Ascension

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

London, United Kingdom

Total investments

319

Average round size

2M

Portfolio companies

175

Rounds per year

26.58

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

4

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareFinancial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceHealth CareAppsAdvertising

Summary

Ascension Ventures Limited appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The company was established in Europe in United Kingdom. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the London.

The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Albert, Entale Media, A Million Ads Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are E-Commerce, Advertising. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Ascension Ventures Limited, startups are often financed by Founders Factory, Wayra, Midven. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Force Over Mass Capital, Serge Chiaramonte, Wayra. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Force Over Mass Capital, Wayra, London Co-Investment Fund.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The important activity for fund was in 2019. This Ascension Ventures Limited works on 26 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The typical startup value when the investment from Ascension Ventures Limited is 1-5 millions dollars.

The current fund was established by Jean Fougerolles, Kieran Hill. We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Deep TechEcommerceFintechHealthcareFuture of Work Show 2 more
Stage focus
SeedSeries APre-SeedSeries B
Geo focus
AlbaniaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgaria Show 39 more
Check size
99K — 864K

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
GBP 50000000
Fund raised date
2024-03-25

Analytics

Total investments
319
Lead investments
23
Exits
4
Rounds per year
26.58
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (70)
  • FinTech (45)
  • Internet (40)
  • Financial Services (38)
  • Apps (35)
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Investments by region
  • United Kingdom (258)
  • United States (6)
  • Australia (1)
  • Finland (2)
  • Canada (1)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
5
Avg. valuation at time of investment
22M
Group Appearance index
0.62
Avg. company exit year
4
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Glaize 11 Feb 2021 E-Commerce, Beauty, Computer Vision Seed England, London, United Kingdom
Pangaea Data 28 Jan 2021 Software, Machine Learning, Medical, Pharmaceutical Seed England, London, United Kingdom
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