I am thrilled to announce Ascent’s investment in our newest portfolio company, empow. While I am excited for all of our investments, this one feels special in that it exhibits several of the core themes of Ascent’s strategy: It’s a thesis driven investment based on months of research and outreach It’s partnering with an exceptional […]
By: Baiyin Zhou and Luke Burns — As software continues eating the world, it has certainly changed the recruiting department in a big way. We aren’t the only investors excited about investing in and supporting this space – more than $1 billion was poured into HR technology in 2017. HR Tech: A Brief History Modern […]
Today is an exciting day for us as CloudBees announced their acquisition of our portfolio company Codeship. We are thrilled for Mo, Manny, and the rest of the team as they join forces with one of the leading companies in DevOps. Codeship and CloudBees are extremely complementary, and together they form a complete product offering […]
Boston-based Connected2Fiber just announced a new round of funding, which we lead along with Osage Ventures and existing investors Nauta Capital and NXT Ventures. So why did we invest? C2F has built a SaaS platform specifically for sales and marketing in the $80B global networking and communications industry. What is unique and compelling about their […]
For those of you still recovering from Dreamforce 2017, I interviewed Amy Holtzman, VP of marketing at leading event marketing platform Splash, to get the inside scoop on how they planned and executed on their own Dreamforce presence. For startups who don’t have the budget to buy a booth, take over a coffee shop, host […]
Ascent Portfolio company Codeship was recently ranked as a Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendor by Forrester’s Wave™ report, surpassing competitors like IBM, Atlassian, and JetBrains (see the report here: Forrester Wave Report on Continuous Integration tools). According to Forrester, Codeship excelled due to its product vision and execution for the Codeship Pro product and the company’s overall market […]
About 18 months ago, we led the Series B investment round in Sidecar Interactive. We were excited to back Andre and his vision for applying advanced analytics and machine learning to transform the ecommerce ad market. Since our investment, Sidecar’s business has exploded as they tripled recurring revenue in 2016 while acquiring leading brands such […]
A look at the convergence of digital and physical customer interactions in today’s on-demand economy.
It’s been a busy year here at Ascent and we’d like to take a moment to look back at 2016 and recognize the accomplishments achieved by our portfolio companies throughout the year. From impressive rounds of funding, to new partnerships and platform launches, 2016 proved a very successful year. Below are some of the highlights: […]
Last week we announced our participation in a new round of funding for Boston-based Promoboxx. We found the team’s deep industry knowledge and focus, combined with the sizeable opportunity in front of them, to be very compelling. What further differentiates Promoboxx is its impressive success generated from only a modest seed round of capital and […]
