Investors / United Kingdom / Ascension
Ascension
Venture capital · London, United Kingdom · Europe
Ascension is a London-based venture capital firm that invests early-stage capital in founders. It invests through generalist and institutional, thesis-driven funds into mission-driven, outlier founders.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfintechdeeptechconsumerimpactearly-stage
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Or find every investor that fitsAscension lists 119 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (16%), AI & Machine Learning (15%) and Fintech (13%). 77% of its companies are based in United Kingdom. It invests most often alongside The Conduit Connect, Seedcamp and Creative Destruction Lab.
No funding round on record names Ascension yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Ascension's whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 119. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 16% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 15% | 18% |
| Fintech | 13% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Education | 6% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| The Conduit Connect | 12 |
| Seedcamp | 5 |
| Creative Destruction Lab | 4 |
| Entrepreneurs First | 4 |
| Founders Factory | 4 |
| Haatch | 4 |
| Y Combinator | 4 |
| Ada Ventures | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 97th | 119 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 5th | 16% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers11899%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with The Conduit Connect
Compare Ascension head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
119 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company provides a learning management system and collaborative learning platform for enterprises. | EducationEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Acurable creates wearable medical devices for patients to use at home | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Albert Goodman provides accountancy and related services to individuals and businesses. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
ConsumerAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Amilis provides clinical data infrastructure for women's health | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anathem helps staff with admin tasks through drafting notes, forms and letters, and optimises tasks in services. | Healthcare & BiotechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Aparito digitizes clinical trials and captures real-world data through their eCOA platform | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Asksenti plugs into the data lake and answers plain-English questions with validated, consistent, auditable results. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Athelas assembles obscure web data and applies proprietary AI models to predict company metrics | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Better Nature produces and sells tempeh products with various flavors. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Bondio provides mobile connectivity services through its eSIM API | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a B2B commerce platform for manufacturers and their distribution networks in Africa | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bulbshare enables brands and customers to co-create products, marketing, and strategies through a customer collaboration platform | ConsumerConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Capably powers enterprise transformation through intelligent automation and company intelligence across industries. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Captur develops and provides real-time image AI and SDKs for mobile apps to validate user-captured photos | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| CardiaTec Biosciences Ltd is a company that decodes cardiovascular disease biology | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ComplyStream helps financial institutions scale payment volumes without increasing compliance headcount using AI-powered technology | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Concert Bio develops microbial products to help greenhouse growers improve plant yields | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company builds tools and products that empower anyone to create anything for everyone. | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- ascension.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 119
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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