Ankona Management, LLC
ankona.com Direct investor
Ankona Capital is a venture capital firm based in Newport Beach, California, that invests in early growth-stage B2B software companies. The firm focuses on companies with proven product-market fit and annual recurring revenue between $3 and $15 million, providing initial checks of $5 to $10 million.
Ankona Management, LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Newport Beach, United States. It invests directly in companies, from Series A to Series B, in B2B software, application software and AI. Its stated cheque size is First checks of $5–10M. 20 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in application software where AI turns proprietary workflow, data and distribution into better products and better outcomes.”
— Ankona Management, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Newport Beach, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- B2B software, application software, AI
- Cheque size
- First checks of $5–10M
- Portfolio
- 20 companies
Team, as Ankona Management, LLC publishes it
- Josh Harmsen Managing Director
- Brian Mesic Managing Director
- Newth Morris Managing Director
- Jared Smith Managing Director
- Gardner Smith Vice President
Names and roles exactly as listed on ankona.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 32 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Tech Square Ventures 2 shared companies: arborxr.com, citian.co
- MizMaa Ventures 1 shared company: orca-ai.io
- Playfair Capital 1 shared company: orca-ai.io
- Bread And Butter Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: fulcrumpro.com
- Matchstick Ventures 1 shared company: fulcrumpro.com
- Schematic Ventures, LLC 1 shared company: fulcrumpro.com
- High Alpha 1 shared company: cordial.com
- Lewis & Clark Ventures 1 shared company: arborxr.com
- Menlo Ventures 1 shared company: rivethealth.com
- JMI Equity 1 shared company: meetsoci.com
and 22 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Ankona Management, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.ankona.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, people, status, confidence
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