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Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount todays industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation.
City First Bank is a commercial community development bank, the largest Black-led Minority Depository Institution, and a certified as B Corp with branches and headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC; channeling intentional capital to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods; investing in multifamily affordable housing, nonprofits and small business development. We offer a unique platform for impact depositors and institutional investors to see value in strengthening LMI communities through the provision of capital. NASDAQ: BYFC