Ad Astra Ventures

Ad Astra Ventures is an investment firm with an exclusive focus on women-led innovations. The firm is on a mission to equip female entrepreneurs to build, run, and scale investable businesses. Its program is specifically designed to empower founders who are impacted by implicit gender biases. Ad Astra Ventures' framework provides entrepreneurs with the tools to combat these biases through introspection, exploration, and simulations. Ad Astra Ventures was founded in 2018 and is based in Solana Beach, California.

5 past transactions

Frame develops an evidence-based platform for early detection of risk and care navigation to inform family building and planning. Its approach alleviates a downstream and often costly health crisis for patients, employers, and payers.

Sēkr

Seed Round in 2022
Sēkr is a crowdsourced mobile platform making every step of the outdoor travel planning experience easier, safer, and more social. The company is creating an inclusive community through access to 50K+ campsites, including the nation’s largest database of free campsites, and local outdoor events.

Lilu

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lilu, is a women’s health company building tech-enabled devices to empower new moms. Their first product, the Lilu massage bra, is a pioneering FDA Class device that tackles the notorious inefficiencies of breast pumps, using a patented pneumatic massage technology to mimic a baby’s natural motions, accelerating milk output and alleviating the associated pain. Lilu’s customers ‘love this bra’ and call the device ‘awesome’ and a ‘breastfeeding savior’.

kegg

Seed Round in 2021
kegg is a two-in-one device that combines fertility tracking with pelvic floor exercising. Lady Technologies is implementing sensing technology into consumer devices to advance women's health. Its first product, kegg, is an intuitive fertility tracker that quadruples the chances of natural conception by detecting the fertile window and ovulation up to 7 days in advance. Kegg collects the previously unattainable data from cervical fluid, which is essential for the better diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of women. The company was founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California.

co:census

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Our suite of solutions includes co:census, an Enterprise SaaS solution that transforms feedback to insights for researchers + designers, and co:lab, digital learning workshops for civic leaders.
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