Venu Shamapant

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Mr. Venu Shamapant is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at LiveOak Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Revisto. He serves as a Board Member at AmplifAI, SPYDERBAT, Osano, and TrustRadius. He serves as an Advisor at MedScout. He also serves as a Member of the Board of Governors & Chairman of the Investment Committee & Member of the Community Impact Committee at the Austin Community Foundation. He served as a Board Member at Infocyte. He also served as a Board Member at Eventador.io and NSS Labs. Before co-founding LiveOak, he joined Austin Ventures in 1999 and has been a General Partner there since 2005. He serves as a Board Member at NSS Labs. At Austin Ventures, he worked with companies focused on Enterprise Solutions (LifeSize Communications - NASDAQ: LOGI, Sipera Systems), Communications Infrastructure (Spatial Wireless - NASDAQ: ALU, Navini Networks - NASDAQ: CSCO, Mavenir Systems), Semiconductors (Black Sand Technologies), Technology enabled services (Verisilicon Holdings) and infrastructure and mobile software. Before joining Austin Ventures, he was with McKinsey & Co. serving clients in the enterprise systems and software markets. He started his professional career as a software developer and engineering lead at Mentor Graphics. He is one of the founding members and currently serves on the board of Directors of TiE-Austin. He is also a founding board member of Austin Speech Labs - a non-profit focused on providing affordable speech and cognitive therapy for stroke survivors. He received his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business, MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Osmania University, India.