Brian Ascher
Partner
- Focus Areas: Ad Tech, Consumer, Finance and Payments, Healthcare IT, SaaS & Enterprise
- Location: Palo Alto
Brian Ascher joined Venrock in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow and is currently a partner based in Venrock’s Palo Alto office. Brian focuses on a broad range of Internet (both consumer and B2B) and Healthcare IT investments and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vocera (NYSE: VCRA), as well as several private companies, including Awarepoint, Retail Solutions, Inrix, and Billfloat. Past investments include ADiFY (acquired by Cox Enterprises), DATAllegro (acquired by Microsoft), Redbeacon (acquired by Home Depot), RelayHealth (acquired by McKesson), Tudou (NASDAQ: TUDO), and Unicru (acquired by Kronos). Prior to Venrock, Brian was a Senior Product Manager at Intuit responsible for Quicken and Quicken.com, and earlier in his career was a Strategy Consultant at the Monitor Group. Brian has been named to the Forbes’ Midas List, which ranks the top venture capitalists in technology and life sciences, multiple times including the current edition.
Brian received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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Brian Ascher Live 
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Congrats to colleagues @rayrothrock and @BRobertsVC on another strong showing on the Forbes Midas List http://t.co/CcksZADeAa.
5:16pm May 8th from Brian Ascher -
Klout Experts: Has Klout finally come up with something users will love? http://t.co/LxhQXd7HOU via @pandodaily
3:46pm May 8th from Brian Ascher -
A Day In The Life of the Internet (infographic) http://t.co/OdK5PXMdK3
5:56pm May 7th from Brian Ascher -
Dynamic Signal Presents at Brand Innovators Customer Engagement on May 10th with our customers! http://t.co/V6Bi1KlSUf
5:54pm May 7th from Brian Ascher -
Seen in Santa Cruz http://t.co/6RCLimaM8L
6:40pm May 4th from Brian Ascher -
Amazon's Five Mile Threat http://t.co/oLe86SL4tm Same day delivery nationwide will force every retailer to go omnichannel ASAP.
8:55am May 2nd from Brian Ascher -
Court Dismisses Craigslist Suit Against Competitors http://t.co/jaoRPqYOiJ Lot's of start-ups happy about this one. Vertical by vertical..
8:36am May 2nd from Brian Ascher -
Congrats @algorithms_io for winning Judges Pick at #data2summit It was great to hear your pitch.
8:18pm April 30th from Brian Ascher -
Article by Russ Fradin - "How to Supercharge Your Social Media Marketing Strategy With Employee Sharing" http://t.co/uifSD2Mslw
11:12pm April 29th from Brian Ascher -
Understanding Facebook Edgerank algorithm http://t.co/NoGZIZvIOJ
8:51pm April 23rd from Brian Ascher -
I just backed Nava: A Revolutionary Filtering Water Bottle on @Kickstarter http://t.co/CxSTdi6u65
12:33am April 11th from Brian Ascher
