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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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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