Ascent Valley
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About Ascent Valley

Infrastructure for founders, investors and operators.

The valley where ideas become companies.

Ascent Valley is a founders & investors network built around a simple belief: a founder should have people to turn to.

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Ascent Valley brand landscape: a valley drawn in fine golden contour lines, lit from the horizon.
From an idea.
Through the work.
Towards a company.

Why we’re here

Building can be lonely.
It shouldn’t stay that way.

You can spend weeks on a product and still have no one to talk to about the decision in front of you. Finding useful advice or a first introduction can be harder when you’re new to a city or building your first company.

We want founders to have access to people, experience and tools while they build. A conversation at an event can be the start. The network gives that conversation somewhere to continue.

What matters here

Your company.
People around you.

01Ownership

Your idea stays yours.

You decide what to build and which advice to use. Ascent Valley does not take equity for participation in the network.

02Access

Help within reach.

You should be able to meet useful people and learn from experience while you are still figuring things out.

03Contribution

Everyone brings something.

The knowledge comes from the people in the network. A question you have today may be one someone else has already worked through.

The people

A room with different perspectives.

We bring founders, investors and operators together, and build ways for them to share experience, ask for help and keep working towards their next step.

Founders

Someone to talk it through with.

Building can feel lonely. Meet people who understand the work and have a real conversation about your project, your next decision or where you feel stuck.

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Investors

Meet the people behind local startups.

See what is being built in your city. Talk to founders in person and get a sense of the team beyond a deck or an introductory email.

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Operators

Find a team you want to work with.

Talk with founders, explore a collaboration or hear the experience that helps you take the first step towards your own startup.

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The infrastructure behind the network

Help that continues
between evenings.

Events bring people together. Community helps them stay in touch. Startup applications give our team the context to prepare its investor digest and make relevant introductions.

We’re also building a place for requests and offers, a shared knowledge library and tools for founders to keep investors informed.

A network you can return to.

Come to an event, join the conversation and return when you have something new to ask or share.

Available now

  • EventsLive
  • Investor digest & introductionsLive
  • CommunityIn beta

What we’re building

  • Deal FlowIn development
  • Shared knowledge libraryIn development
  • Requests & offers boardIn development
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Explore your next step

Live

Start with a conversation.

Choose a city, read the programme and see which gathering fits what you’re looking for. Come with a question or something you’re working on.

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In beta

Give the conversation somewhere to continue.

Stay in touch with people you meet. Choose your entrance through Slack, Telegram or the web app. We’re connecting the three around a shared chat, with functions distributed between the platforms.

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Live

Return with something new to ask or share.

A second evening gives you a chance to follow up on an earlier conversation, see familiar faces and contribute your own experience.

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In development

Grow your place in the network.

The resident path is being shaped around continued participation. Resident criteria and benefits are being defined; the requests and offers board and shared knowledge library are in development.

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Our story

From the first rooms to a growing network.

Ascent Valley was founded in 2025. We began our activities in March 2026, building infrastructure that helps founders turn an idea into a company.

  1. 2025

    The company begins

    A year of building, and of asking.

    Ascent Valley was created in 2025. The year went into developing the product and into conversations with founders and investors — we wanted what we were building to answer something they had actually run into.

  2. Mar
    2026

    Activities begin

    Meeting in person.

    We began our activities in March 2026. Founder gatherings gave people a place to meet and talk about what they were building.

  3. Today

    The network today

    Connections beyond the evening.

    Startup profiles, applications and a team-run investor digest give those meetings a place to continue. The community is in beta.

    See how the parts connect

Our community

Started with250

Latest count6,000

Founders, investors and operators across our channels: city groups, the event list and our email list.

6months since activities began

March 2026

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Meet the community

Meet the network

Find your first evening.

Choose a city, read the programme and see which gathering fits what you’re looking for.

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