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.

An unparalleled reimagining and retooling of Legal Ops — By Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures Slow intake, heavier briefcases The opening statement on Streamline AI, the first intelligent intake platform for in-house legal teams, essentially boils down to this: it’s built by industry vets, significantly expedites legal processes, and delights its customers ad infinitum. Streamline, whose seed round we backed last November…

The retail industry is enjoying unparalleled efficiency and personalization thanks to AI — By Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures Artificial Intelligence (AI), once an intangible concept, has become an unignorable reality, transforming industries and operations worldwide. This disruption is profoundly evident in the retail sector. Here are some ways in which AI is propelling the retail industry toward a future replete with…

By Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures The greatest band in the history of the universe just announced their final tour. So of course I got tickets and look forward to hearing them take it to the limit one more time. And, as luck would have it, the announcement coincides…

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…