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Kimberly Bryant

Founder and CEO Ascend Ventures

Oakland, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Angel Investor

    2024 - Current

    You.com is the world’s first open search engine platform that summarizes the web for users, with no ads, superior privacy options, and personalization.

  • Angel Investor

    2024

    GrubMarket is the AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of the American food supply chain industry. It is the first mover of building B2B eCommerce, as well as the first mover of providing Enterprise AI Solutions to the American food supply chain industry. It is one of the largest private food tech companies in the United States and the world.

  • Angel Investor

    2024

    L-Nutra Inc is a leading health tech company providing innovative solutions in nutrition for longevity.

  • Angel Investor

    2023

    Backpack Health, formerly Youme Healthcare, is a pediatric mental health provider whose services include a digital self-care app, virtual therapy sessions for children and teens, psychiatry and medication management and virtual resources for parents. Backpack Health has developed an app that uses AI to help monitor a client’s emotions and then match them with an appropriate therapist.

  • LP Investor - FemTech III Fund

    2023

    Investing Member

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2023

  • LP Investor

    2022

  • Founder and CEO

    2022

    As founder of the revolutionary transformative organization Black Girls CODE, Kimberly is determined to take the vision of creating the next generation of tech innovators even further. The goal of Ascend Ventures Tech is not just about creating a “generation of coders”. While it is certainly important to understand the tools of technology, generational transformation occurs when we teach innovators to use those tools to build. Building new innovations is what drives change. Building new innovation is what creates pathways. OWNERSHIP of those innovations creates generational change.

  • External Advisory Council

    2017

  • Angel Investor

    2020 - 2024

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