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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

Apr 7

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

🎯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

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

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

🐶😻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.

Jan 23

💫 2019 Ridge Rewind

💫 2019 Ridge Rewind

🤩 Wow. Another year. Guess the old saying rings true: Time flies when you have a fund.

Dec 20, 2019

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

Nov 20, 2019

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.

Nov 12, 2019

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.

Sep 17, 2019

🧗‍♂️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.

Sep 5, 2019

#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.”

May 2, 2019

(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.

Apr 3, 2019

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.”

Mar 27, 2019

Amazon Go…Away: Pandora Radio Co-Founder Bags $12M for Grabango

Amazon Go…Away: Pandora Radio Co-Founder Bags $12M for Grabango

Grabango is leading the cashierless revolution with checkout-free technology

Feb 4, 2019

✈️All Aboard! Uplift Raises $123 Million to Bring Flexible Payments to the Travel Industry

✈️All Aboard! Uplift Raises $123 Million to Bring Flexible Payments...

Thanks to Uplift, everyone can now pay for their trips in installments instead of selling their Beanie Babies collections…

Jan 30, 2019

Jyve Ushers In The Skills Economy™

Jyve Ushers In The Skills Economy™

How Jyve secretly raised $35M, built a $400M business, and defined a new market

Jan 29, 2019

The Attributes of a Successful Data-as-a-Service Company

The Attributes of a Successful Data-as-a-Service Company

Data is the New Oil? The New Electricity? Or just a variation on an old theme?

Jan 2, 2019

🎆Ridge Ventures 2018 Rewind

🎆Ridge Ventures 2018 Rewind

Startup Spotlights

Dec 18, 2018

Minted Doubles Down on Wholesale & Licensing With $208M in Series E

Minted Doubles Down on Wholesale & Licensing With $208M in Series E

Minted closes $208 million in Series E to fuel new business growth.

Dec 14, 2018

Citrix Pays $200M to Acquire Sapho, which connects legacy software with micro apps

Citrix Pays $200M to Acquire Sapho, which connects legacy software ...

Congrats to the Sapho team! Citrix just announced that it has acquired Sapho, which develops “micro apps” for legacy software so that…

Nov 16, 2018

ZoomInfo Looks To Strengthen Contact Database With Datanyze Acquisition

ZoomInfo Looks To Strengthen Contact Database With Datanyze Acquisi...

We’re excited to share the news that ZoomInfo, a B2B contact database company, has acquired Datanyze, a technographic data provider…

Sep 27, 2018

Outlier Raises $6.2M Series A to Change How Companies Use Data

Outlier Raises $6.2M Series A to Change How Companies Use Data

We’re excited about the latest addition to our portfolio family: Outlier.ai. Outlier is changing how companies make sense of all their data…

Jul 24, 2018

Announcing Ridge Ventures’ Fourth Fund

Announcing Ridge Ventures’ Fourth Fund

I’m thrilled to announce the close of our latest fund, Ridge Ventures IV. This fund is our first fully independent one since rebranding…

Jul 24, 2018

Putting new funding to work, Austin’s YouEarnedIt buys a Chicago startup

Putting new funding to work, Austin’s YouEarnedIt buys a Chicago st...

YouEarnedIt is putting its recent investment by Vista Equity Partners to work by acquiring HighGround, a Chicago HRTech startup. We’re…

Jul 20, 2018

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