Ascend Ventures

Ascend is the private investment arm for Joseph Greco and focuses on control and non-control investments in technology, financial services, healthcare, media and sports, entertainment and hospitality. These businesses have the following characteristics: - strong management teams with proven track records of success - large and/or underserved addressable market profile - B2B and consumer value proposition - unique/proprietary intellectual property or positioning - innovative, disruptive and emerging market opportunity - rational investor equity/debt structure - highly incentive driven management team compensation Real Estate Investment Profile - rational or undervalued assets - upside opportunity in evolving or gentrifying areas/locations - path to favorable income to debt picture - unique positioning - other tangible value