Happy Holidays! Wishing Augment community Happy Holidays!We have stood together (Six Feet Apart), We have conquered fear (One Mask at a time),and We have hope (One Vaccine at a time)! Together we can and we will craft a brighter and…
Feeling Thankful This year has been like no other year that we have experienced in our lifetime.One the eve of Thanksgiving, I want to draw our attention to how we have come together as people of the world. Multilateral global…
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.
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 than before, enabling…
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 the individual farmer…
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 startups. The same…
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 the culprits behind…
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 and culture across…
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 (SMEs) business failures…
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 Equity Dealmakers Into…
