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Envive AI is an AI platform that enhances eCommerce conversion and customer engagement.
Korion Health provides human-empowering easy health screenings with educational tools that anyone can access from home.
Revolute Robotics builds hybrid flying and driving robots that collect inspection and surveillance data where never before possible.
Oumi is a group of academics, developers dedicated to fostering greater transparency and cooperation in frontier AI.
All-In Milwaukee supports diverse students with scholarships, advising, and career aid for college completion.
KamiwazaAI offers scalable AI solutions for cloud, core, and edge environments.
Tausight’s mission is to solve one of the most challenging responsibilities of healthcare CIOs, CISOs, and their IT organizations.
Leap Financial offers a cloud-based modular platform covering a biometric wallet for the instant issuing of payments.
ALDAVER provides incredibly realistic personalized surgical training models using innovative biopolymer materials.
Moondream builts a vision-language model that operates with 1.6 billion parameters.
Aerolane is building a new logistics method, delivering shipments as fast as same-day and as affordably as the cost of ground
Velou is an AI-powered data enrichment company that enables businesses to create intelligent catalogs that transform customer interactions.
Applied Bioplastics manufactures bioplastics in retail, packaging, and medical industries to improve plastic recycling.
A DeFi protocol and decentralized capital markets ecosystem. Uncollateralized borrowing and lending for institutions.
AI that reviews creative at scale - surfacing gaps hurting performance or creating risk, and helping fix them pre-launch.
TopicFlow offers SaaS-based meeting management solutions with AI integration for performance assessment and data privacy.
Inflection.io is a venture-backed product company that builds marketing technology to power product-led growth.
nftperp is an NFT perpetual contract trading platform.
Arbol is a climate risk coverage company that offers solutions to analyze .and mitigate exposure to climate risk.
A Living AI Management Software Solution for Clinical AI Governance in Healthcare
Sparrow Analytics is an environmental technology company that offers granulated air quality mapping to reduce human exposure to pollution.
Finpilot uses artificial intelligence to explore publicly available corporate files and respond to research requests in natural language.
Bean Box is a coffee gift and subscription platform that features sample roasts of artisan coffee.
Preserving trust in digital media by fighting AI-based misinformation and deepfakes
Ascend has invested in 190 companies tracked in our database. The portfolio spans multiple industries and funding stages, from seed-stage startups to late-stage companies.
Ascend's top investment sectors include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce, Health Care. The firm invests across 61 different industry categories.
Among tracked funding rounds, Arbol received $60.0M in a Series B round. Ascend's total known invested capital is $861.2M.
Ascend's average investment size is $8.4M across its portfolio of 190 companies.
Recent Ascend portfolio additions include Envive AI (formerly Spiffy AI), Korion Health, Revolute Robotics, Oumi, All-In Milwaukee. These companies were founded in 2020 or later.