Ascend.io
Agentic data engineering platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Internal tools
- SaaS
- Data Analysis
- College Terrace, Palo Alto, CA
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Company mission
To make data engineering delightful.
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, where users can input data from files, apps, APIs and more, and work with them as needed. It runs a flexible multi-code interface, allowing users to build data transformation programs in a way that works for them, and claims to save hours or days of time through its automation capabilities.
Data automation is a busy 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.
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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.
- Extensive Benefits: We hire the best and want to provide the best benefits possible with 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
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$31m
SERIES B
Jul 2019
$19m
SERIES A
Total funding: $69m
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Leadership
Sean Knapp
(Founder & CEO)Prior to founding Ascend.io in 2015, Sean founded Ooyala where they served as the CTO and CPO. They also spent nearly 3 years at Google as a Software Engineer.