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.
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Ben Boissevain, Founder and Managing Partner
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 (IMG), a long-only student managed investment fund where she is on the portfolio management team, putting together buy-side research reports and financial valuations.
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.
Edwin Kwon, Industry Expert
Edwin Kwon has extensive Industry experience in world class companies including Samsung, Philips, Nvidia, and LG for advisory roles including emerging technology scouting & due diligence, partnership, investment and M&A. When he worked at LG, he was the one of major driving force for Apple Camera module business which has reached more than few billion dollar business as of 2018.
Edwin’s vast experience covers Semiconductor, Consumer Electronics, Software, and Telecom Services. He holds 7 US patents which is related to Digital Video processing and MSEE at Hanyang University in Korea and Dynamic Innovation Exec Course Certificate from MIT Sloan School.
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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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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.
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IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost via @techcrunch
IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost | TechCrunch
IBM today announced that it has acquired Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams at companies like Allianz, Audi, Rakuten and GitLab monitor and
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