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Ascend Venture Capital

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Total investments 34
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$2M
Portfolio companies 17
Rounds per year 5.67
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.50
Key employees 1
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • SaaS
  • Agriculture
  • Telecommunications
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Boat Planet

Boating
Communities
E-Commerce
Internet
Leisure
Marketing
Travel
$1M13 Feb 2024 St Louis, Missouri, United States

Kroo

Construction
Telecommunications
Wireless
01 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

DeFi Devs

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
$150K01 May 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

OXIO

Blockchain
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Devices
SaaS
Stock Exchanges
Telecommunications
Wireless
$40M16 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

Journey Foods

Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Food Processing
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Nutrition
SaaS
Snack Food
Software
Supply Chain Management
09 Sep 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Utopia Labs

26 Aug 2021 -

Producers Market

Agriculture
AgTech
Blockchain
Digital Marketing
11 Jun 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Journey Foods

Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Food Processing
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Nutrition
SaaS
Snack Food
Software
Supply Chain Management
06 May 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Producers Market

Agriculture
AgTech
Blockchain
Digital Marketing
03 Mar 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

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Total investments 34
Average round size 2M
Rounds per year 5.67
Peak activity year 2020
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.50
Group Appearance index 0.38

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Boat Planet

Boating
Communities
E-Commerce
Internet
Leisure
Marketing
Travel
$1M13 Feb 2024 St Louis, Missouri, United States

Kroo

Construction
Telecommunications
Wireless
01 Aug 2022 New York, New York, United States

DeFi Devs

Blockchain
Financial Services
FinTech
Identity Management
$150K01 May 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

OXIO

Blockchain
Cloud Data Services
Information Technology
Mobile
Mobile Devices
SaaS
Stock Exchanges
Telecommunications
Wireless
$40M16 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

Journey Foods

Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Food Processing
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Nutrition
SaaS
Snack Food
Software
Supply Chain Management
09 Sep 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Utopia Labs

26 Aug 2021 -

Producers Market

Agriculture
AgTech
Blockchain
Digital Marketing
11 Jun 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Journey Foods

Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Food Processing
Industrial Automation
Machine Learning
Nutrition
SaaS
Snack Food
Software
Supply Chain Management
06 May 2021 Austin, Texas, United States

Producers Market

Agriculture
AgTech
Blockchain
Digital Marketing
03 Mar 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States
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