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AV8 Ventures

About

We are early stage partners in helping founders build their companies. While we are full lifecycle investors, we typically start our partnership with Seed or Series A investments. We are backed by Allianz, one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide.

We seek entrepreneurs transforming massive markets including:

  • Healthcare
  • Enterprise
  • Financial Tech & Services
  • Deep Tech

Why AV8?

Experienced

Collectively, our team has decades of experience:

  • launching products
  • building teams
  • scaling revenue

Each investment comes with our full team’s experience and participation​

Engaged

The challenges in getting a project off the ground and getting the first few $Million of revenue are unique. As a Firm focused on Seed/Series A investments, we bring a sharp focus to these unique challenges spending significant time with our entrepreneurs in helping them succeed.

Networked

With our decades of experience comes broad and deep networks that our entrepreneurs become part of. We connect our teams to potential end-buyers, channel partners, and new hires. And our Venture Advisor team of leading domain experts are there to assist all our entrepreneurs

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