Brian Ascher
Brian Ascher joined Venrock in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow and now serves as a Partner at Venrock’s Palo Alto office. Brian is a venture capitalist who invests broadly across enterprise, AI, machine learning and financial technology and currently serves on the Board of Directors of several companies including 6Sense, Firstup, Nightfall, Zero Networks, SmartBiz Loans, INRIX, and Auditoria.ai. Prior to Venrock, Ascher 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. He has been named to the Forbes Midas List multiple times.
Brian Ascher Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Partner
Academic History
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M.B.A., Entrepreneurship
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B.A., Biology, Economics
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Board Member, 6Sense
Board Member,FirstUp
Board Member,SmartBiz Loans
Board Member,Auditoria
Board Member,INRIX
Board Member,Zero Networks
Board Observer, Nightfall
PAST AFFILIATIONS
Board of Director, Adify (acquired by Cox)
Board of Director, Evidenti.io (acquired by Palo Alto Networks)
Board of Director, Velocloud (acquired by VMware)
Board of Director, Red Beacon (acquired by Home Depot)
Board of Director, Relay Health (acquired by McKesson)
Board of Director, Unicru (acquired by Kronos)
Board of Director, Atrenta (acquired by Synopsys)
MEDIA & APPEARANCES