Perot Jain

Perot Jain, L.P. is a Dallas-based venture capital firm focused on seed and early stage investments. Their firm was founded by long-term business partners, Ross Perot Jr. and Anurag Jain, in 2014. They not only set out to understand how technology would shape the business landscape over the next 20 years, but they also wanted to take an active role in building these industry transforming companies. Their mission is to provide timely capital and resources while delivering the highest quality strategic advice to assist their portfolio companies in achieving their maximum potential. Their unique ability to leverage their affiliated operating entities differentiates us from their peers and helps drive early customer traction and accelerated growth for their partners. Their goal is to become the premier early stage focused venture capital firm in the Southwest.

Anurag Jain

Founder

H. Ross Perot

Co-Founder

Cindy Revol

Principal

43 past transactions

Abundant Robots

Seed Round in 2016
Abundant Robotics mission: Deliver robotic systems for the hardest jobs in agriculture. As robotics researchers, we’ve broken new ground in a variety of domains. For the past two years we’ve focused on hard problems in agriculture and are spinning-out of SRI International to build products based on their successful research. They are global experts in their field, love solving important problems, like working together, and are passionate about building great products and working with like-minded folks. Customers are grappling with urgent problems and are incredibly enthusiastic about the solution we’ve demonstrated.

Aarna Networks

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Account-based Marketing

Ustream

Series B in 2010
Ustream, Inc. provides cloud-based end-to-end video solutions for media and enterprises. It offers Ustream Pro Broadcasting that provides live video streaming at scale; Ustream Align, which enables secure internal employee communications; and Ustream Demand that enables marketers to collect and automate leads into marketing workflows, and manage live and on-demand videos from a single dashboard. The company also enables users to broadcast from Web, mobile, desktop, and Ustream certified devices; and provides LiveAd, a live video advertising platform. In addition, it offers event production and management services, such as video production, live video encoding, event management, and distribution and promotion services; and developer APIs and SDKs for live streaming. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of January 21, 2016, Ustream, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corporation.

Ever AI

Venture Round in 2021
Ever Co. develops a mobile application for storing and organizing digital photos. It also offers self-hosted APIs and mobile SDKs to access and leverage face recognition technology. The company caters to the retail, payments, autonomous transportation, mobile carriers, government and military, law enforcement, and ID management industries. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

10Lines

Seed Round in 2021
10Lines is developing autonomous parking lot marking robots and technological solutions to significantly increase productivity in the industry of pavement marking. Our solutions are helping striping businesses do their work much more productively with a smaller environmental footprint.

Bioz

Seed Round in 2016
Bioz delivers the world’s first search engine for life science experimentation. The Bioz platform empowers life scientists in academia and biopharma to quickly find, compare and select the right products for their experiments, ultimately speeding drug discovery and increasing the rate of success in finding cures for diseases.

Planetary Resources

Series A in 2012
Planetary Resources is bringing the natural resources of space within humanity’s economic sphere of influence, propelling us into the 21st century and beyond…today. Asteroids will play a key role in the development of a space economy and be the main driver in allowing humanity to become a flourishing multi-planetary species. Water from asteroids will fuel the in-space economy and habitation, by creating rocket fuel and consumable water from space, for space.

Ambit

Private Placement in 2018
Ambit Analytics is internet company helps leaders build collaborative teams through insights on how they talk and listen. A spin-off from SRI International, the birthplace of Apple’s Siri and Nuance, Ambit leverages world-class audio AI technology to quantify verbal communication and uses those metrics to train people to become better communicators. Ambit Analytics is headquartered in San Francisco.

VizSense

Seed Round in 2016
Today's consumer brands require shopper focused and marketing campaigns that are engineered to a specific brand’s DNA. To achieve this, Viz leverages several in-house and home grown technology platforms that combine A.I., social and computer science, and massive consumer datasets to deliver highly effective and measurable results. Viz's unique specialization and focus on the micro-influencer industry affords it the opportunity to partner and collaborate with traditional PR and marketing agencies.

Latent AI

Seed Round in 2019
Latent AI, Inc. develops a platform for optimization for edge devices that enables smart Internet of things (IoT) applications. It offers Latent AI Efficient Interence Platform (LEIP) that enables developers to train, quantize, and deploy edge AI neural networks. The company’s LEIP is designed for AI, embedded, and software application developers to enable, deploy, and manage AI for the edge. Latent AI, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California. It has additional office in Skillman, New Jersey.

