Ascension

Ascension Ventures Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm based in the United Kingdom, focusing on early stage to later stage investments across various sectors, including technology, healthcare, and creative industries. Established in 2012, the firm primarily invests in Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) companies, targeting sectors such as digital media, financial technology, educational technology, and health. It has a strategic emphasis on supporting UK-based businesses, having invested over £22 million across multiple funds since 2013. Ascension's investment strategy typically involves contributions ranging from £250,000 to £1.5 million, with a preferred exit timeline of four to seven years. In addition to direct investments, the firm is open to co-investment opportunities and operates a specialist fund focused on HealthTech and Life Sciences, further enhancing its portfolio.

Guneesh Batra

Associate

Rubal Bedi

Investment Director

Brian Belsky

Principal

Tara Butler

Managing Director

Stephen Cooper

Senior Investment Associate

Pooja Goel

Managing Director

Christopher Haynes

Investment Associate

Matthew Hermann

Senior Managing Director

Victor Kats

Managing Director

John Kuelper

Managing Director

Ryan Schuler

Managing Director

Jamie Wehrung

Senior Director, Finance and Administration

Past deals in Birmingham

Mutt Motorcycles

Funding Round in 2018
Mutt Motorcycles Ltd, founded in 2015 and based in Drayton, United Kingdom, specializes in the manufacture of customized motorcycles. The company combines motorcycle production with a lifestyle retail experience, offering a range of custom-built bikes tailored to individual preferences. Mutt Motorcycles aims to provide unique riding experiences while also catering to motorcycle enthusiasts through its lifestyle store.

Mutt Motorcycles

Funding Round in 2018
Mutt Motorcycles Ltd, founded in 2015 and based in Drayton, United Kingdom, specializes in the manufacture of customized motorcycles. The company combines motorcycle production with a lifestyle retail experience, offering a range of custom-built bikes tailored to individual preferences. Mutt Motorcycles aims to provide unique riding experiences while also catering to motorcycle enthusiasts through its lifestyle store.

Formatzone

Venture Round in 2018
Formatzone (Format Zone Ltd) is a new fast-track platform to produce, broadcast, distribute and monetise video entertainment formats to and from the UK on TV and across social media. Formatzone works with new and established creative talent on a joint venture basis.

Mutt Motorcycles

Seed Round in 2016
Mutt Motorcycles Ltd, founded in 2015 and based in Drayton, United Kingdom, specializes in the manufacture of customized motorcycles. The company combines motorcycle production with a lifestyle retail experience, offering a range of custom-built bikes tailored to individual preferences. Mutt Motorcycles aims to provide unique riding experiences while also catering to motorcycle enthusiasts through its lifestyle store.

Formatzone

Seed Round in 2016
Formatzone (Format Zone Ltd) is a new fast-track platform to produce, broadcast, distribute and monetise video entertainment formats to and from the UK on TV and across social media. Formatzone works with new and established creative talent on a joint venture basis.

Aston EyeTech Ltd

Seed Round in 2014
Aston EyeTech is a tech startup developing a range of proprietary hardware and software products for ocular care. It is revolutionizing the Ocular care ecosystem through increased portability, improved accuracy, and lower costs. The company is a spinout from Aston University’s School of Optometry. Aston EyeTech was founded in 2014 and is based in Birmingham, England.

Opinsta

Seed Round in 2014
Opinsta specialise in implementing paperless and automated frontline workflows for large enterprise organisations. Trusted by 1000’s of employees, Opinsta's mobile & cloud-based SAM solution is used to better manage people, processes and assets. SAM is designed to enhance your existing legacy systems (EAM, ERP, HR, etc) by providing an integrated, simple to use frontend that standardises data capture, improves employee adoption and automates workflows. Clients such as LNER and Bombardier use SAM to report defects, incidents, inspections, H&S, risk assessments, quality assurance and more. SAM provided them with a solution that was quick to deploy, cost-effective to scale and reliable. Opinsta also specialise in bespoke B2B mobile app development and have supported the likes of British Airways & Holland & Barrett with a specialised service from concept to reality.

FlashSticks

Seed Round in 2014
FlashSticks® are foreign language Post-it® Notes, each printed with a unique, commonly used word, translation, icon and phonetic. Oh and they’re colour-coded by gender too: BLUE notes for masculine nouns, PINK notes for feminine and GREEN for all other word types.

Hobzy

Seed Round in 2013
Hobzy is the content network built around hobbies and interests. Find ideas & inspiration, share your projects, exchange feedback and sell your makes. Our network currently consists of: http://hobzy.com/ http://handmake.me/ http://findandcraft.com/

Droplet

Seed Round in 2013
Droplet Online Ltd. provides Droplet, a mobile money application that lets to load money onto phone and send payments. Its application also lets to discover new places to spend and choose to get recommendations based upon places where been before. The company offers its application for iOS devices, such as iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch; and Android devices. It serves merchants, such as bars, florists, and coffee shops; and developers. Droplet Online Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Droplet

Seed Round in 2012
Droplet Online Ltd. provides Droplet, a mobile money application that lets to load money onto phone and send payments. Its application also lets to discover new places to spend and choose to get recommendations based upon places where been before. The company offers its application for iOS devices, such as iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch; and Android devices. It serves merchants, such as bars, florists, and coffee shops; and developers. Droplet Online Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Owned it

Seed Round in 2011
Owned It Ltd. provides a cloud service for online customers to share their products with friends on social networks. It offers a social referral system for shop owners to create and test targeted campaigns that encourage the sharing of products. Owned It Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Birmingham, United Kingdom.