Addie Lerner brings an unusually geopolitical lens to venture investing, having studied international policy and Arabic at Princeton before spending a decade across Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, and General Catalyst, and she built Avid Ventures around making small initial investments at Seed/Series A followed by much larger double down checks at Series B once she has worked closely with founders. She positions herself as a financial consigliere to early-stage companies, personally helping teams build five-year strategic models and unit economics that they typically wouldn't see until much later, while explicitly underwriting non-obvious product-market fit through early signals like engagement curves and cohort behavior rather than traditional revenue metrics. Addie Lerner brings an unusually geopolitical lens to venture investing, having studied international policy and Arabic at Princeton before spending a decade across Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, and General Catalyst, and she built Avid Ventures around making small initial investments at Seed/Series A followed by much larger double down checks at Series B once she has worked closely with founders. She positions herself as a financial consigliere to early-stage companies, personally helping teams build five-year strategic models and unit economics that they typically wouldn't see until much later, while explicitly underwriting non-obvious product-market fit through early signals like engagement curves and cohort beha