About

Trammell Ventures is a boutique firm based in Austin, Texas that incubates and invests in innovative startups, offers professional services, and creates venture capital opportunities. Our areas of focus include: information and cyber security, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, analytics-driven business modeling, and gamification. We invest in strong teams with great ideas and a clear ability to execute.

Interested in our projects?  Some of our current work is located in our portfolio.

Our Team


Dustin D. Trammell
Chief Executive Officer

  

Christina Johnson-Sullivan
Chief Operations Officer

Zonk Scott
Chief Technology Officer

  

Donovan Allen
Director of Engineering

  

Christopher S. Calicott
Managing Director
Trammell Venture Partners

  

Our Story


CEO Dustin D. Trammell and Chief of Operations Christina Johnson-Sullivan launched Trammell Ventures in 2011 to manage investments in engineering project incubation and external enterprises.

Dustin brings over 20 years of experience in advanced information security research and secure network and systems architecture. Having long held an interest in cryptography and privacy he became one of the initial contributors to and adopters of Bitcoin. His early involvement led him to need to make a public statement in 2013 that he was not Satoshi Nakamoto. His knowledge of information security technologies and blockchain, along with his passion for the bodyhacking movement and gamification, serve as a wellspring that inspire and inform his investment and inception decisions.

Christina has been heavily involved with the business side of information security since 2009 and is a welcome presence at major industry conferences. As part of Trammell Ventures she leverages her extensive network of government and corporate cybersecurity contacts to secure partnerships and harnesses her comprehensive business management experience to oversee the day-to-day business of the enterprise.

Drawing on their deep network of connections in the information and cyber security space, Dustin and Christina brought a new conference to Austin, Texas. Currently in its tenth year, InfoSec Southwest has been sponsored by household names including Amazon, Cisco, and Trend Micro. The Trammell Ventures events production portfolio expanded in 2016 to include the BodyHacking Con, which brings together doctors, artists, scientists, and experimenters in the domain of human augmentation and modification technologies. Trammell Ventures events production portfolio expanded yet again in 2017 to include Rogue Signal, an events production and gamification company incubated by Trammell Ventures which creates bespoke and immersive gaming experiences for conferences and other events.

Christopher S. Calicott concentrates on the venture capital side of the enterprise as Managing Director of the company’s venture investment firm, Trammell Venture Partners . TVP’s first fund, closed in 2019, focused on information and cyber security, blockchain technology, and machine intelligence venture investments. TVP’s second fund, closed in 2022, is the first venture capital fund focused exclusively on investing in Bitcoin infrastructure and Bitcoin-native companies.

Product development and incubation are the core of Trammell Ventures engineering labs. Primarily led by Dustin, he brings his ideas to life resulting in products and companies like Blockhenge's Cryptomnio cryptoasset trading platform, the Achieve Mint gamification badging platform, and Rogue Signal’s Scramble! Live-action immersive gaming platform.