Dallas Startup Week

Jeff Williams has over 15 years of venture capital and private equity experience as well as operational experience managing several companies early in his career.  Throughout his career Jeff has managed, advised and invested in over $500 million worth of transactions.  Jeff remains... Read More →

Dayakar's distinguished career is showcased by an impressive record of achievement in building high value mobile, wireless and telecommunications businesses. He was recognized by the US White House as a mobile technology visionary and has been a keynote speaker for numerous industry... Read More →

Venu Shamapant is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners. Venu focuses on investments across a wide variety of sectors including Mobile, Software, Tech-enabled services and Systems.  His current investments include Veros Systems and NSS Labs.Prior to LiveOak, Venu was a General... Read More →

A seasoned entrepreneur, Stan Woodward has been an investor and key executive in several technology startups and fast-growing companies such as Reflect, Yahoo!, broadcast.com, and Ascend, specializing in digital media creation, management, distribution, and collaboration for large brands. Stan has helped raise over $20M for his own ventures and has participated in several successful IPO’s that had well over $30B in market capitalization at the time of sale o... Read More →