Austin Ventures
austinventures.com Direct investor
Austin Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, that has invested in over 250 companies since 1984. It focuses on early stage and middle market companies, primarily in Texas, with a long-term investment perspective.
Austin Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Austin, United States, founded in 1984. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in technology, software, hardware and internet. $3.9 billion under management and 250 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“AV invests in early stage and middle market companies, and its strategy is to partner with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build industry-leading companies predominantly in Texas.”
— Austin Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Invests in
- Texas
- Sectors
- technology, software, hardware, internet, healthcare, energy, financial services, logistics
- Founded
- 1984
- Assets under management
- $3.9 billion
- Portfolio
- 250 companies
Team, as Austin Ventures publishes it
- Joe Aragona General Partner
- Ken DeAngelis General Partner
- Chris Pacitti General Partner
- John Thornton General Partner Emeritus
Names and roles exactly as listed on austinventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 18 co-investors found.
- Escalate Capital Partners 3 shared companies: civitaslearning.com, activenetwork.com, donuts.co
- Capital Factory 1 shared company: bazaarvoice.com
- Floodgate 1 shared company: bazaarvoice.com
- Inovia Capital 1 shared company: bazaarvoice.com
- Marlin Equity Partners 1 shared company: bazaarvoice.com
- Matchstick Ventures 1 shared company: bazaarvoice.com
- Red & Blue Ventures 1 shared company: bazaarvoice.com
- Francisco Partners 1 shared company: civitaslearning.com
- High Alpha 1 shared company: civitaslearning.com
- SJF Ventures 1 shared company: civitaslearning.com
and 8 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Austin Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://austinventures.com/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, description, founded, portfolio_count
- https://austinventures.com/about/layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, aum, people
- https://austinventures.com/portfolio/sectors
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Record 1410 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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