# Luke Burns

> Luke Burns is a Series B investor at Ascent Venture Partners (Boston) backing SaaS and Software. See 8 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: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2020
- Lead investor: 63%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lukeburns

Luke Burns is a Series B investor at Ascent Venture Partners in Boston focused on SaaS and Software. Luke Burns is the General Partner at Ascent Venture Partners. Additionally, Luke Burns has had 2 past jobs including Case Team Leader at Bain & Company. He attended Harvard University and MIT Sloan School of Management.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 3 | 38% |
| Big Data | 2 | 25% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 38% |
| Series C | 3 | 38% |
| Series A | 1 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Codeship | Codeship's continuous integration platform operates B2D portal that delivers hosted continuous integration and deployment for web applications. It shortens the development cycles thus reducing the risk of bugs and increasing innovation. It helps software companies to develop a better product faster by taking care of the testing and releaseprocess.Codeship automates software deployment and all the necessary tasks involved with it. | $7M | Series A | Jul 26, 2016 |  |
| 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. | $16M | Series C | Jan 05, 2016 |  |
| 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. | $8M | Series B | Nov 20, 2015 |  |
| 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. | $15M | Series B | Feb 18, 2015 |  |
| CloudLock | CloudLock is a cloud data security company that provides enterprise-class solutions designed to give organizations control over their data in the public cloud, without requiring invasive in-band technology, complicated overhead, or unanswered regulatory risk. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $17M | Series C | Jan 29, 2014 |  |
| CloudLock | CloudLock is a cloud data security company that provides enterprise-class solutions designed to give organizations control over their data in the public cloud, without requiring invasive in-band technology, complicated overhead, or unanswered regulatory risk. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $8.7M | Series B | Mar 27, 2012 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Longworth Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/longworth-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cedar Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cedar-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [OpenOcean](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/open-ocean) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Osage Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/osage-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ARC Angel Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arc-angel-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — 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 Luke Burns invest in?

Luke Burns invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Big Data startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 8 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 Luke Burns last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Luke Burns closed in Oct 2020. Shizune tracks 8 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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