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Investment

Working with a wide array of partners, investees, and sponsors, AVAC plays a critical role as the experienced investor in early-stage companies.

AVAC provides investment at a crucial stage in a company’s life cycle – the pre-seed, seed, and pre-commercial stages that many traditional investors avoid. This stage is crucial, as it lays the foundation for all of the company’s future commercialization efforts. Investing at this stage means that AVAC takes on substantially more risk than traditional investors are usually willing to take. We mitigate this risk by conducting extensive risk and stage of development analysis, and looking closely at the management team behind any venture.

After a company has been selected for investment, we do more than simply provide the investment dollars – we work closely with the management team to strengthen their commercialization efforts and prepare them for future investment. We set high standards for accountability and successful alumni are obligated to reinvest in AVAC in order to support additional pre-commercial innovations in other enterprises. AVAC’s reputation as an informed investor attracts additional resources including financial capital, managerial talent, and intellectual property for the value-added sector.

Our experienced management team helps potential investees understand our proposal process and which investment program is the best fit for their business idea. Once proposals have been accepted, our team works with investees to explain investment requirements and expectations, navigate the business development process and transition into the commercial development phases.

By investing in a methodical and directed manner to strengthen key business fundamentals in its investees, AVAC is materially benefiting these early-stage companies in their efforts at attracting follow-on debt or equity. The primary uses for pre-commercial investment moneys are: management talent access and recruitment, product development, market assessments, establishing samples or prototypes, and business plan development.