Ascend Venture Capital

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Saint Louis, United States

Total investments

34

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

17

Rounds per year

5.67

Lead investments

1

Follow on index

0.50

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceSaaSRoboticsInsuranceHardwareTelecommunicationsBlockchainAgTechAgriculture

Summary

In 2018 was created Ascend Venture Capital, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Saint Louis.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Ascend Venture Capital is 10-50 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Ascend Venture Capital, startups are often financed by New Age Venture, Plug and Play, Pan Group Investments Pty Ltd. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are ff Venture Capital, Winshall Walt, Total Access Fund.

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. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Analytics, Environmental Consulting. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline StoryFit, Insurdata, Emoshape

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

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
AI/Big Data
Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 25000000
Fund raised date
2023-05-09

Analytics

Total investments
34
Lead investments
1
Rounds per year
5.67
Follow on index
0.50
Investments by industry
  • Software (11)
  • Artificial Intelligence (9)
  • SaaS (8)
  • Agriculture (7)
  • Telecommunications (6)
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Investments by region
  • United States (33)
Peak activity year
2020

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
1M
Group Appearance index
0.38

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Boat Planet 13 Feb 2024 E-Commerce, Internet, Communities, Marketing, Travel, Leisure, Boating Seed 1M United States, St Louis, Missouri
Journey Foods 06 May 2021 Supply Chain Management, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Food Processing, Machine Learning, SaaS, Nutrition, Data Visualization, Snack Food, Industrial Automation Seed United States, Texas, Austin
Latize 05 Apr 2015 Software, Analytics, Information Technology, Information Services, Marketing Seed Central, Singapore, Singapore

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