Ridge Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingSan Francisco · Seed–Series A · 21 people tracked
Also known as AUDION MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC · Ridge Ventures Affiliates
Investment thesis
Ridge Ventures concentrates on late seed and early Series A investments in enterprise software, typically writing checks of $2-7M. The firm prioritizes founder character, alignment, and shared passion over deal terms, describing its backed teams as 'The Ridge Familia.' It emphasizes revenue and product-market fit above hype, leveraging its 100+ company Ridge Revenue Network of Fortune 500 CXOs to connect founders with customers and drive early revenue — sometimes writing customer introduction commitments into term sheets. Ridge favors flexible, incentive-aligned terms and a transparent, low-distraction fundraising process, backing experienced entrepreneurs with a long-term, people-first partnership approach.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 21 people
from the firm's website & public directories
What they invest in
from 41 of 53 portfolio companiesEnterprise Software ×28AI & Machine Learning ×24SaaS ×22Data & Infrastructure ×13Marketing Tech ×11Cybersecurity ×10Cloud Computing ×8Developer Tools ×6
HQs:United States×25
Investments · 53 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathContent delivery and edge cloud platform; NYSE:FSLY.
San Francisco, US
Board seatGil Penchina· per SEC Form D
Customer engagement platform that IPO'd in 2021.
Braze is a customer engagement platform that helps brands connect with customers across multiple channels.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaS
Bill Magnuson(CEO)Jon Hyman(CTO)Mark Ghermezian
Gather is a content platform that helps marketing teams create primary-research-backed content designed to rank in answer engines and generative search results.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Mayank Mehta(CEO)Anand(CTO)
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.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Chris Kelly(Founder/CEO)inGeorge London(CTO)
LiveRamp operates a data collaboration platform that connects brands, publishers, and platforms across the advertising ecosystem to enable targeted reach and customer insights.
AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech<UNKNOWN>, US
PETER WAGNER(Director)MATT M. KILMARTIN(Executive Officer, Director)TOM CHAVEZ(Director)VIVEK VAIDYA(Director)ALEXANDER ROSEN(Director)
Board seatAlex Rosen· per SEC Form D
Walnut, US
Bradford Oberwager(Executive Officer, Director)Cammy Bergren(Executive Officer)
Board seatGil Penchina· per SEC Form D · $6.2M raise · filed Jun 2017
San Francisco, US
Brady Wood(Executive Officer)Amy Gershkoff Bolles(Director)Melissa Kim(Executive Officer)Nic Volpi(Director)Boris Mittermueller(Director)Mateo Bryant(Executive Officer)
Board seatPat Kenealy· per SEC Form D · $81.8K raise · filed May 2025
Oakland, US
Michael Kim(Director)Sean Byrnes(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAlex Rosen· per SEC Form D · $6.4M raise · filed Feb 2018
Bellevue, US
Board seatYousuf Khan· per SEC Form D · $13M raise · filed Jun 2024
Laval
Vladimir Lokshin(Director)Justin Gelinas-Delisle(Executive Officer, Director)
Board seatAkriti Dokania· per SEC Form D · $6.4M raise · filed Sep 2025
Theom provides data and AI infrastructure security solutions for enterprises in the cloud.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Navindra Verma(Founder & CEO)Ravi NetravaliFarid NajaDanesh IraniinYousuf Khan(Director)John N. Stewart(Director)
Board seatYousuf Khan· per SEC Form D
Boca Raton, US
Prentis Wilson(Executive Officer, Director)Jason Fraysier(Chief Financial Officer)Daniel Smith(Chief Operating Officer)Manuela Ajayi(Executive Officer)Richard Fieman(Executive Officer)Jen Walden(Executive Officer)
Board seatGil Penchina· per SEC Form D · $10M raise · filed Nov 2024
San Francisco, US
Alex Rosen(Director)KuoYee Richard Lee(Executive Officer, Director)Richard Lewis(Executive Officer)Rebecca Eisenberg(Executive Officer)Gil Penchina(Director)Sue Korn(Executive Officer)
Board seatAlex RosenGil Penchina· per SEC Form D · $5K raise · filed Jan 2015
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.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper Tools
Board seatAkriti Dokania· per SEC Form D
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.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechBoston, US
George Khachatryan(Executive Officer, Director)Victor Kostyuk(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Ghaffary(Director)
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
Channel99 builds marketing technology to optimize B2B marketing spend and collaboration between finance and marketing teams.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSKentfield, US
Christopher Golec(Executive Officer, Director)Robert A. Spinner(Director)
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.
