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…
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 makes the founders…
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 99.9% of bio-contaminants…
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 discuss recent wins,…
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 of hard work,…
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 and accelerate the…
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 Lumenetix will simplify…
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 assisting with due…
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 data platform delivering…
