# Azure Ventures Group

> Azure Ventures Group is a VC fund in Los Angeles backing FinTech and Internet. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/azureventuresgroup
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/azure_ventures
- Website: https://azureventuresgroup.com

Azure Ventures Group is a sector-agnostic VC fund that accelerates and invests in technology-focused companies. They build on different expertise in running, scaling, and leaving businesses in a variety of industries.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 3 | 33% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| Payments | 2 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |
| Series B | 1 | 11% |
| Series F | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rishi Armstrong | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rishi-armstrong |
| Shaan Patel | Managing Partner | 1 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Slash | Slash provides a financial technology platform that enables businesses to manage banking, payments, and financial operations through a unified digital system. The company offers services such as business accounts, corporate cards, treasury management, and payment processing, allowing organizations to handle spending, transfers, and cash flow withina single interface. Its platform integrates core financial functions including checking accounts, ACH and wire transfers, and multi-entity account management, enabling businesses to operate across multiple entities or accounts with centralized visibility. The system also supports virtual and physical corporate cards with configurable spending controls, allowing companies to manage expenses and enforce financial policies at scale. |  | Seed | May 04, 2023 |  |
| Actual Veggies | Actual Veggies mission is to provide vegans, flexitarians, and carnivores alike, healthy, satisfying, environmentally friendly and delicious meal options. They do not use unnatural scientific methods to taste like substitute meat. Instead, they offer consumers a unique option to skip the frozen section of thin, mostly unappetizing veggie burgers,and processed plant-based offerings. Their first product line is an always fresh, large 5oz vegetarian burger made with only real vegetables, natural binding units, no preservatives, and no additives. Our first four burgers are vibrantly color based, and showcase their farm fresh veggies by looking, and tasting like works of art. | $2M | Seed | Jul 01, 2022 |  |
| Buzz Solutions | Buzz Solutions provides a software platform powered by Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights, and Predictive Analytics for faults and anomaly detection for the power line inspection process for power utilities. The company's platform automates the process of storing and organizing visual data (captured in the field through drones andhelicopters), analyzing for faults using its AI algorithms, mapping the data and providing heat maps as well as predictive insights for when, where and what kind of faults are happening on power line and assets. Using its solutions, power utilities save over 50% of cost and time to analyze data which makes condition-based maintenance efforts easier and time-efficient, thus, preventing wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid. |  | Seed | Jan 31, 2022 |  |
| Cerebras Systems | Cerebras Systems is a startup backed by premier venture capitalists and the industry’s most successful technologists. They are serially successful entrepreneurs dedicated to solving problems others are afraid to tackle. They value integrity, passion, real world problem solving ability, and a sense of humor. | $250M | Series F | Nov 10, 2021 |  |
| Golde | They make approachable, effective wellness essentials for inner and outer radiance. Powered by single-origin golden turmeric. |  | Seed | Apr 28, 2021 |  |
| Materna Medical | Materna Medical is a novel OBGYN platform company defining a $6B market with core technologies addressing unmet needs in women's pelvic health. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, Materna pulls from the top minds in MedTech to truly transform the standard of care in OBGYN. With a diverse team of engineers, scientists, researchers,and commercial leaders, Materna Medical’s mission is to empower women to protect their pelvic health. | $10M | Series A | Apr 09, 2021 |  |
| Ripple | Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enablingenterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis. |  | Series B | Mar 01, 2021 |  |
| Edly | Edly specializes in income based repayment financing for college tuition. Edly helps connect students looking for alternative tuition financing with impact investors looking to support students. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, New York. |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2021 |  |
| Edly | Edly specializes in income based repayment financing for college tuition. Edly helps connect students looking for alternative tuition financing with impact investors looking to support students. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, New York. | $1.4M | Seed | May 18, 2020 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rose Street Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rose-street-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [10X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/10x-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Abu Dhabi Growth Fund — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Allied Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allied-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Alphawave Group — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alpha Wave Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alpha-wave-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Azure Ventures Group invest in?

Azure Ventures Group invests primarily in FinTech, Internet and Payments startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Azure Ventures Group?

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### Who are the partners at Azure Ventures Group?

The team at Azure Ventures Group includes Rishi Armstrong (Managing Partner) and Shaan Patel (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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