Ascend Mental Health Ventures
Ascend Mental Health Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, CA investing in Other, SaaS, Healthcare. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.2M checks and has 25 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $100K–$1.2M
- Portfolio
- 25 companies on record
- Partners
- 18 listed
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, SaaS, Healthcare, Developer Tools, AI / ML, Security, Fintech, Consumer
- HQ
- Los Angeles, CA
- AUM
- Not in our records
Last verified: 2026-05-18
Pre-Seed, Seed
$100K – $1.2M
25+ companies
18 partners
Investment Thesis
Dedicated to early-stage investments in mental health technology and data-driven insights.
How Ascend Mental Health Ventures invests
Ascend Mental Health Ventures is a vc firm based in Los Angeles, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, SaaS, Healthcare, Developer Tools, AI / ML. It does not invest in Fintech.
Ascend Mental Health Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$1.2M per investment.
Investing since at least 2020, Ascend Mental Health Ventures has backed 25 companies in our records, including Unison Therapy Services, Unison, Seoul Medical Group (SMG). Its most recent recorded investment was in 2024.
Partners & Team
Clara Evans
GP
Lila Chan
Managing Partner
Industry Focus
Invests In
Does Not Invest In
Portfolio Companies (25)
2024
Unison Therapy Services
One of the largest outsourced therapy providers for Pre-K - 12 students in school- and community-based settings, offering services such as speech therapy, behavioral health, psychology, and physical and occupational therapy.
Unison
Unison Therapy Services is one of the largest outsourced therapy providers for Pre-K - 12 students in school- and community-based settings.
2023
Seoul Medical Group (SMG)
A national network of independent community physicians focused on improving the health and well-being of Asian American patients, with 4,800 primary care and specialist physicians.
2022
Allied Physicians Group and Adjuvant.Health
A physician-led, pediatric-focused medical group based in New York supported by Adjuvant Health, offering comprehensive care across more than 35 primary care offices to serve over 180,000 patients.
Medical Specialists of the Palm Beaches (MSPB)
A primary care and multi-specialty physician group serving patients in Florida’s Palm Beach and Broward counties, offering services such as cardiology, neurology, hematology/oncology, concierge medicine, and laboratory services.
Elation Health
A technology company built on a collaborative electronic health record (EHR) platform designed for high-value primary care, serving 24,000 clinicians caring for millions of Americans.
MSPB
Medical Specialists of the Palm Beaches is a primary care and multi-specialty physician group serving patients in Florida’s Palm Beach and Broward counties.
2021
Ilumed
A Medicare population health management company based in Florida, partnering with physician groups to manage value-based quality standards, improve outcomes, and reduce the cost of care for CMS Fee-For-Service Beneficiaries.
Consensus Health
A multi-specialty medical group based in New Jersey offering clinical and administrative services that enable providers to maintain clinical autonomy while providing high-quality care to patients.
2020
Rendr
The largest primary care focused, multi-specialty physician group dedicated to serving the medically underserved Asian communities in New York City, with more than 100 medical providers across 40 clinical offices.
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, SaaS, Healthcare — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.2M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Clara Evans, GP.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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