LiveOak Venture Partners

LiveOak Venture Partners is an Austin-headquartered firm focused on early-stage investments in Texas-based founders, with healthcare activity concentrated in Health IT and tech-enabled software companies. Its thesis is anchored in the conviction that the Texas ecosystem produces overlooked but high-quality founders, and the firm operates as a regional first-call investor that can lead institutional rounds and stay actively engaged through subsequent stages. Within healthcare, portfolio companies tend to be capital-efficient software businesses with measurable customer traction.

The firm invests at Seed and Series A with check sizes in the one to five million dollar range. It is willing to lead, take a board seat, and reserve meaningful follow-on capital for companies that hit early milestones. Geographic focus skews strongly toward Texas, with selective participation in nearby regional markets when the founder profile is exceptional. The firm tends to work closely with founders over multiple rounds, which means the early relationship is structured for a long arc rather than a transactional check.

For founders, LiveOak’s value proposition centers on substantive partnership during the formative phase: hiring help, strategic guidance on go-to-market, and steady reserves to bridge between rounds. Diligence emphasizes founder quality, customer evidence, and a defensible wedge into a real market. Partners are direct in their feedback and tend to converge quickly on whether they are likely to invest, which respects founders’ time. Companies that fit best are typically those whose progress can be evaluated on concrete metrics and whose teams are open to active board engagement during the early scaling stages. There is limited public information regarding specific partner names associated with the fund.