First Ascent Associates
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
First Ascent Associates is a venture capital firm. It provides resources, contacts, and expertise to help startups. The company focuses on market segments like sports, music, entertainment, housing, payments, online retail, transportation, shipping, office space, hotel rooms, cannabis technology, and more. First Ascent Associates was founded in2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries First Ascent Associates invests in
Stages First Ascent Associates invests in
Countries First Ascent Associates invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Consumer 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- E-Commerce 2 (22%)
- Home Decor 2 (22%)
- Interior Design 2 (22%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (67%)
- Funding Round 2 (22%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Giving Assistant
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Giving Assistant transforms everyday shopping into charitable giving. It is a Certified B Corporation on a mission to transform everyday shopping into charitable action via their online shopping rewards platform, which makes it easy for shoppers to both save money and donate to nonprofits for free. Together with their shoppers and brand partners,they’ve raised over $5.7 million for nonprofits since its inception in 2014. | Seed / Jan 26, 2018 | |
Lawtrades
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Lawtrades is pioneering a new work model that economically empowers independent legal professionals to monetize their skills while helping companies build diverse legal teams.Access a highly selective talent network of attorneys, paralegals, compliance, and legal ops, to complement their legal department and company culture.Invite-only talentpool (>50% women) bring deep legal and business expertise across commercial contracts, privacy, corporate law, IP, securities, regulatory compliance, and outside GC services.Insights from over 1,000 engagements and customized tools makes it easy to work together. | $3.7M / Seed / Dec 14, 2016 | |
Vytmn
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Vytmn is a mobile application that enables its users to create end-to-end growth systems. The application offers social channel traffic, custom landing pages, email capture conversion optimization, and email marketing campaign services to its users. Vytmn was founded by Justin Wu and Omri Cohen and is based in Venice, California. | $625K / Seed / Apr 22, 2015 | |
Havenly
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Havenly is the most delightful way to design spaces in your home, on any budget. Partner with an interior designer to create a beautiful design based on your unique style and space. You can then buy what you love directly through Havenly's platform with access to hundreds of retailers and the guaranteed best prices.Havenly works withthousands of professional, highly-screened and trained designers nationwide. Founded in 2014, Havenly is the largest startup in the online interior design space. | $20K / Seed / Feb 02, 2015 | |
Paintzen
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Paintzen was founded to simplify painting: a process that can be time-consuming and a hassle. We want to handle the work for you, offering you time and peace of mind. Our quick and simple quoting method combined with our large network of experienced painters help us complete various paint projects across the country. Our dedicated projectmanagement team is here to guide you from color selection through coordinating touch-ups after your project is complete. We believe that something as simple as a coat of paint can uncover the beauty that already exists within your space. | $1.8M / Seed / Oct 16, 2014 | |
Lenda
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Lenda is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of home loan, no fee, and cash-out refinancing. It offers an online platform that enables individuals to refinance their home loans online. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Aug 21, 2014 | |
Chewse
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Chewse takes a "Spotify for food" approach to office catering and provides companies with curated selections of family-style meals from local restaurants. Ordering food for offices is currently broken, and catering is a $55B industry in growth mode with 700,000+ enterprise customers feeding employees today in the US. | Seed / Aug 01, 2014 | |
CannaSys
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CannaSys, Inc. creates, develops, and commercializes innovative technology to solve problems, create opportunities, and streamline the connections among producer, seller, and consumer/patient segments in the cannabis industry. CannaSys has developed three core offerings to date and is working for industry adoption and monetizing the currentset of software and service offerings. CannaSys plans to develop, acquire, and build partnerships in order to bring innovative software solutions to market in both established and developing medical and recreational cannabis states.###Thermal Tennis and CannaSys merged, In result Themal Tennis a wholly owned subsidiary of CannaSys. Following the name change, the company will apply for a new CUSIP number and trading symbol.### | $262K / Post-IPO Equity / Jul 11, 2014 | |
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Paintzen
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Paintzen was founded to simplify painting: a process that can be time-consuming and a hassle. We want to handle the work for you, offering you time and peace of mind. Our quick and simple quoting method combined with our large network of experienced painters help us complete various paint projects across the country. Our dedicated projectmanagement team is here to guide you from color selection through coordinating touch-ups after your project is complete. We believe that something as simple as a coat of paint can uncover the beauty that already exists within your space. | Jul 08, 2014 |
Co-Investors
500 Global
1 deal together
AngelList
1 deal together
AngelPad
1 deal together
CSC Upshot
1 deal together
Data Point Capital
1 deal together
Draper Associates
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does First Ascent Associates invest in?
First Ascent Associates invests primarily in Consumer, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did First Ascent Associates last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for First Ascent Associates closed in Jan 2018. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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