Ascend.io
The Data Engineering CompanyData Engineering, Evolved
For years, we’ve focused on creating systems that store more data, and process more data, than ever before. As we built more and more systems, we found the missing piece of technology was the system that helped us build more than ever before.
As Data Engineers, we love building pipelines. What we don’t love is:
- How long it takes to implement the simple things
- How brittle pipelines can be
- Edge cases, parameter tuning, backfills, and more
Our goals in creating the Ascend Unified Data Engineering Platform:
- 10x faster build velocity
- Automated maintenance
- Smarts to do the rest (aka, “DataAware™ intelligence”)
As our world becomes more data-driven, data teams must have more intelligent, autonomous platforms to keep them moving faster than the volume of data itself. We are working on building our Unified Data Engineering Platform to solve just that. We help data teams build faster and maintain less, so that they can spend more time driving innovation for their company.
Team Ascend
The Passionate People that Make it Happen
Happy birthday Joe, and big congrats Judy on the #igotit win and 2 year anniversary!!! So thrilled to have you both making Ascend a wonderful place to work ✨💥🎊 #happyemployees #teamascend #startup #startuplife #bayarea #tech #techstartup
Congrats to Riley, our #igotit winner! Happy four year anniversary to Sean and Rui, and happy six month anniversary to Michael! Excellent work to all 🥳♥️ #happyemployees #startup #bayarea #techstartup #doingthings
Gifts for the family giving tree! #holidayseason #teamascend #givingtree #holidaygifts #helpingothers #officeholiday #startup
So many smiling faces in the office today! Celebrating an #igotit win for Jeff, Shawn, Andy and Zhouyang, and a very happy birthday to Anu 🥳 #tgif #startuplife #happybirthday #happyemployees #ascend #teamascend
Happy happy happy birthday Alex!! Hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy the weekend 🎂🥳❤️ #happyemployee #birthday #startup #startupculture #tech #bayarea #tech #techculture
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MENG!!! So glad we got to celebrate with you today, cheers to another one 🥳🎂 #happybirthday #birthdayboy #employeecelebrations #happyemployees #startuplife
Congratulations to Ken for the #igotit win, and to Mo for six amazing months at Ascend. Thank you both for all you do for this team!! #ascend #anniversary #happyemployees #startup #bayareastartup #engineer #bigdata
So many celebrations in the office today! Congrats to Carol for the #igotit win, and happy anniversary to Mac, Anu, and Oliver, and of course, happy birthday to Jove!! #happyemployees #teamascend #startup #techstartup #bayareacompany #employeelife #ascendlife
Congrats on the #igotit win Soner!! Team Ascend enjoying same yummy cake this Friday #tgif #startup #paloalto #happyemployees
Many celebrations this TGIF 🥳
🌟 Happy 2 years at Ascend Jin Huang!
🌟 Happy 6 months at Ascend Soner Can!
💪🏻 Congrats to our #igotit award winner Oliver Hsu!
🎂 Happy Birthday Steven Parkes & Michael Leppitsch!
SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE 🥳🥳 happy birthday Rui and Shawn, happy 6 month anniversary Nandan, and congrats on the #igotit win Megan!! You all rock 🤪 #happyemployees #startup #officeculture #bayarea
So many CONGRATS! To Steven for this week’s I-Got-It award, to Andy for his 6 month anniversary, and to Kyle for his one year anniversary 🥳✨ #igotit #bayarea #happyemployees #officeculture #employeeculture #startupculture
Happy one year to Riley!! ✨🥳 #startuplife #teamascend #anniversary #oneyearanniversary #celebration #happyemployees
Many celebrations at yesterday’s TGIF! 🥳🎉
⭐️ Congratulations to Tom Weeks on his 1️⃣ year anniversary at Ascend!
⭐️ Happy Birthday to Nandan Tammineedi!
⭐️ Shout out to Soner Can for winning the #IGotIt 💪🏼 award!
Happy birthday to Zhouyang and Soner, and congrats on the #igotit win to Zhouyang! Another great #tgif with #teamascend 🥳💪🏼
Congrats Andy for an amazing nomination, and thanks for all your help making #phlai such a success!💪🏼 #igotit #team #teamascend
Celebrating Andrey’s birthday and Riley’s I-Got-It nomination this week, congrats to you both!💪🏼✨🥳 #igotit #teamascend #birthday
Congrats to our newest #igotit winner @shawnxusy 💪🏼 he got to enjoy a #bacon feast for today’s treat 🥓 #winner #startup #siliconvalley #engineer #ascend #teamascend
⭐️Happy 6️⃣ month anniversary at Ascend to Kyle Osborne! 🥳
⭐️Congratulations to Oliver Hsu and Cody Maloney for winning the latest #igotit 💪🏼 and #evolvewithintent 🚀 awards! 🎉
Congratulations to our latest #igotit 💪🏼 champions, Jin Huang & Cody Maloney! 🚀🎉 #teamascend
Our Investors
Our Advisors

Maynard Webb
Board Member at Visa & Salesforce, Former COO at Ebay

Kevin Scott
CTO at Microsoft

Scott McNealy
Former CEO at Sun Microsystems

Luanna Dauber
Former CMO at Confluent, VP Marketing at Pure Storage

Deep Nishar
Managing Partner at Softbank, SVP Product at LinkedIn
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