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BoxGroupCheck size: Up to $1M at the firm level; BoxGroup aims to make the first commitment, invests alongside other firms, and reserves capital for follow-ons.
Ava invests within BoxGroup's generalist earliest-stage strategy: backing people and raw products from pre-seed through Series A, often before conventional traction exists. The firm emphasizes founder-market fit, category-defining visions, and teams positioned at the beginning of new or changing markets.
At the firm level, BoxGroup looks for integrity, curiosity, ambition, and founder-market fit—teams with the unusual background to unlock a market and the humility, audacity, hustle, authenticity, and pragmatism to build a category.
The inverse of BoxGroup's published criteria: weak founder-market fit, compromised integrity, or a vision that does not plausibly begin a new movement or reshape an existing market.
Start the relationship early—BoxGroup explicitly wants to be the first conversation and is comfortable with more vision than traction. Explain why this team has founder-market fit, what new movement or market shift is beginning, what the raw product proves so far, and why the company could define the category. Contact route: hello@boxgroup.com.
At the earliest stage, assess whether the founders' experience, insight, and character make them unusually able to unlock the chosen market before conventional product-market-fit evidence exists.
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Before BoxGroup, Ava worked in technology, media, and telecommunications investment banking at Goldman Sachs and had earlier venture exposure at Bloccelerate VC. At UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business she studied business administration with a data-science minor and taught blockchain fundamentals through Blockchain at Berkeley.