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Luke Burns

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Smart Money Rating: 94 out of 100

General Partner, Ascent Venture Partners

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Ascent Venture Partners
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General Partner
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Record updated 1 October 2026

About

Luke has extensive experience advising and founding ventures and brings his passion for entrepreneurship to his work at Ascent. Since joining the firm in 2006, Luke has continued his work with innovative early stage companies with a focus on data analytics, SaaS, IT infrastructure and cybersecurity. He has led Ascent investments in CloudLock (acquired by Cisco), RapidMiner, Sidecar, gr8 People, empow (acquired by Cybereason) and Codeship (acquired by Cloudbees).

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