Ascent Quintuples Client Base and Expands Strategic Partnerships in 2025
January 6, 2026 | 09:00 ET
With 5-fold customer growth, expanded distribution, and AI-powered platform advancements, fintech innovator builds on momentum as it heads into 2026
NEW YORK - January 6, 2026 Ascent Platform, the leader in digital experience solutions for financial institutions, achieved remarkable growth in 2025, quintupling its client base while expanding its reach and capabilities across the financial services industry.
Ascent's client roster grew five-fold during the year, underscoring the strong market demand for next-generation digital experience solutions. This rapid expansion was supported by a strategic distribution agreement with TruStage, enabling Ascent to work more closely with credit unions of all sizes and significantly broaden its market reach.
The company continued to strengthen its operational foundation by opening an engineering hub in Glasgow, Scotland. This expansion reinforced Ascent's commitment to building world-class product development capabilities.
Ascent maintained its momentum in industry engagement, including acceptance into the MDC accelerator program, which will provide additional opportunities to refine its platform and forge strategic connections throughout the financial services ecosystem.
Ascent's Counting Change podcast completed another successful season, wrapping 25 episodes plus a special panel discussion. Since launching in early 2024, the podcast has become a valued voice in community finance and technology, featuring conversations with industry leaders on the challenges and opportunities facing financial institutions.
Ascent has deployed over 150 processes across its client base that gently merge their enterprise data and power AI across the institution –breaking down silos, orchestrating workflows, and unifying the experience for both customers and team members. From smarter business and consumer application journeys to automated document handling and continuous learning that improves every experience, Ascent is helping credit unions and banks work smarter, faster, and more human-centered.
"Building on the foundation we established in 2024, this year was about scaling our impact and proving that exceptional digital experiences can drive real business results for financial institutions," said Arjun Sahgal, CEO of Ascent Platform. "Our five-fold client growth validates our vision, and our partnership with TruStage and others opens new doors to serve credit unions across the entire spectrum. As we head into 2026, we're energized by the progress we've made and the opportunity ahead."
"Our five-fold client growth validates our vision, and our partnership with TruStage and others opens new doors to serve credit unions across the entire spectrum. As we head into 2026, we're energized by the progress we've made and the opportunity ahead."
Arjun Sahgal, CEO and Co-Founder
About Ascent Platform
Ascent is the next-generation platform that provides lenders with the ability to streamline any and all product applications and forms without disrupting existing systems and processes. Ascent replaces the patchwork of full-stack product applications, static web forms, and PDFs with intelligent applications and forms featuring prefilled data, optional pre-screening rules and logic, and collaborative document collection. Most importantly, the platform learns from every interaction, and uses those learnings to make subsequent experiences more contextual, with fewer questions for the borrower and less work for the lender. Using Ascent's no-code builder, lenders can rapidly configure and deploy beautiful, bespoke applications and forms at their own pace.
For more information, please visit ascentplatform.io
Glen Fossella
Head of Customer