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What does Ascend invest in?
Ascend invests most often at Seed and Venture (61% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as E-commerce and Venture Capital & Private Equity.
Ascend highlights
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17 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 61% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 37 rounds, median $3.5M
What they do
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Not stated
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
- Sectors
- E-commerceVenture Capital & Private Equity
- Based in
- Seattle, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
A website was listed for this organisation, but we could not confirm it belongs to the firm that wrote these cheques. Either the site never mentions them, or it turned out to be a different company sharing the name. We show neither it nor anything read from it. Tell us the right one.
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first136 appearances
- 2026
13 rounds
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- Sept
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- Jun
- Jun
- May
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- Mar
- Mar
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- 2025
29 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration12 named
ASAaron SmithExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
APAllison P. NolanDirectoriFiling they signed
AIAndrew I BorsesExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
BDBenjamin D. SlavetCOO AND CFO OF ASCEND CAPITAL, LLC, THE GENERAL PARTNER OF ASCEND CAPITAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, THE ISSUER'S GENERAL PARTNERiFiling they signed
BABradley Adam BruninExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
DPDavid P. BreeDirectoriFiling they signed
DSDivya SmithExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
KWKirby WinfieldManaging MemberiFiling they signed
MDMalcolm D. FairbairnEXECUTIVE OFFICER OF ASCEND CAPITAL, LLC, THE GENERAL PARTNER OF ASCEND CAPITAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, THE ISSUER'S GENERAL PARTNERiFiling they signed
RORonald Ollie Horne IiExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
SDSarah DiekroegerManageriFiling they signed
TOThomas O. Lloyd-ButlerExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 17 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
7+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
41 of 60 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.