Ascend Technology Ventures
VC Fund
Ascend Technology Ventures is a VC fund focused on SMS and News. Established in mid-1999, Ascend Technology Ventures is an Israel-based venture capital fund with $100 million of smart, well-connected money. The fund invests in promising early-stage high growth companies developing breakthrough technologies in the fields of communications, Internet and Internet infrastructure, software, semiconductors and medicaldevices.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Ascend Technology Ventures invests in
Stages Ascend Technology Ventures invests in
Countries Ascend Technology Ventures invests in
Contacts
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Alon Fishman
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Liora Lev
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Moshe Bar-Niv
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SMS 1 (25%)
- News 1 (25%)
- Video 1 (25%)
- Mobile 1 (25%)
- Medical 1 (25%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
- Funding Round 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 3 (75%)
- Israel 1 (25%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Alon Fishman
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Liora Lev
CEO
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CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Moshe Bar-Niv
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Mogreet
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Founded in 2006 and acquired by payvia in 2013, Mogreet is the leading text message marketing platform focusing on the delivery of fully branded, rich media to mobile devices via MMS. The company works with leading marketers in entertainment, media, retail, consumer products, health care and real estate. Currently supported in over 175 countries,Mogreet's messaging platform can reach 2 billion consumers globally.In 2013, Mogreet launched Mogreet Express, the first self-service MMS text messaging platform, allowing small businesses to engage with customers and increase sales by sending multimedia rich messages.Mogreet's newly released APIs let developers quickly send SMS or MMS messaging ($0.01 each per send) and add MMS, SMS, video, rich media messaging to apps. This Venice, California based company started as a mobile greetings company and went on to develop a mobile messaging platform with the capability to send MMS messages with high quality and optimized video, images, audio, and social media integration. Mogreet was acquired in 2013 by the mobile payments industry leader, payvia to build a single solution that allows brands of all sizes to target, transact and engage with customers. | $2.1M / Series A / Aug 01, 2007 | |
NextNine
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NextNine is a leader in Operational Technology (OT) security management software for industrial and critical infrastructure, markets that are vulnerable to cyber security attacks and are underserved by conventional enterprise IT solutions. Using NextNine you can have centralized OT security management for your entire SCADA/ICS environment.Distributed critical infrastructure plants and facilities with proprietary ICS/SCADA networks and devices, paired with the need for external vendors to provide remote maintenance and support, create an ideal target profile for hackers and terrorist attacks. Traditional IT security management solutions were designed to manage standard computing environments and cannot handle the proprietary processes, networks and devices of the ICS/SCADA world.In contrast, NextNine has over 10 years of leadership in OT security, and has purpose-built its product to deal with these unique challenges. NextNine’s solution is an industrial strength software platform delivering robust, customizable and field proven OT security management.Top tier critical infrastructure companies along with 5 of the 7 largest industrial vendors have standardized on NextNine. Today, the company has 6000 installations globally in fields such as oil, gas, mining, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, defense and critical infrastructure.NextNine has been recognized by the White House for its leadership in the efforts to improve critical infrastructure cyber security.NextNine has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, assuring NextNine's employees operate a comprehensive security program and manage information security risks effectively. NextNine's certificate is issued by the Standards Institution of Israel.The company was founded in 1998, is privately held and headquartered in New York. | $10M / Series C / Sep 27, 2006 | |
The NewsMarket
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The NewsMarket, Inc. operates a Web-based video marketing and distribution platform. The company's platform enables corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations to market and share their video content with media, blogs, consumers, and online communities. It offers stories, videos, audios, and stills in the categories ofaerospace and defense, agriculture, automotive and transportation, business and industry, charities and non-profits, countries-cities, education, energy, entertainment, environment, climate change, fashion, government and international affairs, green, health care, human interests, public service announcements, science, sports, technology, Internet, telecommunications, trade shows, and travel and leisure. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in Beijing, Delhi, Dubai, London, San Francisco, Munich, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Mumbai.After acquiring MediaLink in 2009, The NewsMarket rebranded as | Series B / Apr 20, 2004 | |
CanFite BioPharma
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Can-Fite BioPharma (TASE:CFBI; NYSE MKT:CANF) is an Israeli biopharmaceutical company with fully integrated pharmaceutical discovery and clinical development capabilities. The company has an advanced pipeline of proprietary compounds in phase 2 and 3 clinical development stage, which address autoimmune-inflammatory and cancer diseases. | $12M / Jun 01, 2002 |
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FAQ
What does Ascend Technology Ventures invest in?
Ascend Technology Ventures invests primarily in SMS, News and Video startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 4 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 Ascend Technology Ventures?
The team at Ascend Technology Ventures includes Alon Fishman (Vice President), Liora Lev (CEO) and Moshe Bar-Niv (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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