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Ridgeline Ventures

Founders Erich Tengelsen

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Total investments 15
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$8M
Portfolio companies 10
Rounds per year 1.25
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.33
Key employees 3
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Retail
  • Cycling
  • Food and Beverage
  • E-Commerce
  • Analytics
Summary

Ridgeline Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2012. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Boulder. The venture was found in North America in United States.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight The Pro's Closet, Bobou2019s Oat Bars, Cotopaxi. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Product Design, Retail. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 6-10 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 participants. Despite the Ridgeline Ventures, startups are often financed by Campfire Capital, M3 Ventures, Greycroft. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Greycroft, Foundry Group, Boulder Investment Group Reprise. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rise of the Rest, AccelFoods, Greycroft.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 investment rounds annually. The top activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 9 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars.

The fund was created by Erich Tengelsen. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sahajan

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Health Care
Organic
08 Nov 2023 Manhattan, New York, United States

Lifeforce

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$12M23 May 2023 Santa Monica, California, United States

Multiscale Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$7M04 Oct 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Satellite Vu

Aerospace
Analytics
Geospatial
$20M19 Oct 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

The Pro's Closet

Cycling
Retail
$40M26 May 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

The Pro's Closet

Cycling
Retail
$12M09 Sep 2020 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Bobo’s Oat Bars

Bakery
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Wholesale
$5M22 Jul 2019 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Cotopaxi

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Outdoors
Product Design
Retail
$11M01 Feb 2017 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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The Pro’s Closet Raises $40m in Series B Funding

– The Pro’s Closet, a Boulder-based destination for Certified Pre-Owned bikes, e-bikes, and components, closed a $40m Series B funding round.
– The round was led by The Chernin Group with participation from existing investors Foundry Group, Edison Partners, and Ridgeline.
– The company intends to use the funds to grow operations and technology teams, expand its teams of bike experts, and facilitate physical expansion to new markets.

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Total investments 15
Average round size 8M
Rounds per year 1.25
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.33
Group Appearance index 0.73

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Sahajan

Beauty
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
E-Commerce
Health Care
Organic
08 Nov 2023 Manhattan, New York, United States

Lifeforce

Fitness
Health Care
Wellness
$12M23 May 2023 Santa Monica, California, United States

Multiscale Technologies

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$7M04 Oct 2022 Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Satellite Vu

Aerospace
Analytics
Geospatial
$20M19 Oct 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

The Pro's Closet

Cycling
Retail
$40M26 May 2021 Boulder, Colorado, United States

The Pro's Closet

Cycling
Retail
$12M09 Sep 2020 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Bobo’s Oat Bars

Bakery
E-Commerce
Food and Beverage
Wholesale
$5M22 Jul 2019 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Cotopaxi

Consumer Goods
E-Commerce
Outdoors
Product Design
Retail
$11M01 Feb 2017 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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