Investor profile
Ben Ashworth
Accelerator, Corporate VC, Venture capital & Partner at The SidebySide Partnership, VC Partner at Focal
Ben Ashworth is a VC Partner at Focal, whose known portfolio counts 13 companies.
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Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Partner at The SidebySide Partnership, whose known portfolio counts 9 companies
- Honest Mobile
- Tonic Health
- Shot Scope
- Laundryheap
- Ryft
- Slip
- The Bunch
- Love the Sales
- Sherpr
VC Partner at Focal, whose known portfolio counts 13 companies
- Boldr
- Honest Mobile
- Coworker.ai
- Flamingo
- Thoras.ai
- BLNG
- Cosine
- Keragon
- VIZGARD
- Kaiden AI
- Maxed
- On Me
- and 1 more
Investor Profile
Ben Ashworth is listed against sectors AI, Commerce, Consumer and Healthcare, and focus areas AI Applications, API, Collaboration and Customer Support in the database.
Focal appears in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds across its known deals.
What the affiliated firm has backed is the closest available signal on whether Ben Ashworth is worth approaching.
Colleagues
Aidan MacMillan
Partner VC
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Carole du Fretay
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Petteri Koponen
Board Member
Helsinki, Finland
Hector Mason
Co-Founder
London, United Kingdom
Pascal Unger
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Miami, United States
Daniel Darling
Co-founder & Managing Partner
San Francisco, United States
Richard Baillie
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
James Cooper
Advisor
London, United Kingdom
Hugo Melvin
Partner VC
London, United Kingdom
Isabella Thomas
Partner Fund
United Kingdom
Mark Hogarth
Partner VC
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Frequently asked questions
Who is Ben Ashworth?
Ben Ashworth is an accelerator partner and corporate venture investor based in London, England, United Kingdom, listed as VC Partner at Focal. The known portfolio of that firm counts 13 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Ben Ashworth personally.
What does Ben Ashworth invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Commerce, Consumer and Healthcare; listed focus areas include AI Applications, API, Collaboration and Customer Support. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Ben Ashworth invest at?
Focal appears in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds across its known deals, and Ben Ashworth is listed there as VC Partner. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Ben Ashworth listed at?
Ben Ashworth is listed as VC Partner at Focal. 11 other people in the database share a firm with Ben Ashworth.
How do I contact Ben Ashworth?
An email address, a phone number and a LinkedIn page are on file for Ben Ashworth. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account.
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