Dallas Venture Capital

Dallas Venture Capital (DVC) is a venture capital firm based in Irving, Texas, founded in 2011. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in sectors such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, and extended reality, with a particular interest in enterprise-focused business-to-business and software-as-a-service startups that demonstrate around $1 million in annualized recurring revenue. DVC not only provides capital but also emphasizes strategic guidance in business development, product management, and technology strategy for its portfolio companies. With operations in both the United States and India, DVC aims to bridge these two significant global markets, fostering innovation and growth in emerging technologies.

Ravish Ailinani

Partner

Tariq Akbar

Venture Partner

Sujay Chebbi

Analyst

Raghu Chittimalla

Venture Partner

Gokul Dixit

Venture Partner

Kiran Kalluri

Fund Partner

Hari Kalyanaraman

Senior Associate

Kishen Kavikondala

Venture Partner

Adhavan Manickam

Venture Partner

Shyam Penumaka

Partner

Dayakar Puskoor

Founder and Managing Director

Shivam Satija

Junior Analyst

Manu Sharma

Senior Associate

Kamesh Somanchi

Venture Partner

Shailendra Tipparaju

Venture Partner

Neel Gonuguntla

COO

43 past transactions

Nirmata

Venture Round in 2025
Nirmata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, focused on providing a platform that facilitates the delivery and operation of cloud-native applications. Founded in 2013, Nirmata develops software-as-a-service solutions that offer unified governance, security, and compliance for containerized applications. Its flagship products include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which automates operations, and multi-cloud cluster management, which enhances application portability across various cloud environments. Nirmata is also recognized as the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, a widely used policy engine for Kubernetes, which has seen significant adoption in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and life sciences. The company's platform integrates policy as code to address security challenges, helping engineering teams avoid misconfigurations and establish secure defaults in real time. Nirmata serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 2000 companies, and has established itself as a key player in the cloud-native technology landscape.

VuNet Systems

Series B in 2025
VuNet Systems is founded by a group of professionals with decades of experience in designing and developing networking products. VuNet’s platform provides comprehensive insights into IT and digital environments by linking IT performance with business results. This method fosters collaboration among business, product, and IT teams, enhancing transparency and accountability.

Prophecy.io

Series B in 2025
Prophecy.io offers a data transformation copilot that assists users in developing, deploying, and monitoring data pipelines across cloud platforms. The platform integrates AI and a visual interface to enhance productivity for various data users, enabling them to manage complex data workflows with ease.

Rockfish Data

Seed Round in 2025
Rockfish Data is a generative artificial intelligence software company focused on providing businesses with safe and effective methods to leverage and share data. Its innovative software employs AI models to create a data flywheel effect, which generates synthetic data that seamlessly integrates into existing data ingestion pipelines. This system automatically selects the optimal representation for the data and facilitates model training, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of data utilization for businesses.

Fiddler AI

Series B in 2024
Fiddler is a pioneer in enterprise Model Performance Management. Data Science, MLOps, and LOB teams use Fiddler to monitor, explain, analyze, and improve their models and build trust into AI. The unified environment provides a common language, centralized controls, and actionable insights to operationalize ML/AI with trust. It addresses the unique challenges of building in-house stable and secure MLOps systems at scale. Unlike observability solutions, Fiddler seamlessly integrates deep XAI and analytics to help you grow into advanced capabilities over time and build a framework for responsible AI practices. F500 organizations use Fiddler across training and production models to accelerate AI time-to-value and scale and increase revenue by connecting predictions to business context (or providing visibility into model performance and behavior).

Bluecopa

Seed Round in 2024
Bluecopa is a Finance Operations Platform.

