Sonali Vijayavargiya came to venture capital through capital markets rather than the usual path—she worked at PwC, IDBI, and Edelweiss in Mumbai, helped raise over $100 million for clients, and was part of the team that took Rediff.com public—before founding Augment Capital in 2005 and later writing the first seed check for LLamasoft, a supply-chain company that later sold for $1.5 billion. As a first-generation immigrant, statistician, and mother of two, she focuses on overlooked areas like supply chain, manufacturing, energy, and healthcare, working closely with founders while moving between Bay Area tech circles and Midwest industrial know-how, and mentoring founders through programs like Ann Arbor SPARK, Techstars, and the University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund.