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Distinct shells carrying a filed role for this person — not every shell they have ever touched.
Of those vehicles, the ones that closed a merger.
Announced but not closed, and still hunting.
No closed vehicle here has both a stored price and a filed trust value to score it against.
2 liquidated — weigh against the wins.
2 vehicles on file, newest listing first
4 people on two or more of them
Larry Aschebrook is the Founder and Managing Partner of G Squared Equity Management LP, a Chicago-based venture capital and growth equity firm specializing in growth-stage technology investments. He serves as Chairman of G Squared Ascend I Inc. (NYSE: GSQD), a special purpose acquisition company he co-founded with CEO Ward Davis, which raised $345 million in its February 2021 IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. He is also associated with G Squared Ascend II, Inc. (GSQB), a successor SPAC vehicle. At G Squared, Aschebrook leads the firm's Executive Group and Investment Committee, overseeing a platform that has grown to approximately $4–5 billion in assets under management with 25 professionals across four global offices in Chicago, San Francisco, Greenwich (and later Miami), and Zurich, Switzerland. The firm's name is a play on "global growth," reflecting its international reach and strategy of providing transitional capital through primaries, secondaries, and tenders to growth-stage companies.
Aschebrook founded G Squared in 2011, leaving what he has described as a safe university job to launch the firm. He started with nothing, "dialing for dollars," having personally invested in companies like Twitter and Uber before building the institutional platform. His first fund made sizable bets into SpaceX, Palantir, Alibaba, and Twitter. Under his leadership, G Squared has deployed more than $2–5 billion of capital across several funds, separately managed accounts, and co-investment vehicles. The firm's portfolio has included high-profile names such as Airbnb, Bolt, Brex, Coursera, Instacart, Spotify, Toast, Turo, Uber, Wiz, Revolut, Anthropic, Chime, Getir, and others. G Squared has successfully exited investments in notable public companies including Asana, Dropbox, Jamf, Lemonade, Lyft, Meituan, Palantir, Peloton, Pinterest, Postmates, Snap, Spotify, Twitter, and Uber. Among his most notable wins, Aschebrook has discussed an approximately $800 million windfall from Coursera and a $150 million bet on Spotify that generated roughly a billion-dollar return. He has also been candid about significant losses, including approximately $50 million lost on Uber (while making millions on Lyft instead) and roughly $70 million lost on 23andMe, as well as a difficult experience with Getir.
G Squared Ascend I was incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company in 2020 and priced its IPO on February 4, 2021, upsizing from 25 million to 30 million units at $10 each, with UBS serving as sole book-running manager. The SPAC focused on technology targets within six core megatrends: Software-as-a-Service, Online Marketplaces, Mobility 2.0/Logistics, Fintech/Insurtech, New Age Media, and Sustainability. Aschebrook and Davis described their SPAC as unique in its approach to identifying acquisition targets in the tech sector. Aschebrook is based in the Greater Chicago Area and attended the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is a member of the National Venture Capital Association and has been a featured speaker at Web Summit, where he discussed new approaches to venture capital. His investment philosophy emphasizes DPI (distributed to paid-in capital) over MOIC (multiple on invested capital), and he has described himself as "the janitor of venture capital," reflecting his firm's distinctive focus on providing liquidity solutions in the secondary market for employees and other shareholders, not just founders.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0001605304 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 44 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 14 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.