# Ascolta Ventures

> Ascolta Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco backing SaaS and Music. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascolta-ventures-llc/
- Website: https://www.ascoltavc.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ascoltavc/

Ascolta Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Music. Ascolta Ventures is about listening to entrepreneurs and supporting their journey. Our core principle is focusing on providing constructive counsel based on investors, founders, and executive experience.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Music | 1 | 50% |
| Internet | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Bergeson | Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-bergeson |
| John Bergeson | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-bergeson |
| Michael Abbott | Co-Founder | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-abbott |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Serro | Serro helps engineering organizations scale their TPM capacity. In an era where AI agents are rapidly increasing code output, engineering teams need a new operating layer for coordination, visibility, and follow-through. Serro creates live program memory from scattered engineering signals across code, tickets, meetings, and messages. Delegatecoordination to Serro agents. Scale the shared human oversight. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Audius | Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend the world’s music.Using Audius, creators can generate immutable and time-stamped records for your creative works and register your assets to the Audius network. Because the network is decentralized and secured by blockchaintechnology, the metadata attribution remains safe, verifiable and immutable.Providing a transparent network in a space traditionally controlled by third parties, Audius builds a bridge between creators and consumers. Discover new content or verify authenticity, authorized through a truly transparent system of attribution.Audius uses blockchain technology to ensure that artists get paid safely & instantly as consumers listen to content. Choose from preexisting license terms or create your own and automate the payments, transfers, and issuance of licenses. | $5.5M | Series A | Aug 08, 2018 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mango Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mango-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mashup Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mashup-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ascolta Ventures invest in?

Ascolta Ventures invests primarily in SaaS, Music and Internet startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Ascolta Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Ascolta Ventures?

The team at Ascolta Ventures includes Daniel Bergeson (Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel), John Bergeson (Principal) and Michael Abbott (Co-Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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