FinMkt

Seed Round in 2014
FinMkt provides best-in-class, customizable online marketplace technology for the global financial services industry. They help organizations rapidly deploy marketplace solutions in a timely, cost-efficient manner while ensuring the highest quality technology and client support. From customer acquisition to product matching to tracking and reporting, their secure, patent-pending technology solutions are the gold standard of the financial marketplace ecosystem. FinMkt’s industry-leading platform and applications drive innovation, accelerate processes, and expand opportunities for growth in the financial services arena.

Plus One Robotics

Series B in 2021
Plus One Robotics builds robot perception software and solutions. They mitigate the persistent shortage of manual labor and allow your personnel to flow from monotonous tasks to higher value work. Through the integration of off-the-shelf high performance manipulators with their advanced vision capabilities, your robots will bridge the gap between steady state volume and surge. Plus One’s novel approach to human/robot collaboration and supervised autonomy ensures the systems are scalable, flexible, and fault tolerant.

Booster

Private Placement in 2019
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

DoctorC

Seed Round in 2014
DoctorC is a hospital and health care company that provides a diagnostic center which utilizes CT scan, ultrasound, X-ray testing, and blood test. DoctorC offers a web-based platform that enables its users to search for the pricing of diagnostics. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Hyderabad, India.

Farcast

Seed Round in 2020
Dash Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and deploys one way delivery drones for commercial airdrop customers. The company uses mapping software solutions to evaluate suitable drop points. Its drones are mounted to commercial aircraft, helicopters, or UAVs to enable the delivery of packages in remote areas. Dash Systems, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Hawthorne, California.

Booster

Series C in 2019
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Booster

Seed Round in 2015
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Farcast

Venture Round in 2022
Dash Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and deploys one way delivery drones for commercial airdrop customers. The company uses mapping software solutions to evaluate suitable drop points. Its drones are mounted to commercial aircraft, helicopters, or UAVs to enable the delivery of packages in remote areas. Dash Systems, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Hawthorne, California.

Renaissant

Series A in 2024
IntelAegis combine sensors, analytic engines, web based and mobile platforms to create, distill and make information useable.

REPOWR

Series A in 2023
Developer of a networking marketplace designed for business-to-business truck and trailer rentals. The company's marketplace brings visibility and value to untapped equipment supplies and also makes it available to carriers, on-demand, enabling logistics companies to lease and share assets to reduce waste and underutilization.

Booster

Series D in 2022
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Hypergiant

Corporate Round in 2019
Hypergiant Industries is the AI industrial complex for leading global enterprises and governments. We help major institutions innovate with breakthrough machine intelligence-driven technology, and make sense of data at the intersection of critical infrastructures through our integrated approach of AI products and services. The solutions, products, and companies Hypergiant Industries create support its customers on their mission to speed beyond norms and realize an exploded potential of the future we were promised through AI.

ICON Aircraft

Series C in 2011
ICON Aircraft, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets light consumer sport aircraft. The company also operates an online store that sells aircraft gear, such as men’s apparel, women’s apparel, kids’ wear, hats, radio control games, and accessories. It markets its aircraft in the United States and internationally. ICON Aircraft, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Vacaville, California.

REPOWR

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a networking marketplace designed for business-to-business truck and trailer rentals. The company's marketplace brings visibility and value to untapped equipment supplies and also makes it available to carriers, on-demand, enabling logistics companies to lease and share assets to reduce waste and underutilization.

Phantom Auto

Series B in 2022
Phantom Auto Inc. develops a software for the remote-operation of autonomous vehicles. It offers a software, which allows remote drivers to operate passenger vehicles, yard trucks, forklifts, and delivery robots in construction zones, bad weather, and roadside emergencies through Phantom's remote centers. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. It has an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Grata

Venture Round in 2022
Grata is a recognition platform that offers data on frontline employees, service reviews, customer feedback, and building connections. The company was founded in 2019 and has headquarters in Austin, Texas.

Spacee

Seed Round in 2018
Spacee, Inc based in Addison, TX with offices around the world, enables business transformation worldwide through computer vision-based AI technology. Spacee believes in a post-mobile world using Computer Vision that leads to Retail Innovation and changing the world. Using light and cameras only, they transform virtually any 2D or 3D surface into an interactive touch screen and products into scannable items. No phones, helmets, eyeglasses, or tablets required, and nothing is installed on the actual surface. Every Spacee solution is designed to be a powerful communal experience that also delivers a deep personal connection. This results in communal frictionless experiences for physical commerce and "Deviceless Mixed Reality" for the masses. Spacee is a computer vision company with several fortune 500 clients and growing. With the addition of Spacee’s Deming™ Robotics division, we address many of the hassles and expenses associated with supply-chain management and inventory by using machine learning to intelligently detect and commutate supply chain issues in the retail and warehouse space. We can mitigate expensive daily issues faced by many supply chain operation managers, with providing a low-cost and scalable, all while being invisible to the shopping process by providing intelligent and high-efficiency automation for out-of-stock detection and meaningful, actionable data. Accurate ordering and delivery optimization and alerts on out-of-stock in near real-time, all while being 24/7/365 plan-o-gram compliant. By implementing Deming™ solutions, you take the guessing out of retail product inventory management, free up staff time, improves store operational efficiencies and saving the retailer real revenue. See more at: spacee.com

