Ardent Venture Partners

Ardent Venture Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2020 and based in Washington, D.C. The firm focuses on investing in technology startups that are dedicated to transforming work processes. Ardent primarily targets companies located in the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as in Georgia and Colorado. Through its investments, the firm aims to support innovative founders who are developing impactful solutions in the technology sector.

Mikkey Clarke

Analyst

Philip Herget III

General Partner and Co-Founder

Dan Preiss

Principal

7 past transactions

Incentivio

Series A in 2023
Incentivio is helping restaurants win restaurant 2.0 by transforming the restaurant experience for the digital age. The platform increases retention, maximizes revenue, and improves the guest experience for first-time visitors as well as loyalists. It operates across web, mobile, and in-store channels to assist restaurants in acquiring new customers, increasing visits and spending, increasing loyalty and engagement, lowering costs, and generating incremental revenue. By combining online ordering and white-label restaurant apps with loyalty, gift cards, machine learning upsells, CDP analytics, a data-driven marketing suite, and guest journey management, you can create a powerful system for building relationships with your guests and driving digital revenue.

Crux

Funding Round in 2023
Crux is the capital markets technology company changing the way clean energy and manufacturing projects are financed in the U.S. Crux’s platform, market intelligence, and expert team help developers and manufacturers raise capital through all stages of project development and operation. The company’s first offering is the leading platform for tax credit transfers. Since its launch in 2023, Crux has raised more than $27 million in funding from venture capital and strategic investors. Crux’s world-class team brings together expertise from energy, tax, finance, government, and technology to power an abundant, resilient, and secure energy future. For more information, visit https://www.cruxclimate.com/.

LEO1

Series B in 2022
LEO1 is a financial service platform that provides educational lending services.

Reserve Trust

Series A in 2021
Reserve Trust - the first fintech trust company with a Federal Reserve master account - provides B2B payments services that financial institutions and fintech’s have previously only been able to obtain from correspondent and sponsor banks.

Verituity

Series A in 2021
Verituity is a verified digital payments platform that connects banks, businesses, and payees to first-time and on-time digital payouts. Verituity’s bank-grade platform helps financial institutions meet the unique payout needs of their clients. Whether it’s insurance companies paying claims, businesses paying suppliers, service providers paying refunds, mortgage companies transferring funds, or gaming companies paying out winnings.

Method Financial

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout.

Woodio

Series A in 2019
Woodio is a digital designing agency.
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