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Ascend is a membership-based travel concierge service that manages flight, hotel, and ground transportation bookings via WhatsApp for frequent travelers, emphasizing rapid response times, proactive disruption handling, and significant cost savings.

Travel & Hospitality

Co-investorsFIFirstMark CapitalFJFJ LabsINIndex VenturesFIFirst Round CapitalMIMischiefNFNFP+2 more

Ascend is a financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance agencies, wholesalers, MGAs, and carriers, combining AI-powered accounting automation, payments, and premium financing.

AI & Machine LearningInsurTechSaaS

PCPraveen Chekuri(Founder)inAndrew Wynn(Founder)

Co-investorsBOBoxGroupFIFinancial Venture StudioFIFirst Round CapitalMGMGV.VCNFNFPNYNyca+10 more

Ascend is a membership-based travel concierge for frequent business and leisure travelers, offering a human team that books and manages flights, hotels, and ground transport end-to-end via WhatsApp.

ConsumerMarketplacesTravel & Hospitality

Co-investorsRERevUp CapitalBOBoxGroupEXExponent CapitalFIFirst Round CapitalFIFirstMark CapitalINIndex Ventures+4 more

Axio provides cyber risk quantification and analysis for enterprises, using an organization's own past, present, and target security posture to identify and prioritize control gaps.

CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsFIFin CapitalACAccelELElevation CapitalOMOmidyar Network IndiaPEPeak XV Partners

CVRD provides a SaaS platform and administration services for managing fringe benefits and ICHRA (Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements) for government contractors.

GovTechHR TechSaaSMcLean, US

Co-investorsNFNFPUPUpfront Ventures

CoverTree provides insurance exclusively for manufactured homes, offering plans that can be purchased online with potential savings.

FintechInsurTechSaaSDetroit, US

RISHIE MODI(Executive Officer, Director)inDSDIVYANSH SHARMA(Executive Officer, Director)inAdarsh Rachmale(Founder)in

Co-investorsAVAV8 VenturesDEDetroit Venture PartnersEVEverywhere VenturesNFNFPPOPortage VenturesANAnnox Capital+2 more

Cylinder Health is a data-driven digestive health organization that develops value-based care programs, products, and payment models in the gastrointestinal space.

Digital HealthHealthtech

BSBill Snyder(Founder & CEO)in

Co-investors7W7wire VenturesBIBig Pi VenturesCOCorewell Health VenturesFCFCA Venture PartnersHEHealth Catalyst CapitalINIntermountain Health+7 more

Vivante Health is a digital health company focused on gastrointestinal (GI) care, developing data-driven, value-based health programs and technology for managing digestive conditions.

Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessHouston, US

KAKimon Angelides(Founder)inSally Welborn(Director)William Snyder(Executive Officer, Director)MVMarco Veremis(Director)inSEShawn Ellis(Director)inSanford Duncan(Director)

Co-investors7W7wire VenturesCOCorewell Health VenturesLILifeforce CapitalMEMercato PartnersPEPeterson VenturesBIBig Pi Ventures+5 more

This is a team member profile page for Pascal Unger on the website of Focal, a venture capital firm.

AI & Machine LearningSector Agnostic

PUPascal Unger(Founder)inDDDaniel Darling(Founder)inSWSydney Wasikowskiin

Co-investorsLULUXEM VenturesWIWischoff Ventures

Focal provides AI-powered meeting automation and workflow tools for financial advisors, automating pre-meeting preparation, note-taking, CRM data entry, and client onboarding tasks.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS

Jerry Jihao Bai(Founder)in

Co-investorsNFNFPWIWischoff Ventures

Honeycomb Insurance is a team of insurance and AI experts building technology to simplify the real estate insurance process for better coverage discovery and pricing.

AI & Machine LearningInsurTechPropTech

IBItai Ben-Zaken(Founder)in

Indio is a cloud-based software platform that automates the insurance application and renewal process for agencies, brokerages, and insurers.

Cloud ComputingInsurTechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Matthew Watson(Founder)Adam Bratt(Executive Officer)MFMichael Furlong(Founder)in

BoardAKAlex Kolicich(Director)in

Co-investors50500 Global8V8VC9M9Mile LabsBEBetter Tomorrow VenturesMEMenlo VenturesMEMerus Capital+3 more

Kai Health builds technology to systematically prevent preventable medical errors, offering an Autonomous Performance Improvement platform aimed at helping health systems reduce liability, recover revenue, and drive continuous improvement.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS

Hallie Woods Kosena(Chief Executive Officer, Accessum Health)

Co-investorsNFNFPIMIMM InvestmentSBSBVASMSmilegate InvestmentTRTranslink Investment

Marble is a platform that helps customers manage and optimize their insurance policies by comparing quotes from multiple insurance providers and reducing costs.

