S3 Ventures

Founded in 2007, S3 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas. It specializes in Series A to C investments, focusing on information technology, medical devices, enterprise software, SaaS, marketing, financial services, and sales sectors. The firm primarily invests in the Southwestern United States, with a focus on Texas and Austin. S3 Ventures typically considers equity transactions of $10 million to $20 million, aiming for exits through acquisition or IPO.

Stephen Banks

Venture Partner

Nicole Bentz

Senior Associate

Joe Curry

Vice President

Eric Engineer

Partner

Carolyn Houren

Associate

Sarah Morgan

Senior Associate

Aaron Perman

Partner

Charlie Plauche

General Partner

Kim Rodriguez

Venture Partner

Brian Smith

Managing Director

Katie Wallis

Associate

Past deals in Storage Services

Hydrolix

Series C in 2025
Hydrolix is a data lake platform that aims to enhance the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of data. The company specializes in providing high-performance, scalable data storage solutions that cater to both structured and unstructured data. Its technology features high-density compression and scale-to-zero controls, allowing clients to perform sub-second interactive queries while minimizing costs related to data ingestion, querying, and storage. With a focus on real-time analytics, Hydrolix addresses the challenges of data management, ensuring consistent performance as data volumes grow. Their platform is designed to adapt to the evolving data needs of enterprises, making it a valuable asset for organizations looking to optimize their data handling capabilities.

Hydrolix

Series B in 2024
Hydrolix is a data lake platform that aims to enhance the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of data. The company specializes in providing high-performance, scalable data storage solutions that cater to both structured and unstructured data. Its technology features high-density compression and scale-to-zero controls, allowing clients to perform sub-second interactive queries while minimizing costs related to data ingestion, querying, and storage. With a focus on real-time analytics, Hydrolix addresses the challenges of data management, ensuring consistent performance as data volumes grow. Their platform is designed to adapt to the evolving data needs of enterprises, making it a valuable asset for organizations looking to optimize their data handling capabilities.

Hydrolix

Series A in 2023
Hydrolix is a data lake platform that aims to enhance the cost efficiency of log data management for organizations dealing with large volumes of data. The company specializes in providing high-performance, scalable data storage solutions that cater to both structured and unstructured data. Its technology features high-density compression and scale-to-zero controls, allowing clients to perform sub-second interactive queries while minimizing costs related to data ingestion, querying, and storage. With a focus on real-time analytics, Hydrolix addresses the challenges of data management, ensuring consistent performance as data volumes grow. Their platform is designed to adapt to the evolving data needs of enterprises, making it a valuable asset for organizations looking to optimize their data handling capabilities.

Pivot3

Series H in 2016
Pivot3 specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage solutions. Founded with a vision to simplify data centers, Pivot3 unifies storage, compute, and network resources into easy-to-deploy systems that reduce costs, risks, and complexity. Today, they offer Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. With over 16,000 deployments across various industries worldwide, Pivot3 helps businesses lower total cost of ownership, ensure uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and maximize employee productivity.

Pivot3

Series G in 2015
Pivot3 specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage solutions. Founded with a vision to simplify data centers, Pivot3 unifies storage, compute, and network resources into easy-to-deploy systems that reduce costs, risks, and complexity. Today, they offer Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. With over 16,000 deployments across various industries worldwide, Pivot3 helps businesses lower total cost of ownership, ensure uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and maximize employee productivity.

Pivot3

Series E in 2014
Pivot3 specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage solutions. Founded with a vision to simplify data centers, Pivot3 unifies storage, compute, and network resources into easy-to-deploy systems that reduce costs, risks, and complexity. Today, they offer Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. With over 16,000 deployments across various industries worldwide, Pivot3 helps businesses lower total cost of ownership, ensure uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and maximize employee productivity.

Pivot3

Series E in 2014
Pivot3 specializes in hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage solutions. Founded with a vision to simplify data centers, Pivot3 unifies storage, compute, and network resources into easy-to-deploy systems that reduce costs, risks, and complexity. Today, they offer Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays, ensuring high availability and optimal performance for mission-critical applications. With over 16,000 deployments across various industries worldwide, Pivot3 helps businesses lower total cost of ownership, ensure uninterrupted revenue generation, improve customer satisfaction, and maximize employee productivity.
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