See other companies on Welcome to the Jungle
Ascend.io
Automation for data engineering
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Internal tools
- SaaS
- Data Analysis
- Menlo Park, CA
Jump to section
Company mission
To help gridlocked teams break through constraints to build, manage, and optimize the increasing number of data workloads required.
41% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Advanced data analytics has changed the way businesses function in recent years, and companies too slow on the uptake face a turbulent ride ahead. That’s where Ascend.io comes in, offering a unified platform for automating a business’ entire data engineering and analytics workflow.
Its selling point is the scale of the platform. Input data from files, apps, APIs and more, and work with them as you need. It runs a flexible multi-code interface, allowing you to build data transformation programs in a way that works for you, and claims to save hours or days of time through its automation capabilities.
Data automation is a busy new market though, and Ascend.io faces competition from the likes of unicorn start-up Matillion. But despite the competition, it's seen solid global growth and revenues across Europe and Asia as well as impressive funding, which has aided the expansion of its data cloud capabilities, the hiring of new talent from Google, and the forging of new business partnerships with the likes of data cloud giant Snowflake.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Flex PTO: We work hard but also believe that taking time off from work is essential, both personally and professionally
- Distributed Workforce: We believe in a successful and communicative remote culture with several activities and options to keep our team connected
- Learning & Development Opportunities: We are dedicated to the continuing education of our team with a learning & development stipend, weekly brown bags, workshops & more.
- 100% Insurance Coverage, a 401k & more
- Meaningful Equity: We are proud of the company we've built, and we pride ourselves on each team member having ownership in the organization they've helped develop
- Social & Team Events: We enjoy each other's company and to celebrate our successes we have quarterly kickoffs, TGIF celebrations, game nights & more
Company values
- I-Got-It!: When someone says “I got it” the team can trust that person has their back and will finish the task at hand or communicate in advance if help is needed
- One Team One Dream: We win and lose as a team. When making decisions, assume everyone has the best intentions for the company even if you share different professional opinions. Once a final decision is made, commit to driving a successful outcome
- Evolve with Intent: The status quo was established by smart people and exists for a reason. With that in mind, we are humble and intentional about the changes we make, fully understanding the tradeoffs and foreseeable repercussions
- Build for 10x, Plan for 100x: It’s easy to make short-sighted decisions to achieve quick wins. It’s much harder to build solid foundation that successful startups survive and thrive on. What we build today needs to sustain us for the near future but we should always be planning and preparing for the long term
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$31m
SERIES B
Jul 2019
$19m
SERIES A
Total funding: $69m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Sean Knapp
(CEO)Former Senior Software Engineer at Google, and Founder of Ooyala.