About Av8

Empowering the bold

What We Do

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. ​

Venture Advisors

Anna Binder

Head of People, Asana

Gemma Garriga

Director, Applied AI, Google

Jeff Merkel

Co-Founder, Ladder

Dr. Marco Pavone

Stanford University

Brian Kissel

CPO, Stanford Federal Credit Union

Shail Khiyara

CXO, UiPath

Alexander Statnikov

Head of Automation, Square

Dr. Gloria Lau

Venture Partner

Jay Budzik

CTO, Zest AI

Amir Kabir

Venture Partner

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