Augment Ventures congratulates LLamasoft Inc., the global leader in AI-powered supply chain design and planning on being acquired by Coupa Software Inc. (NASDAQ: COUP), a leader in Business Spend Management for about $1.5 Billion.

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Smart Home Water Monitor After selling about 20,000 units, Flume launches their second generation product Flume 2. The new hardware has a sleek, refined feel, combined with improved functionality and the ability to capture data 6x faster …

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Augment Ventures Fund II invests in Cloud Agronomics Predictive insights for Agriculture Cloud Agronomics is creating a living map of global agriculture using hyperspectral imaging (HSI). HSI datasets for precision farming and data analytics changes the way …

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Forbes: The Changing Venture Capital Investment Climate For AI “The venture capital (VC) world often follows the general trends of the markets. When social media is the in-thing, investors will flock to all manner of social media …

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Portfolio Highlight: Larq Did you know? A recent study found that the “average athlete’s water bottle contains 313,499 CFU (colony-forming units) of bacteria per square centimeter” (Treadmill Reviews, 2019). Germs from dirty hands and backwash are typically …

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Entrepreneurship Tip #2: Building Diverse Teams We asked our Managing Director, Sonali Vijayavargiya to share with us her best advice for entrepreneurs looking to create and build diverse teams. Check out her three tips to improving diversity …

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Portfolio Highlight: Crowdz? We’re excited to share our own Payson Johnston, CEO of Crowdz, contributed to a recent Forbes article titled “How SMEs Can Speed Up Payments From Large Corporations“. Payson highlights how small to medium enterprises …

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Blog Highlight: Private Equity during COVID What makes a pitch a perfect pitch? We’re proud to announce that our very own Haresh Patel, CEO of Mercatus, contributed to a recent Bloomberg article titled “Pandemic Turns Europe’s Private …

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Augment Lesson #1: Pitch Perfect What makes a pitch a perfect pitch? We asked our Managing Director, Sonali Vijayavargiya to share with us her best advice for entrepreneurs looking to raise funds. Check out what she believes …

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Announcing: New Investment Welcome, LARQ! We’re excited to welcome LARQ into the Augment portfolio! The LARQ Bottle is the world’s first self-cleaning water bottle and water purification system. It uses UV-C LED light to eliminate up to …

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