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Augment Welcomes Jeff Lee The Team has Expanded Jeff joined us in March as a Venture Partner and brings a strong operating and investing background with a deep network in the Bay Area. Jeff was COO of Origin and helped…

Fund III Follow-On Investment: Rivet Rivet is a workforce and asset scheduling and management platform for the commercial skilled trade industry. Augment led the company’s Series Seed round in October 2021. Since our initial investment, Rivet has grown its customer…

Fund III New Investment: Fluree Fluree is a data management platform that is shifting enterprises from application-centric architectures toward data-centric ones. Its platform leverages semantic graph databases and distributed ledger technologies to migrate, integrate, manage, and protect data. Fluree provides…

2023 Outlook and Trends The Augment team is extremely excited about what is in store for both our current portfolio companies and new investments in 2023. Below are a few trends we believe are relevant and our assessment on how…

Happy Holidays from the Augment Team! Wishing you and your families healthy and happy holidays and a prosperous new year! We look forward to an exciting 2023! Augment Ventures proudly supports Ann Arbor-based Food Gatherers and its efforts to fight…

Fund III New Investment: Secro Secro enables frictionless cross-border trade. Its blockchain SaaS platform provides enterprise customers with next-generation, open network electronic bill of lading, digital trade document management, and secure collaboration. Secro’s beachhead customers are physical commodity traders moving…

LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Unveils Flume Partnership Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the launch of an innovative program between The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and Flume. The program provides customers of the LA-based utility access…

Fund III New Investment: Guardhat Guardhat is creating a technology platform to improve safety for frontline industrial workers. The platform offers visualizations including live-view maps, worker notifications and alerts, response management, and continual data logging and analysis. This enables the…

Entrepreneurship Tip #4: Growth During Slowdowns Four Points to Keep Your Company Moving Forward The US economy is facing a slowdown across all sectors. For early-stage tech companies, this poses a particularly unique challenge – how to grow while facing…

Augment Welcomes Jeff Kontulis The Team has Expanded Jeff joined us in June as a Senior Associate and brings a diverse set of experience in finance and entrepreneurship. During his MBA, Jeff was also a Venture Fellow at Augment. To…