Key Takeaways
- • Ridge Ventures, a seed and early-stage enterprise-focused venture capital firm, has added Akriti Dokania as Partner, according to a Business Wire announcement dated May 24, 2022.
- • Dokania spent the last four years at Octopus Ventures investing in early-stage B2B and deep tech startups and helped exit UltraSoC (acquired by Siemens) and BehavioSec (acquired by LexisNexis).
- • Ridge Ventures, founded in 2007, cites portfolio companies including Bolt, Braze, and Discord, and said it added three Venture Partners in February 2022.
- • The firm plans to grow its team, make new investments, and refer Fortune 500 customers to portfolio companies through the Ridge Revenue Network later in 2022.
Summary
Ridge Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise investments, announced that Akriti Dokania has joined the firm as Partner. The announcement, distributed via Business Wire, said Dokania will contribute to the firm's enterprise investments by drawing on her experience as a product leader, technologist and venture investor. Alex Rosen, Managing Partner at Ridge Ventures, described the hire as a "huge win" as the firm approaches the halfway point of 2022, citing the firm's investment success across Partners and Venture Partners, its founder and LP relationships, and its customer connections.
According to the announcement, Dokania spent the last four years at Octopus Ventures, where she invested in early-stage B2B and deep tech startups, including LifeScore (backed by Warner Music Group), vHive and ThoughtRiver. She also helped exit UltraSoC, acquired by Siemens, and BehavioSec, acquired by LexisNexis. Before entering venture capital, she worked as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services and as a product manager at Microsoft. She later co-founded CoderBhai, a product development platform, and invested with Forward Partners while completing her MBA at London Business School. She studied Computer Science Engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and serves as an active board member at multiple startups.
Ridge Ventures, founded in 2007, invests in founders redefining how the world interacts with data and code, according to the firm's description. Its investments include Bolt, Braze and Discord. In February 2022, the firm added three Venture Partners to its investment team: Wendy Phillips, Minn Kim and Indranil "Indy" Guha. The firm said it will continue to grow its team, make new investments, and refer Fortune 500 customers to portfolio companies via the Ridge Revenue Network. Dokania said she was excited to "invest in the next wave of world-changing enterprise companies."
According to the announcement, Dokania spent the last four years at Octopus Ventures, where she invested in early-stage B2B and deep tech startups, including LifeScore (backed by Warner Music Group), vHive and ThoughtRiver. She also helped exit UltraSoC, acquired by Siemens, and BehavioSec, acquired by LexisNexis. Before entering venture capital, she worked as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services and as a product manager at Microsoft. She later co-founded CoderBhai, a product development platform, and invested with Forward Partners while completing her MBA at London Business School. She studied Computer Science Engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan and serves as an active board member at multiple startups.
Ridge Ventures, founded in 2007, invests in founders redefining how the world interacts with data and code, according to the firm's description. Its investments include Bolt, Braze and Discord. In February 2022, the firm added three Venture Partners to its investment team: Wendy Phillips, Minn Kim and Indranil "Indy" Guha. The firm said it will continue to grow its team, make new investments, and refer Fortune 500 customers to portfolio companies via the Ridge Revenue Network. Dokania said she was excited to "invest in the next wave of world-changing enterprise companies."
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