The Avestix Venture Capital Fund: Gain Access to Companies Deploying Some of Today’s Most Cutting-Edge Technologies
Innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, financial technology (fintech), blockchain technology, quantum computing, and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) are reshaping how manufacturing, healthcare, energy, supply chain management, and other key industries do business.
But what we’re seeing is only the beginning. As these technological platforms evolve, mature, and converge, the transformation they help facilitate will be exponential. Do companies deploying these groundbreaking technologies have a place in your investment strategy?
Consider AI. Many of today’s leading corporations have already placed major bets on AI. According to McKinsey & Company, as of 2023, there were already 63 corporate use cases — including customer support, marketing, sales, software coding, and more — where AI had improved productivity by as much as 15% to 40%. But corporations are just getting started. McKinsey & Company predicts that generative AI has “the potential to generate value equivalent to $2.6 trillion to $4.4 trillion in global corporate profits annually.”
But AI is only one example. These other innovative technologies are ushering in previously unimagined change:
Robotics are poised to improve productivity, safety, and efficiency by automating repetitive tasks. It can also enhance precision, and enable collaboration between humans and machines.
Fintechs have already made real-time payments a reality, expediting money transfers, digital payments, and payment apps.
Blockchain is enabling tokenization and greater ledger transparency.
Quantum computing offers the ability to quickly comb through and identify potential solutions to highly complex problems and challenges. Experts believe quantum computing could transform healthcare, pharmaceuticals, transportation, and more.
IoT connects a network of devices — whether they are commonly used household appliances or complex components of municipal infrastructure — so that they communicate and work in synchronization. McKinsey estimates that IoT in factories alone could generate as much as $3.3 trillion by 2030.
Cybersecurity is integral to the digital landscape and its uses will only grow as the interconnected economy grows.
According to one source, the combined market value of these technologies is about $19 trillion now and could go as high as $220 trillion by 2030.
The Avestix Venture Capital Fund was created to allow accredited investors to support — in a single fund —various cutting-edge companies developing potential solutions to real-world challenges such as ID theft, labor shortages, and money management.
The Fund invests primarily in companies spearheading innovative uses of AI, robotics, fintech, public blockchains, quantum computing, and IoT. The portfolio includes companies that the Fund’s managers — Ash Aly and I — have carefully screened and determined to be both poised for potential growth and positioned to unleash the transformative power of some of today’s most promising technologies.
Naturally, because the Fund is focused on supporting innovative companies, there is some degree of investment risk; however, the Fund employs a robust management framework to help mitigate risk by diversifying across different companies, sectors, and locales.
Additionally, the Fund seeks to adopt a specific thematic investment approach using a tailored construction process designed to capture value for each theme, while concentrating on key areas within the advanced technologies sector. All investment decisions are shaped by in-depth analysis, company evaluations of financial statements, growth prospects, technological capabilities, intellectual property, regulatory concerns, and more.
