4 Accomplished Austin Startup Leaders Join LiveOak’s Venture Advisory Team

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.