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Ascend Venture Group

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Total investments 44
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$5M
Portfolio companies 29
Rounds per year 1.91
Lead investments 10
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 12
Key employees 6
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Education
  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • Service Industry
  • Information Technology
Summary

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 New York.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Mobile Payments, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ClassLink, Playboox, PhatNoise. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3 partakers. Despite the Ascend Venture Group, startups are often financed by Technology Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital, Quad Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Technology Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital, RBC Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Technology Partners, InnoCal Venture Capital, RBC Venture Partners.

The top amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year. The real fund results show that this VC is 12 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2005. Comparing to the other companies, this Ascend Venture Group performs on 0 percentage points more the average number of lead investments. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

Besides them, we counted 12 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Keepe

B2B
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$1M06 Sep 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Omise

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$17M21 Jul 2016 Thailand, Bangkok

Mogreet

App Marketing
Messaging
Mobile
Mobile Payments
SMS
$5M11 Nov 2008 Los Angeles, California, United States

DimensionU

Education
Gaming
Video Games
$6M11 Aug 2008 New York, United States

Playboox

Consulting
Software
$3M19 Jun 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Channel M

Advertising
Video
$6M21 Apr 2008 Los Angeles, California, United States

Wimba

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Software
$8M06 Nov 2007 New York, United States

Send Word Now

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
$8M09 Oct 2007 New York, United States

Boxxet

Content
Retail Technology
Social Media
$900K16 Jan 2007 California, United States

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Total investments 44
Average round size 5M
Rounds per year 1.91
Peak activity year 2005
Lead investments 10
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 12
Group Appearance index 0.66

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Keepe

B2B
E-Commerce
Marketplace
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$1M06 Sep 2017 Seattle, Washington, United States

Omise

Financial Services
FinTech
Mobile Payments
Payments
$17M21 Jul 2016 Thailand, Bangkok

Mogreet

App Marketing
Messaging
Mobile
Mobile Payments
SMS
$5M11 Nov 2008 Los Angeles, California, United States

DimensionU

Education
Gaming
Video Games
$6M11 Aug 2008 New York, United States

Playboox

Consulting
Software
$3M19 Jun 2008 San Francisco, California, United States

Channel M

Advertising
Video
$6M21 Apr 2008 Los Angeles, California, United States

Wimba

E-Learning
EdTech
Education
Software
$8M06 Nov 2007 New York, United States

Send Word Now

Collaboration
Enterprise Software
Messaging
Mobile
$8M09 Oct 2007 New York, United States

Boxxet

Content
Retail Technology
Social Media
$900K16 Jan 2007 California, United States
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