FinMkt

Series A in 2017
FinMkt provides best-in-class, customizable online marketplace technology for the global financial services industry. They help organizations rapidly deploy marketplace solutions in a timely, cost-efficient manner while ensuring the highest quality technology and client support. From customer acquisition to product matching to tracking and reporting, their secure, patent-pending technology solutions are the gold standard of the financial marketplace ecosystem. FinMkt’s industry-leading platform and applications drive innovation, accelerate processes, and expand opportunities for growth in the financial services arena.

Farcast

Private Placement in 2020
Dash Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and deploys one way delivery drones for commercial airdrop customers. The company uses mapping software solutions to evaluate suitable drop points. Its drones are mounted to commercial aircraft, helicopters, or UAVs to enable the delivery of packages in remote areas. Dash Systems, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Hawthorne, California.

Latent AI

Private Placement in 2019
Latent AI, Inc. develops a platform for optimization for edge devices that enables smart Internet of things (IoT) applications. It offers Latent AI Efficient Interence Platform (LEIP) that enables developers to train, quantize, and deploy edge AI neural networks. The company’s LEIP is designed for AI, embedded, and software application developers to enable, deploy, and manage AI for the edge. Latent AI, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Menlo Park, California. It has additional office in Skillman, New Jersey.

Shiftsmart

Funding Round in 2017
Shiftsmart, Inc. offers a job listing platform for workers and companies. The company provides workers to find and apply to on-demand jobs. It also enables companies to gain access to a pool of on-demand workers; fill peak demand times by posting shifts, and provide a channel for running promotions and incentives. Shiftsmart, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Addison, Texas.

Booster

Series B in 2017
Booster Fuels, Inc. provides on-demand fuel delivery services. It offers a mobile application that enables users to order fuel. The company also provides corporate programs for employees. It delivers fuel in Austin, Fort Worth, the Los Angeles Area, Nashville, Orange County, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Seattle. Booster Fuels, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Shiftsmart

Series A in 2020
Shiftsmart, Inc. offers a job listing platform for workers and companies. The company provides workers to find and apply to on-demand jobs. It also enables companies to gain access to a pool of on-demand workers; fill peak demand times by posting shifts, and provide a channel for running promotions and incentives. Shiftsmart, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Addison, Texas.

Ustream

Series A in 2008
Ustream, Inc. provides cloud-based end-to-end video solutions for media and enterprises. It offers Ustream Pro Broadcasting that provides live video streaming at scale; Ustream Align, which enables secure internal employee communications; and Ustream Demand that enables marketers to collect and automate leads into marketing workflows, and manage live and on-demand videos from a single dashboard. The company also enables users to broadcast from Web, mobile, desktop, and Ustream certified devices; and provides LiveAd, a live video advertising platform. In addition, it offers event production and management services, such as video production, live video encoding, event management, and distribution and promotion services; and developer APIs and SDKs for live streaming. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of January 21, 2016, Ustream, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corporation.

PICKUP

Seed Round in 2015
PICKUP is a real-time, last-mile logistics network that enables consumers to experience same-day delivery of big, heavy, and specialty retail items. The company develops a delivery mobile application designed to provide a convenient way to move packages to desired places. Its application offers a network of on-demand professional and verified movers that help retailers to transform the delivery experience, enabling users to move packages on a short notice and improve sales conversion. PICKUP was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Hypergiant

Private Placement in 2019
Hypergiant Industries is the AI industrial complex for leading global enterprises and governments. We help major institutions innovate with breakthrough machine intelligence-driven technology, and make sense of data at the intersection of critical infrastructures through our integrated approach of AI products and services. The solutions, products, and companies Hypergiant Industries create support its customers on their mission to speed beyond norms and realize an exploded potential of the future we were promised through AI.

Cecilian

Venture Round in 2023
Transforming customer experience for home builders and community developers through data, technology, and human capital. Cecilian Partners offers unique consultative services coupled with a remarkable proptech SaaS solution called the XO.