Alkira

Series C in 2024
Alkira Network is a developer of a network cloud that allows businesses to build and position multi-cloud network-as-a-service in minutes. The company's Network Cloud reinvents networking for the cloud era with hybrid and multi-cloud network connectivity, integrated network and security services, end-to-end day-2 operational visibility, advanced controls, and governance. Alkira Network Cloud is based on Alkira Cloud Services Exchange™ solution with a global unified network infrastructure delivered as-a-service for easy and simple consumption. Just draw the network across users, sites, and clouds on an intuitive digital design canvas, provision it in one click, and start using it in minutes. Alkira’s solution is used by Fortune-100 enterprises, leading system integrators, and managed service providers. Amir Khan and Atif Khan established the company in San Jose, California in 2018.

Prophecy.io

Series B in 2023
Prophecy.io offers a data transformation copilot that assists users in developing, deploying, and monitoring data pipelines across cloud platforms. The platform integrates AI and a visual interface to enhance productivity for various data users, enabling them to manage complex data workflows with ease.

Pynt

Seed Round in 2023
Pynt is a security testing platform focused on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in application programming interfaces (APIs). By simulating real-world attacks, Pynt enables companies to continuously monitor and classify poorly secured APIs, allowing them to proactively address security risks before they can be exploited by malicious actors. The platform utilizes a unique attack technology that identifies all active APIs, performs real-time security assessments, and automates the remediation of discovered vulnerabilities. This approach helps organizations prioritize genuine threats, ensuring that their API security measures are effective and up-to-date. Pynt's services are integral to the application security strategies of thousands of companies, enabling them to build secure APIs from the outset of the development lifecycle.

Disprz

Series C in 2023
Disprz is a developer of a mobile learning and engagement platform aimed at enhancing employee development within organizations. The platform enables companies to digitally onboard, up-skill, and continuously empower their workforce across various levels. By providing engaging education and training experiences accessible on all devices, Disprz leverages tools such as social media, mobile technology, cloud computing, and analytics. This approach allows enterprises to improve their overall effectiveness by integrating knowledge into the daily tasks of employees, ultimately enhancing their skill levels and productivity in a rapidly changing work environment.

Nirmata

Seed Round in 2023
Nirmata, Inc. is a technology company based in San Jose, California, focused on providing a platform that facilitates the delivery and operation of cloud-native applications. Founded in 2013, Nirmata develops software-as-a-service solutions that offer unified governance, security, and compliance for containerized applications. Its flagship products include Kubernetes-as-a-Service, which automates operations, and multi-cloud cluster management, which enhances application portability across various cloud environments. Nirmata is also recognized as the creator and core maintainer of Kyverno, a widely used policy engine for Kubernetes, which has seen significant adoption in regulated industries such as banking, healthcare, and life sciences. The company's platform integrates policy as code to address security challenges, helping engineering teams avoid misconfigurations and establish secure defaults in real time. Nirmata serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 2000 companies, and has established itself as a key player in the cloud-native technology landscape.

Hippo Video

Series B in 2023
Hippo Video is a video customer experience platform that enables businesses to engage authentically with their audiences through personalized videos. By utilizing AI and machine learning technologies, the platform facilitates the creation, editing, and personalization of videos, while also offering actionable analytics. Hippo Video serves hundreds of thousands of active users worldwide, providing tools for various business stages, from lead generation to customer support. This approach allows businesses to humanize their sales outreach and improve response rates, ultimately accelerating conversions. The company is supported by notable investors, including KAE Capital and Sequoia Surge.

Disprz

Convertible Note in 2023
Disprz is a developer of a mobile learning and engagement platform aimed at enhancing employee development within organizations. The platform enables companies to digitally onboard, up-skill, and continuously empower their workforce across various levels. By providing engaging education and training experiences accessible on all devices, Disprz leverages tools such as social media, mobile technology, cloud computing, and analytics. This approach allows enterprises to improve their overall effectiveness by integrating knowledge into the daily tasks of employees, ultimately enhancing their skill levels and productivity in a rapidly changing work environment.

VuNet Systems

Series A in 2022
VuNet Systems is founded by a group of professionals with decades of experience in designing and developing networking products. VuNet’s platform provides comprehensive insights into IT and digital environments by linking IT performance with business results. This method fosters collaboration among business, product, and IT teams, enhancing transparency and accountability.

