Ad Astra Ventures
VC Fund
Solana Beach, United States
Ad Astra Ventures is an investment firm with an exclusive focus on women-led innovations. The firm is on a mission to equip female entrepreneurs to build, run, and scale investable businesses. Its program is specifically designed to empower founders who are impacted by implicit gender biases. Ad Astra Ventures' framework provides entrepreneurswith the tools to combat these biases through introspection, exploration, and simulations.Ad Astra Ventures was founded in 2018 and is based in Solana Beach, California.
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Ad Astra Ventures invests in
Stages Ad Astra Ventures invests in
Countries Ad Astra Ventures invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Allison Long
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Nicole Leandra
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Vidya Dinamani
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 3 (43%)
- Fertility 2 (29%)
- Personal Health 2 (29%)
- Apps 1 (14%)
- Sports 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 4 (57%)
- Italy 1 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Allison Long
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Greg Arrese
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
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Nicole Leandra
Creative Director
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Creative Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Silvia Mah
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
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Vidya Dinamani
Co-founder
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Co-founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Frame - Fertility & Family Building
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Frame develops an evidence-based platform for early detection of risk and care navigation to inform family building and planning. Its approach alleviates a downstream and often costly health crisis for patients, employers, and payers. | Seed / Jul 24, 2023 | |
Freedome
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Freedome is the leading marketplace for outdoor activities in Italy | $2.7M / Series A / Jun 06, 2023 | |
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Frame - Fertility & Family Building
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Frame develops an evidence-based platform for early detection of risk and care navigation to inform family building and planning. Its approach alleviates a downstream and often costly health crisis for patients, employers, and payers. | $2.8M / Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | |
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Frame - Fertility & Family Building
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Frame develops an evidence-based platform for early detection of risk and care navigation to inform family building and planning. Its approach alleviates a downstream and often costly health crisis for patients, employers, and payers. | $2.8M / Pre-Seed / Apr 26, 2022 | |
Sēkr
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Sēkr is a crowdsourced mobile platform making every step of the outdoor travel planning experience easier, safer, and more social. The company is creating an inclusive community through access to 50K+ campsites, including the nation’s largest database of free campsites, and local outdoor events. | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 09, 2022 | |
Lilu
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Lilu, is a women’s health company building tech-enabled devices to empower new moms. Their first product, the Lilu massage bra, is a pioneering FDA Class device that tackles the notorious inefficiencies of breast pumps, using a patented pneumatic massage technology to mimic a baby’s natural motions, accelerating milk output and alleviating theassociated pain. Lilu’s customers ‘love this bra’ and call the device ‘awesome’ and a ‘breastfeeding savior’. | $825K / Pre-Seed / Sep 20, 2021 | |
Lady Technologies Inc
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kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising.Lady Technologies is implementing sensing technology into consumer devices to advance women's health. Its first product, kegg, is an intuitive fertility tracker that quadruples the chances of natural conception by detecting the fertile window andovulation up to 7 days in advance. Kegg collects the previously unattainable data from cervical fluid, which is essential for the better diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of women.The company was founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. | $3M / Seed / Aug 31, 2021 |
Co-Investors
Brand Foundry Ventures
2 deals together
City Light Capital
2 deals together
Crescent Ridge Partners Ventures
2 deals together
Flare Capital Partners
2 deals together
Great Oaks Venture Capital
2 deals together
Healthworx
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does Ad Astra Ventures invest in?
Ad Astra Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Fertility and Personal Health startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Ad Astra Ventures?
The team at Ad Astra Ventures includes Allison Long (Founding Partner), Greg Arrese (Mentor) and Nicole Leandra (Creative Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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