Smart Humans: Augment co-founder and CEO Noel Moldvai on the vision behind Augment, predictions for 2026, and practical advice for investing in pre-IPO companies
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Noel Moldvai is co‑Founder and CEO at Augment, a pre‑IPO investing platform making private markets liquid, transparent, and accessible. Under Noel’s leadership, Augment scaled from launch to an 8-figure run rate in 18 months profitably, raised $17M, and surpassed $750M+ in AUM. Prior to Augment, Noel was an engineer at Google and an engineering leader at Rubrik, where he helped bring Rubrik’s on‑prem technology to the cloud and experienced the challenge of employee liquidity firsthand. Noel has a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, grew up in Eastern Europe and the Bay Area, and is now settled in Austin.