VC firm
Ascend VC
Also known as Ascend Capital Group, Ascend Partners, Ascend Venture Capital, Ascend Venture Capital III FF, Ascend Venture Capital III FF, LP, Ascend Venture Group, Ascend Ventures
- Investor type
- VC
- Investing status
- Activeas of 2026-09-17Source (opens in a new tab)
- Headquarters
- SEATTLE, WA, United States
- Funds
- 1
- Check size
- preferred check $250-$750KSource (opens in a new tab)
- Legal name
- Ascend Solutions, LLC
Record updated 17 September 2026
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).
Investment approach
- Thesis
- Preferred stage is pre-seed, preferred check $250-$750K, and we focus primarily on Seattle-area founders.Source (opens in a new tab)
- Eligibility
- we focus primarily on Seattle-area founders.
- Investing status notes
- 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).
Funds
- Ascend Venture Capital III FF, LP
- Vintage 2025Main fund
SEC registration
- SEC CIK
- 2056860