Dan Conner

Dan Conner, CFA is the founder and general partner at Ascend Venture Capital, a micro-VC in St. Louis that provides financial and operational support to startup founders looking to scale. Dan specializes in data-centric technologies that enable the future states of industries. Before founding Ascend Venture Capital, Dan worked on the operations side of high-growth startups, leading teams to build scalable operational and financial infrastructure. Dan is an Olin Business School MBA graduate and holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University in mechanical engineering; he also holds a masters in advanced renewable technologies from Washington University in St. Louis.