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First Ascent Associates

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Total investments 9
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$711K
Portfolio companies 8
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 0
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.11
Exits 4
Key employees 1

Areas of investment

  • Consumer
  • Interior Design
  • Home Decor
  • E-Commerce
  • Home and Garden
Summary

First Ascent Associates appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this First Ascent Associates works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the First Ascent Associates, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Rosco Hill, RJ JAIN. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AngelPad, 500 Startups, Zillionize Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, Wireframe Ventures, Upslope Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Havenly, Giving Assistant, Lenda.

Besides them, we counted 1 critical employee of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Giving Assistant

E-Commerce
Social Impact
26 Jan 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

LawTrades

Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Legal
Legal Tech
Marketplace
Software
Web Apps
$3M14 Dec 2016 New York, New York, United States

Vytmn

Apps
Marketing
Mobile Apps
$625K22 Apr 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Havenly

Consumer
E-Commerce
Home Decor
Interior Design
Other Services (B2C Non-Financial)
Real Estate Services (B2C)
Social/Platform Software
$20K02 Feb 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

Paintzen

Consumer
Home and Garden
Home Decor
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Home Services
Interior Design
$1M16 Oct 2014 New York, New York, United States

Chewse

Delivery
Delivery Service
Food Delivery
01 Aug 2014 San Francisco, California, United States

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Total investments 9
Average round size 711K
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2014
Lead investments 0
Follow on index 0.11
Exits 4
Group Appearance index 0.67

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Giving Assistant

E-Commerce
Social Impact
26 Jan 2018 San Francisco, California, United States

LawTrades

Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Legal
Legal Tech
Marketplace
Software
Web Apps
$3M14 Dec 2016 New York, New York, United States

Vytmn

Apps
Marketing
Mobile Apps
$625K22 Apr 2015 Los Angeles, California, United States

Havenly

Consumer
E-Commerce
Home Decor
Interior Design
Other Services (B2C Non-Financial)
Real Estate Services (B2C)
Social/Platform Software
$20K02 Feb 2015 Denver, Colorado, United States

Paintzen

Consumer
Home and Garden
Home Decor
Home Improvement
Home Renovation
Home Services
Interior Design
$1M16 Oct 2014 New York, New York, United States

Chewse

Delivery
Delivery Service
Food Delivery
01 Aug 2014 San Francisco, California, United States
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