BluSapphire

Series A in 2022
BluSapphire is a cybersecurity platform designed specifically for small and medium businesses operating in highly regulated industries such as healthcare and financial services. The company focuses on preventing cyberattacks and mitigating their consequences through advanced technology. Its solutions leverage machine learning and robust analytics to detect malicious behavior proactively, while artificial intelligence capabilities assist in prioritizing and managing attacks across various data layers. By providing managed security services, BluSapphire helps organizations secure sensitive data and assets, ensuring they are equipped with essential security controls to protect against external threats.

StepFunction.ai

Seed Round in 2022
StepFunction is a market leader in revenue growth solutions for SaaS. Based on a data-driven, real-time understanding of customer intent, it assists leading SaaS companies in significantly increasing the amount and predictability of their subscription revenues. By applying advanced analytics to customer behavior signals and operational data, the company hopes to turn SaaS operations into a science. The StepFunction Customer Intent Engine uses machine learning to provide SaaS clients with data-driven, real-time, and actionable insights for customer retention and upsell. With bullseye targeting, SaaS clients can achieve top-line growth through increased customer retention, reduced churn, and targeted upselling, as well as bottom-line growth by lowering customer acquisition costs.

IntelleWings

Seed Round in 2022
IntelleWings specializes in developing anti-money laundering solutions that aim to simplify compliance with sanctions and regulatory requirements. The company utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to enhance the efficiency of compliance processes by minimizing false positives. This innovation allows compliance officers and analysts to focus their efforts on relevant cases, ultimately reducing costs and improving the overall efficacy of compliance operations. Through its tools, IntelleWings supports financial institutions in meeting their regulatory obligations while streamlining their compliance workflows.

Citylitics

Series A in 2022
Citylitics offers a predictive sales intelligence platform that focuses on local utility and public infrastructure markets, such as water, transportation, power, and broadband. By utilizing artificial intelligence, the company analyzes over a billion regulatory documents and public records from more than 31,000 sources. This data engine converts complex information into actionable market insights and sales leads, allowing businesses to identify opportunities several years before requests for proposals are issued. As a result, clients can strategically position themselves for public infrastructure contracts, concentrate on high-quality leads, and effectively plan for future demand.

CoreStack

Series B in 2021
CoreStack is a cloud management platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on enabling enterprises to achieve continuous cloud compliance and autonomous cloud governance. Its platform assists organizations in managing observability, consumption, compliance, and costs by utilizing cloud-native technology and facilitating connector-less integration, dynamic discovery, and orchestration of multi-cloud inventory. By leveraging these capabilities, CoreStack empowers businesses to maximize agility and enhance their operational efficiency, ultimately delivering predictable outcomes aligned with their budgets and policies. The platform is utilized by numerous global enterprises across various industries, underscoring its effectiveness in automating cloud operations and ensuring compliance.

Disprz

Series B in 2021
Disprz is a developer of a mobile learning and engagement platform aimed at enhancing employee development within organizations. The platform enables companies to digitally onboard, up-skill, and continuously empower their workforce across various levels. By providing engaging education and training experiences accessible on all devices, Disprz leverages tools such as social media, mobile technology, cloud computing, and analytics. This approach allows enterprises to improve their overall effectiveness by integrating knowledge into the daily tasks of employees, ultimately enhancing their skill levels and productivity in a rapidly changing work environment.

AmplifAI

Series A in 2021
AmplifAI operates an AI-driven performance enablement platform designed to enhance employee effectiveness through data-driven insights. Founded to create a supportive environment for success, the company focuses on monitoring and identifying best practices as well as micro-learnings that drive performance. Its platform leverages artificial intelligence to deliver tailored coaching and development plans for employees, helping managers support their teams more effectively. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid work models, AmplifAI's solutions aim to improve workforce quality and make the work experience more engaging and enjoyable.

