# Ascension Investment Management

> Ascension Investment Management is a VC fund in Saint Louis backing Solar and Energy. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saint Louis, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://ascensioninvestmentmanagement.com

Ascension Investment Management is a VC fund in Saint Louis focused on Solar and Energy. Ascension Investment Management is to help faith-based organizations meet their operating, investment, and mission goals.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Solar | 1 | 33% |
| Energy | 1 | 33% |
| Hospital | 1 | 33% |
| Security | 1 | 33% |
| Automotive | 1 | 33% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 2 | 67% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cortica | Cortica is a rapidly growing healthcare company pioneering a unique and effective approach to treating neurodevelopmental conditions including autism spectrum disorder, speech and language delays, sensory processing disorder and other conditions that impact brain development. Harnessing insights and technologies from emerging neuroscience, Corticabrings together clinical specialists from a range of disciplines to design and deliver comprehensive care to children with developmental differences. | $40M | Series D | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Cortica | Cortica is an Israeli company founded in 2007 with leading AI technology for visual perception. Its unique self-learning technology, backed by more than 200 patents, allows Cortica to develop multiple products that can read and understand images on a human level­–thereby significantly exceeding the capabilities of the major tech companies.Cortica is the first AI company capable of human-level image understanding. Even the most advanced technology has never been able to understand the visual world as well as people do - until now. By leveraging proprietary brain research to create unsupervised AI, Cortica has developed the most effective computer vision system. This technology, based upon the mammal cortex is utilized to build products impacting many industries. The company’s mission is to lead the emerging AI market with a strong focus on computer vision and establish its "universal visual index of the world" as the global standard­­–enabling machines to read and understand images. Cortica's vision is to embed its capabilities in all next-generation platforms where understanding images is a critical task. This includes autonomous vehicles, smart city applications, security cameras, drones, media, robotics, and medical image analysis. Cortica's headquarters and R&D center are based in Israel employing over 80 leading AI researchers and veterans of elite Israeli military intelligence units. | $40M | Series D | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Lekela Power | It will deliver utility scale wind and solar projects into commercial operation in Africa over the next five years. Energy is critical to the African continent’s continued growth and Lekela is positioned to provide secure, reliable and competitive renewable energy to consumers such as government, utilities and large-scale industrial consumers. | $117.5M | Private Equity | Jun 27, 2016 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- CVS Health Ventures — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- LRVHealth — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- University of Wisconsin Foundation — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Actis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/actis) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [International Finance Corporation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/international-finance-corporation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- Sanlam — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ascension Investment Management invest in?

Ascension Investment Management invests primarily in Solar, Energy and Hospital startups, most often at Series D and Private Equity stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Ascension Investment Management last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ascension Investment Management closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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