Avila VC

www.avila.vc

Investing in the reinvention of foundational industries—energy, food systems, materials, infrastructure, and built environment—by backing founders building with decade-scale vision and integrating physical systems with intelligent software rather than pure software plays.

Check Size

Not specified

Stages

Seed, Series A, Series B

Focus Areas

Ai Ml, Energy, Climate Cleantech

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Investment Thesis

Avila invests at the intersection of physical and digital infrastructure (‘bits + atoms’) to rebuild foundational industries for abundance, sustainability, and human flourishing. They believe venture capital should return to backing long-term, foundational companies rather than pursuing quick value extraction through software-only plays. Their thesis emphasizes that durable value creation requires patience, vertical integration, and solving real-world problems in energy, materials, infrastructure, and manufacturing—not incremental software layers.

What Sets Them Apart

Thesis developed over a decade, now validated by converging supercycles (technological, macro/geopolitical, and planetary)
Explicit rejection of venture's 2000s-2010s 'software-only' narrow focus; recovery of hardware/manufacturing as venture-scale opportunity
First-principles thinking approach that examines underlying assumptions rather than following groupthink
Emphasis on vertical integration and bits+atoms combination as durable moats in AI era
Focus on enabling energy abundance as cornerstone for solving downstream problems
Patient, decade-long company building approach rather than quick markups and copycat models