# Avid Larizadeh

> Avid Larizadeh is a seed investor at Teachers’ Venture Growth backing Enterprise Software. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details…

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: Teachers’ Venture Growth
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/avidlarizadeh
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/avidl
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/avid.larizadeh

Avid Larizadeh is a seed investor at Teachers’ Venture Growth in London focused on Enterprise Software and Artificial Intelligence. Avid is a general partner at GV. Prior to GV, Avid cofounded Boticca, a global marketplace for independent brands of fashion accessories (acquired by Wolf & Badger in 2015)• Avid has been involved in the startup ecosystem as a developer, product manager, founder, investor, and adviser since 1998• Avid worked at Accel Partners; held productmanagement roles at Tellme Networks, eBay, and Skype• Avid leads Code.org and the Hour of Code in the UK. She is on the board of trustees of Founders4Schools and serves on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Board. Avid has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |
| SaaS | 3 | 21% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 14% |

41 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series D | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 29% |
| Germany | 2 | 14% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vinted | Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Apskritis, Lithuania. | $1B | Secondary Market | Apr 27, 2026 | http://vinted.com |
| Wayve | Wayve develops autonomous driving technology using end-to-end deep learning models that enable vehicles to navigate complex urban environments. The company builds AI software that learns directly from data collected through cameras and sensors, reducing reliance on high-definition maps and rule-based systems. Its approach focuses on embodiedintelligence, where the system improves driving performance through large-scale real-world training and simulation. Wayve partners with automotive manufacturers and fleet operators to integrate its driving software into production vehicles. The platform is designed to adapt to different geographies and driving conditions through continuous learning and model refinement. | $1.3B | Series D | Feb 24, 2026 | https://wayve.ai |
| Quantexa | Quantexa’s Contextual Decision Intelligence is a new approach to data that gives organizations the ability to connect internal and external data sets to provide a single view, enriched with intelligence about the relationships between people, places and organizations. Our platform dynamically generates the context needed to automate millions ofoperational decisions, at scale, across multiple business units, including Anti-Money Laundering, Know-Your-Customer, Fraud, Credit Risk and Customer Intelligence. Quantexa is a global business with offices in London, New York, Boston, Brussels, Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. | $175M | Series F | Mar 05, 2025 | http://www.quantexa.com |
| Instagrid | Instagrid creates software-defined battery systems for advanced portable power supplies. | $94.9M | Series C | Jan 23, 2024 | https://instagrid.co/ |
| Beamery | Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people. It helps companies attract, identify, and engage with candidates on one unified platform, to deliver better talent acquisition - at scale. Beamery provides the modern enterprise and its talent acquisition teams with all thetools they need to hire better, faster, and smarter than ever before by delivering exceptional candidate experiences and engaging with talent proactively across every part of the candidate journey. | $50M | Series D | Dec 13, 2022 | http://beamery.com |
| Taxfix | Taxfix Group is Europe’s leading financial platform for digital tax filing, with over 6 million submitted tax returns in Europe. Taxfix’s mission is to fix finances for all, ensuring everyone can navigate their finances with confidence. The platform with its brands Taxfix, Steuerbot and TaxScouts offers a broad range of innovative tax filingsolutions tailored to diverse user needs and preferences: From the simple self-filing service app and browser solutions to the expert-service, a guided service where independent tax advisors handle the entire tax return process. | $220M | Series D | Apr 27, 2022 | http://www.taxfix.de |
| Subskribe | Transform the quote-to-revenue lifecycle with AI-native subscription management that unifies your entire revenue workflow -- combining quoting, billing and revenue recognition to unlock revenue at scale. Subskribe has been officially acquired by DealHub.io - November 2025. | $13.2M | Series A | Feb 17, 2022 | https://subskribe.com |
| Clearbrief | Clearbrief leverages cutting-edge AI and NLP to transform legal writing and the justice system. | $1.2M | Seed | Mar 23, 2021 | https://clearbrief.com |
| Stensul | Stensul is transforming the way enterprise marketers work. Our email generation platform is centralized, scalable, and pre-configured to each brand. By bypassing all of the back-and-forth with designers, developers and QA, marketers can focus on crafting content that inspires and delivers real results. Build emails in our platform, and theninstantly send them out through your ESP or Marketing Cloud. With stensul, marketers are reimagining what’s possible with email. | $16M | Series B | Nov 05, 2020 | https://stensul.com |
| XOKind | XOKind is an AI startup, formed with the mission of simplifying human planning and decision making by distilling the world's information, and we are launching our first product in the travel and leisure space. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 12, 2019 | https://xokind.com/ |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bny) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morgan Stanley Investment Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-stanley-investmentmanagement) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Schroders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/schroders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [S32](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/section-32) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [SET Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/set-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Teachers’ Venture Growth

VC Fund · Toronto, Canada

Teachers’ Venture Growth is the venture fund of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG) makes late-stage venture and growth equity investments in cutting-edge technology companies led by mission-driven entrepreneurs building a better future for people and the planet.

1 contacts available at Teachers’ Venture Growth.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kieran Mahanty | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kieran-mahanty |

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## FAQ

### What does Avid Larizadeh invest in?

Avid Larizadeh invests primarily in Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series D stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Avid Larizadeh last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Avid Larizadeh closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 14 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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