Ridge Ventures
Actively deployingSan Francisco · Seed–Series A · 13 people tracked
Investment thesis
Ridge invests in experienced founders building enterprise software companies with strong unit economics and clear paths to revenue. The firm prioritizes founder-investor alignment through transparent processes and flexible terms rather than dogmatic deal structures. Ridge leverages its Ridge Revenue Network of Fortune 500 CXOs to help founders achieve product-market fit and accelerate early customer acquisition, viewing this revenue-first approach as the foundation for long-term company building success.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 20, 2026.
Team · 13 people
from the firm's websiteAn immigrant computer enthusiast and father of twins who is passionate about connecting founders with enterprise customers.
A serial entrepreneur and unconventional thinker with experience in both founding and investor roles.
A technically proficient venture investor with a compassionate approach and interest in wellness practices.
An experienced media and software industry veteran who transitioned from operational roles to venture investing.
A former entrepreneur turned investor with a founder-friendly perspective and interest in skiing and travel.
A veteran software entrepreneur who invests in early-stage software companies.
A technology executive with international background spanning Pakistan, Egypt, Kenya, and the UK.
A finance professional with strong analytical skills, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous learning.
An American-Israeli analyst with strong quantitative and product expertise interested in scholarship.
An investor relations and operations professional with deep experience in Hawaii who champions team success.
An organized operations professional with a detail-oriented approach to supporting the firm.
An essential operations leader and mother of three who keeps the firm running smoothly.
A software professional with three decades of experience building innovative technology products.
What they invest in
from 41 of 47 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×28AI & Machine Learning ×24SaaS ×22Data & Infrastructure ×13Marketing Tech ×11Cybersecurity ×10Cloud Computing ×8Developer Tools ×6
HQs:United States×10
Investments · 47 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathGather is a content platform that helps marketing teams create primary-research-backed content designed to rank in answer engines and generative search results. The company serves B2B marketing and growth leaders seeking to improve content visibility and measure ROI from generative engine optimization efforts.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mayank Mehta(CEO)Anand(CTO)
Outerbase provides a platform to democratize access to data across organizations, enabling users to query and interact with their data regardless of their role. The company serves teams and individuals who need on-demand access to databases and data infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSPittsburgh, US
Upwave provides brand measurement and advertising research technology for top-of-funnel marketing campaigns, helping brands and agencies validate reach, measure lift, and optimize performance. The platform serves advertisers, agencies, and media companies through data-driven insights and analytics.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Chris Kelly(CEO)inGeorge London(CTO)
Near Space Labs provides high-resolution 7cm geospatial imagery captured from stratospheric altitudes, serving government, utilities, insurance, and environmental monitoring applications with frequent data refresh cycles and wide-scale coverage.
Climate TechData & InfrastructureSpace Tech
Espresa provides an employee engagement and benefits platform designed to help companies deliver personalized employee experience programs across languages, time zones, and currencies. The platform integrates total wellbeing, recognition, and community features to strengthen employee loyalty and engagement.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Alex Shubat(CEO & Co-Founder)Raghavan Menon(CTO & Co-Founder)
Archera provides a management platform and insurance/financing products that help organizations purchase public cloud resources with reduced financial risk and optimized costs through automated cost transparency and discount optimization.
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Aran Khanna(CEO)Nikhil Khanna(CTO)
Arya provides AI-powered digital agents that automate front-office and workforce management tasks for healthcare providers, including applicant engagement, scheduling, payroll, compliance, and staff engagement. The platform is designed for healthcare operators to reduce administrative burden and improve clinical workforce utilization.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHealthtech
Cerby is an identity automation platform that extends identity and access management coverage to applications that lack support for standard identity protocols like SAML, SCIM, or APIs. The platform securely manages user credentials, automates access provisioning and deprovisioning workflows, and integrates with existing identity stacks for organizations.
CybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Chord provides a unified data layer and AI agents for commerce brands, combining reliable data infrastructure with autonomous tools that operate across the full business stack. Built for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands without large data teams, the platform eliminates fragmented tools and enables teams to make faster, data-driven decisions at scale.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureE-commerceMarketing Tech
Bryan Mahoney(CEO & Co-Founder)Henry Davis(President & Chairman)
Discord is a communications platform for voice, video, and text chat designed primarily for gaming communities and players. It enables game developers to integrate social features directly into games and supports live streaming, custom communities, and in-game activities.
Creator EconomyGamingSocial
Jason Citron(Founder)Stanislav Vishnevskiy(CTO)
F5 develops application delivery and security software and hardware platforms, including BIG-IP load balancers and application firewalls, for enterprise and government networks. The company serves organizations requiring network traffic management, cybersecurity, and application access control.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Fastly provides an edge cloud network that enables developers to run, secure, and deliver websites and applications with lower latency by processing content closer to end users. The platform serves businesses across industries looking to improve performance and security at global scale.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
LiveRamp operates a data collaboration platform that connects brands, publishers, and platforms across the advertising ecosystem to enable targeted reach and customer insights. The platform provides identity resolution, first-party data enrichment, and AI-powered marketing measurement across major digital channels.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech<UNKNOWN>
Horizon3.ai builds cybersecurity products and solutions. The company serves organizations seeking to improve their security posture and create safer digital environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Snehal AntaniMatthew Hartley
InCountry provides data residency compliance solutions for Salesforce, enabling regulated data storage across 90+ countries while restricting visibility to local agents. The platform encrypts customer data and helps enterprises comply with local data protection regulations without requiring separate Salesforce instances per jurisdiction.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands connect with customers across multiple channels. The platform serves global brands and enterprise customers seeking to deliver personalized customer experiences.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Bill Magnuson(CEO)Jon Hyman(CTO)Mark Ghermezian
Ketch provides a consent management platform for marketing teams that ensures privacy compliance while maintaining website performance through a lightweight, asynchronously-loaded tag that doesn't impact page speed metrics or ad viewability.
AdTechData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Lightyear provides software solutions to improve B2B telecommunications operations, addressing inefficiencies in a largely static industry. The company serves telecom vendors and operators seeking to modernize their systems and customer relationships.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Loop provides a unified platform for managing returns, exchanges, tracking, and order workflows for e-commerce brands. The system helps reduce return rates and increase customer retention through connected post-purchase experiences.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Cody Plofker(CEO)
JumpCloud is an AI-powered unified IT management platform that provides identity, access, and device management for organizations managing both human users and non-human AI identities. The platform consolidates management of users, devices, and resources across cloud and on-premises environments to deliver intelligent security and compliance.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Greg Keller(Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder)Rajat Bhargava(CEO)
MaintainX provides an AI-powered computerized maintenance management system and asset management platform designed for deskless frontline workers in industrial and operational settings. The platform enables maintenance, safety, and operational management via mobile devices, helping companies improve equipment uptime and reduce operational costs.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS
Chris Turlica(CEO and Co-Founder)Hugo Dozois-Caouette(CTO and Co-Founder)
BrazeAI Decisioning Studio is an AI platform that helps marketers make personalized 1:1 customer decisions by optimizing channel, offer, creative, and timing across hundreds of customer attributes. The platform integrates with data warehouses and CDPs to deliver explainable AI-driven campaign decisions that optimize business KPIs and demonstrate ROI for marketing teams.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Ontic provides a corporate investigations platform that consolidates data from multiple sources into a unified case management and intelligence system for security teams. The solution helps investigators at Fortune 100 companies and government agencies detect threats, resolve cases faster, and automate routine investigative tasks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareGovTech
PHX Labs creates digital worlds and platforms that enable players and communities to share interactive stories and narratives. The company operates in the gaming and creator economy space.
