First Ascent Associates

Total investments

9

Average round size

711K

Portfolio companies

8

Rounds per year

1.00

Follow on index

0.11

Exits

4

Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareConsumerHome and GardenHome DecorHome ServicesHome ImprovementInterior DesignFood DeliveryHome Renovation

Summary

First Ascent Associates appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this First Ascent Associates works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5 participants. Despite the First Ascent Associates, startups are often financed by 500 Startups, Rosco Hill, RJ JAIN. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are AngelPad, 500 Startups, Zillionize Angel. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by 500 Startups, Wireframe Ventures, Upslope Ventures.

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. In case when startup counts 1 or 4 of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Consumer, Health Care. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Havenly, Giving Assistant, Lenda.

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

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
9
Lead investments
0
Exits
4
Rounds per year
1.00
Follow on index
0.11
Investments by industry
  • Consumer (3)
  • Interior Design (3)
  • Home Decor (3)
  • E-Commerce (2)
  • Home and Garden (2)
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Investments by region
  • United States (9)
Peak activity year
2014

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
9M
Group Appearance index
0.67
Avg. company exit year
7
Avg. multiplicator
1.34

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