# Ascent Venture Partners

> Ascent Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Software. See 102 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 102
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 37%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/ascent-venture-partners
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/ascentvp
- Website: http://www.ascentvp.com

Ascent Venture Partners is a VC fund in Boston focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Ascent is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage, emerging technology companies.At Ascent, they don’t jump on the latest trends in general technology. Instead, they remain dedicated to investing in a singular space with enormous market potential -- enterprise IT innovation.Their singular focus on enterprise IT, combined withtheir 28 years of experience and over 100 early stage investments, has yielded powerful results that speak to their deep knowledge, expertise, commitments and networks. Today, enterprise IT is in the midst of tremendous disruption. Between the shift to the cloud, mobility, consumerization of IT, data analytics and entirely new security architectures, both major challenges and tremendous opportunities abound. Over the next decade, the enterprise IT market will be transformed by these disruptive trends, providing lucrative opportunities for innovative early stage companies to emerge, develop new markets, and become the dominant IT companies of the future.They have a firm-wide commitment to backing companies that have courageous ideas about how technology can transform business and create market-leading companies along the way. Their partners, funds and extensive network are dedicated entirely to supporting companies in the enterprise IT arena, and helping them to be the best they can be.Ascent invests in early stage companies in the east coast with initial investment ranging from $2 million to $5 million.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3M–$19M |
| Series B | $5M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 31 | 30% |
| Enterprise Software | 15 | 15% |
| SaaS | 11 | 11% |
| Analytics | 11 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 10% |

101 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 30 | 29% |
| Series B | 25 | 25% |
| Series A | 16 | 16% |
| Series C | 14 | 14% |
| Series D | 8 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 60 | 59% |
| Canada | 3 | 3% |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Baiyin Murphy | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baiyin-zhou |
| Luke Burns | General Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luke-burns |
| Baiyin Murphy | Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baiyin-murphy |
| Brian J. Girvan | General Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-j-girvan |
| Christopher W. Dick | Managing Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-w-dick |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Connectbase | Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market. | $21M | Series C | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Connectbase | Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market. | $12M | Series B | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| RapidMiner | RapidMiner builds a software platform for data science teams that unites data prep, machine learning, and predictive model deployment. Organizations can build machine learning models and put them into production faster than ever before on a single platform. RapidMiner eliminates the complexities of cutting edge data science by making it easy todeploy the latest machine learning algorithms and innovative technologies like Tensorflow, Hadoop, and Spark. More than 300,000 data scientists in over 150 countries use RapidMiner products on-premise or in the cloud to drive revenue, reduce costs, and avoid risks.For more information, visit www.rapidminer.com. | $1.2M |  | Oct 02, 2020 |  |
| Connectbase | Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market. | $5.3M | Series A | Jul 30, 2019 |  |
| BestDoctor | BestDoctor is a healthcare company that creates tech insurance products for people and for businesses. Among insurtech companies in Europe it has the 2nd highest number of users. Within 4 years, the company has become a strong player in the b2b-market through innovations in risk management, customer-centric product development and digital medicalservice.Every day, our doctors perform more than 30 telemedicine consultations, and more than 200 insured users are treated in partner clinics across the country. So our smart algorithm records and processes this data to optimize risks and prices.More than 100 corporate clients from IT, retail, pharmaceuticals, travel, media and other industries are already using our solution.Due to this, in 2019 BestDoctor was included in the world ranking of “Top 17 Health Insurance Startups”. | $3M | Series A | May 29, 2019 |  |
| empow | Empow is a cyber-security startup that introduces a new approach to the security arena. It secures the organizations from attacks using the security tools effectively. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. | $10M | Series B | Apr 18, 2018 |  |
| gr8 People | gr8 People is delivering the Unfair Advantage in How the World Recruits Talent.gr8 People is 100 percent purpose-built to deliver the unfair advantage RPO and Corporate companies demand to compete for talent around the world. All-in-one, more powerful, but remarkably simple. It’s the breakthrough platform that brings sourcing, marketing, hiringand onboarding strategies to life; significantly improving productivity, empowering the free flow of information, and driving better talent decisions faster. It’s everything talent professionals need to Recruit gr8. All in One Place. | $8M | Series B | Feb 13, 2018 |  |
| Connectbase | Connectbase utilizes location-based insights and automation to buy and sell connectivity. Its platform drives growth for the clients by increasing visibility to the market, managing location, and driving engagement as the system of record where connectivity providers connect and pass by in the commercial market. | $8M | Series A | Jan 16, 2018 |  |
| Pwnie Express | Born and raised in the security community, we're on a roll and just getting started. In late 2009, the original team of Pwnies - Dave Porcello, Gabe Koss, and Oliver Weis - placed the Pwn Plug on the original site (Dave's blog) with little expectation of what was to come.From those humble beginnings, we have focused on providing fullthreat detection of every wireless and wired device in and around your workplace. We are the only company that detects rogue, misconfigured, and unauthorized devices across wired and wireless spectrums. By automating wireless and wired device detection, our solutions continuously detect the devices on or around your network that are open pathways for attackers.Pwnie Express is led by industry veterans with deep security testing and product development experience. Security assessment is our lifeblood, and we believe in making it simple to do the easy things, and possible to do the hard stuff. With Pwn Pulse, a distributed security assessment service, and our award-winning sensors, security teams can get the answers they need in a timely and effective manner. | $8M | Series C | Nov 29, 2017 |  |
| Sidecar | Sidecar is an e-commerce marketing company that builds the advanced technology retailers need to optimize cross-channel online shopping campaigns. With a team of data science and e-commerce experts, our state-of-the-art machine learning engine, and a massive volume of data, Sidecar is the magic behind retail's most efficient and powerfulonline shopping campaigns. | $11M | Series C | May 11, 2017 |  |

10 of 102 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Ascent Venture Partners invest in?

Ascent Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Funding Round and Series B stage. Most of the 102 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ascent Venture Partners's check size?

Ascent Venture Partners typically joins rounds of $3M–$19M at Series A and $5M–$16M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ascent Venture Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Ascent Venture Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Ascent Venture Partners?

The team at Ascent Venture Partners includes Baiyin Murphy (Principal), Luke Burns (General Partner) and Baiyin Murphy (Principal), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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