Brandon Mccrae
Product Manager - AscentUp at Ascent
Washington, District of Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Product Manager - AscentUp
2024 - Current
Ascent encourages transparency and financial wellness by incorporating financial education into the application process, preserving the notion that an education is an investment where students and families should understand the return on their investment relative to the cost.
Founder
2024
We're a product innovation and growth studio specializing in Product Innovation, Go-To-Market Strategy, and Outbound Marketing within the tech industry.
Founding Member, Investor
2022
Sweater is the first VC fund for everyday investors. Until now, venture capital investing has been an asset class exclusively available to a select few. Sweater is transforming that.
Sweater is a fintech company building the first fully-managed venture capital fund that is open to everyday investors.
Raised $14,300,000.00 from Kickstart, Eli Broverman, Nick Perez, Litquidity Capital, Monsen Ventures, Aaron Wolko, Bison Venture Partners, Nate O'Brien, Jeff Cruttenden and Spacestation Investments.
Deal Partner
2023
Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.
Ganas Ventures invests in pre-seed and seed Web 2 and Web 3 community-driven startups in the US and Latin America.
Product Lead
2023 - 2024
Cubeseed is an advanced AI tool platform that operates as a contract-driven marketplace, effectively facilitating agro-trade and bridging the gap between farmers' limited access to finance and markets, ultimately boosting agricultural production in Africa.
Product Manager
2023 - 2023
In the Lab Product Management is a Product Manager incubator program building web app products using no-code tools and do all the work that goes into product management.
Product Manager
2022 - 2023
Earth Hero is a mobile app that provides scientifically grounded tools and ideas to empower all who want to reduce emissions, improve lives, and care for our shared planet.
Venture Associate - IR Product
2022 - 2023
Newchip Accelerator is an online, global startup accelerator led by a world-class team of entrepreneurs and investors designed to provide founders with the tools needed to rapidly fund, build, and scale their startup.
Founder Fellow
2022 - 2023
Day One is an ecosystem to power the next generation of entrepreneurship built for early-stage founders to tap into a vibrant community, powerful network, and guidance from experienced operators, investors and founders.
Day One is a network that provides education, connections, and a fellowship program for founders and entrepreneurs.
Venture Associate
2021 - 2022
VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech
VU Venture Partners is a multi-sector and multi-stage venture capital fund and is a scalable venture capital fund platform.