Ascentra Labs, a company building AI tools for consultants and corporate strategy professionals, has raised $2m in pre-seed funding.

The round was led by NAP with participation from prominent founder-angels including Alan Chang (CEO of Fuse, former Revolut CRO) and Fredrik Hjelm (CEO of Voi).

Ascentra was founded by Paritosh Devbhandari, a former Mckinsey consultant who previously led AI product sales at QuantumBlack, and Oliver Thurston, former head of machine learning at Mathison AI, in London at the start of 2025.