We’re thrilled to officially announce the 2026 Ascent Accelerator Cohort – an inspiring group of entrepreneurs who are building, creating, and leading across a wide range of industries:
Meet Ark Valley Sign Co
From concept to installation, we blend high-impact design with expert project management to deliver outstanding custom signs. Whether you’re in Salida, Buena Vista, or Leadville, we bring years of experience, sharp graphic design, and precision craftsmanship to every job — so your business or organization gets seen, remembered, and trusted.
Meet Cherokee Bloom
Cherokee Bloom is a micro-flower farm rooted in the principles of healing and regeneration. Nestled in Salida, Colorado, Jade Heath cultivates each bloom with a focus on regenerative practices that enrich the soil and foster sustainability.
Cherokee Bloom offers thoughtfully grown florals for weddings, special events, and seasonal subscriptions. Every stem is grown on our farm during the Colorado growing season, ensuring flowers are fresh, local and deeply connected to the land they come from. Whether you’re planning a meaningful celebration, looking for high-end blooms to brighten your home or business, or dreaming up something custom, we’d love to collaborate and bring your vision to life.
Meet DogGurt
DogGurt was developed in my tiny kitchen in 2012 for my dogs, Jack, Bella, and Baxter because I didn’t know what one ingredient on the big named brands label was!
DogGurt is hand mixed and hand scooped in small batches by owner and creator, Amanda Colanino.
Only all natural, human grade ingredients are used to mix up six pup-approvedDogGurt flavors. DogGurt is high in calcium and protein, with no sugar, fillers, or preservatives added. Yogurt, the base ingredient, contains live active cultures with the benefits of probiotics. Licking releasing pleasure-causing endorphins, resulting in a sense of comfort in dogs!
Meet Divide Graph
Google Maps for Compliance
Deterministic regulatory intelligence. No hallucinations. Every answer traceable to authoritative sources with a turn-by-turn audit trail.
Meet Elemental 5
Elemental 5 use acrobatic disciplines to build physically literate, adaptable athletes. Students develop strength, coordination, spatial awareness, and resilience through structured movement training. They can specialize in parkour, aerial arts, partner acrobatics or tumbling, but the foundation remains transferable capacity across all disciplines.
They do not train for one lane. They train for adaptability.
Their goal is not to produce gymnasts, parkour athletes, or aerialists alone. Their goal is to develop capable, disciplined, resilient humans.
Strong.
Coordinated.
Adaptable.
Composed.
That is an Elemental Athlete.
Meet Hearth Healing
Welcome to Hearth Healing! Offering the Deep Core Restore Method to help pregnant and postpartum women return to pre-pregnancy strength, resolve leakage and pain for good, and feel proud of their bodies, through personalized, manageable workouts and 1:1 support, from home, no childcare required!
Meet My Moon Kit
Celebrate Your Cycle with Empowering Essentials.
Embrace your moon time with our empowering kit, filled with 13 essentials to nurture your body and spirit! From soothing balms to comforting heat packs, to mindfully crafted moon journals we’ve got everything you need to feel prepared and pampered during your cycle.
Designed to make your transition into womanhood a beautiful and celebrated experience.
Meet Omni-Board
Omni-Board is an omni-directional, self-balancing electric skateboard redefining personal transportation. We’re building the future of mobility and changing how the world moves. Join the Omni-Board community for exclusive updates and reserve your VIP spot today.
Meet Peaks Precast
Peaks Precast transforms foundation construction through offsite manufacturing, delivering modular concrete solutions that shorten onsite build times and reduce costs – Locally Built in Buena Vista Colorado – Delivering to Chaffee, Gunnison, Summit, Eagle, Lake, Pitkin, Saguache, Fremont county & beyond.
Born in a dry mountain climate, skin becomes both sensitive and depleted.
Salida Sunshine Botanicals offers gentle care for skin of all kinds. Guided by plant intelligence, shaped by years of experience and trust.
Meet Sky View Tents
Thank you for visiting Sky View Tents. Stargazing has always been a deep passion for its founder. Some of his fondest childhood memories involve watching the Comet Hale–Bopp from the deck of his family’s trailer in southeastern Connecticut. From those early moments, he developed a lasting sense of awe for the vastness and beauty of a dark sky filled with countless stars and planets. Looking up at the night sky always created a feeling that anything was possible.
That same sense of limitless possibility eventually carried into another lifelong aspiration: becoming an inventor. The passion first took hold during his early days studying engineering and only grew stronger throughout more than 15 years in the corporate world. Yet the goal was never simply to invent a “useful widget.” Instead, he was driven to create something meaningful—something he personally felt passionate about and that would inspire the same excitement and wonder in others.
Are You Driven By Nature?
Interested in becoming a Funding Partner? We’d be honored to hear from you.