Investment firm specializing in private equity and venture capital investments.

We invest in innovative, high-growth technology companies, focusing on growth-stage and late-stage private market opportunities. Our strategies include direct equity investments, secondary market transactions, LP portfolio acquisitions, GP liquidity solutions, and co-investments.

Investment focus

Investing Across Multiple Stages of the Private Market Lifecycle

Late Stage

Category-defining companies in their final private rounds, with proven models and institutional shareholder bases.

Growth Equity

Scaled businesses with proven unit economics and expanding market leadership.

Venture Capital

Early positions in emerging technology companies with exceptional founders and defensible technology.

Core Strategies

Our strategy

Direct Equity Investments

Primary investments in private companies, through funds and investment vehicles.

Secondary Market Transactions

Structured purchases of equity and complex assets from funds, investors, and founders in leading private technology companies.

Co-Investments

Direct participation alongside the firm and its partner funds and vehicles in select opportunities.

Structured Liquidity Solutions

LP portfolio acquisitions and GP-led secondaries, providing liquidity and capital to limited partners and fund managers.

Selected Portfolio Investments

Companies in which Ashlar’s founding team have invested, through Ashlar or prior firms and vehicles.

All investments
OpenAISpaceXAndurilShield AIScale AICerebrasPolymarketPrometheus

Experience and Track Record

Fifteen years across private equity and venture capital — through cycles, across stages, on both sides of the table.

$1BAssets
Raised
150+Investments
Completed
13Portfolio
Company IPOs
10M&A
Exits
15Years of PE & VC
Experience

Figures reflect the aggregate experience of Ashlar’s founding team, investors, and network — which may include current Ashlar investments and data as well as prior activity through other firms, funds, and investment vehicles — and are presented for background only. They are not indicative of future results. See Disclosures.

The firm

Ashlar is a private markets investment firm specializing in private equity and venture capital. We execute complex private market strategies on behalf of private capital: direct and secondary investments, structured liquidity solutions, and co-investments. We work with investors, fund managers, and private companies to deploy capital where growth and liquidity meet.

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