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.

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…

Partnerships bolster revenue and improve a B2B startup’s long-term prospects, but securing them is not easy — By Alex Rosen and Wendy Phillips Most founders at growing B2B SaaS companies are interested in pursuing partnerships. The potential leverage that a partner can provide to a SaaS company’s limited resources is compelling: Quick research into larger, successful SaaS company financial statements will show that many of them have…

An institutional capital management veteran and all-around fun(d) guy! — Four Partners is a party. Five Partners? That’s a full-on roller disco. Today, we’re hitting the rink — knee-high socks and all — and partnering up (way, way up) with David F. Anderson. …

All the hits from our 2022 mixtape — VCeason’s greetings! Prices are soaring these days, but the best things in life remain free: hugs, library cards, the smell of fresh flowers, and our annual Ridge Rewind. 2022 hasn’t been easy for anyone not named Wordle or Tom Cruise. …