Nicole Bentz
Board Member at QbDVision
Austin, Texas
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2022 - Current
Based in Austin for 19+ years, S3 Ventures is the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas. Backed by a philanthropic family with a multi-billion-dollar foundation, we empower visionary founders with the patient capital and true resources required to grow extraordinary, high-impact companies in Business Technology, Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology. With $900M+ in assets under management, we lead Seed, Series A, and Series B investments ranging from $500K to $10M with the capacity to invest $20M+ over the life of a company. Learn more at www.s3vc.com.
Associate
2021 - 2022
Board Observer
2024
QbDVision is the leading Digital CMC Platform for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturing. Created by industry veterans with decades of drug development experience, we understand the challenges our platform was built to solve. We are preparing our industry to deliver on its promise. We’re creating the modern digital tools our industry needs to realize the full potential of its science. A platform to help organizations swiftly and efficiently deliver the next generation of breakthrough therapies.
QbDVision project to address the lack of digital maturity in pharma and biotech manufacturing.
Raised $17,000,000.00 from Hudson Park Capital, S3 Ventures, Wanxiang America Healthcare Investments Group and Northpond Ventures.
Board Observer
2022
A simpler way to deploy real-time machine learning, the Sumatra platform gives data teams self-service tools to build real-time feature pipelines from event-based data. Data science is a creative endeavor. Sumatra's mission is to give creators at every experience level the tools to do their most inspired work—and we're just getting started! To learn more about Sumatra, visit sumatra.ai.
Board Observer
2022
RepVue, the world's leading sales organization ratings platform, leverages its 60,000-plus user ratings to drive transparency in sales organizations and empower sales professionals to make informed career decisions. Employers are also using the platform to gain a competitive advantage in the hunt for sales talent. Founded by a former go-to-market operating executive with 20 years experience growing and leading private and public sales organizations, RepVue's mission is to democratize the true selling environment of the world's leading sales organizations.
RepVue is a crowdsourced ratings and career development platform for sales professionals.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Triangle Tweener Fund, Kyle Porter, Alerion Ventures, TDF Ventures, Knoll Ventures, Triangle Tweener Fund, S3 Ventures, Matt Green, Alex Estevez and GTMfund.
Board Observer
2022
At Plural, we created cutting-edge software that makes it easy to discover public policy data, enabling teams to search, track, and collaborate effectively. That's the power of Plural. Many companies and public policy professionals use Plural for their work related to Congress and state legislatures, including: Bipartisan Policy Center, Fair Fight, America Votes, Sierra Club, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Comcast. Plural is the easiest to use and most intuitive public policy intelligence software. Learn more at www.pluralpolicy.com
Plural is a company that provides public policy tools to help teams save time and discover opportunities in workflows.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Comeback Capital, Backstage Capital, Techstars, Higher Ground Labs and Boomtown Accelerators.
Board Observer
2021
BrainCheck provides rapid, mobile cognitive assessment and decision support technology to physicians, empowering them to deliver high-quality, personalized cognitive healthcare to patients everywhere and get reimbursed. Founded in 2015 by neuroscientists and technologists Dr. David Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine / Stanford) and Dr. Yael Katz, BrainCheck helps reduce the human and economic toll of cognitive impairment and dementia through its interactive cognitive assessment and care management technology.
BrainCheck is a mobile interactive test for cognitive health, allowing users to track their brain health to share results with clinicians.
Raised $41,245,000.00 from UPMC Enterprises, S3 Ventures and Next Coast Ventures.
Board Observer
2021
Liquibase is database schema change automation designed for high-speed CI/CD. Liquibase accelerates database schema changes, empowers teams to work more collaboratively, and brings stability and control to enterprise deployments. Powered by open source innovation and supported by the experts who know it best, Liquibase delivers on the promise of CI/CD for the database. Fast database change. Fluid delivery.
Board Observer
2021 - 2022
Videate automates the production of software videos making it fast and cost-effective, even if you release new software every day. Videate's patent-pending technology can analyze, infer and generate human behavior from your documentation and software. Videate's platform uses text-to-speech technology and can render video libraries in multiple languages in minutes. Without human interaction.
From Script to Screen with No In Between.
Raised $2,800,000.00 from Firebrand Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners and S3 Ventures.
Board Observer
2021 - 2022
Genda takes the guessing games out of construction job site operations through real-time data capture, insights delivery, and process automation. Using Genda, contractors can reduce construction process waste, identify and alleviate operational issues, and mitigate risk.
Board Observer
2021 - 2022
Upkey provides remote career readiness and talent engagement tools for students, universities, and companies – anytime, anywhere!
Upkey is a provider of remote career readiness and talent engagement tools for students, universities, and companies.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Bronze Valley, S3 Ventures, Steve Schaffer, Lofty Ventures, Tensility Venture Partners, Michael Polsky and Chicago Ventures.
Education
Master’s Degree
2015 - 2016
Bachelor's degree
2010 - 2014