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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 32 co-investors found.
- 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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