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June 28, 2017

The Top Ten AI Companies in Texas

With artificial intelligence on the rise, it’s no surprise that Austin is home to some of the top companies! The top ten AI companies in Texas include CognitiveScale, Continuum Analytics, Omni Ai, Inc., NarrativeDx, UnaliWear, NEXD, Cerebri Ai, Querium Corporation, Convessa and Panamplify. Company Name Description Headquarters Location CognitiveScale CognitiveScale provides industry-specific enterprise cognitive cloud software. Austin , Texas  Continuum Analytics Anaconda is an open data science platform powered by Python, with more than 11 million downloads to date. Austin , Texas Omni Ai, Inc. The first Unsupervised Artificial Intelligent Self Learning Engine with Deep Learning Capabilities. Ai Dallas , Texas  NarrativeDx NarrativeDx is the AI platform for patient experience. Hear the voice of your patients. Austin , Texas  UnaliWear UnaliWear is a wearable technology that provides assistance for falls, medication reminders, and GPS location for its clients. Austin , Texas NEXD  NEXD brings AI (artificial intelligence) to sales professionals. Austin, Texas Cerebri Ai Cerebri AI provides AI and machine learning driven solutions to help enterprises grow revenue through better understanding of their data. Austin, Texas Querium Corporation Querium licenses artificial intelligence technology used for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education applications. Austin, Texas Convessa Convessa is an AI platform that powers connected, voice-controlled products. Our software lets companies build virtual assistants. Austin, Texas Panamplify Panamplify eliminates the time consuming and expensive grunt work marketing agencies have when creating reports for their clients. Dallas, Texas  

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VC Profile: Venu Shamapant of Liveoak Venture Partners

Headquarters: Austin, Texas Description: LiveOak Venture Partners is an Austin-based, early-stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs who use disruptive technologies and business models to challenge the status quo. While many of their investments begin at the seed stage, LiveOak is a full life-cycle investor focused on technology and technology-driven service companies primary based in Texas and the Southwest. For over a decade, the Founders of LiveOak have helped entrepreneurs create industry-leading companies. “LiveOak partners with visionary entrepreneurs who use disruptive technologies and business models to challenge the status quo.” Recent Investments: Ranzure Networks $13M / Series A (Lead) CS Disco $18.58M / Series C Data.world $14M / Series A NSS Labs $16M / Series C Website:  liveoakvp.com Venu Shamapant is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners and has been investing in early stage Texas based companies and entrepreneurs since 1999.  Prior to founding LiveOak, Venu was a General Partner at Austin Ventures where he invested in companies producing more than $1.5B in enterprise values to date. He was an early investor in and sat on the Board of Directors of LifeSize Communications (acquired by Logitech), Spatial Wireless (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), Mavenir Systems (NYSE:MVNR) and Sipera Systems (acquired by Avaya Communications). Prior to joining Austin Ventures, he was with McKinsey & Co. serving clients in the enterprise systems and software markets. He started his professional career as a software developer and engineering lead at Mentor Graphics.  

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