Ascent Valley
Pitch

The six layers

Built as infrastructure, not just events

Events bring people into the room. The community layer keeps them in touch between evenings. A weekly digest carries founders we met in person to investors who match their thesis. Three more layers are being built, and they are marked as such everywhere on this page.

2 layers live1 in beta3 in development
Evenings to date
63
Ahead
51
Countries
13

From events to signal

Six layers, one system

A list of parts is not a system. What makes this infrastructure is the order in which one layer hands a person to the next. Press a layer to see what is there today, or follow a route and watch it happen.

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Events

Live

In-person rooms — the way into the system

Offline and online. You show what you are building and get questions back, from people who are building too. Every guest is checked in at the door, and that is what makes every layer after this one possible.

Evenings to date
63
Ahead
51
Countries
13

What is there

  • Checked in at the door, every evening
  • Five running formats: pitch nights, mixers, AI & tech, investor connect, co-founder matching
  • Table topics voted on before the night
  • A city chapter behind every room
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What taking part gives you

Every evening adds to what the system does for you.

The same six layers, read from where you stand. What is live works today; what is being built is named, with its status, and not sold as part of a ticket.

For founders

A room that asks the hard questions, and a record that outlives the evening.

  • Pitch nights and mixers in 13 countries, five formatsLive
  • A directory profile that says where you were metLive
  • A place in the weekly digest for investors whose thesis fitsLive
  • Your city's community between eveningsIn beta

Being built

In development

Deal Flow — one weekly update, read by every investor following your company.

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For investors

Founders you can hear in person first, and read about every Monday.

  • Rooms where the founders present and take questionsLive
  • A Monday digest filtered to your stage, sector and geographyLive
  • Introductions made by us — never a cold deckLive
  • An open directory of every company met in personLive

Being built

In development

Deal Flow — every signal about a company in one place, cleaned. Beta list open.

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For operators & builders

The people who have already done the job, in one room with the people doing it now.

  • Evenings in your city, on the calendar year-roundLive
  • Tag-based matching: Local · Across · GlobalIn beta
  • Your contacts and the evening's recap, keptIn beta

Being built

In development

A knowledge library and a requests & offers board, built from what the tables already share.

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The way in

It starts with an evening.

2 layers are live, 1 is in beta and 3 are in development. Every mention on this page carries its status, so you can tell what you are walking into.

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