# Sonali Vijayavargiya

> Sonali Vijayavargiya is a seed investor at Augment Ventures backing Supply Chain Management. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Augment Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/augment-ventures)
- Location: Ann Arbor, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/augmentventures/
- Website: https://x.com/sonaliv

Sonali Vijayavargiya is a seed investor at Augment Ventures in Ann Arbor focused on Supply Chain Management and Software. Sonali Vijayavargiya is based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is the founder and managing director of Augment Ventures. Sonali previously worked at Guardhat as a board observer. Sonali Vijayavargiya attended the Fergusson College. Sonali Vijayavargiya has been awarded Top 10 Michigan Business Women.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Supply Chain Management | 4 | 29% |
| Software | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| Logistics | 2 | 14% |
| Industrial | 2 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 29% |
| Series B | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 14% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nexxa.ai | Nexxa.ai builds Multi-Agent Systems for the heavy industries the world relies on powered by a combination of computer use AI and AI tools like ml/computer vision. Tech companies have automated workflows for years—but industrial operations still rely on massive human labor forces to handle processes in fragmented systems. Human operatedmission-critical workflows in non-tech industries far exceed the number in tech which leads to a massive opportunity for automation. Cookie-cutter solutions & agent builders don’t solve the problem due to lack of technical expertise and custom tools in these industries. Nexxa specialized AI agents take over the work of entire teams in industrial operations. Our computer use agents integrate with legacy systems and execute complex processes in the existing infrastructure of our customers. We build proprietary computer vision models that augment existing computer use agents so that the models understand the custom software environments of our customers. | $9M | Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Nexxa.ai | Nexxa.ai builds Multi-Agent Systems for the heavy industries the world relies on powered by a combination of computer use AI and AI tools like ml/computer vision. Tech companies have automated workflows for years—but industrial operations still rely on massive human labor forces to handle processes in fragmented systems. Human operatedmission-critical workflows in non-tech industries far exceed the number in tech which leads to a massive opportunity for automation. Cookie-cutter solutions & agent builders don’t solve the problem due to lack of technical expertise and custom tools in these industries. Nexxa specialized AI agents take over the work of entire teams in industrial operations. Our computer use agents integrate with legacy systems and execute complex processes in the existing infrastructure of our customers. We build proprietary computer vision models that augment existing computer use agents so that the models understand the custom software environments of our customers. | $4.4M | Pre-Seed | Jul 21, 2025 |  |
| Optilogic | You’ve built supply chain models to help your company make good decisions, analyze results and answer tough questions. But you know there are better ways for optimization and simulation to make a greater impact. That’s where Optilogic comes in. Optilogic empowers organizations to rethink Supply Chain Design by incorporating optimization,simulation, and risk into a single, unified, cloud-native platform that is built for hyper-scale, security, affordability, and extensibility. Corporations can now enable their supply chain teams to devise supply chain strategies that incorporate the optimal balance between financial performance, cost, and service while understanding the geographic and systemic risk in their supply chains. |  |  | Sep 13, 2023 |  |
| Channel19 | Channel19 is building a platform for small truckers to aggregate freight from all of their digital broker and load board relationships in one place and find the best freight to move for their business. Truckers using Channel19 earn up to 20% more revenue and can save over $3,000 per truck per year in dispatch. | $2.7M | Seed | Jun 20, 2023 |  |
| Secro | Secro is an early-stage startup developing a supply chain platform to eliminate fraud, inefficiencies, and exploitation from global trade. Its cloud-based platform offers organizations the ability to securely collaborate and efficiently perform all functions needed to negotiate, sign, finance, execute, and audit complex cross-border supply chaintransactions. It also utilizes advanced technology to vet customers, protect data, prevent fraud, detect suspicious behavior, and ensure confidentiality.Secro was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 27, 2023 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $10.1M | Convertible Note | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $14.7M | Series B | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Rivet Work | Rivet is an online platform that helps construction companies, trade schools, and labor unions schedule, forecast, acquire and dispatch skilled workers and equipment to jobs and jobsites. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. | $2.1M |  | Oct 21, 2021 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $3M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |
| Crowdz | Crowdz is the leader in modernizing the traditional Trade Finance industry by auto risk rating assets at the receivable level. Funders can gain valuable insights to make quick decisions that match their investment strategy. Crowdz has auto risk-rated $4.2b of receivables, and funders have financed over $93m utilizing Crowdz technology. Customersand investors include Citibank, Barclays, Meta, EG Funds Management, Techstars Ventures, and Bold Capital Partners, with over $28 million in investment raised to date.Assets sold to private equity. | $7M | Series A | Jun 30, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bold Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bold-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Global Cleantech Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-cleantech-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kube VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kube-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Task Force X Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/task-force-x-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Augment Ventures

VC Fund · Ann Arbor, United States

Augment Ventures invests across North America in early-stage companies at the intersection of digitization and data that are transforming traditional industries. We seek mission-driven founders with diverse teams that bring intellectual rigor to solving big, real-world problems.

4 contacts available at Augment Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Armstrong | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-armstrong-b84b |
| Jeff Kontulis | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-kontulis |
| Nikhil Bahadur | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nikhil-bahadur-fb07 |
| Sonali Vijayavargiya | Founder and Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sonali-vijayavargiya |

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## FAQ

### What does Sonali Vijayavargiya invest in?

Sonali Vijayavargiya invests primarily in Supply Chain Management, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series B 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.

### When did Sonali Vijayavargiya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sonali Vijayavargiya closed in Jan 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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