Cool off with our easy, breezy Q2 recap — A glass of lemonade is nice, but nothing beats the heat like our freshly squeezed Summer Ridget Spinner. It’s a challenging time for startups, but our companies and founders made the most of Q2. …

A much-needed facelift for the $1 trillion telecom industry — By Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures Light years ahead The B2B telecom landscape has been stuck in neutral for decades. I saw it firsthand as the CIO of companies like Pure Storage, Automation Anywhere, and Qualys, but experienced it most acutely when I was part of the global IT team at Education…

A software-savvy ex-founder rising through the VC ranks — VC. Founder. Software engineer. Product manager. Akriti Dokania has played more roles than Meryl Streep and now she’s bringing her multipronged expertise to Ridge Ventures as our new Partner. Akriti started her career on the technical side. After nabbing her B.S. degree (EECS) from the University of Michigan, she worked…

The greatest hits from our 2021-derful mixtape — Happy New Year! How are those resolutions going? Yeah, we’re not doing so hot either. Sounds like our annual Ridge Rewind is just the picker-upper you need: a playback of the greatest hits from our 2021-derful mixtape.

Ridge Ventures backs THE API developer productivity platform — By Akriti Dokania, Partner at Ridge Ventures API (Application Programming Interface) may as well stand for “Actually Pretty Important.” A 2022 report from Gartner found that 94% of companies already employ third-party APIs or are planning to, up from 52% in 2019. But the process of developing in an API-dependent…

Say hello to our fifth fund, Ridge V! — Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on our fifth fund, Ridge V. With $180 million in total capital commitments — exceeding our initial fundraising target — this marks the largest fund in our firm’s history and brings Ridge Ventures’ total AUM to $540 million. As we reflect on this significant…

By Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures Sure, early-stage founders can glean insights from Entrepreneur and re:Invent keynotes but, truthfully, the answers to most things in life — business quandaries included — can be found in the lyrics of America’s greatest band: The Eagles. Some might (unsuccessfully) dispute that last…

Bye-bye, spreadsheets. Hello, automated compensation management. — By Akriti Dokania, Partner at Ridge Ventures This just in: people work for money. Sure, the ping pong table and kombucha on tap are nice and all, but if employees aren’t paid fairly, they’ll promptly cash out their PTO days and find a company that takes compensation seriously. Don’t forget…

By Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures On February 2nd, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. You know what that means: six more weeks of winter, and ten or so months of CIOs burning both ends driving productivity across their organizations. Now that we’ve made it through February (already?), and the…