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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.
Franklin Products, inc. was founded in 1992 to fill a niche in the marketplace for high quality fluid bed dryer exhaust filters at highly competitive price points for the pharmaceutical industry. Successes in the pharmaceutical industry led to rapid growth into other industries such as food production and chemical manufacturing. All markets where the best quality product is required to do the job!
Ethos is a life insurance company founded in 2016 by Peter Colis and Lingke Wang. The company focuses on making life insurance more affordable and accessible by using technology to simplify the application process. Ethos operates as a licensed insurance agency, partnering with third-party carriers like Legal & General America, TruStage, and Ameritas. Ethos offers an online application process that provides instant quotes, allowing customers to apply for life insurance quickly. The company utilizes a proprietary underwriting engine to assess health and eligibility, ensuring suitable coverage options. Ethos also supports a network of independent insurance agents, facilitating both direct-to-consumer and agent-assisted sales. The primary product offered is term life insurance, tailored to meet individual needs. With significant funding from investors such as Sequoia, Accel, Google Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Softbank, Ethos has established itself as a major player in the U.S. life insurance market, aiming to protect millions of families.
Oden Machinery, Inc. provides customers worldwide with liquid filling and processing machinery backed by over three decades of industry-leading innovation in design and engineering solutions. Oden is a leading U.S. manufacturer of filling and processing machinery for the liquid products markets and provides complete turnkey liquid packaging lines. Custom designed systems for form/fill/seal, bag-in-box, retort, explosion proof, and other specialized liquid packaging applications are also available. In August 2010, Oden partnered with Green Frontier LLC to help companies optimize their liquid processing operations and reduce their impact on the environment. The Oden Process Equipment Group offers continuous stream digital blending systems, automated batch addition systems, and liquid product transfer systems, all designed to reduce labor costs, enhance product quality, increase production capacity, and decrease generation of waste and scrap. Our customers businesses span a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical, personal care products, food processing, household products, general industrial, automotive products, petroleum products, and the chemical processing industries. If your packaging/processing operations include filling or processing liquid products, we encourage you to visit www.odencorp.com. If you need an off the shelf" machine or require highly specialized machinery give us a call, 800-658-3622.
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