# Andrew Sugrue

> Andrew Sugrue is a Series C investor at Avenir (New York) backing Marketplace and FinTech. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Avenir](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avenir-growth-capital)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-g-sugrue-48771523/

Andrew Sugrue is a growth equity investor with Catterton, a consumer-focused private equity firm in Greenwich, Conn. Sugrue is the chairman of the East African Children’s Education Fund, a non-profit organization he founded in 2007. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the McCain Institute’s flagship Next Generation Leaders program and on theInstitute’s Eastern Congo provincial elections working group. Sugrue is Co-Chair of the American Enterprise Institute’s AEI30 Initiative, Co-Chair of the Parrish Art Museum’s Contemporaries Circle and a member of the Alumni Council of the Robertson Scholars Program at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. He was named a 2013 New York Leader by the Foreign Policy Initiative, and he previously served as a foreign policy advisor to Governor Romney’s 2012 Presidential Campaign on Africa and Human Rights issues. As a Robertson Scholar, Sugrue received a bachelor’s degree in global studies and political science from the Honors Program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s of Management Studies from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketplace | 4 | 27% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| Internet | 2 | 13% |
| Logistics | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 5 | 33% |
| Series B | 3 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |
| Series D | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 53% |
| Kenya | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $750M | Series F | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $300M |  | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| Hippocratic AI | Hippocratic AI’s Aim is to develop the safest artificial Health General Intelligence (HGI). greatly enhance healthcare access and boost the scalability of healthcare professionals using the safest artificial Health General Intelligence (HGI), resulting in a more fair system of care for all. | $126M | Series C | Nov 03, 2025 |  |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $500M | Series E | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Ramp | Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $200M | Series E | Jun 14, 2025 |  |
| Nivoda | Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe. |  |  | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Nivoda | Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe. | $51M | Series C | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Nivoda | Nivoda provides jewellery businesses with a simple solution to strengthen profits, increase efficiency and accelerate growth with its B2B diamond marketplace. Designed to save you time and money whilst giving you access to the world’s diamond supply at the best prices with zero inventory risk, Nivoda is trusted by thousands of retailers all overthe globe. | $30M | Series B | May 06, 2024 |  |
| Alloy | Alloy is a developer of an identity verification platform used to check frauds and make identity management effective and simple for banks and financial institutions. Alloy is an API for regulated companies to collect and manage customer data from many different sources. It also engages in helping financial institutions and FinTech companies solveidentity and compliance problems. The service allows banks and FinTechs to make better risk and identify decisions, using a single API and dashboard to manage AML, fraud, KYC, and more.The company also offers an API to help financial services companies access various aggregated identity databases and a dashboard through which to organize and analyze customer onboarding data. It also helps to improve customer conversion through the compliance funnel, reduce risk and fraud, and speed up previously manual back-office processes.Alloy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York. | $52M | Series C | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Wasoko | Wasoko transforms access to essential goods and services by connecting small shops to the digital economy. | $125M | Series B | Mar 16, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 16 deals together
- [Thrive Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thrive-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Lux Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lux-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [D1 Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d1-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Avenir

VC Fund · New York, United States

Avenir Growth Capital is a New York-based private investment firm focused on growth equity opportunities. It partners with visionary founders to build high-quality businesses capitalizing on paradigm shifts.

5 contacts available at Avenir.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Sugrue | Co-founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-sugrue |
| Jamie Reynolds | Co-founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jamie-reynolds-2 |
| Vinay Kumar | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vinay-kumar-7aa3 |
| David Prilutsky | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-prilutsky |
| Jared Sleeper | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jared-sleeper |

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## FAQ

### What does Andrew Sugrue invest in?

Andrew Sugrue invests primarily in Marketplace, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Andrew Sugrue last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andrew Sugrue closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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