Ascend

Ascend

The most active pre-seed venture capital fund in the Pacific Northwest. one in four ai engineers in the united states lives in seattle. we invest in their startups.

Venture CapitalSeattle, United Statesascend
Open to pitchesLeads rounds

About

Ascend is a pre-seed venture capital firm investing in SaaS 3.0: (vertical AI agents and applications), Gen AI 2.0 ("fast followers" in horizontal AI/infrastructure), and Frontier AI (AI applied to the physical world's hardest problems).

Kirby Winfield, Founding General Partner; Associate Nate Bek; and Partner and Chief of Staff Jen Haller work to support portfolio founders on their journey from the idea stage to seed, series A, and beyond - connecting them with customers, talent, and Silicon Valley venture capital.

Preferred stage is pre-seed, preferred check $250-$750K, and we focus primarily on Seattle-area founders.

AI & DataSaaS & SoftwareVenture Capital & Private Equity

Investment criteria

  1. Pre-seed

    Invests

  2. Seed

    Invests

  3. Series A

    Invests

  4. Series B

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  5. Growth

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Sectors
AI & DataSaaS & SoftwareVenture Capital & Private Equity
Geographies
United States
Round role
Leads and co-leads rounds

Highlights

Highlights coming soon

Notable work and milestones will show up here.