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Avi Savar

Entrepreneur | Board Director | Investor | Change Agent

New York, New York

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Skills

Branded Entertainment
Branded Content
Social Media
Brand Architecture
Advertising
Digital Media
Integrated Marketing
New Media
Creative Direction
Customer Engagement
Television
Video Production
Strategic Partnerships
Entertainment
Marketing Communications
Public Relations
Leadership
Email Marketing
Digital Marketing
Social Media Marketing

Education

Work Experience

2018

  • Strategic Advisor

    2024

    Suzy is a consumer intelligence platform that empowers brands to make data-driven decisions through real-time insights. It combines advanced research tools with a network of screened and verified consumers, offering both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Suzy’s platform is designed for agility and speed, enabling businesses to conduct market research, test messages, and gather consumer feedback quickly and efficiently.

  • President

    2018 - 2023

    Suzy is a consumer intelligence platform that empowers brands to make data-driven decisions through real-time insights. It combines advanced research tools with a network of screened and verified consumers, offering both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Suzy’s platform is designed for agility and speed, enabling businesses to conduct market research, test messages, and gather consumer feedback quickly and efficiently.

  • Executive Chairman

    2024

    BoardStream.AI is a cutting-edge platform dedicated to revolutionizing the management and execution of advisory boards for early and late-stage companies. Our mission is to harness the power of artificial intelligence to streamline processes, extract critical insights, and support strategic decision-making, ensuring that your advisory board becomes a pivotal asset for business growth and innovation.

  • Board Of Directors

    2019

    Golf's first AI platform, Arccos Golf uses sensors attached to your clubs to automatically track each shot, providing data & analytics designed to improve your game faster than ever. Golf's Automatic Shot Tracking, Smart Distance Club Averages, Advanced Analytics, & Caddie Advice.

  • Partner & Board Director

    2018

    Dreamit is an early stage venture capital firm and one of America's top 7 startup accelerators. Dreamit drives traction and business velocity by providing startups with access to investors, customers and a network of resources. Dreamit's portfolio includes over 300 breakthrough technology companies across a variety of industry verticals, include companies like: SeatGeek, HouseParty, LevelUp, Adaptly, BioBots, Biomeme, Elevate, and more.

  • Managing Partner, CEO

    2015 - 2018

    Dreamit is an early stage venture capital firm and one of America's top 7 startup accelerators. Dreamit drives traction and business velocity by providing startups with access to investors, customers and a network of resources. Dreamit's portfolio includes over 300 breakthrough technology companies across a variety of industry verticals, include companies like: SeatGeek, HouseParty, LevelUp, Adaptly, BioBots, Biomeme, Elevate, and more.

  • Founder & Managing Partner

    2011

    Founded in 2011 by serial entrepreneur and investor Avi Savar, Savar Ventures is an advisory and investment firm focused on digital marketing and technology-enabled services. The firm provides advisor strategic and operational resources to build brands and grow companies.

2021 - 2023

  • Board Of Directors

    2021 - 2023

    WhyHunger believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial and economic justice. We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world.

2018 - 2020

  • Publisher's Council & Advisory Board

    2018 - 2020

    Ad Age is a daily must-read for an influential audience of decision makers and disruptors across the marketing and media landscape. Created in 1930 to cover a burgeoning industry with objectivity, accuracy, and fairness, Ad Age continues to be powered by award-winning journalism. Today, Ad Age is a global media brand focusing on curated creativity, data and analysis, people and culture, and innovation and forecasting. From vital print editions to must-attend events and innovative platform offerings, its industry-leading offerings include the coveted A-List & Creativity Awards, the Ad Age Next Conference, and proprietary data such as the Leading National Advertisers Report from the Ad Age Datacenter. The Publishers Council consists of various thought leaders from advertising, marketing, communications and creative industries who come together for candid, unbiased discussion and feedback pertaining to those collective industry’s curiosities and challenges, while also supporting the AdAge brand, its growth and evolution.

2013 - 2019

  • Board Member, Digital Advisory Board

    2013 - 2019

    The American Express Company, also known as Amex, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 1850 and is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best known for its charge card, credit card, and traveler's cheque businesses. In 2017, Forbes named American Express as the 23rd most valuable brand in the world (and the highest within financial services), estimating the brand to be worth US$24.5 billion. In 2018, Fortune ranked American Express as the 14th most admired company worldwide and the 23rd best company to work for. The American Express Digital Advisory Board is designed to anticipate, monitor, and discuss the digital needs of AXP Card Members to better enable AXP to provide compelling digital products and services to Card Members.

Big Fuel Communications, LLC

2004 - 2015

  • Founder & CEO

    2004 - 2015

    In 2004 Avi founded Big Fuel, a global digital marketing agency, which he would grow from a one-man shop to a dominant industry leader with over 130 employees worldwide. Over the next decade Big Fuel consulted with the world’s leading brands, including: American Express, GM, Budweiser, Samsung, Gatorade, Colgate-Palmolive, Fisher-Price, Weight Watchers, AFLAC, T-Mobile, Carnival Cruises and more. Big Fuel was acquired by the Publicis Groupe in 2011.

2000 - 2003

  • Producer

    2000 - 2003