Investing Profile

Brian Ascher(1)

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Partner at Venrock l Early Stage Tech Investing
vcwaves.comMenlo Park, California
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Connected to Nick Beim (Venrock).

Networks Brian is a member of
Stanford University Graduate School of Business Network
302 CONNECTIONS
Princeton University Network
123 CONNECTIONS
Intuit Network
29 CONNECTIONS
Venrock Network
21 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Venrock Partner
Investment Range
$1M - $30.0M
Sweet Spot
$15.0M
Investments On Record
60
Current Fund Size
$450M

Brian Ascher is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

AR/VR (Series B)Analytics (Series B)AR/VR (Series A)Sales & CRM (Seed)AR/VR (Seed)Analytics (Series A)SMB Software (Seed)AI (Series B)Payments (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series B)Analytics (Seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Series A)Cloud Infrastructure (Seed)Payments (Series B)Enterprise (Series B)Payments (Series A)Sales & CRM (Series B)Sales & CRM (Series A)SMB Software (Series B)AI (Seed)FinTech (Series B)SMB Software (Series A)AI (Series A)Investors who invested in female foundersSaaS (Series B)Investors who invested in diverse foundersEnterprise (Series A)San Francisco Bay AreaAnalytics (Pre-seed)AR/VR (Pre-seed)Payments (Pre-seed)Sales & CRM (Pre-seed)SMB Software (Pre-seed)Cloud Infrastructure (Pre-seed)AI (Pre-seed)Enterprise (Pre-seed)SaaS (Pre-seed)FinTech (Pre-seed)SaaS (Series A)FinTech (Series A)FinTech (Seed)SaaS (Seed)Enterprise (Seed)

Brian Ascher's Investments On Record (21)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Auditoria.AI
Series BFeb 2025$38M
Series AMar 2021$16M
$66M
Co-investors: Raman Khanna (Dell Technologies Capital), Joe Raczka (York IE), Kyle York
Socrates.AI, Inc.
Series AJan 2019$10M
Series ADec 2017$11M
SeedMar 2017$5M
$26M
Dynamic Signal
Series EFeb 2018$37M
Series DDec 2016$25M
Series CSep 2015$22M
Series BJul 2012$13M
Series AFeb 2011$8M
$120M
Co-investors: Ajay Chopra (Trinity Ventures), Scott Irwin (Rembrandt Venture Partners), Robin Murray (Adams Street Partners), Donald Tucker (DocuSign), Jeff Kearl (Pelion Venture Partners), Russ Fradin, Russell Fradin, Eric Ver Ploeg
Beckon
Series UnknownSep 2016$10M
Series BJan 2015$13M
$33M
Co-investors: Joydeep Bhattacharyya (Canaan Partners), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital), Howard Hartenbaum (Lobby Capital)
Luxe
Series BApr 2016$50M
Series AFeb 2015$20M
$76M
Co-investors: Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Tribe Capital), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Scott Stanford (ACME Capital), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Justin Caldbeck (Binary Capital), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Daniel Curran (Curran Rosschou Venture Capital), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Matt Cheng (Cherubic Ventures), Sterling Witzke (Winklevoss Capital), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Joe Greenstein, Alison Pincus, Ryan Sarver, Mark Pincus, Shervin Pishevar
Shift Messenger
SeedMay 2015$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Homan Yuen (Fusion Fund)
Personal Capital
Series DOct 2014$50M
Series CJun 2013$25M
Series BAug 2011$15M
$150M
Co-investors: Steve Harrick (IVP), David Mort (Propel Venture Partners), Jim Feuille (Crosslink Capital), Victor Pascucci III (Energy Capital Ventures)
EagerPanda
SeedSep 2013$3M
$3M
Co-investors: Ullas Naik (Streamlined Ventures), Pejman Nozad (Pear VC), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC), Dan Rose (Coatue), Ram Shriram (Sherpalo Ventures), Ben Narasin (Tenacity Venture Capital), Mike Greenfield, Charlie Cheever
Brian Ascher's Media (1)

Insights - Venrock

www.venrock.com

most interested in

"Intelligent Enterprise"--deeply understanding a business problem and making clever use of data in the background to provide a unique solution. FinTech--providing a better value to consumers for financial services by removing intermediaries IoT--beautifully designed products that invent a new category, or re-invent a sleepy one Robotics--machines that yield a massive performance advantage not just replace labor "Frontier"--any crazy idea that can create a new market and make life better

not interested in

I focus more on application layer than deep infrastructure. Also more interested in "brave new world" ideas than threading the needle in a crowded market.

Brian Ascher's Experience

Consultant Monitor GroupPresent
Partner Venrock1998 - Present
Senior Product Manager Intuit1995 - Present
Associate Robertson Stephens1994 - 1994

Brian Ascher's Education

Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Princeton University BA Biology, Economics, Magna cum laude