About Us

Get to know Sterling Road

Ash Rust

Managing Partner, Sterling Road

Ash is an entrepreneur turned investor. He is the Managing Partner of Sterling Road, a venture fund focused on pre-seed stage B2B companies. He was an advisor to Bullpen Capital and previously worked at Trinity Ventures. Ash has mentored hundreds of startups through accelerator programs including Y-Combinator, Techstars, Alchemist, and universities such as Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Oxford.

Before investing, Ash was Cofounder and CEO of SendHub (acquired: Cameo Global, Y-Combinator W12) and Director of Ranking at Klout (acquired: Lithium).

Ash earned a Masters in Computer Science from Oxford, served as an Officer in the British Army, and currently resides in San Francisco.

our Metrics

Numbers that matter.

50

Total Portfolio Companies

100

Portfolio NPS Score (2020 Survey)

65
%

Capital to Diverse Teams

03

Investment Locations

USA, Canada, and United Kingdom

Investment Committee & Advisors

Noel Fenton
Trinity Ventures
Founding General Partner
Renske Lynde
1st Course Capital
General Partner
Ben Chelf
Elementum Ventures
General Partner
Rachel Gillum
Salesforce
Head of Policy
Laura Sydell JD
NPR
Journalist & Writer
Gus Tai
Trinity Ventures
Partner

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