Financial AI proven on our own capital,
built for institutions.
ASCEND invests its own capital across global markets on financial AI infrastructure it built, and builds products for institutions on the same foundation.
Investing and financial AI,
run by one team.
- Proprietary investingOur own capital, across global markets, every day.
- Financial AI infrastructureData pipeline, ontology and LLM layers we built and run.
- Products and dedicated systemsProducts by industry, and systems built for each institution.
From a New York hedge fund
to financial AI.
- 2022–2025Hedge fund in New YorkFounded and ran Aythen Associates LLC, 14 Wall Street, New York
- 2026–Financial AI for institutionsProducts for commodities, banks, wealth, PE and VC
- 2026–Proprietary investingRun by AI across equities, commodities, bonds, FX and every tradable market
Trading record, 2022–2025
- $2B+
- Cumulative notional traded
- 1,217+
- Instruments traded live
- 237,000+
- Hours of live system uptime
- 22+
- Strategies run
A team from finance
and AI research.
- Education
- Experience
- Selected programs
MSS TIPS R&D AWS Jungle 
NH Open Business Hub
Press
- Unicorn FactoryTailored insight in ten seconds: building financial AI for investors↗Opens in a new tab
- StartupNSilentist wraps up Alpha in Seoul, a KBW 2026 side event↗Opens in a new tab
- HelloTIndustrial AI EXPO preview: ASCEND analyses market scenarios from 750 data sources↗Opens in a new tab
- StartupNThe financial AI startup AWS chose: ASCEND takes its finance-specific AIOS global↗Opens in a new tab
- Startup RecipeASCEND selected for the AWS Jungle program↗Opens in a new tab
- Unicorn FactoryNH NongHyup selects 18 startups for its open innovation program↗Opens in a new tab
- StartupNASCEND signs an MOU with Barca on AI-driven agricultural data analysis↗Opens in a new tab
Company information
- Company
- ASCEND Inc.
- Product
- ASCEND AI
- Website
- ascend-finance.ai
- Phone
- 070-8831-0411