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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Award Season for Augment Portfolio Companies We are excited to announce that our portfolio company Mercatus is named “Portfolio Analytics Solution of year” 2018 by Capital Markets CIO Outlook. Mercatus is the platform-of-choice for managing alternative investments. …

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In our previous newsletter we showcased the latest investment, GeoTix, a Traverse City based company.   We also highlighted news from our portfolio companies LLamasoft, which was named to Detroit’s Best and brightest Companies to Work For …

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In our previous newsletter we showcased the latest development from one of our health and hygiene startups, RayVio. The LARQ Bottle—a self-cleaning, water purifying water bottle — has begun shipping product to early backers from the kickstarter …

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