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.
Creator EconomyGamingSocialSan Francisco, US
Jason Citron(Founder)Stanislav Vishnevskiy(CTO)Stephen Gillett(Director)Clint Smith(Executive Officer)David Sze(Director)Mitch Lasky(Director)
Espresa provides an employee engagement and benefits platform designed to help companies deliver personalized employee experience programs across languages, time zones, and currencies.
AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHR TechSaaSPalo Alto, US
Alex Shubat(CEO & Co-Founder)inRaghavan Menon(CTO & Co-Founder)inChristopher Rust(Director)Adoram Gaash(Director)Michael Stark(Director)Gideon Argov(Director)
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.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Horizon3.ai builds cybersecurity products and solutions.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Snehal AntaniMatthew HartleyinIlya Kirnos(Director)Lila Tretikov(Director)Michael Robinson(Director)Nicholas Warner(Director)
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.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Greg Keller(Chief Technology Officer, Co-founder)inRajat Bhargava(CEO)in
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
MaintainX provides an AI-powered computerized maintenance management system and asset management platform designed for deskless frontline workers in industrial and operational settings.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareIoTSaaSSan Francisco, US
Chris Turlica(CEO and Co-Founder)Hugo Dozois-Caouette(CTO and Co-Founder)Stefan Cristian Turlica(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardCharles Reim(Director)Byron Deeter(Director)David Hornik(Director)
PartnerAlex Rosen· led
Medal is a free software application for recording, editing, and sharing gameplay highlights on PC and mobile.
Creator EconomyGamingHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Deleys Brandman(Executive Officer)Lonnie R. Kurlander(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew McMurry(Executive Officer, Director)Daniel Kaminsky(Director)
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
Rema Matevosyan(Founder & CEO)in
Ontic provides a corporate investigations platform that consolidates data from multiple sources into a unified case management and intelligence system for security teams.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareGovTech
Lukas Quanstrom(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Nye(Director)John Heller(Director)Ryan Suneson(Executive Officer)Stephen Scott Shepherd(Executive Officer)Michael Dodd(Director)
PHX Labs creates digital worlds and platforms that enable players and communities to share interactive stories and narratives.
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.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS<UNKNOWN>
Ashish Aggarwal(Founder)Jody Shapiro(Founder)
Reach provides a platform for organizations to identify and remediate hidden security risks, exposures, and misconfigurations across their existing security tools.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Garrett Hamilton(CEO and Co-Founder)inColt Blackmore(Co-Founder and CTO)in
ReFiBuy provides a platform for optimizing product data and visibility across AI-driven shopping environments and agents.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechRaleigh, US
Stefan Sterns(Director)Derek Lee Conlin(Executive Officer, Director)M. Scot Wingo(Executive Officer, Director)
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
SafeGraph builds and maintains a global dataset of information about physical places, updated monthly, for application developers and analytics teams.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRetail TechSaaS<UNKNOWN>, US
Auren Hoffman(Executive Officer, Director)Charles Songhurst(Director)Brent Perez(Executive Officer)Alexander Rosen(Director)
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.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
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.
FintechSunnyvale, US
Stewart Kelly(Executive Officer, Director)Deepak Jagannathan(Director)Noha Carrington(Executive Officer)Brian Barth(Executive Officer, Director)Robert Soderbery(Executive Officer, Director)Kevin Krone(Director)
Yesware is a sales engagement platform that helps teams conduct outreach campaigns, schedule meetings, and track email engagement with buyers.
Future of WorkMarketing TechSaaSSales TechBoston, US
Patrick Cashman Andrus(Executive Officer, Promoter)Rich Miner(Director)Brad Feld(Director)Matthew Bellows(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Neeraj Agrawal(Director)Dave Girouard(Director)
Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the 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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