Ascent Venture Partners

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

108

Average round size

8M

Portfolio companies

69

Rounds per year

2.77

Lead investments

20

Follow on index

0.36

Exits

43

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
SoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologySaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig DataManufacturingSecurityMarketingTelecommunications

Summary

In 1985 was created Ascent Venture Partners, which is appeared as VC. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boston. The company was established in North America in United States.

For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Fidelis Cybersecurity, Synchronoss Technologies, Bluesocket. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, SaaS.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 23 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The average startup value when the investment from Ascent Venture Partners is 50-100 millions dollars. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2009. This Ascent Venture Partners works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The important activity for fund was in 2005. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 participants. Despite the Ascent Venture Partners, startups are often financed by Cedar Fund, Veritas Venture Partners, JMI Equity. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Egan-Managed Capital, Veritas Venture Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Egan-Managed Capital, Star Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures.

We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Series ASeries B
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 8000000
Fund raised date
2020-11-04

Analytics

Total investments
108
Lead investments
20
Exits
43
Rounds per year
2.77
Follow on index
0.36
Investments by industry
  • Software (50)
  • Enterprise Software (33)
  • SaaS (20)
  • Analytics (19)
  • Information Technology (18)
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Investments by region
  • United States (103)
  • Canada (3)
  • Russia (1)
Peak activity year
2005

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
22
Avg. valuation at time of investment
144M
Group Appearance index
0.81
Avg. company exit year
11
Avg. multiplicator
13.20

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Connected2Fiber 22 Sep 2022 Machine Learning, SaaS, Business Intelligence, Telecommunications, Commercial Real Estate, Predictive Analytics, Optical Communication, Location Based Services, Ad Network, GPS Late Stage Venture 21M United States, Massachusetts
Pwnie Express 29 Nov 2017 Software, Cyber Security, Network Security Late Stage Venture 8M United States, Massachusetts, Boston

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