Avi Sarma
Managing Partner @ GRIL Ventures
Washington, United States
Avi Sarma is a startup investor at GRIL Ventures in Washington. Avi Sarma is managing partner at GRIL Ventures, a private investment vehicle with -50 investments across four venture portfolios. GRIL focuses on backing high growth, high impact technology companies in areas such as education, health, and mental wellness, food and agriculture, consumer tech, and more. Avi is on a mission to use his position as aninvestor to align disruptive technologies and great entrepreneurs to advance dignity around the world.Avi is an investor in / advisor to Square Roots (urban farming, founded by Kimbal Musk), Beyond Imagination (commercializing avatars), and others. Avi is a board member at GVNG (create a nonprofit in 60 seconds) and Upgraded (devices-as-a-service platform).Outside of GRIL Ventures, Avi is a co-founder of Habitatio, a philanthropy-technology platform with a new methodology to fund wildlife conservation, with a first project now live in North Kenya, and Dino Agro, a technology-driven fund for small farmers in Brazil. Avi attended the Wharton School @ UPenn, graduating in 2010, and lives in Washington DC, USA.
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About GRIL Ventures
GRIL Ventures is a private investment firm focusing on backing high growth and high impact technology companies. It is on a mission to align disruptive technologies and game-changing entrepreneurs to advance dignity. It has a portfolio of 45 investments across energy, transportation, health and mental wellness, education, food and agriculture,consumer, internet, and big data for enterprise.
GRIL Ventures Contacts
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Avi Sarma
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Benjamin Lu
Managing Partner
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Colin Rushmere
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