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…
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,…
