Ascend Venture Group

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Ascend Venture Group is a New York based venture capital group. Ascend Venture Group, LLC is a private investment management firm founded on the belief that creating and capturing value is akin to scaling a mountain.

Ascend believes that alternative investments play a crucial role in driving outsized returns and building a well-diversified investment portfolio. Ascend combines highly sophisticated financial expertise with unique access to investment opportunities to create attractive risk/reward portfolios and partnerships for its investors. Working with uncompromising, ambitious, talented entrepreneurs and business owners who have no fear of the challenge involved in attempting to quickly scale an enterprise, Ascend is focused on rapid value creation.

Milestones

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  Ascend Venture Group invested in StrikeIron. (3/23/09)
  Posted 3/23/09 at 12:47pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in Schoolnet. (1/09)
  Posted 4/18/09 at 1:31pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in MoGreet. (11/11/08)
  Posted 6/22/08 at 12:09am
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in SWN Communications. (9/29/08)
  Posted 7/19/09 at 11:57pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in Tabula Digita. (8/11/08)
  Posted 8/11/08 at 8:38pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in Playboox. (6/19/08)
  Posted 5/21/09 at 7:32pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in SendWordNow. (10/1/07)
  Posted 11/13/07 at 3:13am
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in ITM Software. (8/20/07)
  Posted 1/18/09 at 1:11am
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in Tripology. (1/07)
  Posted 3/8/08 at 12:02pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in SendWordNow. (8/7/06)
  Posted 11/17/08 at 2:33pm
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  Ascend Venture Group invested in Tabula Digita. (12/05)
  Posted 8/13/08 at 1:19pm

Investments

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1. StrikeIron Announces $5.5M in New Funding, Record Sales Growth, Expanded Hiring and New Advanced Functionality (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
2. Education Software Maker SchoolNet Books $13M For Acquisition (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
3. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Send Word Now Raises $14 million in Series D Financing (sendwordnow.com) [edit]
5. Tabula Digita raises round for educational games (venturebeat.com) [edit]
6. PlayBoox Raises $3 Million (equityhelpdesk.com) [edit]
7. sendwordnow.com [edit]
8. ITM Software raises $4M more for CIO-focused management software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
9. venturebeat.com [edit]
10. Send Word Now Raises $10.5 Million Series B Round (sendwordnow.com) [edit]
11. Tabula Digita raises round for educational games (venturebeat.com) [edit]