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About Us

 

Ridgeline is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage, enterprise technology companies. Ridgeline was founded to identify, partner with and assist founders as they prepare to go to market.

We invest early in ideas and talent across the enterprise technology landscape. We leverage our expertise and deep network to surround founders with the resources and relationships they need to fully realize the company’s potential.

 

Our Portfolio

Altana’s core prodcut, Atlas, is an AI model that connects and learns from billions of data points to create the single source of truth on the global supply chain.
Anvl promotes worker engagement and efficiency with an easy to use mobile application that provides in-the-moment guidance through smart, dynamic workflows.
Modality is software that applies stress to complex and embedded systems to uncover bugs, failure modes, and vulnerabilities unknown to the owner of the system.
Build any application securely. Put the power of confidential computing and encryption into the hands of every developer.
Cornelis Networks supplies purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out interconnects for artificial intelligence, data analytics, and modeling/simulation environments.
Eclypsium’s cloud-based platform identifies, verifies, and fortifies firmware in enterprise hardware infrastructure: in laptops, servers, network gear, and connected devices.
Eion works with farmers and ranchers to safely and permanently pull carbon out of the air.
Harbinger is dedicated to bringing electrification to every segment of the commercial vehicle industry.
The Harbr data commerce platform powers high-margin data businesses by enabling customized data product design and delivery at scale and through branded storefronts.
Matta is an online B2B platform that serves as a detailed and comprehensive market place for chemicals and materials.
MesoMat has developed a new form of sensor and is leveraging this fundamental innovation to optimize performance, manufacturing and efficiency in many of the world’s most widely used materials.
Myriota has pioneered a new way to retrieve data from anywhere on earth, either on land or at sea. Myriota provides low cost IoT connectivity without the need for any ground based towers or other infrastructure.
The company’s platform compresses and prunes deep learning models to minimize footprint. This in combination with advanced software allows customers to run AI on CPUs at GPU speeds.
OpenTrons is a developer of a pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments. The company's technology is automated laboratory equipment enabling scientific researchers to make the process faster and less tiresome.
PlanetWatchers geospatial technology combines advanced machine learning algorithms, elastic cloud infrastructure and multi-source satellite sensors to deliver a robust monitoring and alerting system.
Psionic provides precision navigation and sensing technology for aerospace, defense and commercial markets.
Replicated enables commercial software vendors to operationalize and scale the distribution of their Kubernetes-based applications into secure customer-controlled environments.
Earth Observation analytics company providing transparency to global challenges, both day and night, through the use of novel high revisit thermal infrared data.
Smallstep turns security best practices into a toolkit that empowers any developer or operator to properly secure their infrastructure.
S+V Technologies has created a new category of inventory, “Stock in Motion”, allowing merchants to display and sell incoming inventory prior to arrival at fulfillment centers.
Design, build and maintain the best construction transportation management system on top of a scalable platform that consistently delights our customers.
Wallaroo facilitates the last-mile of your machine learning journey, getting ML into your production environment to impact the bottom line, with incredible speed and efficiency.
AI Squared’s product runs machine learning models repeatedly and with minimal intervention in any application. The product allows analysts to provide feedback directly to the data scientist without taking the model out of production.
Agolo’s platform uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured text data, identify subject matter, create summaries, and draw connections between disparate data sources.

Our Team

  • Andrew McMahon

    CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER

    Andrew is a co-founding partner of Ridgeline. He invests in software startups with a focus on data products, cloud, developer tools, and MLOps. Prior to Ridgeline, Andrew was the Chief Revenue Officer of The Dcode Group and was an appointee in the Obama Administration. He holds degrees from Boston College and University of Chicago.

  • Ryan Clinton

    CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER

    Ryan Clinton is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ridgeline. He primarily invests in critical innovations in hardware and frontier technologies. Prior to Ridgeline, Ryan was a lead for growth and business development at Anduril and head of strategy and business development for the Brand Development Division at Universal Pictures. He holds degrees from Harvard, Wharton, and West Point.

  • Ben Walker

    CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER

    Ben is one of Ridgeline's co-founding partners. He invests across the AI/ML category with specific interest in supply chain, manufacturing, and industrial tech. Prior to Ridgeline, Ben was a Partner at Harpoon Ventures and held multiple positions at Deloitte. He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and West Point.