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Backing founders at pre-seed and seed

We are a London-based VC, investing early-stage capital for ambitious founders, across the UK, Europe and North America.

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Credit Kudos
Cudo Ventures
Goodstack
Lick Home
MiAlgae
Monolith AI
Runa Network
Sprive
Tembo Money
Thursday
Vidsy Media
Wagestream
Zen Educate
Credit Kudos
Cudo Ventures
Goodstack
Lick Home
MiAlgae
Monolith AI
Runa Network
Sprive
Tembo Money
Thursday
Vidsy Media
Wagestream
Zen Educate
Who are we?

Over the past decade, Ascension has supported founders building the next wave of innovation.

We invest through our generalist and institutional thesis driven funds, into mission driven, outlier founders.

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Founders

Ascension team
From seed to success

The founder journey

We back founders at day one and support them through every milestone.

Credit Kudos

Credit Kudos

Reinventing credit scoring with Open Banking

$150M
Exit Value
11x
Exit Multiple
Founded by
Freddy Kelly &Matt Sherfield
2019
Seed
Ascension invests in Credit Kudos' seed round
2020
Series A
AlbionVC leads £5M round
2021
Scale
Powering major UK lenders
2022
Exit
Acquired by Apple for $150M
"Ascension believed in us when we were just two founders with an idea to fix credit scoring."
— Freddy Kelly, Credit Kudos
Seed:£2m (2018)
Raised:£13.5M
Apple