budgetary controls, settlement tracking, and real-time transaction compliance.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSPune, IN

Dicesolutionsthegame.comin𝕏

Solutions is a climate-themed board game that adapts the Project Drawdown framework into a card-based format, presenting real climate solutions for players to learn about, discuss, and debate.

Climate TechEdTechGamingImpact & Social GoodSacramento, US

Sam(Creator / Game Designer)

Co-investorsStarshot

Disprzdisprz.comin𝕏Nov 2021 · $13M

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

Kuljit Chadha(Founder)in

Co-investorsKae CapitalLiquidity CapitalMars Growth CapitalLumos Capital GroupSilverneedle Ventures

Docytdocyt.comin𝕏

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

Sidharth Saxena(Founder)in

Co-investorsFirst Rays Venture PartnersLobby CapitalPage One VenturesXplorer Capital

Dq Labsdqlabs.aiin𝕏

DQLabs provides data observability and quality management solutions for Google Cloud Platform environments, offering automated monitoring, governance, and integration with data infrastructure tools.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Co-investorsZ5 Capital

Fiddler AIfiddler.aiin𝕏Jan 2025 · $18.6M

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)inAmit Paka(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardRaviraj Jain(Director)inBilal Zuberi(Director)inGeorge Mathew(Director)in

Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundaVentureBenhamou Global VenturesCisco InvestmentsDentsu VenturesE12 Venture Capital, Llc+22 more

greytHRgreythr.comin𝕏

greytHR is a full-suite HR management platform that handles recruiting, onboarding, payroll, leave, attendance, appraisals, and compliance, with AI to automate admin tasks via natural-language commands.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS

Sayeed Anjum(Founder)in

Co-investorsApax DigitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Info Edge

Hippo Videohippovideo.ioin𝕏Feb 2023

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 LearningCreator EconomyDeveloper ToolsMarketing TechSaaSSales Tech

Karthi Mariappan(Founder)in

Co-investorsExfinity VenturesKae CapitalAlpha Wave GlobalPeak XV PartnersSequoia Capital

Holistic AIholisticai.comin𝕏

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(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)inEmre Kazim(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)in

Co-investorsKickstart InnovationMozilla VenturesTola CapitalZ5 CapitalAccelCreandum+4 more

IntelleWingsintellewings.comMar 2022 · $650K

Product company founded by Pramod Sharma, refined product-market fit with SucSEED mentorship

Co-investorsSucSEED Indovation

Mojromojro.comin𝕏Apr 2026 · $1.1B

Mojro provides transportation planning and optimization software for enterprise shippers, combining operations research and machine learning to simultaneously optimize all dimensions of logistics workflows while providing operational visibility and enterprise system integration.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS

Amit Kulkarni(Founder)inKishan Aswath(Founder)in

Co-investors1CrowdSequoia Capital

Nirmatanirmata.comin𝕏Feb 2025 · $9.6M

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 PartnersSurgeZ5 CapitalBenhamou Global Ventures+3 more

PLNAR (Smart Picture)plnar.aiin𝕏

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 NetworkGeekdomgumi IncManchesterStory Group, LLCColopl NextDVC+1 more

Prophecyprophecy.aiinOct 2023 · $35M

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

Vikas MarwahainRaj Bains(Founder)inMaciej Szpakowski(Founder)in

Co-investorsBerkeley SkyDeck FundDig Ventures Management LimitedInsight PartnersPathlight VenturesPenny Jar Capital VentureSignalFire+5 more

Rollickrollick.ioin

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 and Chairman of the Board)inJason Nierman(Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer)inGary Papilsky(Director)Amit Maheshwari(Director)

BoardMorgan Flager(Director)in

Co-investorsManchesterStory Group, LLCSilverton PartnersAutotech VenturesCapital FactoryLiveOak Venture PartnersTroy Capital Partners

Secufusionsecufusion.ai

Unified AI Detection & Response platform securing user, data, and AI interactions in enterprise environments.

Simplismartsimplismart.aiAug 2026 · $9M

Simplismart provides a machine learning inference platform for deploying and auto-scaling AI models, supporting LLMs, vision-language, diffusion, and speech models from a library of 150+ open-source models or custom weights.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US

Amritanshu Jain(Founder)inShrayansh Agarwal(Founder)in

Co-investorsAccelFirst ChequeShastra VCTitan CapitalAccel IndiaNVIDIA

StepFunctionstepfunction.ai

Growth engineering platform providing actionable data to marketing and customer success teams for churn management and retention

Co-investorsAspenwoodHummer Winblad Venture Partners (HWVP)Inventus Capital PartnersZ5 Capital

VuNetvunetsystems.comin𝕏

VuNet provides an AI-driven business observability platform that consolidates telemetry across infrastructure, applications, transactions, and third-party systems into a single business-aligned view, translating technical signals into insights on customer experience, revenue impact, and service performance.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Co-investorsPravega VenturesAthera Venture PartnersMela Ventures

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Altia SystemsCloudenablersShreem Lewisville CapitalSmart Picture TechnologiesApplication LayerArnicaBusiness AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceCityliticsCloudOpsData InfrastructureEmbedded SystemsHolistica AIInfrastructure LayerIT ServicesPlatform EngineeringPyntRockfishViviota

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.

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Dallas Venture Capital made?
Dallas Venture Capital has 49 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 6 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, Kae Capital, Mela Ventures, among 70 tracked co-investors.
What size deals does Dallas Venture Capital back?
Across 7 deals with disclosed amounts, Dallas Venture Capital has joined rounds of $650K – $1.1B (median $13M).

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