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§ Private Profile · Los Angeles, CA, USA
A financial technology company offering personal loans for near-prime borrowers with adaptive risk pricing.
Based in San Francisco, California, Ascend Consumer Finance is a financial technology company that provides personal installment loans and adaptive risk pricing technology to near-prime and subprime borrowers. The firm's proprietary RateRewards platform dynamically adjusts a borrower's interest rate each month based on their real-time financial behavior, allowing users to reduce their rates by up to 50 percent for positive actions like paying down other outstanding debts. To support its consumer credit platform, the enterprise secured $12.5 million in total equity financing across its seed and Series A rounds, alongside an initial $250 million debt facility. Ascend Consumer Finance received venture backing from a syndicate of prominent institutional investors, including First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Mucker Capital, SoftTech VC, and Colchis Capital. The financial technology startup was officially founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Steve Carlson.
Ascend Consumer Finance has raised $12.5M across 2 funding rounds.
Ascend Consumer Finance has raised $12.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Ascend Consumer Finance has raised $12.5M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Ascend Consumer Finance's investors include Amasia, Amity Ventures, Blackbird Ventures Australia, Kevin Ding, Goodwater Capital, Menlo Ventures, NKM Capital, Polychain Capital, Tekton Ventures, Dylan Taylor, Matt Mazzeo, Cendana Capital.
Ascend Consumer Finance is a San Francisco–based fintech company that builds consumer lending products using dynamic, behavior‑based pricing to offer lower rates to borrowers who demonstrate improving creditworthiness. [1][2]
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Sources: Ascend’s 2015 press release describing its product and seed round and business listings/BBB profile documenting later operational details and complaints[1][2].
Ascend Consumer Finance has raised $12.5M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $11.0M Series A in June 2016.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2016 | $11M Series A | — | Amasia, Amity Ventures, Blackbird Ventures Australia, Kevin Ding, Goodwater Capital, Menlo Ventures, NKM Capital, Polychain Capital, Tekton Ventures, Dylan Taylor, Matt Mazzeo, Cendana Capital, Financial Solutions LAB, Mucker Capital, OCA Ventures, Partech Ventures, Securian Financial | Announced |
| Apr 14, 2015 | $1.5M Seed | Mucker Capital | Birchmere Ventures, OCA Ventures, Securian Financial | Announced |