Brian Ascher

Brian has a BA degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Princeton University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Brian joined Venrock in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow and is currently a Partner based in Venrock's Palo Alto office. He invests broadly across enterprise and consumer internet markets. Brian serves on the boards of Vocera (NYSE:VCRA), Better Finance, Retail Solutions, Inrix, Personal Capital and Dynamic Signal. Past investments include ADiFY (acquired by Cox Enterprises), DATAllegro (acquired by Microsoft), Redbeacon (acquired by Home Depot), Tudou (acquired by Youku), RelayHealth (acquired by McKesson) and Unicru (acquired by Kronos). 

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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 [http://www.forbes.com/lists/midas/2011/midas-list-complete-list.html], which ranks the top venture capitalists in technology and life sciences, multiple times.

A member of Class 4, Brian served his fellowship at Venrock under the mentorship of Tony Sun and Ray Rothrock.