Kirby Winfield

I’m Kirby Winfield, Founding General Partner of Ascend.

Ascend is a pre-seed venture capital firm investing in SaaS 3.0 (vertical AI agents and applications), Gen AI 2.0 ("fast followers" in horizontal AI/infrastructure), and Frontier AI (AI applied to the physical world's hardest problems).

I was part of four exits out of four attempts as an operator.

2x IPO…but 2x acquihire too.

I raised venture capital twice and had to recap once.

I like helping entrepreneurs avoid the mistakes I made, and replicate the successful moves.