Ascend is Affirm for commercial insurance. Today's commercial insurance premiums are due annually and 40% of commercial insurance payments are made by paper check. Ascend offers end to end payments, financing, and financial operations solutions to power the future of digital insurance distribution. Our turn key premium financing API is easy to implement and handles all of the work (capital, collections, compliance, regulation) and improves policy sales conversion, retention, deliver better CX to win business from incumbents. Our automated financial infrastructure products help saves millions of hours and billions of dollars wasted on manual processes, reconciliation, and accounting today. Ascend has raised $5.5m in venture capital funding from investors like First Round Capital, Susa Ventures, FirstMark Capital, and Box Group.