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Ascension Fund III Launch Ascension Investor Showcase, featuring Justin Urquhart-Stewart Benefits of Knowledge Intensive Investing Meet Oxwash, our Latest Knowledge Intensive Investment Rakesh’s Full AI Video Portfolio News Open Job Roles
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Ascension Fund III launchWe are very excited to announce the 1st close of Ascension Fund III🎉
Fund III is our latest impact institutional fund aiming to reduce social inequalities by allowing tech to serve a mass market and low-income audience.
Learn more about the fund here. | |
Ascension Investor Showcase
Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Ascension Investor event at Wiggin LLP last Wednesday.
Special thanks to our guest speakers Justin Urquhart-Stewart, who shared insightful perspectives on recent market trends and the investment outlook and Kyle Grant, founder of Oxwash, who provided an in-depth exploration of his innovative business.
(To find out more about Oxwash read further below) ⬇️
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Knowledge Intensive EIS FundAscension's Knowledge Intensive EIS Fund strategically invests in 10 high-potential tech startups, bridging the crucial funding gap between Seed and Series A rounds to foster growth and scalability.
Benefits- 30% tax relief
- 130% Performance Fee Hurdle
- HMRC approved fund, the tax relief anchored in the tax year when the fund closes rather than deployed
- Reduced admin, you will receive one single EIS5 (after 90% deployed), rather than individual tax certificates
To find out more about the fund, click on the flyer here. Note, that the fund closes on the 3rd of April.
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Meet Oxwash, the latest investment from the Knowledge Intensive EIS Fund
Background: The commercial textile care industry faces a critical challenge marked by a lack of transparency, rising operational costs, and a perceived disconnect from sustainable practices. The industry's antiquated and inefficient model, relying on cheap labour, energy, water, and textile manufacturing, has become unsustainable. This calls for a transformative approach to textile care that addresses both operational efficiency and sustainability concerns. How it works: Oxwash leads the textile care industry as it strives to be the world's largest net-zero washing platform. Through constant innovation and optimisation, the company ensures revenue fulfilment and fortifies itself against industry challenges. Oxwash achieves clinically clean processes surpassing NHS requirements, a 5-star hotel finish, and trusted handling of challenging textiles for renowned brands. Oxwash achieves NASA-inspired reliability, ensuring an impressive 99.9% service uptime compared to the industry standard of 85%. The company excels in price efficiency, boasting market-leading gross margins through automation and overhead minimisation, with low price volatility providing a 5-10% cost advantage over other textile cleaning services.
Oxwash’s edge: This lies in its innovation and sustainability commitment. Oxwash's unfair advantage lies in its holistic approach to addressing industry pain points. The emphasis on sustainability, showcased by the net-zero washing platform goal, resonates with environmentally conscious customers. Oxwash's ability to offer superior quality at a competitive price, coupled with its adaptability to market dynamics and unique project finance strategy, positions it as a transformative force in an industry struggling with transparency, efficiency, and sustainability challenges. | |
Rakesh, Ascension COO full AI presentationRakesh delves into a series of different topics designed to broaden your understanding of the current landscape and future prospects of artificial intelligence.
Tune in to explore:- Market Overview
- Explanation on Artificial Neural Network
- The Transformer breakthrough
- The AI and Chip revolution
- AI’s real-world impact
- My predictions for 2024
- Opportunities and Considerations when Investing in AI
Watch the video. | |
Roundtable on the Fair Banking Act |
A few weeks ago, we hosted a breakfast roundtable bringing together the Fair By Design fintech portfolio to discuss affordable credit, the Fair Banking Act and the need for innovation on credit products. We were joined by the Fair By Design Campaign, Finance Innovation Labs and Fair4All Finance.
The session was chaired by Jean de Fougerolles, our Managing Partner. | |
Ascension Founder’s Breakfast |
We recently hosted an intimate breakfast discussion, bringing together founders within our community. This event facilitated a direct and open dialogue with the Ascension team, as well as with fellow founders poised for their next significant leap - securing another round of funding to propel their companies forward. It was a valuable opportunity for everyone involved to share experiences and discuss strategies. | | | |
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Open Job Roles In Our Portfolio Companies | |
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Don’t invest unless you’re prepared to lose all the money you invest. This is a high-risk investment, and you are unlikely to be protected if something goes wrong. Read More. | |
Ascension Ventures Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, (FRN 833108).
Risk warning: your capital is at risk. Investing in early stage companies involves risks including loss of capital, illiquidity, lack of dividends and dilution. Past performance is not a predictor of future performance. Ascension does not give tax or investment advice. The availability of tax relief depends on individual investors’ circumstances, and on investee companies’ qualifying status, both of which may be subject to change. If you are in doubt about eligibility for tax reliefs or the tax treatment of your investment, you should seek independent tax advice. | |
About Ascension Ascension is an early-stage venture capital firm built by exited entrepreneurs to back the next generation of tech and impact founders. Since 2015, Ascension has invested in 150+ start-ups across its (S)EIS & Institutional funds - our specialist approach and extensive sector reach allow us to identify and scale pioneering tech enterprises. With over £100m under management, Ascension has been London's most active VC over the past decade (Beauhurst data), with a particular focus on backing impact businesses leveraging the power of technology to solve some of the world's biggest problems. For more information: ascension.vc. | |
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