Meet The Team

Joe Curry joined S3 Ventures in 2020 and currently serves as a Principal. He has sourced, supported, or served on the Board of several S3 portfolio companies including: Allstacks, Arpio, Atmosphere, ControlRooms, Hydrolix, Ictero, Kamiwaza, LeanDNA, Prokeep, QbDVision, UpEquity, Tensorstax, Suite Studios, and VUV Analytics.

Before joining S3, Joe managed Corporate Development at Spredfast, an Austin-based enterprise SaaS company, where he helped build the business to hundreds of millions in ARR and over 1,000 employees. Spredfast was sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2018 and re-branded as Khoros.

Earlier in his career, Joe was part of KPMG’s Technology Advisory practice, where he consulted with mid-market and Fortune 500 organizations across various industries. He holds a BS in Business from LSU.

Joe represents New Science Ventures on the board.  He formerly served as Chief Strategy Officer for ADP and Pitney Bowes where he was also Chief Technology Officer.  He was a partner at McKinsey & Company in the Tech, Media, and Telecom practice.  His consulting work focused on telecom communications equipment and services, IT software and services, industrial controls, and chemicals.  He started his career at Bell Laboratories doing software development and product management for high-availability, embedded data transport systems.  He currently serves on the boards of PlanetiQ, a weather satellite company; and Navicore Solutions, a consumer debt counseling non-profit.  He is also an Executive in Residence and Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, teaching courses on decision making and consulting.  Joe has a BSEE, sum cum laude, from Virginia Tech a MSEE in computer engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Wharton as a Palmer Scholar.

Brian found and serves as the managing director of S3 Ventures, a venture capital firm with $450M under management.   S3 invests primarily in Texas and the southwest in Series A, B and C opportunities, and restructurings and smaller buyouts.  At age 29, he founded and served as chairman and CEO of Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq: CRDS). He led Crossroads through five rounds of venture, strategic and mezzanine financing and to a successful IPO in 1999. Brian ran Crossroads as a public company for nearly four years. In this role, Brian was an early pioneer in Storage Area Networks (“SANs”), which are industry standard solutions today. For his efforts, he was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2000. He spent the first seven years of his career in electrical engineering positions holding product development roles within the Technology Group of the IBM Corporation.

Brian earned a BSEE with honors from the University of Cincinnati and an MSEE from Purdue University. He served on the board of Crossroads Systems (Nasdaq: CRDS), Favor (acquired by HEB Grocery), Gravitant (acquired by IBM), LibreDigital (acquired by RRD), Packet Design (acquired by Ciena), Phurnace (acquired by BMC Software), Sipera System (acquired by Avaya, Inc,), StoredIQ (acquired by IBM) and TVA Medical (acquired by Becton Dickinson). He currently serves on the boards of Acessa Health, Alkami, Briggo, Datical, OrthoAccel, Pivot3, Qualia, Tango Health and VUV Analytics.