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Vijayavargiya: Deal lists create data symmetry; edge requires proprietary founder networks
“So it's become data symmetry. You need data asymmetry, right, to find your edge. And our edge is our founder.”
Vijayavargiya: Augment backs mostly industry operators over PhD founders
“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 …”
Vijayavargiya: Augment generates company scouting reports in under two minutes using AI
“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,…”
Vijayavargiya: Enterprise software is shifting from dashboards to autonomous AI in action
“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…”
Vijayavargiya: Augment abandoned hardware investments to focus exclusively on software
“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…”
Vijayavargiya: 95% of Augment portfolio companies secure follow-on capital
“95% of our portfolio companies have been successful in securing follow-on capital”
Vijayavargiya: Portfolio founders have invested back into Augment Ventures' fund
“Not only I have very strong relationship with my founders, and they have, Come back and invested in our fund.”
Vijayavargiya: Augment backed diverse multilingual voice dataset startup
“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…”