Ascento Capital is a New York boutique investment bank that provides advisory services for M&A, capital raises, and valuations to technology companies in the U.S. and internationally.
Focus
Ascento Capital focuses exclusively on the tech sector and has extensive experience in Artificial Intelligence, Data, Analytics, Network Security, MarTech, PropTech, FinTech, RegTech, HealthTech, IoT, Cloud, eCommerce, SaaS, UCaaS, IT Services and Digital Media.
Connections
Ascento Capital has extensive, global, senior level connections in an array of private and public companies, private equity firms and venture capital funds in Israel, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, China and India.
Experience
The Ascento Capital team has extensive corporate law, corporate finance and technology company operating experience at firms such as White & Case, Erste Bank, Barclays Bank, Samsung, Philips, Nvidia, LG, Ascom and Ericsson.
Team
Ben Boissevain
Founder and Managing Partner
Extensive corporate finance and law experience at White & Case, Erste Bank and Barclays Bank. He speaks regularly on tech panels and has appeared on TV on Fox Business News and Bloomberg.
Allen Avrakh
Associate
Pursing a B.B.A. with a concentration in finance at Baruch College - Zicklin School of Business. Volunteer coach and judge for debate team on debate strategies, domestic politics, and foreign policy.
Rikard Lundqvist
Industry Expert
Extensive tech sector experience in Sweden and the US. Passionate about technology and its positive impact on the world. Founder of tech companies and senior executive at Ericsson and Ascom.
Edwin Kwon
Industry Expert
Extensive of tech sector experience in Silicon Valley. Connections to Korean, Japanese and US companies, venture capital and corporate venture capital. Executive at Samsung, Philips, NVIDIA and LG.
Latest Transactions
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.
January 21, 2022
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.