Morpheus XR

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of the virtual reality experience platform designed to extend reality into digital immersive spaces, finding new ways to connect and work. The company's technology makes it easy for users to enjoy shared experiences with their colleagues, enabling companies to build the trust and connection needed to work as a productive, reliable, and cohesive team.

Lucy

Series A in 2021
Lucy is a knowledge management platform designed to assist enterprise teams in maximizing their data potential through actionable insights. Built for large organizations, Lucy utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze and process diverse formats of unstructured data, including documents, audio, and video files sourced from various platforms such as SharePoint, OneDrive, and Salesforce. By continuously learning from the information it processes, Lucy provides specific answers to user inquiries, thereby enhancing organizational productivity and freeing up valuable time for teams. This capability addresses the common issue of underutilized data, as much of the information generated within businesses goes unused shortly after it is created. Lucy's integration into a team ensures that valuable knowledge is retained and accessible, fostering a more efficient workplace.

Rollick

Venture Round in 2021
Rollick Outdoor, Inc. is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2017 that operates an online marketing platform designed to connect manufacturers of recreational products with dealers. The platform enhances the customer experience by facilitating interactions throughout the purchasing journey, from initial interest to repeat purchases. It serves the powersports, RV, and marine industries by offering a suite of marketing and technology solutions that streamline the buying process for consumers and improve sales and marketing effectiveness for dealers. Rollick's ecosystem aims to simplify the acquisition of recreational and industrial equipment, ensuring that both manufacturers and dealers can provide personalized experiences to their customers.

Plnar

Series A in 2020
Plnar is an insurtech software provider that specializes in transforming the insurance claims process through its innovative technology. The company offers a digital platform that enables desk adjusters to create detailed two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of interior spaces using just digital photos. This artificial intelligence-based solution facilitates contactless inspections for interior property claims, enhancing the overall customer experience by significantly reducing cycle times and costs. By generating accurate measurements from smartphone images, Plnar streamlines the claims process, allowing for quicker and more efficient settlements.

CoreStack

Series A in 2020
CoreStack is a cloud management platform founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company focuses on enabling enterprises to achieve continuous cloud compliance and autonomous cloud governance. Its platform assists organizations in managing observability, consumption, compliance, and costs by utilizing cloud-native technology and facilitating connector-less integration, dynamic discovery, and orchestration of multi-cloud inventory. By leveraging these capabilities, CoreStack empowers businesses to maximize agility and enhance their operational efficiency, ultimately delivering predictable outcomes aligned with their budgets and policies. The platform is utilized by numerous global enterprises across various industries, underscoring its effectiveness in automating cloud operations and ensuring compliance.

Viviota

Series A in 2019
Viviota software provides unprecedented performance improvements in engineering data management and automated analysis — reducing costs and improving time-to-market for new vehicles, tools and devices. Viviota’s powerful software dramatically simplifies data management complexity and fully integrates into existing design, prototyping, and test environments—releasing the full potential of sensor data—and accelerating time-to-insight and innovation. Located in Austin, Texas, Viviota is a member of the HPE Partner Network, National Instruments Partner Alliance, and a graduate of the Capital Factory Accelerator Program. www.viviota.com

AmplifAI

Series A in 2019
AmplifAI operates an AI-driven performance enablement platform designed to enhance employee effectiveness through data-driven insights. Founded to create a supportive environment for success, the company focuses on monitoring and identifying best practices as well as micro-learnings that drive performance. Its platform leverages artificial intelligence to deliver tailored coaching and development plans for employees, helping managers support their teams more effectively. As organizations increasingly adopt hybrid work models, AmplifAI's solutions aim to improve workforce quality and make the work experience more engaging and enjoyable.

