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More than 100 of our founder and investor friends made the 2.5-mile sprint, jog, or walk around Greenlake to pitch their startup or fund, part of Seattle Tech…
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Nate Bek
Associate, Ascend
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Ascend Updates
More than 100 of our founder and investor friends made the 2.5-mile sprint, jog, or walk around Greenlake to pitch their startup or fund, part of Seattle Tech Week 2024 festivities.
Here’s our favorite moments from that early morning — captured in collaboration with Madrona.
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Lake Union, test day. The rig ran for eleven minutes before the founder called it a success.
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A founder who could explain the physics in one breath and the business model in the next.
A prototype we could see and touch, not a projection.
A cost curve that gets better with scale, not worse.
If you’re building something we’d want to see in a kayak, read our founder resources toolkit before you pitch us.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kirby Winfield, General Partner
Kirby founded Ascend to write the first institutional check into Pacific Northwest technology companies. He’s on the board of 12 portfolio companies, including Bean Box and Endurance Energy.
