# Sam Perry

> Sam Perry is a funding round investor at Ascendance Ventures backing Social Media and Apps. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ascendance Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascendance-ventures)
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Nov 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saperry

Sam Perry is a funding round investor at Ascendance Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Social Media and Apps. Sam Perry - President @ Ascendance Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Media | 2 | 100% |
| Apps | 1 | 50% |
| News | 1 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 50% |
| Mobile | 1 | 50% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ireland | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hyperkey | Hyperkey is building the world's first proprietary library of collections based on human visual expressions. Our social network gives users, and branded content creators, the ability to make Gifs and Stickers shared in their chat conversations discoverable to the whole world. With our keyboard - or our iMessage extension - users expresstheir feelings with their friends in chat. These expressions are added to their public collections, and can be discovered by other users and followers instantly on Hyperkey, and then recycled in their own chats.Hyperkey works with all popular communication platforms, including iMessage, What's App, Facebook, Twitter and more. | $500K | Convertible Note | Nov 01, 2015 |  |
| NewsWhip | 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. | $1.6M |  | May 28, 2015 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AIB Seed Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aib-seed-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Almaz Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almaz-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The Associated Press](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/associated-press) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Furthr](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dublin-business-innovation-centre) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Flight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/flight-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ascendance Ventures

VC Fund

Ascendance Ventures, a venture capital development group based in Menlo Park, CA.

1 contacts available at Ascendance Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sam Perry | President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sam-perry |

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## FAQ

### What does Sam Perry invest in?

Sam Perry invests primarily in Social Media, Apps and News startups, most often at Funding Round and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Ireland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sam Perry last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sam Perry closed in Nov 2015. Shizune tracks 2 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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