Ascendant Ventures is a founder-led studio creating technology companies at the intersection of AI, climate resilience, and inclusive design.
AI-Powered Productivity for ADHD Minds
Three products. Three underserved problems. Built from scratch by the same founding team.
AI-Powered Productivity for ADHD Minds.
Real-time flood intelligence.
Walk Smarter. Know Your Dog Better.
Ascendant Ventures is a studio founded on the belief that the most impactful technology companies are built by people who deeply understand the problem — not by teams optimising for fundraising optics.
We identify gaps where existing solutions are too expensive, too slow, or too generic. Then we build targeted, working products and take them to market ourselves.
Ideas without execution are opinions. We ship working products and learn from real users — not market research decks.
Transparency isn't a policy, it's infrastructure. Our performance data, methodology, and roadmaps are public where possible.
We build for the decade, not the quarter. Patient capital, durable moats, and sustainable growth over short-term metrics.
We look for problems that are large, real, and ignored by incumbents — ADHD productivity tools, affordable flood intelligence.
Founder & CEO, Ascendant Ventures Ltd · London
Kishia spent 14 years at the ASPCA building and scaling revenue operations — driving more than $17M in incremental revenue through technology, process design, and cross-functional leadership. She later served as COO at Targeted Technology Solutions and held operational roles at the International Rescue Committee.
She founded Ascendant Ventures to build the kind of companies she wished existed: products that take complex problems seriously and make them accessible to the people most affected by them.
In under a year, she built three live products from scratch — Focused Flow, Aithera Labs, and Paws & Pace — each with working infrastructure, real users, and a clear path to revenue.