Kore.ai

Series B in 2018
Kore.ai, Inc. is a developer of artificial intelligence-driven chatbot solutions for enterprises, specializing in conversational and generative AI platforms. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Orlando, Florida, the company offers no-code tools that enable organizations to design, develop, test, and manage chatbots for various applications, including banking, sales, IT help desks, and commerce. Kore.ai's platform facilitates both automated and human-assisted interactions, allowing businesses to enhance customer and employee experiences. The company supports its clients by providing the flexibility to choose the language models and infrastructure that best fit their needs. With a robust patent portfolio and recognition from industry analysts as a leader in AI innovation, Kore.ai serves over 400 Fortune 2000 companies and maintains a global presence with offices in regions such as India, the UK, and Japan.

Altia Systems

Series C in 2017
Altia Systems is an award winning, venture-backed company based in Cupertino, California and creator of the PanaCast™ system. PanaCast™ is a unique experience that enables anyone on desktop or mobile to communicate in interactive, real-time Panoramic-HD 200 degree field-of-view video that replicates the human panoramic perspective.

FelixHealthcare.AI

Seed Round in 2016
FelixHealthcare.AI is a healthcare technology company based in Irving, Texas, that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence healthcare engine aimed at automating healthcare processes and improving clinical outcomes. Founded in 2015 and originally known as DocSynk, Inc., the company offers a range of innovative solutions, including Diagnose AI, which predicts and prevents chronic conditions; Cash Flow+, focused on revenue cycle management; Payor Protection, which identifies billing fraud and cost outliers; Contract Manager, an AI-enhanced contract management system; and Patient Navigator, designed to facilitate patient-provider interactions. By utilizing machine learning and deep learning technologies, FelixHealthcare.AI seeks to enhance patient engagement and optimize financial and clinical performance for healthcare providers. The company's mission is to create a more efficient and satisfying healthcare experience for patients, providers, and payors alike.

Hyperverge

Seed Round in 2015
HyperVerge, Inc. is a technology company founded in 2014 and based in Los Altos, California, specializing in artificial intelligence solutions. It offers an identity verification platform that caters to various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and e-commerce. The platform provides tools for customer onboarding, fraud detection, and compliance with KYC and AML regulations. HyperVerge's proprietary AI models operate effectively in real-time, even in low bandwidth conditions, allowing for seamless services such as face authentication, document verification, and age verification. With a proven track record of verifying over 700 million identities across 190 countries, HyperVerge aims to reduce customer drop-offs and mitigate identity fraud, thereby enhancing the customer experience for its clients.

KeepTrax

Seed Round in 2015
KeepTrax is an “Internet of Me” company that leverages GPS and mobile device sensors to convert physical location visits into context-rich digital pins that could be used for a range of use cases, from travel journaling and user profile generation to field sales optimization and location-based macro-level insight development.

Glympse

Series C in 2014
Glympse Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a mobile application for real-time location sharing. Founded in 2008, the application allows users to share their location with others via a web-based map for a designated period. It caters to various needs, including monitoring grocery deliveries, scheduling service technician appointments, and facilitating curbside and in-store pickups. Glympse's platform integrates service, marketing, and commerce capabilities, aimed at enhancing customer satisfaction by reducing friction during delivery experiences. The company serves a range of clients, including many Fortune 1000 companies, which rely on Glympse for efficient communication and improved customer engagement.

Boxfish

Series B in 2014
Boxfish is a developer of a digital platform that utilizes patented text analytics and AI algorithms to enhance the searchability of television content through captions. The platform enables users to search for specific words spoken in real-time during TV shows, thereby facilitating the discovery of relevant and hidden audiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Boxfish aims to improve the viewing experience and connect users with the content they are interested in.

Zoomingo

Venture Round in 2013
Zoomingo (which stands for "Zoom-in and go") is a shopping discovery application that helps you find the best sales in local retail stores in town. Zoomingo catalogs thousands of actual items on sale at a store by store level at top retail chains such as Macys, JC Penney, Target, Nordstrom as well as smaller boutiques. Why trudge through the shopping mall looking for the best prices when Zoomingo can instantly show you cool items on sale around you. You can even use the Zoomingo web site to plan your shopping trip before you head out to the mall. Zoomingo catalogs items on sale in clothing, jewelry, handbags, beauty products, shoes, home decor and furnishings. You can browse or search for sale items by category, store or brand. No scanning required! Found something you like, but not the price, set up a sale alert and we will let you know when the price drops.