Creator EconomyGaming
Productiv provides IT leaders visibility and control over SaaS and AI applications across their organization, detecting unsanctioned tools, tracking data usage, and optimizing software spend. The platform serves enterprise IT teams managing risk, security, and budgets related to shadow IT and AI adoption.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Ashish Aggarwal(Founder)Jody Shapiro(Founder)
Rafay builds infrastructure orchestration and workflow automation software for self-service compute consumption across GPU and CPU environments. The platform serves sovereign AI clouds, cloud service providers, and large enterprises seeking better kubernetes and AI workload management.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Reach provides a platform for organizations to identify and remediate hidden security risks, exposures, and misconfigurations across their existing security tools. The company serves enterprise organizations seeking to reduce security risk and improve their overall security posture through guided, automated remediation.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Garrett Hamilton(CEO and Co-Founder)Colt Blackmore(Co-Founder and CTO)
ReFiBuy provides a platform for optimizing product data and visibility across AI-driven shopping environments and agents. The platform serves brands, retailers, and agencies managing product catalogs in an increasingly agent-led commerce ecosystem.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing Tech
Rewind provides backup, restore, and copy functionality for critical data across SaaS and cloud applications, serving over 25,000 organizations globally across eCommerce, accounting, productivity, and development use cases.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Mike Potter(Co-founder & CEO)James
SafeGraph builds and maintains a global dataset of information about physical places, updated monthly, for application developers and analytics teams. The company provides location-based data and insights to support location-centric applications and business intelligence.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Sama provides data annotation and labeling services for training AI models, serving companies across various industries. The company operates a purpose-driven business model with in-house teams located across multiple geographies including Africa, North America, and Europe.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureImpact & Social GoodSan Francisco, US
Leila Janah
Smartling provides enterprise-grade localization and translation software with APIs, SDKs, and CI/CD integrations for software development teams. The platform enables companies to scale global products by automating translation workflows across their development pipeline.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Spectrum Labs provides content moderation and abuse intelligence for online communication platforms and AI systems, protecting users from safety threats across social media, messaging, and generative AI applications.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Streamline AI provides a workflow platform for legal intake, triage, and management designed for in-house legal departments. The product helps legal teams improve efficiency and collaboration with other business functions.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Theom provides data and AI infrastructure security solutions for enterprises in the cloud. The company protects and governs modern data and AI systems, building on the founding team's prior experience with zero-trust cloud security platforms.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Navindra Verma(Founder & CEO)Ravi NetravaliFarid NajaDanesh Irani
Uplift offers a buy now, pay later service called Flex Pay that allows customers to make purchases across travel, retail, and everyday items and pay through low monthly installments with no fees.
Fintech
Channel99 builds marketing technology to optimize B2B marketing spend and collaboration between finance and marketing teams. The platform helps enterprise customers reduce customer acquisition costs and improve sales pipeline predictability.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Chris
WireMock provides an API mocking platform that enables developers and testers to mock APIs throughout the API development lifecycle, reducing dependency on third-party APIs and accelerating development cycles. The company offers both an open-source version and a commercial cloud platform for developer productivity.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Yesware is a sales engagement platform that helps teams conduct outreach campaigns, schedule meetings, and track email engagement with buyers. The platform serves sales teams of all sizes, from small businesses to enterprises with over 1,000 users.
Future of WorkMarketing TechSaaSSales TechBoston, US
Zipline is a platform designed for retail organizations that combines communications, task management, and AI-driven store performance insights across multiple locations. The software helps coordinate headquarters, district managers, and store employees to execute operations, maintain brand consistency, and improve customer experience.
Enterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaS
Board seats · per SEC filings · 4
what is this? ⓘ$6.4M raise · filed Sep 2025 · via Akriti Dokania
$81.8K raise · filed May 2025 · via Pat Kenealy
$10M raise · filed Nov 2024 · via Gil Xavier Penchina
$6.5M raise · filed May 2023 · via Akriti Dokania
Inferred from directors named on each company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Ridge Ventures invest at?
- Ridge Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Ridge Ventures's typical check size?
- Ridge Ventures typically writes checks of $2M – $7M.
- What sectors does Ridge Ventures focus on?
- Ridge Ventures focuses on Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Ridge Ventures located?
- Ridge Ventures is headquartered in San Francisco, US.
- Does Ridge Ventures lead rounds?
- Ridge Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
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