# Joe Walkush

> Joe Walkush is a funding round investor at SAIC Venture Capital backing Software. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SAIC Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saic-venture-capital)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2000
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-walkush-8ba54ab2

Joe Walkush is an Executive Vice President of SAIC Venture Capital. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Service Industry | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ascentive, LLC | We are an eclectic and energetic group of software developers, designers, marketers, media mavens, sales superstars and customer service professionals who work together to create innovative software products. Ascentiveâ€:tm:s mission statement is to develop easy-to-use software for consumers and businesses for solving everyday PC problems, backedby top-notch customer support and service. With a dozen products, Ascentive is a market leader in corporate and consumer software and has received accolades from media organizations like The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, Tech TV and NBC. Ascentive products and services are used by hundreds of thousands of people and businesses, with registered customers in 55 countries. | $24.7M |  | Sep 05, 2000 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Information Technology Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/information-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [TL Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tl-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About SAIC Venture Capital

VC Fund · Las Vegas, United States

SAIC Venture Capital Corporation is a venture capital investment arm of SAIC, Inc. It specializes in investments in seed, startup, early stage, and mid stage companies. The firm seeks to hold equity investments in publicly-traded and private emerging technology companies. It prefers to make balance sheet investments. SAIC Venture CapitalCorporation was founded in 2000 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

3 contacts available at SAIC Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Joe Walkush | EVP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-walkush |
| Nuo Shi | Associate & Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuo-shi |
| Michael Cohen | Venture Capital Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-cohen-13 |

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## FAQ

### What does Joe Walkush invest in?

Joe Walkush invests primarily in Software and Service Industry startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 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 Joe Walkush last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joe Walkush closed in Sep 2000. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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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