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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Portfolio Company Spotlight: Aperia Technologies New This Year: Office Hours Looking for additional support? Our Managing Director, Sonali, is adding office hours to her calendar to mentor entrepreneurs. Join Sonali every first Thursday of the month to …

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Special Edition: Recognizing our Women in Tech As the end of 2019 quickly approaches, we’re excited to recognize our portfolio companies, entrepreneurs and team members that have made this year such a success. Cheers to another year …

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Augment Ventures Fund II invests in Crowdz – Global Invoice Exchange Crowdz’s blockchain – based Invoice Exchange, with its built-in business-to-business (B2B) payment gateway, allows companies of all sizes to automatically digitize invoices, speed up invoice-payment collections …

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Lumenetix acquired by ERP Power Fund I company Lumenetix is the creator of the araya5 tunable color light engines and digital controls designed to deliver flawless interactive lighting experiences. With this acquisition, technologies from ERP Power and …

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Hirak Parikh joins Augment as Venture Partner Hirak Parikh who runs the Monroe-Brown Seed Fund at the University of Michigan has joined Augment Ventures as a Venture Partner. Through the MVCA Venture Fellows Program, Hirak will be …

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Happy New Year! Wishing all our partners and collaborators a great 2019. Augment is excited to share the news of our most recent investment in Flume. Intelligent Leak Detection. Flume is an IoT device with software and …

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