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VC/Unpacked #9: The VC Twitterverse

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VC/Unpacked #8: Poker Is Life

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Infographic: How Fees Work in a Typical AVG Alumni Fund

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Alumni Ventures Group Announces the Launch of Its New AVG Anti-Bias Fund

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Longevity: Unleashing the Future of Longer, Healthier Human Lives

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We're sharing some highlights from our conversation with Dr. David Sinclair, one of the world’s leading experts on longevity and healthy aging. Dr. Sinclair is Harvard Professor Department of Genetics and Co-Director of the Center of Aging at Harvard Medical School in the Sinclair lab. He's also the author of Lifespan: Why We Age, and Why We Don't Have To.

Science Strikes Back: Advanced Materials

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Advanced materials cover a range of innovative substances such as semiconductors, ceramics, biomaterials, metals, nanoengineered materials, composites, and more. To create them, specialized processes and synthesis are used, employing chemistry, physics, biology, and more.

Science Strikes Back: Space Tech

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Today, private companies are leading the space race and innovations in space tech are being accelerated by leveraging other developments in deep tech.

Science Strikes Back: Genomics

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Advances in the study, mapping, and editing of genes are creating opportunities for innovation across the biological sciences.

Deep Tech Investment Announcement: Unlearn.AI

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We’re pleased to announce that we have made our second investment into the Deep Tech Fund: Unlearn.AI. Learn how this company accelerates clinical trials by using artificial intelligence.

Science Strikes Back: AI & Machine Learning

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Explosive growth in available data, advanced algorithms, and computing power are enabling machines to solve increasingly complex problems. These 9 tech sectors are innovating with AI and machine learning.

Deep Tech Investment Announcement: Frore Systems

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We’re pleased to announce that we have made our first investment into the Deep Tech Fund: Frore Systems. Processor power is typically limited by heat, but Frore's solution aims to upend the current industry standard.

Science Strikes Back: Robotics & Drones

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Robots and drones are a deep tech example of an industry where new achievements and visions are being realized almost daily. These 9 tech sectors are innovating with robotics.

Science Strikes Back: Blockchain

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Blockchain is changing more than just cryptocurrency - discover how this technology has the potential to revolutionize almost every industry sector.

Science Strikes Back: Longevity

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Longevity and healthy living tech are naturally of immense interest to most people, perhaps more so than ever because of recent developments. With recent advancements in bio-informatics, epigenetic reprogramming, and DNA repair, we appear to be on the cusp of meaningfully improving lifespan and making those years healthier.

Science Strikes Back: Extended Reality

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The world of extended reality has long been the stuff of sci-fi. Today’s very real tech lets human and machines interact via computers and wearables in combined real and virtual environments. We introduce companies taking on the toughest and potentially most lucrative technological challenges in augmented, virtual, and mixed reality.

Post-COVID Investment Announcement: Betterview

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We’re pleased to announce that we have made our second investment into the Post-COVID Fund: Betterview. The company provides remote property inspection to property & casualty insurers for underwriting purposes. While COVID-19 made in-person property inspections impossible in most states, Betterview’s virtual SaaS offering accelerated.

Post-COVID Investment Announcement: Tembo Health

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We’re pleased to announce that we have made our first investment into the Post-COVID Fund: Tembo Health. The company is addressing the problem of caring for some of the most vulnerable in this pandemic: senior citizens at nursing home facilities.

Dataminr: Real-Time Information-Discovery

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Dataminr’s AI platform detects signals from public data sets, giving clients early insights into high-impact events and critical breaking information in real time — long before it’s in the news. The company was the first to detect the outbreak of COVID-19 in public social media posts on December 30, 2019.

RapidSOS: Modernizing 911

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In partnership with public safety agencies, RapidSOS has created the world’s first emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from over 350 million connected devices directly to 911 and first responders. During the COVID-19 crisis, RapidSOS is working to maximize their responsiveness and support to understaffed and overburdened 911 centers.

Kinsa: Tackling the Detection and Tracking of COVID-19

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We’re pleased to bring you an update on smart thermometer portfolio company, Kinsa. They are tackling a critical challenge in COVID-19 crisis: detection and tracking the disease. Their success in being a fast, accurate detection tool of coronavirus has brought them to the attention of outlets such as the New York Times and MSNBC.

Heal: House Calls and Telemedicine Visits for COVID-19

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AVG Portfolio company Heal offers timely and convenient medical care from qualified doctors via telemedicine or an in-home, office, or hotel visit, including pediatrics, urgent, primary, and preventive care. Heal’s telemedicine service is an increasingly vital tool in an era of social distancing and is on the front lines of our fight against the coronavirus.

MDmetrix: Free Mission Control Helps Clinicians Fight COVID-19

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AVG Portfolio company MDmetrix is a healthcare data analytics, visualization, and AI firm that serves hospitals and surgery centers, allowing them to quickly and easily leverage their own data. Now, to help hospital leaders and frontline physicians combat the pandemic, the company is providing free COVID-19 Mission Control subscriptions to UW Medicine and other hospitals.

AVG Portfolio Companies Doing Timely Work

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The world is experiencing a “Perfect Storm” crisis: a pandemic, likely worldwide recession, and an extreme level of both personal and societal fear — all reinforced in a vicious spiral. But AVG CEO Mike Collins is fortunate to encounter on a daily basis entrepreneurs and their companies who are wired to tackle problems like this.

Tembo Health: Meeting the Telehealth Demand for Nursing Homes

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Tembo Health is a telemedicine practice that partners with nursing homes to provide residents with the care they need to stay safe, healthy, and connected. Because older adults and those with chronic conditions are at higher risk, the effects of COVID-19 can be more severe, and Tembo Health is stepping up to help facilities cope.

Lessons Learned: Building Long-Term Value

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It's challenging enough to be leading a high-growth company with the pedal to the floor and demanding investors, but even more so when unprecedented economic curveballs are coming at you. Our team shares tales from the battlefield and offer insights on how companies can best adapt to survive and thrive in the midst of today’s economic uncertainty caused by COVID-19.

Sesame: Direct Pay Healthcare Marketplace

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Sesame's online, direct pay marketplace is aiming to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and transparent, with a specific focus on assisting uninsured or underinsured individuals. With COVID-19 in mind, Sesame has introduced a virtual appointments platform that allows providers to safely continue their practice and treat patients.

E25Bio: Developing Accurate, Affordable Tests for COVID-19

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E25Bio, an AVG portfolio company, develops technology to more quickly, accurately, and affordably diagnose diseases such as dengue and zika. Powered by a recent round led by Khosla Ventures, E25Bio is directing its attention to developing a similar test to diagnose COVID-19.

Kinsa: Real-Time Tracking of the COVID-19 Outbreak

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Kinsa, an AVG portfolio company, is an illness tracking system that uses predictive modeling, real-time health data, and smart thermometers to help users manage symptoms. Now the company may also be one of the leading real-time trackers of the COVID-19 outbreak. The company helps families, communities, and public health officials make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What’s the Impact of COVID-19 on VC?

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In a time of great unease that’s impacting folks on a number of levels, AVG's Chief Investment Officer Anton Simunovic shares his perspective on the current global crisis and how to think about your venture investments.