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Growth Score
-30 pts
Heat Score
6 pts
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Ascend is the most active pre-seed venture capital fund in the Pacific Northwest.
- Kirby Winfield: Founding General PartnerPast Role: Dwellable, Founder and CEO
About the Company
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.
