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Avataar Venture Partners
Avataar Venture Partners is an India-focused growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2019 by Mohan Kumar and Nishant Rao, investing $10–30 million in B2B and SaaS companies.
Avatar (disambiguation)
Avatar is an English word, from Sanskrit avatāra meaning descent, used in Hindu theology for a deity's embodiment on earth and in computing for a user's on-screen representation.
Avatar (अवतार)
Avatar (अवतार, avatāra) is a Sanskrit term meaning "descent": a deity, most commonly Vishnu, appearing on earth to restore dharma; the doctrine is central to Vaishnavism.
Avavadakā
Avavadakā (Pali Avavādakā) is a Licchavi girl of Vesāli from a Jain debating family, sister of the debater Saccaka, converted by the elder Sāriputta at Sāvatthi and made an arahant.
Avdiivka
Avdiivka (Авдіївка) is a Donetsk Oblast industrial city 10 km from Donetsk, pre-war population 35,000. Captured and retaken in 2014, it stayed a frontline town until Russia captured it on 17 February 2024 after a five-month battle.
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant
Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant, 'Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you,' is a Latin phrase Suetonius records from Claudius's AD 52 Lake Fucinus naumachia, spoken by condemned criminals, not gladiators; the gladiatorial attribution comes from Gérôme's 1859 painting.
Avedro
Avedro, formerly ThermalVision, Inc., was a Waltham, Massachusetts ophthalmic company whose riboflain and UVA corneal cross-linking system for keratoconus was FDA approved in 2016 before Glaukos acquired it in 2019.
Avelino Valencia
Avelino Valencia is an American Democratic politician serving in the California State Assembly from the 68th district, including Anaheim, first elected in 2022 and chairing the Banking and Finance Committee.
Avenir Growth Partners
Avenir Growth Partners is a New York-based growth equity investment firm founded in January 2017 by Andrew Sugrue and James Reynolds IV, managing about $2.8 billion in client assets.
Aventura (Peru)
Aventura (Peru): Corporación Aventura S.A.C., a Mincetur-authorized Peruvian slot machine hall operator in Lima and Callao (Cuzco, Abancay I, Rímac I, Jirón II salas); distinct from Mall Aventura and Aventura Park.
Aventure 64
Aventure 64 is a French GIE (SIREN 521 030 692, created 2010, RCS Bayonne) grouping sports and leisure operators in the Pays Basque, offering paramotor, surf, rafting, canyoning, quad, paintball, and trampoline park activities; not the Aventon Aventure e-bike.
Avenue Capital Group
Avenue Capital Group is a global investment firm founded in 1995 in New York by Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner, investing in distressed debt and credit.
Avenue Supermarts
Avenue Supermarts, known as DMart, is an Indian value-retail supermarket chain headquartered in Mumbai, founded by investor Radhakishan Damani, whose first store opened in Powai in 2002.
Avenzo Therapeutics, Inc.
Avenzo Therapeutics is a San Diego clinical-stage oncology biotechnology company founded in 2022 by Athena Countouriotis and Mohammad Hirmand to develop CDK inhibitors and bispecific antibody-drug conjugates.
Average total cost
Average total cost (ATC) is total cost divided by output, the cost per unit; its U-shaped curve shows the output at which a firm produces most efficiently.
Average variable cost
Average variable cost (AVC) is a firm's variable cost of production divided by the quantity of output, typically U-shaped, and the price floor below which a firm shuts down in the short run.
Averin Health
Averin Health is the healthcare-focused venture capital fund of Averin Capital, a firm founded in 2024 as Bedford Bridge and led by managing partners David and Eric Berry.
Averroes (ابن رشد)
Averroes (ابن رشد, Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, 1126–1198), Andalusian philosopher, qadi of Córdoba and Almohad court physician; Aristotle's "Commentator," author of Tahāfut al-Tahāfut, banished to Lucena in 1195.
Averroism
Averroism: medieval and Renaissance philosophical current based on Aristotle as read by Averroes (Ibn Rushd); Latin Averroism arose among Paris arts masters (Siger of Brabant, Boethius of Dacia), was condemned in 1270 and 1277, and continued in Padua and Jewish philosophy.
Aversion to happiness
Aversion to happiness, or fear of happiness (cherophobia), is avoidance of positive emotions from beliefs that happiness brings misfortune; measured by Gilbert and Joshanloo scales, strongly linked to depression, anxiety, and anhedonia.
Avertix Medical
Avertix Medical, formerly Angel Medical Systems, is a New Jersey medical device company founded in 2001 that makes the FDA-approved implantable Guardian heart attack warning system.
Avery Dulles
Avery Dulles (1918–2008) was an American Jesuit theologian, son of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, made a cardinal in 2001 while remaining a priest.
Avery Haines
Avery Haines: Canadian investigative journalist, full name Avery Hayward Haines, host and managing editor of CTV's W5 since 2020; also the name of a US junior artistic gymnast of First State Gymnastics and an Oklahoma family-law attorney.
Avesi Partners
Avesi Partners is a lower-middle-market private equity firm founded in 2021 in Stamford, Connecticut, which closed a $1.35 billion second fund in 2024 for healthcare and business services buyouts.
Avesta
The Avesta, also known as Avesta-e-Zend, is the primary liturgical scripture of Zoroastrianism, composed in praise of Ahura Mazdā and transmitted orally for centuries before being written down in the Sasanian period.
Avestan
Avestan, the Old Iranian language of the Zoroastrian Avesta, in Old (Gathic) and Young stages; eight-case, three-gender grammar close to Vedic, phonetic Sasanian script, still used liturgically.
Avetis Aharonian
Avetis Aharonian (Աւետիս Ահարոնեան, 1866–1948) was an Armenian writer, orator, and diplomat who served as parliament speaker of the First Republic of Armenia and signed the Treaty of Sèvres in 1920.
Avi Barliya
Avi Barliya is an Israeli AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Q.ai, an audio-AI startup in Ramat Gan, Israel, acquired by Apple in 2026 for a reported $1.5 to 2 billion.
Avi Eyal
Avi Eyal (Aviad Eyal) is an Israeli venture capitalist who cofounded Entrée Capital in Tel Aviv in 2009, backed monday.com early, and became the first Israeli to top the Forbes Midas List Europe in 2023.
Avi Katz
Avi Katz is an Israeli retail entrepreneur who founded Cofix, the fixed-price coffee chain launched in Tel Aviv in 2013, selling every item for five shekels.