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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.
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📼 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!
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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…
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🌀The Ridget Spinner: Fall Recap

🌀The Ridget Spinner: Fall Recap

Last week’s election made two things abundantly clear:
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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.
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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.
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🌀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…
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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.”
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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…
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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
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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.
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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
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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…
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🎯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…
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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…
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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.
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🐶😻Petabyte Technology Fetches $8 Million to Mitigate Vet Peeves

🐶😻Petabyte Technology Fetches $8 Million to Mitigate Vet Peeves

Rhapsody.vet helps veterinarians increase operational efficiencies — from diagnoses, procedures, medical records and more.
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💫 2019 Ridge Rewind

💫 2019 Ridge Rewind

🤩 Wow. Another year. Guess the old saying rings true: Time flies when you have a fund.
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Samasource: an Impact Investment That Doesn’t Fake the Funk

Samasource: an Impact Investment That Doesn’t Fake the Funk

By Ben Metcalfe, Ridge Ventures Principal
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Loop Grabs $10 Million to Make E-Commerce Returns Easy as 🥧

Loop Grabs $10 Million to Make E-Commerce Returns Easy as 🥧

Loop is addressing perhaps the biggest and most overlooked opportunity for online merchants: the post-purchase journey.
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Rafay, the First Lifecycle Management Platform for Containers, Puts a Lid on $8 million Series A

Rafay, the First Lifecycle Management Platform for Containers, Puts...

Series A round led by Ridge Ventures, with NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Moment Ventures also throwing down some VCheese.
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🧗‍♂️Howdy, Partner! Meet New Ridge Partner (and Mountaineer), Brendan Baker!

🧗‍♂️Howdy, Partner! Meet New Ridge Partner (and Mountaineer), Bren...

We’re adding a new Partner to our basecamp.
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#GDPRoblems: InCountry Raises $7 Million for First Data-Residency-as-a-Service Platform

#GDPRoblems: InCountry Raises $7 Million for First Data-Residency-a...

“Ask not what you can do for InCountry — ask what InCountry can do for your global data compliance needs.”
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(Bra)wesome! ThirdLove Raises $55 Million to Create Lingerie for Every Body

(Bra)wesome! ThirdLove Raises $55 Million to Create Lingerie for Ev...

ThirdLove continues to question the modus cup-erandi in a $12 billion lingerie industry that hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years.
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MaintainX Raises $3.8 Million for Its “Xtraordinary” Workflow Automation Platform

MaintainX Raises $3.8 Million for Its “Xtraordinary” Workflow Autom...

“May the (work)force be with you.”
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