Investing Profile

Brian Ascher(1)

VCInvestor

Partner at Venrock

vcwaves.comMenlo Park, California

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Brian Ascher's investing connections

1 Investor

Connected to Nick Beim (Venrock).

Networks Brian is a member of

NewCo Network

1586 CONNECTIONS

NewCo Network

1586 CONNECTIONS

Top-Patents Network

1030 CONNECTIONS

Top-Patents Network

1030 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Network

700 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Venrock Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $30.0M

Sweet Spot

$15.0M

Investments On Record

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 founders SaaS (Series B)Investors who invested in diverse founders Enterprise (Series A)San Francisco Bay Area Analytics (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 (24)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Auditoria.AI	Series BFeb 2025$38M Series AMar 2021$16M	$66M
Co-investors: Joe Raczka (York IE), Kyle York
Luma	SeedDec 2020$3M	$32M
Co-investors: Brian O'Malley (Forerunner Ventures), Ben Lang (Notion Capital), Kevin Talbot (Relay Ventures), Jim Scheinman (Maven Ventures), Wesley Chan (FPV Fund), Paul Judge (TechSquare Labs), Erik Moore
Socrates.AI, Inc.	Series AJan 2019$10M Series ADec 2017$11M SeedMar 2017$5M	$26M
Co-investors: Scott Beechuk (Norwest Venture Partners)
Nightfall	SeedNov 2018	$60M
Co-investors: Enrique Salem (Bain Capital Ventures), Courtney Broadus (Operator Collective), Ronnie Lott (Bennu)
Firstup	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), Robin Murray (Adams Street Partners), Donald Tucker (DocuSign), Scott Irwin (Rembrandt Venture Partners), Eric Ver Ploeg (Tunitas Ventures), Russell Fradin, Russ Fradin
Beckon	Series UnknownSep 2016$10M Series BJan 2015$13M	$33M
Co-investors: Joydeep Bhattacharyya (Canaan Partners), Howard Hartenbaum (August Capital), Ross Fubini (XYZ Venture Capital)
Luxe	Series BApr 2016$50M Series AFeb 2015$20M	$76M
Co-investors: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Jeremy Liew (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ryan Sarver (Redpoint Ventures), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), Vic Singh (ENIAC Ventures), Nihal Mehta (ENIAC Ventures), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Hadley Harris (ENIAC Ventures), Tim Young (ENIAC Ventures), Kevin Colleran (Slow Ventures), Daniel Curran (FundersClub), Sterling Witzke (Winklevoss Capital), Dave Morin (Offline Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange), Matt Cheng (Cherubic Ventures), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Scott Stanford (ACME Capital), Justin Caldbeck (Binary Capital), Lee Linden (Quiet Capital), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Joe Greenstein, Mark Pincus
Shift Messenger	SeedMay 2015$2M	$2M
Co-investors: Homan Yuen (Fusion Fund)

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

Member Board of Directors 6sense2013 - Present

Partner Venrock1998 - Present

Associate NewCoPresent

Consultant NewCoPresent

Associate Top-PatentsPresent

Consultant Top-PatentsPresent

Associate Asset Management GroupPresent

Consultant Asset Management GroupPresent

Associate IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent

Consultant IT CRUX Mobile Apps SolutionsPresent

Associate Robyn FrankelPresent