Ascend
Financial operations platform for the insurance sector
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Insurance
- Payments
- Lending
- Automation
- SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To help insurance companies make it easier for people to protect the things they care about.
Our take
Ascend has developed a platform that allows its insurance clients to offer customers end-to-end payment services. These include seamless checkout via a variety of methods, premium financing, payment reminders, and automated payables.
This helps cut down processing time and expenses, and boosts marketing efforts by improving retention - creating a more efficient financial infrastructure for the insurance sector. The company is already live in all 50 states, and has been focussed on building out its team and platform.
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Benefits
- Company outings and offsites
- 100% health premiums covered for you and your dependents
- 401k with employer matching options
- Flexible time-off policy
- Monthly company-paid commuter benefit options
- Parental and family leave
- Lunch provided when in office
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$30m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $35.5m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Andrew Wynn
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Has held tech-oriented management roles at Instacart and Looker, then went on to found home maintenance company Sheltr. This was acquired by Hippo Insurance, where he subsequently served as director of home care.
Praveen Chekuri
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Worked as a software engineer at Ridecell, Instacart, and Houseparty. Also co-founded Whale and Sheltr, then moved into a director of engineering role at Hippo Insurance.