# Ascent Energy Ventures

> Ascent Energy Ventures is a VC fund in Denver backing Software and Energy. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Denver, United States
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ascent-energy-ventures/
- Website: https://www.ascentev.com/

Ascent Energy Ventures is a VC fund in Denver focused on Software and Energy. Ascent invests in AI, software, and digital hardware leading to a more digital energy sector. The energy sector includes: power generation, grid tech, energy transition, oil & gas, energy-climate, and mining tech.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 43% |
| Energy | 5 | 36% |
| Analytics | 4 | 29% |
| Oil and Gas | 4 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 71% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Series A | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 86% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Forsberg | Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-forsberg-49fd |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Piq Energy | Piq Energy provides a grid planning software platform designed to manage and accelerate the grid interconnection process for power projects. The company's platform integrates standard engineering tools, network models, and queue data into a unified workflow for energy developers, utilities, and grid operators. This software automatesengineering studies and evaluates transmission technologies to identify viable sites and unlock grid capacity. The central value proposition focuses on reducing the time required to connect energy generators and large loads to the electrical grid. | $5M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Splight Tech | Splight is an Artificial Intelligence Company, that creates Artificial Energy, the greenest energy ever made. Artificial Energy is energy that would have not been generated but for the application of digital solutions to existing power infrastructure. Running over a proprietary, powerful and transparent digital platform, Artificial Energyproduction leverages the unutilized capacity of the grid to generate energy combining big data capture and processing with state-of-the-art technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing. We create expanded pools of benefits for our clients by increasing revenues, reducing operating and maintenance costs, eliminating or delaying capital expenditures, lowering the cost of capital, and ultimately increasing profitability while directly contributing to the full decarbonization of the energy industry. | $12M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Galatea Technologies | Galatea Technologies creates a sophisticated platform to aggregate, analyze, and optimize a multitude of constantly changing logistics-focused, capacity-centric decision-making processes in a world full of use cases. Its first application, Waste Coordinator, is a SaaS product tailored to the oilfield waste vertical. Its automation technologyoptimizes oilfield transportation workflows digitally, allowing users to easily maximize operational, financial, and environmental performance. | $2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| P6 Technologies | P6 Technologies is a global company that was launched by seasoned entrepreneurs with experience in the energy and petrochemical sectors. P6 Technologies offers software that makes it simple and verifiable to perform product-level life cycle analyses of transportation fuels and petrochemicals, paving the way for effective decarbonization. | $3.3M | Seed | Aug 16, 2023 |  |
| AI Driller | Integrated solutions for remote operations and autonomous control. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| PowerX | PowerX offers an app that provides a unified view of all energy, devices, and water outlets running in any home.PowerX’s patent-pending AI technology saves money by learning the routine, automatically optimizing the water heating and providing solutions to help save money and be more efficient. PowerX helps to identify the individual appliancesand water outlets like a garden faucet that are driving up the utility bill each month. The company was founded in 2020 and based in Brooklyn, New York. |  | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| BidOut | BidOut is a procurement platform in the energy industry that streamlines the procurement process and connects service providers directly to buyers. |  | Pre-Seed | Jun 12, 2022 |  |
| Iron-IQ | Iron-IQ is a cloud-based IIoT Monitoring and Control Platform. | $3.5M | Series A | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Earthview | Earthview is a company that creates an environmental monitoring system for the oil and gas sectors to identify air quality. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |
| Mechademy Incorporated | Mechademy Incorporated is a cloud-based SaaS platform for remote monitoring of Turbo-machinery, providing performance analytics and ML-based prescriptive insights. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Allos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/allos-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [9Zero Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9zero-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Active Impact Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-impact-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [noa](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-o-proptech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Artemis Energy Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artemis-energy-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Barn Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barn-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Ascent Energy Ventures invest in?

Ascent Energy Ventures invests primarily in Software, Energy and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ascent Energy Ventures's check size?

Ascent Energy Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$12M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ascent Energy Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Ascent Energy Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Ascent Energy Ventures?

The team at Ascent Energy Ventures includes David Forsberg (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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