Avi Sarma

Investor | GRIL Ventures

📍 Washington, District of Columbia, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2020
Operator-angel🌍 United States
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Board Member / Investor
Aug 2020
Pyxis uses AI to interview your customers and build digital twins — virtual personas that reflect your actual customers and are always available for feedback. These twins allow you to test ideas, validate concepts, and generate rich qualitative insights on demand, without needing to commission a new study every time. Traditional research makes it difficult to stay customer-centric. In-depth interviews are slow and expensive. Surveys are faster but often lack depth — and running studies continuously just isn’t practical. Pyxis breaks this tradeoff by giving you on-demand, affordable access to customer insight across marketing, insights and product teams.
Co-Founder / Board Member
2020
At Dino Agro we provide small and medium-sized Brazilian farmers with access to farming credit, supporting their vital role and impact on our planetary ecosystem. We bring structure and technology to the most disparate links in the agricultural production value chain, giving dignity to smallholders and cultivating long-term financial viability. We promote financial inclusion and sustainable farming, and want to take on the challenge of addressing inequality, climate change from agriculture and food security for a rapidly growing global population. contact@dinoagro.com
Board Member / Investor
Dec 2019
Beyond Imagination has pioneered a revolutionary AI-Brain capable of learning any job, utilizing various human tools, and autonomously performing these tasks through robots.
Board Member / Investor
Oct 2018
The GVNG Platform empowers corporations to launch a "For Purpose" Digital Nonprofit that turbocharges their CSR, Social Impact and Corporate Giving; creating unprecedented opportunities to align and integrate core business solutions, human resources, and constituent engagement for GOOD. Forbes refers to GVNG as “one of the most revolutionary platforms in the social impact space today” and describes GVNG as the “Shopify for Nonprofits.” The GVNG Digital Nonprofit is administered by GVNGorg, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization (a California nonprofit public benefit corporation) and is powered by Benefactis.
Board Member / Investor
Nov 2017
Upgraded helps electronics retailers create circular purchase, trade-in and recycling programs. We're on a mission to create a more Circular Economy: https://www.weforum.org/projects/circular-economy
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2020
Board Member / Investor
Aug 2020
Pyxis uses AI to interview your customers and build digital twins — virtual personas that reflect your actual customers and are always available for feedback. These twins allow you to test ideas, validate concepts, and generate rich qualitative insights on demand, without needing to commission a new study every time. Traditional research makes it difficult to stay customer-centric. In-depth interviews are slow and expensive. Surveys are faster but often lack depth — and running studies continuously just isn’t practical. Pyxis breaks this tradeoff by giving you on-demand, affordable access to customer insight across marketing, insights and product teams.
Co-Founder / Board Member
2020
At Dino Agro we provide small and medium-sized Brazilian farmers with access to farming credit, supporting their vital role and impact on our planetary ecosystem. We bring structure and technology to the most disparate links in the agricultural production value chain, giving dignity to smallholders and cultivating long-term financial viability. We promote financial inclusion and sustainable farming, and want to take on the challenge of addressing inequality, climate change from agriculture and food security for a rapidly growing global population. contact@dinoagro.com
2019
Beyond Imagination
Board Member
Dec 2019
Beyond Imagination
Board Member / Investor
Dec 2019
Board Member / Investor
Dec 2019
Beyond Imagination has pioneered a revolutionary AI-Brain capable of learning any job, utilizing various human tools, and autonomously performing these tasks through robots.
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