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The Cure for Telecom Procurement: Lightyear Bags $13.1 Million Series A

The Cure for Telecom Procurement: Lightyear Bags $13.1 Million Series A

Lightyear is fundamentally transforming procurement in the $1 trillion telecom industry.

Jul 15

☀️ The Ridget Spinner: Summer 2021

☀️ The Ridget Spinner: Summer 2021

It’s time to chlorinate the pool and fire up that George Foreman grill. Summer is back!

Jul 6

Develop a Buyer’s Guide to Educate Your Startup’s Sales Team and Customers

Develop a Buyer’s Guide to Educate Your Startup’s Sales Team and Cu...

Are you building a singular product in a nascent market and want to shorten sales cycles? Create a buyer’s guide.

Jun 3

🌀 The Ridget Spinner: Spring 2021

🌀 The Ridget Spinner: Spring 2021

Spring into the Ridget Spinner and peep all of our Q1-derful highlights.

Apr 1

Ketch Raises $23 Million to Make Complying Less Trying

Ketch Raises $23 Million to Make Complying Less Trying

Data compliance is scary. Thanks to Ketch, companies no longer have to fear the GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 monsters under their beds.

Mar 24

Data for All: Why SafeGraph is Going Places After $45 Million Series B

Data for All: Why SafeGraph is Going Places After $45 Million Series B

SafeGraph takes another giant step towards data democratization.

Mar 22

Bringing Order to Operations: Retail Zipline Bags $30 Million Series B

Bringing Order to Operations: Retail Zipline Bags $30 Million Series B

Retail Zipline gets everyone on the same page — from corporate execs to the part-time college student managing the fitting rooms.

Mar 2

Customer Advisory Boards are a Gold Mine for Startup Brand Champions

Customer Advisory Boards are a Gold Mine for Startup Brand Champions

Customer advisory boards enable startups to connect directly with their customers. Here are some tips to make certain your CAB is a…

Feb 17

Put Some Wind in Your Sales with Tips from Smartling CRO Brian O’Reilly

Put Some Wind in Your Sales with Tips from Smartling CRO Brian O’Re...

Smartling CRO Brian O’Reilly shares how early-stage startups can supercharge their enterprise sales.

Jan 25

The Quicker Data Backer-Upper: Rewind Raises $15 Million Series A

The Quicker Data Backer-Upper: Rewind Raises $15 Million Series A

Introducing our first investment of 2021: Rewind, the backup-as-a-service solution protecting data for 80,000+ businesses worldwide.

Jan 19

📼 2020 Ridge Rewind

📼 2020 Ridge Rewind

2020 wasn’t all Zoom and gloom. Check out our annual Ridge Rewind to see how our startups and founders kicked off the decade with a bang!

Dec 18, 2020

Deduce, the Minority Report of Cybersecurity, snags $7.3 Million in Seed Funding

Deduce, the Minority Report of Cybersecurity, snags $7.3 Million in...

What is the number one threat to the global economy over the next five to ten years? Nuclear holocaust? Murder hornets? Bieber Fever…

Nov 30, 2020

🌀The Ridget Spinner: Fall Recap

🌀The Ridget Spinner: Fall Recap

Last week’s election made two things abundantly clear:

Nov 27, 2020

Veteran Money Man Derrick Lee is Ridge’s New CFO

Veteran Money Man Derrick Lee is Ridge’s New CFO

It’s official as a whistle: Derrick Lee is coming aboard as CFO to make sure Ridge is on point, down to every decimal and dollar sign.

Oct 16, 2020

Spectrum Labs Scores $10M Series A to Detox the Internet

Spectrum Labs Scores $10M Series A to Detox the Internet

Spectrum Labs, an AI-powered moderation platform, joins Ridge.vc portfolio.

Sep 24, 2020

🌀The Ridget Spinner: August 2020

🌀The Ridget Spinner: August 2020

Last month was a doozy. We added a new Partner; our portfolio companies raised money, landed on prestigious lists and otherwise kicked…

Sep 11, 2020

Say Hello to Yousuf Khan, Ridge’s New Partner!

Say Hello to Yousuf Khan, Ridge’s New Partner!

CIO extraordinaire. Enterprise aficionado. The man they call “Helper-in-Chief.”

Aug 19, 2020

The Ridget Spinner Monthly Roundup: June 2020

The Ridget Spinner Monthly Roundup: June 2020

We all need something cool and refreshing to stave off the summer sizzle. An Arnold Palmer? Sure. Drinking an Arnold Palmer while reading…

Jul 27, 2020

On The Road to $10 Billion: 10 Key Lessons from Our Investment in Fastly

On The Road to $10 Billion: 10 Key Lessons from Our Investment in F...

By Alexander Rosen and Gil Penchina, Ridge Ventures

Jul 14, 2020

Meet Our New Ridge-inforcements: Susan Stella & Kamil Saeid!

Meet Our New Ridge-inforcements: Susan Stella & Kamil Saeid!

Is it unusual to hire in the midst of a global pandemic? Perhaps.

Apr 30, 2020

A Blueprint for Raising Money in a Plague Year

A Blueprint for Raising Money in a Plague Year

By Alexander Rosen, Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Apr 7, 2020

The Ridget Spinner Monthly Roundup: March 2020

The Ridget Spinner Monthly Roundup: March 2020

Wouldn’t it be great if 2020 was one big April Fool’s joke? If we were all in on it, just waiting for the curtain to be pulled…wait for…

Apr 7, 2020

🎯Habu-Ya! Habu Raises $15 Million to Unmuddle Marketing

🎯Habu-Ya! Habu Raises $15 Million to Unmuddle Marketing

With marketing more nebulous than ever and CMO tenure trending down — the average CMO lasts just 43 months — Habu is plenty capable of…

Mar 11, 2020

Outlier Outsmarts Old Business Intelligence Platforms, Raises $22.1 Million Series B

Outlier Outsmarts Old Business Intelligence Platforms, Raises $22.1...

Outlier delivers automated business analysis tools to decision-makers who want insights dropped right on their doorstep…

Feb 3, 2020

Remembering Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource

Remembering Leila Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource

Leila, who had bravely fought a rare form of cancer, Epithelioid Sarcoma, recently passed away at the age of 37.

Jan 30, 2020

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