One of Austin's most active venture capital firms is building up a new advisory program, and it has locked in four Austin startup executives to lead the way.
LiveOak Venture Partners said its new Venture Advisors program is a more aggressive approach to what the firm is already doing as it advises portfolio companies and helps identify opportunities.
Perhaps the most prominent name on the list is Lynn Atchison, an accomplished CFO who helped lead Hoovers and HomeAway through their IPOs and went on to be CFO of Spredfast. Also on the list is Peter Klante, whose LinkedIn shows him as chairman of Bloomfire and as a board director at NSS Labs, along with earlier work as a CEO at HyPerformix and as a senior director at Lotus/IBM.
Dave Rubin, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Austin real estate tech startup OJO Labs, is also part of the program. Prior to OJO Labs, he founded several other startups, including ProfitFuel, which merged with Yodle in 2011, and HomeCity.
Keith Zoellner, current CTO of Austin e-discovery startup DISCO, rounds out the advisory program. He also worked at Spredfast and previously helped lead teams at StoredIQ, which was sold to IBM.
The advisors program comes a little less than a year after LiveOak closed its second fund at $105 million.
