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Ascend Venture Partners — Seed & Series A VC Firm ($500K–$3.0M Checks)

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Ascend Venture Partners is a Seed, Series A venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, AI / ML, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$3.0M checks and has 75 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$3.0M
Portfolio
75 companies on record
Partners
3 listed
Stage
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Other, AI / ML, SaaS
HQ
New York, NY
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-06-04

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Seed, Series A

Check Size

$500K – $3.0M

Portfolio

75+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focused on data-first platforms and SaaS tools leveraging analytics to solve high-value enterprise challenges across industries.

How Ascend Venture Partners invests

Ascend Venture Partners is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Seed, Series A stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML, SaaS. It does not invest in Hardware, Biotech.

Ascend Venture Partners typically writes checks of $500K–$3.0M per investment.

Ascend Venture Partners has backed 75 companies in our records, including Narrative, Graphpoint, Pipefy.

Partners & Team

KW

Kirby Winfield

General Partner

DL

Diane Lewis

Founding GP

HealthTech
Provider IT
B2B SaaS
JT

Jared Tang

Partner

Data Analytics
AI-first SaaS

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
AI / ML
SaaS

Does Not Invest In

Hardware
Biotech

Portfolio Companies (75)

Other

NA

Narrative

Market Data Platforms
GR

Graphpoint

AI-powered Data Analytics
PI

Pipefy

B2B SaaS
EL

Element AI

Artificial Intelligence
WE

Wellthy

HealthTech
AD

adyn

AE

Aerolane

AT

Atypical AI

AV

avante

AZ

AZX

How to pitch Ascend Venture Partners
  • •Raising at Seed, Series A? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $3.0M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Kirby Winfield, General Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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