Aaron Perman

General Partner

S3 Ventures · Austin, Texas Area

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S3 Ventures - the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas entrepreneurs - makes Seed, Series A, and Series B investments in start-ups across three sectors: Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology. S3′s portfolio includes: Alkami, Alleviant, Allstacks, Arpio, Atmosphere, Buildforce, Braincheck, CereTax, Crogl, Databahn, Endovascular Engineering, Hydrolix, Ictero Medical, Interplay Learning, Kamiwaza, LeanDNA, Liquibase, Mavvrik, Montycloud, Mythic, Nestimate, Nexus, Prokeep, QBDVision, RepVue, Rest, Riscosity, Spectrawave, Stellar, Sudozi, Suite Studios, Sunthetics, Tensorstax, UpEquity, Videate, Versa Vascular, VUV Analytics, ZSuite Tech.

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Mythic · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Mythic is ushering in a new era of accelerated computing with its Analog Processing Units (APUs)—a fundamentally different approach to AI inference that collapses compute and memory into a single plane. By overcoming the energy bottlenecks of traditional digital architectures, Mythic delivers unparalleled performance-per-watt across edge devices, autonomous systems, and data centers. Its investors include DCVC, NEA, Atreides, S3 Ventures, Softbank KR, Future Ventures, Honda Motors, Lockheed Martin, One Madison Group, and Linse Capital, among others. Learn more at www.mythic.ai.

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DataBahn.ai · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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DataBahn.ai is redefining how enterprises manage the explosion of security and operational data in the AI era. Our AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform securely collects, enriches, orchestrates, and optimizes telemetry across security, application, observability, and IoT/OT systems for analytics, automation, and AI. With 500+ integrations and built-in enrichment, the platform streamlines fragmented workflows, requires no specialist training, reduces SIEM and infrastructure costs by over 50% and automates over 80% of data engineering tasks and accelerates time to value.

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Crogl, Inc. · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Crogl is the only autonomous knowledge engine for security operations. It investigates every alert and executes threat hunts by continuously learning your processes with speed, consistency, and depth.

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Sunthetics · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Sunthetics is a machine learning (ML) company specializing in accelerating innovation and sustainability in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms and small datasets, Sunthetics' software guides experimentation in chemical labs, empowering industries to reduce their carbon footprint while optimizing production efficiency. Founded with the mission of revolutionizing traditional manufacturing practices with democratized AI, Sunthetics has been recognized for its innovation in green technology and commitment to a sustainable future.

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Hydrolix Inc. · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Hydrolix is a streaming data lake that combines decoupled storage, indexed search, and stream processing to deliver real-time query performance at terabyte-scale for a radically lower cost.

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Hydrolix · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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CereTax · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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CereTax is a next-generation sales tax automation solution that leverages the latest advancements in cloud technology to revolutionize how a sales tax calculation platform operates. CereTax processes millions of transactions per month for some of the largest enterprises, enabling companies to do business reliably and in compliance.

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Riscosity · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Riscosity is the pioneer in Third-Party Data Observability (TPDO). Revolutionizing the ability of enterprises to gain visibility into and mitigate their data supply chain risk, Riscosity enables organizations to quickly develop, confidently deploy, and securely manage software that leverages third-party components and data sub-processors without compromise. Trusted by large public and private enterprises, Riscosity leads the TPDO market.

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Buildforce · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Buildforce is building the first ever career lifecycle platform for people in the construction trades. It's end-to-end career platform enables people in the construction trades to leverage their skills to maintain consistent work at fair pay and with the benefits of a W-2 employee.

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stellar · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

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Stellar partners with property managers and contractors to resolve home maintenance issues without the hassle. We get the best tradespeople on the job to deliver an elevated resident experience for rental properties. It’s a scalable solution that takes care of homes and people.

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stellar · Dallas, Texas, United States

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