Ascensive Asset Management

Ascensive Asset Management is a private equity and venture capital firm established in 2019 and based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm specializes in investments within the blockchain industry and has a broader focus on sectors such as financial services, information technology, financial technology, gaming, big data, and software as a service (SaaS). Ascensive aims to identify and support innovative companies that are poised to shape the future of these industries.

Ben Middleton

Founding Partner

21 past transactions

zkLink

Seed Round in 2023
zkLink Labs is solving Ethereum fragmentation through its aggregated rollup solutions, zkLinkNova and zkLinkX. By leveraging Ethereum's security features, zkLink unifies tokens and liquidity across Ethereum Layer 2s. The platform enables developers to deploy app-specific rollups with a highly customizable architecture, allowing them to optimize cost and performance efficiency.

Snackclub

Seed Round in 2022
Snackclub is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that changes how people consume games and the internet today.

Itheum

Venture Round in 2022
Itheum is a first-of-its-kind data infrastructure platform that brokers the sale of your data (which is highly valuable) to the AI industry (which needs much more data sourced with consent). We are building blockchain-powered technology for data tokenization, data licensing, data provenance and creator protection, data marketplaces, and data governance - pretty much, the entire "AI data infrastructure rails" you will need to power a new data economy for this AI first-era we are live in.

MixMob

Seed Round in 2022
MixMob is a P2E game built on the metaverse and created by Encore Studios. It operates on Solanaand draws its inspiration from music, art, fashion, and movies to create the Remix Culture.

CyBall

Seed Round in 2021
CyBall — CyBloc Football, is a soccer-themed, NFT-based game with a play-to-earn model that allows users to collect, trade, mentor, and ultimately battle with CyBlocs.

Ambire

Seed Round in 2021
Ambire Wallet is a self-custodial smart wallet for Web3, which focuses on Defi and EVM. Providing secure email authentication, it combines power with ease of use. Available on 10+ EVM chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom Opera, Andromeda, Gnosis Chain, BNB Chain, Moonriver, Moonbeam, and others. The Ambire wallet has a tradable native token with the ticker symbol $WALLET. Ambire AdEx brings full transparency to digital advertising, reduces ad fraud, and protects end users’ privacy. It is the first ad network based on Ethereum blockchain technology. The Ambire AdEx has a tradable native token with the ticker symbol $ADX.

Structure

Seed Round in 2021
Structure financial is a global trading platform that aims to facilitate crypto-based investing and lending for mobile users.

Matrix One

Seed Round in 2021
MATRIX Labs is a machine intelligence company converging physical and digital worlds. We have an incredible team of passionate technologists. MATRIX is the world's most advanced Internet of Things device for consumers and businesses. For details visit: https://www.matrix.one/ MATRIX Creator was launched on June 18, 2016. MATRIX Creator is a sensor-packed development board designed for the 8M Raspberry P's; allowing quick and affordable creation of hardware apps. To order and details, visit: https://www.matrix.one/ MATRIX Voice is a dev board designed for the Raspberry Pi or Stand-alone with ESP32 (WiFi/BT/MCU). Launched in February 2017 to enable an open-source voice platform for makers and industrial IoT. Visit: https://igg.me/at/matrix-voice/x

zkLink

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a unified multi-chain network designed to unify the world's blockchain and to make it secure, efficient, and easy to use for developers and users. The company offers a secure chain-to-chain interoperability protocol that focuses on connecting the blockchains with a layer2 network that is easy, safe, and secure for the end-user, enabling users to receive liquidity on the platform and earn yields.

Jambb

Seed Round in 2021
Own best-in-class content, merchandise, and performances from your favorite comedians. Share, sell, or rent your assets across the world.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol for NFTs.

Yield Guild Games

Series A in 2021
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

Bware Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Bware Labs mission revolves around tackling Web3 challenges and increasing its worldwide adoption by providing some of the industry’s most reliable infrastructure services and development tools

Jenny Metaverse DAO

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jenny DAO is a collaborative contemporary art collection that creates assets in the metaverse and fractionalizes them on Unicly. JennyDAO's fractionalization strategy aims to give high-end NFT ownership a distributed spin. JennyDAO can make rare internet art more accessible by fractionalizing a collection of valuable NFTs.

Swing.xyz

Seed Round in 2021
Swing is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol on top layer one and two blockchains. It helps developers all over the world to exchange crypto assets using blockchain smart contracts, relayers, and cross-chain bridges. The platform provides turnkey solutions, allowing anyone to launch cross-chain experiences. Route assets intelligently across cross-chain bridges, DEXes, and aggregators.

BreederDAO

Seed Round in 2021
BreederDAO is the NFT asset factory of blockchain games. We provide high-volume asset production, tailored to specification, for some of the largest guilds in the Metaverse so they can supercharge their Play-To-Earn economies.

Archer DAO

Seed Round in 2020
Archer DAO helps its users increase their Ethereum mining revenue. Integrate in just 5 minutes, with one line of code. Start earning more today.

Yield Guild Games

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, Yield Guild Games is a venture capital firm based in Quezon City, Philippines. The firm invest in early-stage token and equity deals in web3, gaming studios and the infrastructure that supports the growth of the industry.

Unilend Finance

Funding Round in 2020
Unilend Finance is a software development company that provides money market lending and borrowing services. The company is a Multichain protocol for Lending and borrowing all ERC20 tokens permissionless and developing a Futuristic Base Layer for all #DeFi applications. It was founded in 2020.

KiraCore

Seed Round in 2020
KIRA is a financial hub connecting decentralized Web3 applications. As an integral part of the Web3 stack KIRA enables value settlement between dApps and largest interconnected networks in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Thanks to uncapped value at stake originating from both real world and interchain space KIRA provides secure Layer 1 platform for deploying decentralized applications and issuing digital assets.

Frax Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Frax Finance is the inventor of the fractional stablecoin & first crypto native CPI known as the Frax Price Index (FPI).
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