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Ascend.io: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Ascend.io, named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, provides the most advanced automation for data and analytics engineering workloads. Ascend unifies the core capabilities of data engineering—data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability—into a single platform so that data teams deliver 10x faster. Ascend is backed by the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Accel, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and 8VC; and supported by notable advisors, such as Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft; Maynard Webb, Board Member Salesforce, Visa; Scott McNealy, former Sun Microsystems CEO; Luanne Dauber, former CMO at Confluent and VP Marketing at Pure Storage; and Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner of Softbank Vision Fund. For more information about Ascend, visit www.ascend.io.

www.ascend.io LinkedIn Palo Alto, United States 11-50 employees
Big Data SaaS Software
Total raised
$31.0M
Rounds
1
Latest
Series B
Apr 2022

Ascend.io has raised $31.0M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Series B of $31.0M announced in Apr 2022.

That round is above the $5.5M median round size for Data and Analytics companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Ascend.io Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$31.0M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Series B
$31.0M in Apr 2022
Employees
11-50
reported band
Headquarters
Palo Alto, United States

Latest funding round on record: Apr 2022.

Ascend.io Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series B
$31.0M

Ascend.io Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Sean Knapp
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Ascend.io team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.

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Ascend.io Funding Compared to Other Data and Analytics Startups

Segment
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Median round
30,148
$7.5M
4,380
$31M

Ascend.io's latest round of $31.0M is above the median round in Data and Analytics. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Ascend.io Funding FAQs

What does Ascend.io do?

Ascend.io, named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor, provides the most advanced automation for data and analytics engineering workloads. Ascend unifies the core capabilities of data engineering—data ingestion, transformation, delivery, orchestration, and observability—into a single platform so that data teams deliver 10x faster. Ascend is backed by the world’s leading venture capital firms, including Accel, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and 8VC; and supported by notable advisors, such as Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft; Maynard Webb, Board Member Salesforce, Visa; Scott McNealy, former Sun Microsystems CEO; Luanne Dauber, former CMO at Confluent and VP Marketing at Pure Storage; and Deep Nishar, Senior Managing Partner of Softbank Vision Fund. For more information about Ascend, visit www.ascend.io.

How much funding has Ascend.io raised?

Ascend.io has raised $31.0M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Series B of $31.0M announced in Apr 2022.

When did Ascend.io last raise funding?

Ascend.io's most recent funding round on record is a Series B of $31.0M, announced in Apr 2022.

Who is the CEO of Ascend.io?

Sean Knapp is listed as CEO at Ascend.io.

Where is Ascend.io headquartered?

Ascend.io is based in Palo Alto, California, United States.

How many employees does Ascend.io have?

Ascend.io is in the 11-50 employee band.

How does Ascend.io's funding compare to other Data and Analytics startups?

Ascend.io's latest round of $31.0M is above the $5.5M median round size for Data and Analytics companies on FundedIQ across 1,842 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Ascend.io Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Ascend.io is left off this page rather than filled in.

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