Altia Systems

Series A in 2013
Altia Systems is an award winning, venture-backed company based in Cupertino, California and creator of the PanaCast™ system. PanaCast™ is a unique experience that enables anyone on desktop or mobile to communicate in interactive, real-time Panoramic-HD 200 degree field-of-view video that replicates the human panoramic perspective.

Appnique

Convertible Note in 2013
Appnique enables product managers at brands, agencies and publishers to market apps through organic app store SEO (ASO) and mobile app install ad campaigns, driving improved app discoverability, increased downloads and better ROI. Appnique analyses data from over 2 million apps per day in the iTunes and Google Play app stores, and uses its optimization engine to power precisely targeted paid campaigns on Facebook, Google and other leading ad networks. Appnique analyses how the app is doing compared to competitors by tracking: app keyword effectiveness, ranking, ratings, recommendations and downloads. It also sends real-time alerts about competitor updates and ranking changes.

Minetta Brook

Seed Round in 2013
Minetta Brook develops software that enables users to navigate, discover, and track relevant information from large bodies of data. Through their patent-pending machine learning & linguistics technology, their core engine can be applied to information sources such as streaming news, enterprise document repositories, defense agency data, and social & web content to combine both unstructured and structured data to allow for analysis of a complete picture. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

SnapOne

Convertible Note in 2013
SnapOne, Inc. is pleased to announce that the company has exited to Synchronoss, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR). SnapOne’s technology team is now part of Synchronoss, a global leader in personal cloud, and synchronization and activation services for connected devices. Further information on Synchronoss can be found at http://www.synchronoss.com/. SnapOne, Inc., is the leader in personal, family and digital “Life Security” applications and services, and the underlying platform. The company's Snap One®, Snap Secure®, Snap CloudView™, Snap Play®, Snap FamilySafe® and Snap FieldSafe™ products allow individuals, families and small businesses to leverage the cloud with simple yet powerful apps and services to secure and manage people, data, devices, and their entire lives. The Snap One security-as-a-service delivery platform is the industry’s only comprehensive and unified offering for channel partners that want to enhance their product and service offering with personal, family and small business “Life Security” features. SnapOne, Inc. is headquartered in Princeton, N.J., with offices located worldwide. Learn more about our “Life Security” products, partnerships, and future updates at www.snapone.com.

Oyokey

Convertible Note in 2013
Oyokey Inc. is a cloud-based addressing and recognition technology company located in Irving, Texas. Established in 2010, Oyokey focuses on enhancing the accessibility and usability of web content across various platforms, including mobile devices, emerging technologies, and voice-based systems. The company's offerings include a keyword-driven content management system (CMS), a voice tagging system for websites and mobile apps, and a voice-centric internet browser called Stak Browser. Oyokey aims to transform traditional web navigation by developing innovative solutions that facilitate the organization and presentation of information, making it more accessible for users of smart watches, connected cars, and augmented and virtual reality systems. The company has secured funding through multiple rounds, totaling $1.1 million, and holds a patent along with several pending applications for its technologies.

Global Outlook

Series A in 2012
GlobalOutlook (GO) is a leading provider of unified cloud based communication & collaboration services to customers on a global scale. GO was founded in 2007 by a team of industry veterans and business leaders who have contributed their experience and expertise in the mobile, enterprise and consulting sectors. GlobalOutlook is a portfolio company of Naya Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that invests in mobile, cloud and big data startups in US and India. As a complete office cloud communication services provider, the GO team is constantly innovating to provide its customers the best-of-breed technologies in the unified cloud-based communication and collaboration domain.
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