S3 Ventures
s3vc.com Direct investor
S3 Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2005, backed by a single limited partner, investing in business technology and healthcare technology companies. It leads Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds with initial investments of $500K to $15M+.
S3 Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Austin, United States, founded in 2005. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series B, in business Technology, healthcare Technology and hardware Technology. Its stated cheque size is $500K to $15M+. $1B+ under management and 75 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We lead Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds—with initial investments of $500K to $15M+ and the ability to invest $25M+ over time.”
— S3 Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- Business Technology, Healthcare Technology, Hardware Technology
- Cheque size
- $500K to $15M+
- Founded
- 2005
- Assets under management
- $1B+
- Portfolio
- 75 companies
Team, as S3 Ventures publishes it
- Brian R. Smith Managing Director
- Charlie Plauche Managing Director
- Eric Engineer General Partner
- Aaron Perman General Partner
- Joe Curry Principal
- Nicole Bentz Vice President
- Anthony Marfisi Associate
- Kevin Haley Associate
- Will Omberg Senior Associate
- Kathryn Deebel Director of Platform & Network
- Shelley Graves Controller
Names and roles exactly as listed on s3vc.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page S3 Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.s3vc.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.s3vc.com/our-teampeople
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Record 795 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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