Michael Cichowski

Board Member

2025

Partner and Co-head of Ascend

2023

Head of Growth Equity

2016 - 2022

+ Board Member, Mirador (acquired by iCapital) + Board Member, InsurePay + Board Member, FinDox (acquired by Reorg) + Board Member, Treasury Intelligence Solutions (acquired by Marlin Equity) + Board Member, GAN Integrity (acquired by Apax) + Board Member, Utilant (acquired by Majesco) + Board Member, FRISS + Board Member, Kyron (acquired by Nintex) + Investor, Carpe Data (acquired by THL)

Managing Director

2014 - 2016

Family office investor focused on Venture Capital and Growth Equity. Led NYC office and managed direct investment portfolio of 30+ companies. FinTech direct investments include: Kyriba, Eqis, The Zebra, Mighty, Redline Trading, TaxJar Board Observer at Kyriba, Eqis, The Zebra, Eloquii, Tradesy, Mitu Network and Parachute

Principal

2007 - 2014

Focused on and helped build FinTech portfolio across Wealth Management, Banking, Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance and Real Estate. Sourced the following investments: * PHX (acquired by Parthenon to form Zelis) - cost management and payments solutions for health plans and providers * Presidium Learning (acquired by Blackboard) - higher education support services * RewardsNow (acquired by Augeo) - financial institution loyalty provider * Kemp Technologies - load balancing solutions * OptionsCity Software (acquired by Vela) - trading solutions for derivatives * eSentire (acquired by Warburg Pincus) - threat protection and vulnerability assessment * Compliance Science (acquired by Vista Equity) - regulatory trading compliance Board Member at Softgate Systems (acquired by TIO), Andera (acquired by Bottomline) and OptionsCity Software (acquired by Vela). Board Observer at FolioDynamix (acquired by Actua) and Compliance Science (acquired by Vista Equity).

Software Engineer / Product Management

2006 - 2007

Strategy Consultant

2005 - 2006

Product and Data Management

2000 - 2005