About Ascolta Ventures
Ascolta Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2011. It is primarily based out of San Francisco, United States. As of Aug 2018, Ascolta Ventures has invested in 39 companies. It primarily invests in Series A round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Consumer.
Overall, Ascolta Ventures portfolio has seen 5 unicorns, 1 IPO and 16 acquisitions including key companies like Lime, Cloudera and Snapchat. A lot of funds co-invest with Ascolta Ventures, with names like General Catalyst sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
Ascolta Ventures has team of 2 people including 2 partners.
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Ascolta Ventures' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Its most recent first time investment was in Audius.

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Ascolta Ventures' Investments by Stage
Ascolta Ventures has made 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $5.5M.Ascolta Ventures' Investments by Sector
Ascolta Ventures has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Blockchain - Industry Applications, Blockchain Technology, Consumer, Enterprise Applications and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 35 Tech companies, 28 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 24 Software companies and at least 17 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
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Blockchain - Industry Applications | 1 |
Blockchain Technology | 1 |
Consumer | 1 |
Enterprise Applications | 1 |
FinTech | 1 |
Others | 2 |
Ascolta Ventures' Investments by Geography
Ascolta Ventures has made most investments in United States (1).
Ascolta Ventures' recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by Ascolta Ventures:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Aug 08, 2018 | United States | Series A | $5.5M | General Catalyst [+4] |
Unicorns in Ascolta Ventures' Portfolio
Here is a list of unicorns in Ascolta Ventures' portfolio:
ÃØÃÜÑо¿Ëù Score | Company | Short Description | Founded year | Sector | Location | Company Stage | First Investment/ Acquisition Details |
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75 | AI-augmented visual art platform generating images based on text | 2021 | London | Seed | qcwtamj | ||
63 | Provider of tensor processing units and processors | 2016 | Mountain View | Series D | ayjzeec | ||
71 | Mobile game development studio | 2011 | Sao Paulo | Series B | vqfazme | ||
78 | Provider of AI-enabled autonomous delivery vehicles for deliveries | 2016 | Menlo Park | Series E | zqfqzaz | ||
88 | App-based rental platform providing self-drive electric kick-scooter | 2017 | San Francisco | Series D | omrvkup |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in Ascolta Ventures' Portfolio
Here are Ascolta Ventures' portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Mar 03, 2017 | - | - | - |
Acquired companies in Ascolta Ventures' Portfolio
Here are Ascolta Ventures' portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Jun 10, 2024 | - | - | - | |
Oct 26, 2023 | - | - | - | |
May 19, 2022 | - | - | - | |
Apr 11, 2022 | - | - | - | |
Dec 22, 2021 | - | - | - |
Team profile of Ascolta Ventures
Ascolta Ventures has a team of 2 membersÌýincluding 2 PartnersÌýlocated in United States. Ascolta Ventures' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Co-investors of Ascolta Ventures
Over the past 7 years, 20 investors have co-invested in Ascolta Ventures's portfolio companies.
- Top Co-investors of Ascolta Ventures:Ìý5 investors entered a company along with Ascolta Ventures. These include investors like General Catalyst (1 company).
- Invested after Ascolta Ventures:ÌýA total of 15 investors have invested in Ascolta Ventures's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include Guy Oseary (1 company), John Josephson (1 company) and Martin Bandier (1 company).

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Recent News related to Ascolta Ventures
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TechCrunch+•Aug 08, 2018•Audius, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins and 3 others
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