Ascent Capital Advisors

Investor type

VC

Founded

2009

AUM

$1 000 M

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Investment Ticket

$10-50 m

Investment Stage

Series B Pre-seed Seed

Region of investment

Asia
Investor profile last updated: 16 August, 2026

Profile

Ascent Capital is a leading private equity firm in India. Founded in 2008, we have empowered over 50 exceptional entrepreneurs and co-founders across three funds, fueling innovative, game-changing companies in sectors like Technology, Consumer Goods, Healthcare, and Financial Services with growth capital.

Our marquee investors, who include long term institutional investors such as pension funds, foundations, endowments, family offices, fund-of funds and large corporations have backed us across economic cycles – a vote of confidence in our ability to excel and deliver results.

The result of 20 years of experiential learning and deep introspection on the best path towards building scalable businesses in India, Ascent’s ‘What Works in India’ blueprint is designed to help build successful businesses of lasting value.

We follow an entrepreneur-centric investment approach where we view ourselves as ancillary beneficiaries of our entrepreneurs’ success. We actively seek out promising Indian companies driven by visionary leadership and place complete confidence in our entrepreneurs’ ability to build and manage their companies. We play a complementary and enabling role to our entrepreneurs, assisting them wherever necessary with the collective might of our entire team.

Industry

Consumer Products Financial Services Healthcare Services Other Consumer Services (B2C) Fintech Technology Business Services (B2B)

Ascent Capital Advisors Funds

Name Type
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Industry
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Stage
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Region
Size AUM Launch date
Ascent India Fund III
Private Equity (PE)
Consumer Products
Consumer Services (B2C)
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Technology
Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
Asia
$5-10 m
$350 M
November 2013
Ascent India Fund IV
Private Equity (PE)
Business Services (B2B)
Consumer Products
Consumer Services (B2C)
Financial Services
Fintech
Healthcare Services
Series B
Late Stage (Series C+)
Asia
$5-10 m
$172 M
August 2019

Contacts

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Title
Email
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Raja Kumar Founder & Managing Partner
Founder & Managing Partner
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Deepak K Gowda Partner
Partner
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FAQs about Ascent Capital Advisors

Ascent Capital Advisors is a venture capital firm. It backs companies at Series B, Pre-seed and Seed, writing tickets of $10-50 m.
Ascent Capital Advisors is located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Ascent Capital Advisors was founded in 2009.
Ascent Capital Advisors invests in companies and startups in Consumer Products, Financial Services, Healthcare Services, Other, Consumer Services (B2C), Fintech, Technology, Business Services (B2B).
Ascent Capital Advisors invests in companies and startups in Asia.
Ascent Capital Advisors invests in companies and startups at Series B, Pre-seed, Seed.
Ascent Capital Advisors usually invests $10-50 m on average.
Ascent Capital Advisors has around $1 000m assets under management.
Ascent Capital Advisors last fund was created/launched in 2019-08-10
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