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Thomas Stahura

Thomas Stahura remains an emeritus associate at Ascend after leaving its day-to-day analyst role, according to founder Kirby Winfield’s current announcement. He joined as an analyst in 2024 after graduating in engineering from Purdue. He co-founded AI startups Quasi and Pondr and built Ascend’s AI-enabled portfolio tracking, deal-flow management and internal automation, contributed technical diligence, helped portfolio engineers and created the Token Talks newsletter.