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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.
Accelerant is a data-driven risk exchange connecting specialty insurance underwriters with risk capital providers. Founded in 2018 by a group of longtime insurance industry executives and technology experts, our vision is to rebuild the way risk is exchanged – so that it works better, for everyone. For the underwriters we call Members, we deliver a full service offering that includes insights and analytics, distribution management, operational resources, and stable underwriting capacity. Our approach frees our Members to focus on profitable underwriting while growing their businesses. Our portfolio presents attractive, validated, and diversified source of specialty insurance premium to our risk capital provider partners.
Our proprietary software and professional team of CPAs have assisted thousands of businesses retain hundreds of millions of dollars in stimulus funding