Operators who became investors
We've built products, shipped code, and managed teams inside enterprise software companies. That's how we evaluate founders.
The Partners
Three perspectives, one thesis
Previously VP Product at a Series-C enterprise automation company that was acquired by a public-markets infrastructure player in 2017. Left to angel-invest for two years, writing 14 pre-seed checks across developer-tooling and enterprise SaaS founders.
Founded Ridgepoint in 2019 with a thesis on AI-native workflow infrastructure for enterprise teams. Katherine leads sourcing and diligence for Fund II and chairs the investment committee. Her background is product — she evaluates companies through the lens of whether the product design reflects a genuine understanding of the deployment context it's built for.
She is particularly interested in orchestration infrastructure, AI governance tooling, and developer primitives that ship with enterprise requirements baked in from day one.
Spent six years at a mid-market growth equity fund covering software and applied AI, with a focus on companies in the $5M–$30M ARR range building for enterprise buyers. Before that, two years as a product engineer at a B2B analytics startup — writing code, building dashboards, running retrospectives with customers.
Joined Ridgepoint as General Partner in 2020 and leads Series A investments and portfolio operations. Jordan works most closely with portfolio companies once they've found product-market fit and are starting to build out go-to-market motion, sales hiring, and enterprise sales cycles.
His areas of focus within the portfolio include data infrastructure, observability tooling, and AI-native finance workflow automation. He is the primary partner relationship for Sequin, Portkey.ai, and Meridian AI.
Former engineer at a developer-tools open-source company, where she contributed to core infrastructure and worked directly with enterprise customers integrating the SDK into production pipelines. Transitioned to venture in 2022 via a fellowship program focused on technical founders.
Joined Ridgepoint to focus on AI-native infrastructure and workflow automation, covering early diligence and founder engagement for Fund II. Priscilla is typically the first Ridgepoint partner a founder speaks to — she does technical diligence on the product layer, evaluates the founding team's operator depth, and prepares investment memos for the committee.
Her technical background makes her particularly effective evaluating developer tooling and infrastructure products where the competitive advantage lives in implementation decisions that aren't obvious from the outside.
How We Work
How we work with founders
Our check is most useful before the round is oversubscribed and before the market has validated the category. We want to be in the room when the thesis is still a bet, not a consensus. The founders who talk to us early get a partner who has thought harder about the space than the person offering a term sheet after the TechCrunch article.
We've been on the operating side. We know that a board meeting that turns into a performance review with the founder as the reviewee is a waste of everyone's time and erodes trust at exactly the wrong moment. We show up to board meetings with observations, questions, and specific help — not a scorecard. Founders should look forward to talking to their investors.
We're good at early product positioning, infrastructure architecture decisions, and enterprise sales strategy. We're not the right call for consumer growth or hardware manufacturing. When a portfolio company needs something we can't provide well, we say so and make the introduction to someone who can. That's more useful than confident mediocrity.
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