ConsumerFintechInsurTechSaaSNew York City, US

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesBLBlue CollectiveFIFinTech VenturesMSMS&AD VenturesIAIA Capital Group

Origin provides in-home pediatric speech, occupational, and physical therapy, connecting families with local licensed therapists and offering insurance-covered sessions.

Digital HealthHealthtechMarketplaces

GHGabe Hart(Founder)in

Co-investorsNFNFPTHThe MBA FundACAcadian Ventures Management, LlcFEFELIX CAPITALNONotion Capital

AI Interview Companion (formerly Pillar, now part of Employ) is an AI tool that assists interviewers with transcription, summarization, interview guides, structured question generation, and interviewer coaching.

AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaSIndianapolis, US

MSMark Simpson(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardETEric Tobias(Director)inSDScott Dorsey(Director)in

Co-investorsELElevate VenturesREReal Tech CapitalSEService Provider CapitalHIHigh Alpha

PlanFees offers fee benchmarking tools for retirement plan advisors, including Prism for investment, recordkeeping, administrative, and advisor fee benchmarking, Prism365 for advisor fee and service benchmarking, and RFP Express for generating custom quotes from recordkeepers.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Posterity Health is a US men's reproductive health provider offering male fertility evaluation, semen analysis, vasectomy, vasectomy reversal, hormone and sexual health care through fellowship-trained reproductive urologists and advanced practice providers.

HealthtechCentennial, US

Pamela Joy Pure(Chief Executive Officer)Barrett Edward Cowan(Director)Donald A Holzworth(Director)Dylan Lawrence Pure(Director)

BoardKyle Maierhofer(Director)Gerald M. McCarthy, Jr.(Director)

Co-investorsFCFCA Venture PartnersNFNFPSTSteelSky Ventures

Presta is a platform that provides end-to-end loan process management, enabling users to originate, underwrite, close loans, send disbursements, and receive monthly payments.

FintechCleveland, US

Peter Truog(Founder)in

Co-investorsJUJumpstart VenturesMAMatchstick VenturesTETechstarsZEZeal Capital PartnersTHThe Fund

RxSaveCard offers a service that lets large self-insured employers and their employees access lower cash and discount card prices for prescription drugs without switching Pharmacy Benefit Managers, while maintaining ERISA fiduciary compliance.

Digital HealthFintechHealthtechHR TechChicago, US

CCChris Crawford(CEO & Founder)inJMJace Mouse(CTO & President)inWilliams Evans(Director)

BoardSEShawn Ellis(Director)in

Co-investorsRORock HealthRORock Health Capital

Sage Health provides a connected platform powered by AI that adapts to evolving care and technology requirements.

AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechLongevityNew York City, US

MLMatt Lynch(Founder)inEJEllen Johnston(Founder)inRMRaj Mehra(Founder)in

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesIVIVP (Institutional Venture Partners)MAMaveronMEMerus CapitalP1P101 VenturesPLPLUS Capital+8 more

TrustLayer offers a platform that automates the collection, storage, and verification of vendor compliance documents such as certificates of insurance (COIs), providing centralized tracking and audit trails.

AI & Machine LearningFintechGovTechInsurTechSaaSBrandon, US

John Fohr(Founder)inVAVincenzo Acinapura(Founder)in

Co-investorsABAbstract VenturesBIBitAngelsBOBoxGroupCRCraft VenturesMOModerne VenturesPRPropel Venture Partners+7 more

Tuned is a digital hearing health company offering employer-sponsored hearing care and AI-based self-fitting hearing aids.

Co-investorsBOBogarooFIFirst Check VenturesNENext Coast Ventures

Tuned offers online hearing health services for employers, providing screenings, virtual audiology consultations, and discounted or fully-covered hearing aids and related solutions across multiple plan tiers.

Digital HealthHealthtechWellness & FitnessNew York, US

OROfer Raz(Executive Officer)inDADanny Aronson(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardSEShawn Ellis(Director)in

Wellth helps individuals with chronic diseases develop positive behavioral habits that improve health outcomes and quality of life.

Digital HealthHealthtech

Matthew Loper(CEO)in

Co-investorsCOComcast VenturesDRDreamit VenturesESEsplanade VenturesFCFCA Venture PartnersMEMercato PartnersNENew York Life Ventures+5 more

Wingspan provides a platform for businesses to automate the full lifecycle of managing flexible workforces, including onboarding, invoicing, payments, compliance, and benefits.

FintechFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSNew York, US

AMAnthony Mironov(Founder)inGFGreg Franczyk(Founder)in

BoardSEShawn Ellis(Director)inDUDavid Ulevitch(Director)inPSPriya Saiprasad(Director)in

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzSWSwift Ventures18186 VenturesASAsymmetric Capital PartnersBRBramalea PartnersGOGood Friends+5 more