Aventrix Capital — Pre-seed & Seed
We back what’s real.
A fund for founders building genuine products — not speculation, not the next trend. $10K–$2M checks on a SAFE, from pre-seed through seed. Students welcome.
Ask us anything
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Are you chasing a trend, or solving something real?
We only back genuine products. We are not interested in speculation.
How we invest
Our job is to find the products that will change the future for good.
Not the ones optimized for a raise. We look for genuine execution over fluff, and potential over polish — and we protect founders’ time by limiting how many we take on each month.
Stage
Pre-seed to seed
Students building something real are welcome.
Check size
$10K – $2M
Sized to the round, not to a target fund deployment.
Instrument
SAFE
Simple, fast, founder-friendly paperwork.
Response time
Always
A capped monthly pipeline so every founder gets a real read and a real answer.
Partners
Three partners. No committee to hide behind.
Every partner at Aventrix comes from a STEM or quantitative finance background. We bring the same rigor to venture that we once brought to trading floors and deal rooms.
Oded Itzhak
General Partner · Consumer Tech & Adtech
Oded is a serial technology entrepreneur based in New York. He co-founded Quigo Technologies, an advertising technology company acquired by AOL in 2007 for $340M, and went on to found AdSide and Contivate. He's currently building FaceFrame Labs. At Aventrix, he brings two decades of building and selling technology companies to how we diligence founders.
- Founder & CEO, FaceFrame Labs
- Co-Founder & CTO, Quigo Technologies (acquired by AOL, 2007)
- Founder & CEO, AdSide
Ben Gurion University — BS, Mathematics and Computer Science
Full profile →Shiloh Liao
Principal · Fintech & Edtech
Shiloh's career started on the quantitative side of finance — researching and trading systematic strategies where being wrong costs real money in real time. That discipline now shapes how she diligences companies: she wants to see the model behind the pitch, not just the pitch. She focuses on fintech and edtech, backing founders building durable infrastructure and real trust with users, not vanity metrics.
- Quantitative Researcher, Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund
- Quantitative Trader, Proprietary Trading Firm
National University of Singapore — BEng, Electrical Engineering
Full profile →Sarah Zou
Principal · AI, Consumer & World Models
Sarah cut her teeth in investment banking, where every model had to hold up under scrutiny before it reached a client. She brings that same quantitative rigor to venture, focusing on AI, consumer, and world models — backing founders building genuine intelligence and products people actually use, not just an impressive demo.
- Investment Banking, Bank of America
Washington University in St. Louis — Economics & Mathematics
Full profile →Portfolio
Companies we’ve backed.
Founders
Tell us what you’re building.
We read every submission ourselves. No forms disappearing into a void — you will hear back from a partner, always.
founders@aventrixcap.com