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.
AV8 Crew
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
Jay Budzik
CTO, Zest AI
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