Avid Ventures

Avid Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Addie Lerner Katz, who serves as Founder and Managing Partner. The firm positions itself as an extension of a founding team and deliberately keeps its team small so that the partner a founder meets is the same person who remains involved day to day. Alongside Lerner Katz, the team listed by the firm includes Tali Miller, Zeeza Cole, Max Glik, Parker Fay and Allie Danfield.

Avid invests as early as possible in a company's life, frequently before a first design partner is signed, before the idea is fully defined, and in some cases before the business is incorporated, describing its underwriting as conviction in the founder. Its disclosed current portfolio spans fintech, payments and financial infrastructure (Alloy, Balance, Clara, Coast, Fragment, Majority, Nova Credit), applied AI in professional and vertical services (Basis, Lighthouse, Mason, Novella), health (Ferry Health), benefits (Nava), commerce and SME software (Ablefy), gaming (GOAT) and government-program marketplaces (Odyssey).

Founding story

The firm was founded by Addie Lerner Katz, a career institutional investor who previously spent a decade at General Catalyst, General Atlantic and Goldman Sachs's Special Situations Group, where she helped deploy more than $450 million across eighteen investments in fintech, consumer and software companies in the U.S., Europe and Israel. While at General Catalyst, working with companies such as Rapyd, Monzo, Shift Technology and Chief, she concluded that she could apply a growth-stage skill set and perspective alongside founders to help early startups evolve into proven growth businesses.

Business model

Avid Ventures operates as a venture capital investment firm, deploying capital into early-stage private companies and supporting them through direct partner involvement.

Traction

Avid's disclosed current portfolio includes Ablefy, Alloy, Balance, Basis, Clara, Coast, Ferry Health, Fragment, GOAT, Lighthouse, Majority, Mason, Nava, Nova Credit, Novella and Odyssey. The firm reports 609 founder introductions made over the last year across go-to-market, talent, and investor and advisor categories.