AshGrove Capital
VC Fund
London, United Kingdom
AshGrove Capital is an independent London-based pan-European credit manager. The firm's usual investments in the software and services sectors range from $5 million to $40 million.
- Total investments:
- 13
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 92%
Last updated:
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Industries AshGrove Capital invests in
Stages AshGrove Capital invests in
Countries AshGrove Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Debt Financing
- $14M–$40M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $13M–$54M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (46%)
- SaaS 2 (15%)
- Banking 2 (15%)
- FinTech 2 (15%)
- Analytics 2 (15%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 7 (54%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (23%)
Country
- United Kingdom 3 (23%)
- Ireland 2 (15%)
- Finland 1 (8%)
- Germany 1 (8%)
- United States 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ilkka Rantanen
Co-Founder and Partner
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Co-Founder and Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Philip Fretwell
Co-Founder and Partner
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Co-Founder and Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Benjamin Gibson
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jonathon Ferguson
Co-Founder and Partner
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Co-Founder and Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
10X Banking
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10X Banking is a fintech company. They specialize in providing financial and banking services for customers, banks, and society. | $53.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 03, 2026 | |
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10X Banking
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10X Banking is a fintech company. They specialize in providing financial and banking services for customers, banks, and society. | $53.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 03, 2026 | |
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10X Banking
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10X Banking is a fintech company. They specialize in providing financial and banking services for customers, banks, and society. | Debt Financing / Aug 03, 2026 | |
Envera
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Envera was founded in 2013 to bring smart savings and peace of mind to the housing boards of apartment complexes. While our original focus was on producing energy certificates, we soon noticed that excessive water consumption was a critical issue to many of our customers. Based on that key piece of insight, we revised our offering and startedproviding water conservation services to our customers. However, it didn’t take us long to realize that infrequent consumption monitoring was costing our customers tens of thousands of euros every year, and since none of the existing monitoring systems reached our standards, we decided to build our own. | $30.2M / Debt Financing / Oct 29, 2025 | |
Xtremepush
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Xtremepush is a world-leading customer engagement, personalisation and data platform. It’s purpose-built for delivering mobile-first, multichannel customer experiences. It enables businesses to acquire new customers and communicate more effectively with existing customers through automated, real-time and relevant messaging. We provide richengagement capabilities across email, website, mobile app, SMS and social messengers. Our platform also empowers brands to unify their data for a true Single Customer View, and combines enterprise-grade analytics with a full suite of campaign optimisation tools. Xtremepush was named in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Marketing Platforms. It was also the recipient of the inaugural Deloitte Financial Services Innovation Award for Customer Experience. | $13.9M / Debt Financing / Oct 14, 2025 | |
Amplience
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Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group,and Boohoo. | $39.9M / Debt Financing / Jan 24, 2025 | |
Dealfront
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Dealfront is the go-to-market platform that provides data, applications, and insights to sales and marketing teams. | $31.6M / Debt Financing / Dec 10, 2024 | |
NewsWhip
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NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons. | $13M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 14, 2023 | |
Unifyr
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Zift is the Enterprise Channel Management leader. Our ZiftONE platform enhances channel partner productivity and program profitability by automating sales, marketing, and operational processes all while integrating seamlessly with established systems and infrastructure. ZiftONE delivers all of the capabilities of Partner Relationship Management(PRM), Through Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA), and Channel Learning Management (C-LMS) in a single, innovative platform developed to maximize channel success in today’s rapidly evolving partner landscape. Zift leads the market with the ZiftONE Step-Ahead Innovation Program™ that introduced CAM Co-Pilot™ to optimize sales execution and Zift Open-Access™ to collect and connect data from across your channel. | $16.5M / Debt Financing / Aug 31, 2022 | |
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Unifyr
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Zift is the Enterprise Channel Management leader. Our ZiftONE platform enhances channel partner productivity and program profitability by automating sales, marketing, and operational processes all while integrating seamlessly with established systems and infrastructure. ZiftONE delivers all of the capabilities of Partner Relationship Management(PRM), Through Channel Marketing Automation (TCMA), and Channel Learning Management (C-LMS) in a single, innovative platform developed to maximize channel success in today’s rapidly evolving partner landscape. Zift leads the market with the ZiftONE Step-Ahead Innovation Program™ that introduced CAM Co-Pilot™ to optimize sales execution and Zift Open-Access™ to collect and connect data from across your channel. | $16.5M / Debt Financing / Aug 31, 2022 | |
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FAQ
What does AshGrove Capital invest in?
AshGrove Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Banking startups, most often at Debt Financing and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is AshGrove Capital's check size?
AshGrove Capital typically joins rounds of $14M–$40M at Debt Financing and $13M–$54M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AshGrove Capital participates in.
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Who are the partners at AshGrove Capital?
The team at AshGrove Capital includes Ilkka Rantanen (Co-Founder and Partner), Philip Fretwell (Co-Founder and Partner) and Benjamin Gibson (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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