Augment Ventures

“95% of our portfolio companies have been successful in securing follow-on capital”

“So it's become data symmetry. You need data asymmetry, right, to find your edge. And our edge is our founder.”

“I think some of them have PhDs you know, in whatever sector they are pursuing, but a lot of them, I would say actually for us, they are more operators from the industry and fewer PhDs. They have a lived experience in that sector right? And from there, they're …”

“Not only I have very strong relationship with my founders, and they have, Come back and invested in our fund.”

“Every data tool that we use now has an agentic solution attached to it. So it's really no point, like, to force my analysts to go and do that. Like, we can get our scouting reports in, like, two minutes. Or two minutes is too much, actually. 30 seconds, maybe,…”

“So what was happening prior to sort of, you know, you can say, like, The current AI native revolution that we are going through is, it was more visibility. Then came the little bit of analytics, right? Like, you know, people were analyzing, there were dashboar…”

“Earlier when we started the fund in 2011, we did invest in a few hardware plays, but over the years we realized to invest in a hardware play, A, you need a longer term perspective, B, you need a lot of capital, and C the sales cycle and adoption takes a lot lo…”

“We've invested in a company that is bringing diverse voice data sets to make sure that, you know, whether you're in India speaking Hindi or Bengali or you're in Middle East, Speaking Arabic or Persian, or you're in Africa speaking Swahili or any of the other l…”

“I think I would say one third from Michigan because we are very, you know, locally connected. So every fund has at least three or four companies that we have exposure to. And then two thirds from I guess Bay area.”