Ascento Capital is an investment bank that specializes in the technology sector and provides advisory services for mergers & acquisitions, capital raises and valuations for technology companies in the United States and internationally.

Team

Ben Boissevain, Founder and Managing Partner

New York City

Ben Boissevain has 20 years of experience and senior level global connections in the technology sector. He graduated from NYU Law School and started his career at White & Case. He garnered investment banking experience at Erste Bank in Vienna, Austria and Barclays Bank in New York.

Ben speaks regularly on panels on the technology sector and corporate finance, is an author for TechCrunch and has appeared on TV at Fox Business News and Bloomberg. He is a member of the Counsel of The Huguenot Society of America.

Veronica Venditti, Associate

Veronica joined Ascento Capital in 2024. Veronica is pursuing a B.B.A. with a concentration in Finance at Baruch College – Zicklin School of Business. She is also part of Baruch’s Investment Management Group, a long-only student managed investment fund and pursuing professional development at Goldman Sachs’ Virtual Insight program

Gentian Balidemaj, Associate

Gentian is a sophomore pursuing a B.B.A in Finance at Baruch College – Zicklin School of Business. Gentian has previous experience at GEM Group, a private equity firm specializing in PIPE and LBO investments. Currently, he is an analyst on the healthcare coverage team at Baruch’s Investment Management Group (IMG), a long-only student managed investment fund, where he creates pitch decks and valuation models.

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Fair Market Valuation

Valuation for NIC MAP Vision, a Leading Data & Analytics Company for the Seniors Housing Sector

Ascento Capital provided a fair market valuation for NIC Map Vision to support a financing round. In March 2021, Ascento Capital advised The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) on a buy side engagement whereby it acquired senior living industry market analytics platform VisionLTC. Together they formed a new company called NIC MAP Vision.

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StreamWeaver, a Leading AIOps Company, Sold to BMC, Backed by KKR

Ascento Capital represented StreamWeaver Technologies, Inc., a leading AI operations ("AIOps") company, in its sale to BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. BMC is backed by the private equity firm KKR. StreamWeaver enhances BMC's AIOps capabilities with a broad set of out-of-the-box data integrations.

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Proant, a Swedish IoT company, Sold to Abracon, Backed by The Riverside Company

Ascento Capital represented Proant, a leading IoT antenna company in Sweden, on a sell side M&A transaction. After a global search with a wide outreach to over 100 targets, we had serious interest from companies in the US, Europe, and Asia and selected Abracon in the US for the best strategic fit. Abracon is backed by the private equity firm The Riverside Company.

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Acquired

NIC, a data and analytics company for senior housing, acquired VisionLTC

Ascento Capital represented The National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care (NIC) in its acquisition of senior living industry market analytics platform VisionLTC. NIC and VisionLTC formed a new company NIC MAP Vision that includes the NIC MAP® Data Service and provides significantly deeper and broader data for industry stakeholders.

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Services

Mergers & Acquisitions

We provide high-quality investment banking services on the sell-side and the buy-side.

Capital Raises

We provide capital raise services for access to private equity and venture capital firms.

Valuations

We provide in-depth valuation services and fairness opinions for public and private companies

Strategic Consulting

We provide consulting services by leveraging corporate finance and tech experience.

Press

Funding, M&A and Valuation Data Points to Navigate the Dynamic AI Sector – LinkedIn

Ben Boissevain wrote an in depth article on the AI sector, which is experiencing exponential advances in technology with a new revolutionary developments almost daily. Investment in the tech sector is down significantly, but investment in the AI sector has only decreased slightly by comparison. M&A in the sector ...

Operational and finance tips for early-stage startups in a tough market – TechCrunch

Ben Boissevain contributed this article to TechCrunch on operational and finance tips for tech startups. The market meltdown today can be compared to the dot-com meltdown in 2000 and the Great Recession meltdown in 2009. But even in tough markets, there are many survivors. This article explores survival tips ...

Mark-to-market to arrive at a realistic valuation and improve your fundraising odds – TechCrunch

Ben Boissevain contributed this article to TechCrunch. Valuations in 2022 have been falling like a rock as the war in Ukraine rages, inflation skyrockets and the Fed tightens the screws. Fintech firm, Klarna, whose valuation plummeted 85% to just $6.7 billion from $45.6 billion a year ago, is an ...

How to prepare for M&A, your most likely exit avenue – TechCrunch

Ben Boissevain contributed this article to TechCrunch. Despite the plentiful headlines about mega billion-dollar M&A transactions, record IPOs and the rapid growth of SPACs, small deals will continue to be the most likely exit for the vast majority of tech startups. In the over 30 years I’ve worked on ...

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