# Christopher W. Dick

> Christopher W. Dick is a funding round investor at Ascent Venture Partners backing Computer. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ascent Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascent-venture-partners)
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Nov 2013
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-w-dick-05031a

Christopher W. Dick is a funding round investor at Ascent Venture Partners in Boston focused on Computer and Printing. Walter is the Managing Director of Ascent. He helped build and finance successful New England-based technology companies for more than thirty years. Portfolio companies that have benefited from Walter’s depth of experience and perspective include eCopy (acquired by Nuance), Sensitech (acquired by United Technologies), Phoenix Controls (acquired byHoneywell), Harvard Bioscience (Nasdaq HBIO), Nova Analytics (acquired by ITT) Nova Technologies (acquired by IDEX), Mod-Tap (acquired by Molex), Performance Polymers (acquired by Ellis & Everard), TACC International (acquired by Illinois Toolworks) and Tidalwire (acquired by Network Engines). Walter’s current areas of focus include software and analytics and he works closely with Terascala and Nova Scientific.He attended Babson College and Cornell University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Computer | 1 | 25% |
| Printing | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |
| Data Storage | 1 | 25% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 2 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Terascala | Headquartered in Boston, Terascala is the fast data company. Terascala storage appliances dramatically accelerate the time to insight for organizations that rely on simulation, analysis, and modeling tools to bring new products and innovation to market. Exclusively available through strategic partners Dell, EMC, and NetApp, Terascala storageappliances provide on-demand throughput at multiple gigabytes per second while leveraging industry-leading storage platforms for long-term data protection. |  |  | Nov 05, 2013 |  |
| Terascala | Headquartered in Boston, Terascala is the fast data company. Terascala storage appliances dramatically accelerate the time to insight for organizations that rely on simulation, analysis, and modeling tools to bring new products and innovation to market. Exclusively available through strategic partners Dell, EMC, and NetApp, Terascala storageappliances provide on-demand throughput at multiple gigabytes per second while leveraging industry-leading storage platforms for long-term data protection. | $14M | Series B |  |  |
| Terascala | Headquartered in Boston, Terascala is the fast data company. Terascala storage appliances dramatically accelerate the time to insight for organizations that rely on simulation, analysis, and modeling tools to bring new products and innovation to market. Exclusively available through strategic partners Dell, EMC, and NetApp, Terascala storageappliances provide on-demand throughput at multiple gigabytes per second while leveraging industry-leading storage platforms for long-term data protection. | $3M | Series A |  |  |
| eCopy | eCopy provides a standard document imaging platform that securely transforms paper documents into business value. eCopy solutions extend the use of office multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and scanners while leveraging investments in network infrastructure. A consistent, easy-to-use process enables anyone in an organization to transform paper-basedinformation into secure digital files that easily integrate with electronic workflows, simplify user collaboration, and protect business continuity, with audit trails that facilitate regulatory compliance. | $15.8M |  |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bridge Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bridge-bank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ascent Venture Partners

VC Fund · Boston, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Ascent Venture Partners.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Christopher W. Dick invest in?

Christopher W. Dick invests primarily in Computer, Printing and Software startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A 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.

### When did Christopher W. Dick last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Christopher W. Dick closed in Nov 2013. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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