Company intelligence
Ascend
Backing founders you'd quit your job to work for
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Seattle, US
23 employees
Founded 2019
8 public signals
About Ascend
Preseed venture capital fund
Verified activity
Signals from Ascend
8 published signals
People
Ascend founder Rishi Winfield founded TerraByte AI, a foundational geospatial search engine, as one of the most exciting companies in the Ascend Fund III.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
Sales & Marketing
Ascend sent 46 personal outbound emails for one of its favorite portco’s seed raise.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
Technology & Infrastructure
Ascend employee Thomas Stahura parachuted into multiple portcos and helped write code.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
Technology & Infrastructure
Ascend employee Thomas Stahura created an entire portfolio tracking and deal flow management system.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
Sales & Marketing
Ascend employee Thomas Stahura enabled the company to efficiently evaluate and communicate with thousands of startups.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
Research & Knowledge
Ascend employee Thomas Stahura provided frontline intel on the daily evolutions in the state of the art in AI.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
Products & Services
Ascend employee Thomas Stahura created Token Talks, the company's most popular newsletter explaining Chinese frontier models, the AI Slopacalypse, and LPs and fans.
Reported by Kirby Winfield
People
Ascend appointed Thomas Stahura as its first ever analyst in 2024.
Reported by Kirby Winfield