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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.
Based in Austin, Texas, TimberTown Specialty Building Products supplies high quality lumber and building materials for a wide variety of residential and commercial projects. Our products range from high-end exotic hardwoods, softwoods and composites; often specially milled for different applications. The types of projects we supply can be as simple as a small residential outdoor cedar deck, to the very complex hardwood siding for a multi-million dollar custom home or a rooftop patio on a downtown high-rise. With such a large and diverse client base, we excel in providing exceptional service for contractors and commercial builders, architects, designers and their clients.
Squaremouth.com, and their multi-award winning customer service team, has helped over 2.5 million travelers save time and money to find the best travel insurance policy for their trip. Leveraging decades of travel expertise, and industry-leading technology, Squaremouth.com hosts the most intuitive travel insurance quoting and comparison engine on the market today. Coupled with verified customer reviews and the largest portfolio of products, Squaremouth allows travelers to instantly purchase a travel insurance policy from every major provider in the US.
Smardt Chiller Group is a global leader in oil-free centrifugal chiller technology, focusing on high-efficiency HVAC solutions for commercial, industrial, and institutional applications. Founded in 2005 by Roger Richmond-Smith and Ron Conry, the company has over 25 years of experience in magnetic bearing compressors and oil-free systems. Smardt operates manufacturing facilities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Germany, and China, with more than 10,000 chillers installed worldwide. The company offers a range of products, including water-cooled, air-cooled, and evaporative-cooled chillers, as well as customizable modular systems. All chillers utilize oil-free centrifugal compressors with magnetic bearings, which enhance energy efficiency and reduce maintenance needs. Smardt also provides custom engineering, global support for installation and maintenance, and energy efficiency consulting to help clients optimize their systems and reduce carbon footprints. The company serves various industries, including government facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturing, data centers, and hospitals, emphasizing reliability and sustainability in its solutions.