Aaron Perman

Partner

2013

S3 Ventures - the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas entrepreneurs - makes Seed, Series A, and Series B investments in start-ups across three sectors: Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology. S3′s portfolio includes: Alkami, Alleviant, Allstacks, Atmosphere, Buildforce, Braincheck, CereTax, Crogl, Genda, HYAS, Hydrolix, Ictero Medical, Interplay Learning, LeanDNA, Liquibase, Nexus, NoiseAware, Plural, Prokeep, QBDVision, RepVue, Riscosity, Saranas, Stellar, Sudozi, Sunthetics, UpEquity, Upkey, Videate, VUV Analytics, ZSuite Tech.

Investor

2025

Crogl is the only autonomous knowledge engine for security operations. It investigates every alert and executes threat hunts by continuously learning your processes with speed, consistency, and depth.

Investor

2024

Sunthetics is a machine learning (ML) company specializing in accelerating innovation and sustainability in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms and small datasets, Sunthetics' software guides experimentation in chemical labs, empowering industries to reduce their carbon footprint while optimizing production efficiency. Founded with the mission of revolutionizing traditional manufacturing practices with democratized AI, Sunthetics has been recognized for its innovation in green technology and commitment to a sustainable future.

Board Member

2024

Hydrolix is a streaming data lake that combines decoupled storage, indexed search, and stream processing to deliver real-time query performance at terabyte-scale for a radically lower cost.

Investor

2022

Board Member

2024

CereTax is a next-generation sales tax automation solution that leverages the latest advancements in cloud technology to revolutionize how a sales tax calculation platform operates. CereTax processes millions of transactions per month for some of the largest enterprises, enabling companies to do business reliably and in compliance.

Board Member

2023

Riscosity is the pioneer in Third-Party Data Observability (TPDO). Revolutionizing the ability of enterprises to gain visibility into and mitigate their data supply chain risk, Riscosity enables organizations to quickly develop, confidently deploy, and securely manage software that leverages third-party components and data sub-processors without compromise. Trusted by large public and private enterprises, Riscosity leads the TPDO market.

Board Member

2022

Plural develops cutting-edge legislative tracking tools which make it easy to discover, interpret, and collaborate on public policy change. Plural gives government relations professionals an edge by giving them clarity on the status and changes to bills, enabling them to develop more inclusive strategies and quickly take action on pending legislation. Plural's tools deliver open access to legislative information, and provide simple to use, modern approaches to public policy tracking and collaboration.

Investor

2022

Track, collaborate, budget, approve and optimize all in one integrated awesome-to-use real-time finance platform.

Investor

2021

Buildforce is building the first ever career lifecycle platform for people in the construction trades. It's end-to-end career platform enables people in the construction trades to leverage their skills to maintain consistent work at fair pay and with the benefits of a W-2 employee.

Investor

2021

HYAS is the world’s leading authority on cyber adversary infrastructure and communication to that infrastructure.